commander; and the wife of a resolute and spirited king would not have
been without hope. She would have hoped much from the king's presence
and appeal. It was because she knew the king so well that she had no
hope.

Orders were given for Louis to be taken up and brought immediately: and
he was presently ready,--at a little before five, when (it being the
10th of August) it was quite light. His sister appeared too, and the
whole family went out to review the soldiers, as it was said, and to see
the preparations for defence. Louis had hold of his father's hand. At
first, a few voices cried "Long live the king!" but the king, pale and
silent, walked on without taking any notice; and in a few moments there
was a long growl, which burst into a clamour of "Long live the nation!"
Some of the gunners thrust themselves forward, and shook their fists in
the king's face, uttering the grossest insults. Some of the attendants
pushed them back; but the king, now white as the wall, said not a word.
Followed by the ladies of his family, he walked along the line, and back
again, leaving nothing but contempt behind. "All is lost," said the
queen to Madame Campan, as she entered her apartments: "the king showed
no energy; and this review has done nothing but harm." What a lot was
hers! To be dragged down, with her children, to destruction, by the
apathy of a husband, while she herself had spirit enough to have ruled
an empire, but must not now exert it, because it would exasperate the
people to have the foreigner, the Austrian, meddle with the affairs of
France!

What was to be done next? The Swiss, and the gentlemen and servants of
the court, were all that now remained to be depended upon. The Swiss
stood firm as their own Alps. The household arranged themselves in the
apartments, armed, and ready for the assault from without: though no one
of them could have hope of victory, or any expectation but of
destruction. In this terrible hour, however, they jested; and upon a
melancholy subject. They were miserably armed; and they quizzed one
another and themselves for the appearance they made. None had more than
a sword and a pair of pistols: one page had only a single pocket-pistol;
and another page and equerry had broken a pair of tongs, and taken each
a half.

The insurgents were now surrounding the Tuileries, and filling the
neighbourhood: and it seemed probable that the gunners, placed outside
for the defence of the p