The people are weary of being your plaything and your victim." Legendre, after these threatening words, read a petition in language as imperious, in which he demanded, in the name of the people, the restitution of the Girondist ministers and the immediate sanction of their decrees.

The king replied with intrepid dignity, "I will do what the constitution orders me to do." XXI.
Scarcely had one sea of people gone away, than another succeeded.

At each new invasion of the mob, the strength of the king and the small number of his defenders was exhausted in the renewed struggles with a crowd which never wearied.

The doors no longer sufficed to the impatient curiosity of these thousands of men assembled in this pillory of royalty; they entered by the roof, the windows, and the high balconies which open on to the terraces.

Their climbing up amused the multitude of spectators crowded in the gardens.