, rush this way
and that;--Ruin and Desperation in the shape of Cobourg lying entrenched
close by.

Dame Genlis and her fair Princess d'Orleans find this Burgh of
Saint-Amand no fit place for them; Dumouriez's protection is grown worse
than none. Tough Genlis one of the toughest women; a woman, as it were,
with nine lives in her; whom nothing will beat: she packs her bandboxes;
clear for flight in a private manner. Her beloved Princess she
will--leave here, with the Prince Chartres Egalite her Brother. In the
cold grey of the April morning, we find her accordingly established
in her hired vehicle, on the street of Saint-Amand; postilions just
cracking their whips to go,--when behold the young Princely Brother,
struggling hitherward, hastily calling; bearing the Princess in his
arms! Hastily he has clutched the poor young lady up, in her very
night-gown, nothing saved of her goods except the watch from the pillow:
with brotherly despair he flings her in, among the bandboxes, into
Genlis's chaise, into Genlis's arms: Leave her not, in the name of Mercy
and Heaven! A shrill scene, but a brief one:--the postilions crack and
go. Ah, whither? Through by-roads and broken hill-passes: seeking
their way with lanterns after nightfall; through perils, and Cobourg
Austrians, and suspicious French Nationals; finally, into Switzerland;
safe though nigh moneyless. (Genlis, iv. 139.) The brave young Egalite
has a most wild Morrow to look for; but now only himself to carry
through it.

For indeed over at that Village named of the Mudbaths, Saint-Amand des
Boues, matters are still worse. About four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon,
the 2d of April 1793, two Couriers come galloping as if for life: Mon
General! Four National Representatives, War-Minister at their head, are
posting hitherward, from Valenciennes: are close at hand,--with what
intents one may guess! While the Couriers are yet speaking, War-Minister
and National Representatives, old Camus the Archivist for chief speaker
of them, arrive. Hardly has Mon General had time to order out the Huzzar
Regiment de Berchigny; that it take rank and wait near by, in case of
accident. And so, enter War-Minister Beurnonville, with an embrace of
friendship, for he is an old friend; enter Archivist Camus and the other
three, following him.

They produce Papers, invite the General to the bar of the Convention:
merely to give an explanation or two. The General finds it unsuitable,
not to say impo