read
this. The woman no doubt thought this good news; and perhaps they, too,
were pleased that their friends and the foreign army were fairly in
France, and had taken a town on the road to Paris: but we shall see how
it turned out to be anything but good news.--After a few weeks they
walked no more in the garden, and had only such air and exercise as they
could obtain upon the leads of the Temple.

From their walk they came in to dinner at two o'clock, where Clery was
again ready to wait, when he became the only remaining servant. This
was the hour when Santerre the brewer, now commanding the National Guard
of Paris, came daily, with two other officers, to examine all the
apartments inhabited by the family. The king sometimes spoke to him,--
the queen never.

After dinner, the king and queen played piquet or backgammon; not
because they could enjoy at present any amusement of the kind, but
because they found means, while bending their heads together over the
board, to say a few words unheard by the guard. At four o'clock, the
ladies and children left the king, as it was his custom to sleep at this
hour. At six Clery and Louis entered the apartment, and Clery gave the
boy lessons in writing, and copied, at the king's desire, passages from
the works of Montesquieu and others, for the use of the Dauphin. Then
Clery took Louis to his aunt's room, where they played at ball, and
battledore and shuttlecock, till Louis's supper-time, at eight o'clock.
Meanwhile the queen and the Princess Elizabeth read aloud, till eight
o'clock, when they went to Louis, to sit beside him while he had his
supper. Then the king amused the children with riddles, which he had
found in a collection of old newspapers. All kindly exerted themselves
to send Louis cheerful to bed. He was too young, they thought, to lie
down with so sad a heart as they each had every night in their prison.

However busy Clery might be, he never failed to be in the king's little
study at seven o'clock. Regularly at that hour every evening, a crier
stood in the street, close by the tower of the Temple, and proclaimed
what had been done that day in the Assembly, the Magistrates' Hall, and
in the army. This crier was no doubt sent, or induced to stand in that
particular place, by friends of the royal family. In the little
turret-room, while all was silent there, Clery could catch what the
crier said: and he found means to whisper it to the queen when she had