t is a revolution."

The Dauphin was fast asleep when this alarm arrived. He saw, the next
morning, that every one about him was in terror, and that the courts of
the palace were filled with a crowd of ill-looking angry people. His
governess appeared greatly alarmed; and well she might be; for the mob
outside were shouting her name, and saying that they would be revenged
on her for giving the queen bad advice. The king had gone to address
the parliament, promising to do all that they had advised the day
before, and to recall Monsieur Necker, the favourite minister. While he
was gone, one of the queen's ladies came to the room where Louis was
with his governess, unlocked the door with the queen's key, and told him
that he was to go with her to his mother. The Duchess de Polignac asked
whether she might not take him herself to the queen: but the lady
messenger shook her head, and said she had no such orders. She knew
very well that if the people who were looking up at the windows should
once see the duchess, they would be ready to pull her to pieces. The
duchess, understanding the lady's countenance, took the child in her
arms, and wept bitterly. Louis did not know what it all meant; but it
frightened him. The messenger tried to console the duchess with
promising to bring Louis back presently; but she said, weeping, that she
knew too well now what to expect. One of the under-governesses asked
whether she might take the prince to his mother, and did so.

The queen was waiting for the boy, with the Princess Royal by her side.
She stepped out into the balcony with her two children, and repeatedly
kissed them in the sight of the people. Little Louis might well be glad
to step back from the balcony into the room again; for the mob was very
noisy and rude. The lady who had been sent to summon him slipped out
among the people, to hear what they were saying. A woman, who kept a
thick veil down over her face, seized her by the arm, told her she knew
her, and desired her to tell the queen not to meddle any more in the
government, but to leave it to those who cared more for the people. A
man then grasped her other arm, and said he knew her too, and bade her
tell the queen that times were coming very different from those which
were past. Just then, the queen and the children appeared in the
balcony. "Ah!" said the veiled woman, "the duchess is not with her."

"No," said the man, "but she is still in the palace, worki