No figure wrapped in a mantle will from this day forth leave Paris unchallenged." "But you yourself, friend ?" suggested Deroulede.

"You think you can quit Paris unrecognised--then why not the Queen ?" "Because she is a woman, and has been a queen.

She has nerves, poor soul, and weaknesses of body and of mind now.

Alas for her! Alas for France! who wreaks such idle vengeance on so poor an enemy?
Can you take hold of Marie Antoinette by the shoulders, shove her into the bottom of a cart and pile sacks of potatoes on the top of her?
I did that to the Comtesse de Tournai and her daughter, as stiff-necked a pair of French aristocrats as ever deserved the guillotine for their insane prejudices.
But can you do it to Marie Antoinette?
She'd rebuke you publicly, and betray herself and you in a flash, sooner than submit to a loss of dignity." "But would you leave her to her fate ?" "Ah! there's the trouble, friend.

Do you think you need appeal to the sense of chivalry of my league?
We are still twenty strong, and heart and soul in sympathy with your mad schemes.