day fresh experiences in this point; sometimes cruel,
sometimes pleasant; for I am continually finding that some people are
truly and sincerely attached to us, to whom I never gave a thought."

Another of her old vexations was revived in the renewed jealousy of
Austrian influence with which the Jacobin leaders at this time inspired
the mob, and which was so great that, when in the autumn Leopold sent the
young Prince de Lichtenstein as his envoy to notify his accession, Marie
Antoinette could only venture to give him a single audience; and, greatly
as she enjoyed the opportunity of gathering from him news of Vienna and of
the old friends of the childhood of whom she still cherished an
affectionate recollection, she was yet forced to dismiss him after a few
minutes' conversation, and to beg him to accelerate his departure from
Paris, lest even that short interview should be made a pretext for fresh
calumnies. "The kindest thing that any Austrian of mark could do for her,"
she told her brother, "was to keep away from Paris at present.[6]" She
would gladly have seen the Assembly interest itself a little in the
politics of the empire, where Leopold's own situation was full of
difficulties; but the French had not yet come to consider themselves as
justified in interfering in the internal government of other countries. As
she describes their feelings to the emperor, "They feel their own
individual troubles, but those of their neighbors do not yet affect them;
and the names of Liberty and Despotism are so deeply engraved in their
heads, even though they do not clearly define them, that they are
everlastingly passing from the love of the former to the dread of the
latter;" and then she adds a sketch of her own ideas and expectations, and
of the objects which she conceives it her duty to keep in view, in which
it is affecting to see that her utter despair of any future happiness for
the king and herself in no degree weakens her desire to promote the
happiness of the very people who have caused her suffering. "Our task is
to watch skillfully for the moment when men's heads have returned to
proper ideas sufficiently to make them enjoy a reasonable and honest
freedom, such as the king has himself always desired for the happiness of
his people; but far from that license and anarchy which have precipitated
the fairest of kingdoms into all possible miseries. Our health continues
good, but it would be better if we could only perceive the