You think to save religion: you destroy it.

The priests will be massacred: your crown will be taken from you; perhaps even your queen and children--." He did not finish, but pressed his lips to the king's hand, who shed tears.
"I await--expect death," replied the king, sorrowfully; "and I pardon my enemies already.

I am grateful to you for your sensibility.

You have served me well, and I esteem you.

Adieu--be more happy than I am!" And on saying these words Louis XVI.