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Rh me a minute's peace; I have been pelted with pamphlets. My silence has only increased their rage; I am Galigaï, Brinvilliers, Voisin, everything that is most monstrous, and the women of the markets intend treating me like another Lamballe.

So I send you my portrait, for I would still wish to leave something of myself to my friends. It pleases me to tell you that, with the exception of my husband, my daughter, and one other person, you are the only friend to whom I am giving it. Nobody knows of its existence, not even the general run of friends.

I cannot imagine what things will come to; but if Paris goes to ruin, the South must save us. Most of our deputies only walk out now armed to the teeth. Numbers of people implore us not to stay at night at the Ministerial residence. How charming is this Parisian liberty! Well! Had you stayed in office we should not have come to this. Had the federate troops been placed under your command, you could, by discipline, have turned them into a respectable sort of support. They might have served instead of the guard, which they have not dared to levy. Pache has done nothing but disgust, annul, and send them away again. If they save us to-morrow, it will be of their own accord, and in disregard of orders.

In truth, I am weary of this world; it is not made for honest folk, and there is some reason for dislodging them from it. Farewell, brave citizen; I esteem and love you with all my heart. I shall write to you in a few days, if the storm has not engulfed us. In case it has, remember my daughter sometimes, and the pleasant plans we had formed!

Things had come to such a pass that now the only question left was when the threatening storm would burst. The two parties—but one in their opposition to the Moderates of 1791—were now engaged in such a deadly duel that the trial of Louis (judged really on the 10th of August, and an old story by now) dwindled by comparison into insignificance. And this struggle is so engrossing, because on its issue really depended the fate of the Republic. But had its fate not been decided already from the fact that such a struggle existed? Was there any chance of success when those who united should have faced their common foes, hated each other fully, as bitterly as them? They should