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 quired of me. The same cry was uttered three different times, with a degree of rapidity and hrillness terrible beyond expression. When we arrived at our friend’s house, we were obliged to have assistance to get out of the coach, where we were found sitting in a state of terror and insensibility.

After this scene I remained some months without hearing any thing of it: I thought I was quit of it for ever, but I deceived myself.

All the theatrical exhibitions had been ordered to Versailles, on account of the marriage of the dauphin. We were to repair there in three days; and