She says my father is very indignant at the great emigration of the nobility that is going on.

In the first place, he holds that they are deserting their post in the face of the enemy; and in the second place, by their assemblage across the frontier and their intrigues at foreign courts against France they are causing the people to look with suspicion upon the whole class." "You have kept your good news till the last, Marie," Victor said.
"Here have we been saying good-bye, and it seems that we are going to meet again very shortly." "I have been bidding farewell," Marie said, "not to you, but to our dream of happiness.

We shall meet soon, but I fear that will never return." "You are a veritable prophet of ill to-day, Marie," Victor said with an attempt at gaiety.

"Some day, I hope, dear, that we shall smile together over your gloomy prognostication." "I hope so, Victor--I pray God it may be so!" A week later three carriages arrived from Paris to convey the family there; and upon the following day the whole party started; the girls, the gouvernante, the abbe, and some of the female servants occupying the carriages, Monsieur du Tillet, the boys, and several of the men riding beside them as an escort.
They met with no interruption on the road, and arrived in Paris on the last day of April, 1792.

Harry was glad at the change.