This race of tigers which infests the kingdom would cruelly enjoy itself if it knew all the sufferings we undergo.

Adieu, my dear Lamballe; I am always thinking of you, and you know I never change." Madame Lamballe, contrary to this advice, made all haste to return, and clung to the queen as though she sought to be struck with the same blow.
By her side were also other courageous women,--the Princesse de Tarente, Latremouille, Mesdames de Tourzel, de Mackau, de La Roche-Aymon.
M.de Lajard, a cool soldier, responsible to the king and himself for so many dear and sacred lives, collected in haste by the secret passages which communicated with the sleeping chamber and the interior of the palace, several officers and national guards wandering about in the tumult.

He had the queen's children brought to her, in order that their presence and appearance, by softening the mob, might serve as a buckler to their mother.

He himself opened the doors.

He placed the queen and her ladies in the depth of the window.