(Besenval, iii.

355.) Messieurs, said D'Agoust, De par le Roi! Express order has charged D'Agoust with the sad duty of arresting two individuals: M.Duval d'Espremenil and M.Goeslard de Monsabert.
Which respectable individuals, as he has not the honour of knowing them, are hereby invited, in the King's name, to surrender themselves .-- Profound silence! Buzz, which grows a murmur: "We are all D'Espremenils!" ventures a voice; which other voices repeat.

The President inquires, Whether he will employ violence?
Captain D'Agoust, honoured with his Majesty's commission, has to execute his Majesty's order; would so gladly do it without violence, will in any case do it; grants an august Senate space to deliberate which method they prefer.
And thereupon D'Agoust, with grave military courtesy, has withdrawn for the moment.
What boots it, august Senators?
All avenues are closed with fixed bayonets.

Your Courier gallops to Versailles, through the dewy Night; but also gallops back again, with tidings that the order is authentic, that it is irrevocable.

The outer courts simmer with idle population; but D'Agoust's grenadier-ranks stand there as immovable floodgates: there will be no revolting to deliver you.