ng underground
like a mole: but we will dig her out." The queen's lady had heard quite
enough. She was glad to go in and sit down, for she could scarcely
stand. She thought it her duty to tell the queen what she had heard;
and the queen made her repeat it to the king.

One of the king's aunts was at her tapestry-work that day, in a room
which looked towards the court, and where there was a window-blind
through which she could see without being seen. Three men were talking
together; and she knew one of them. They did not whisper, or speak low;
and one of them said, looking up at the window of the throne-room,
"There stands that throne of which there will soon be left no remains."

While such a temper as this was abroad, it mattered little that
everything seemed set right for the time by what the king said to the
parliament. The members escorted him back to the palace, and the people
cheered him. All Paris cheered when the news arrived that the people's
minister was to be restored to his office; and a messenger was sent off
to Monsieur Necker that night.

The Duchess de Polignac and her relations now saw that they must be off,
if they wished to preserve their liberty--perhaps their lives. After
the next day, Louis never saw his governess more. She bade him
good-night at his bed time; and in the morning she was far away. She
went disguised as a lady's maid, and sat on the coach-box, leaving the
palace just at midnight. The queen bade her farewell in private, with
many and bitter tears, forgetting any coolness that had lately existed
between them in the thought of their former friendship, and the care the
duchess had taken of her children. The duchess was not rich; and the
queen, after they had parted, sent her a purse of gold, with a message
that she might want it on the journey.

It was a perilous journey. The party consisted of six, of whom two were
gentlemen. When they arrived at Sens they found the people had risen.
The mob stopped the carriage to ask, as they had been asking of other
travellers who came the same road, if those Polignacs were still about
the queen. "No, no," said one of the gentlemen, "they are far enough
from Versailles. We have got rid of all such bad subjects." The next
time the carriage stopped, the postilion stood on the step, and
whispered to the duchess, "Madam, there are some good people in France.
I found out who you were at Sens." They gave him a handful of gold.

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