it; but says nothing.

Chapter 2.4.III.

Count Fersen.

Royalty, in fact, should, by this time, be far on with its preparations.
Unhappily much preparation is needful: could a Hereditary Representative
be carried in leather vache, how easy were it! But it is not so.

New clothes are needed, as usual, in all Epic transactions, were it
in the grimmest iron ages; consider 'Queen Chrimhilde, with her sixty
semstresses,' in that iron Nibelungen Song! No Queen can stir without
new clothes. Therefore, now, Dame Campan whisks assiduous to this
mantua-maker and to that: and there is clipping of frocks and gowns,
upper clothes and under, great and small; such a clipping and sewing, as
might have been dispensed with. Moreover, her Majesty cannot go a step
anywhither without her Necessaire; dear Necessaire, of inlaid ivory and
rosewood; cunningly devised; which holds perfumes, toilet-implements,
infinite small queenlike furnitures: Necessary to terrestrial life. Not
without a cost of some five hundred louis, of much precious time, and
difficult hoodwinking which does not blind, can this same Necessary
of life be forwarded by the Flanders Carriers,--never to get to hand.
(Campan, ii. c. 18.) All which, you would say, augurs ill for the
prospering of the enterprise. But the whims of women and queens must be
humoured.

Bouille, on his side, is making a fortified Camp at Montmedi; gathering
Royal-Allemand, and all manner of other German and true French Troops
thither, 'to watch the Austrians.' His Majesty will not cross the
Frontiers, unless on compulsion. Neither shall the Emigrants be much
employed, hateful as they are to all people. (Bouille, Memoires, ii. c.
10.) Nor shall old war-god Broglie have any hand in the business; but
solely our brave Bouille; to whom, on the day of meeting, a Marshal's
Baton shall be delivered, by a rescued King, amid the shouting of all
the troops. In the meanwhile, Paris being so suspicious, were it
not perhaps good to write your Foreign Ambassadors an ostensible
Constitutional Letter; desiring all Kings and men to take heed that King
Louis loves the Constitution, that he has voluntarily sworn, and does
again swear, to maintain the same, and will reckon those his enemies who
affect to say otherwise? Such a Constitutional circular is despatched by
Couriers, is communicated confidentially to the Assembly, and printed in
all Newspapers; with the finest effect. (Moniteur, Seance du 23 Avril,
1791.