'We saw what we were informed was the body of the Dauphin,' they said." Again the old man turned, and held up his hand in a gesture of warning.
"If they wanted a witness whose testimony was without question--whose word would have laid the whole question in that lost and forgotten grave for ever--they had one in the room above.

For the Dauphin's sister was there, Marie Therese Charlotte, she who is now Duchess of Angouleme.

Why did they not bring her down to see the body, to testify that her brother was dead and the line of Louis XVI.

ended?
Was it chivalry?
I ask you if these had shown chivalry to Madame de Lamballe?
to Madame Elizabeth?
to Marie Antoinette?
Was it kindness toward a child of unparalleled misfortune?
I ask you if they had been kind to those whom they called the children of the tyrant?
No! They did not conduct her to that bedside, because he who lay there was not her brother.

Are we children, Monsieur, to be deceived by a tale of a sudden softness of heart?
They wished to spare this child the pain! Had they ever spared any one pain--the National Assembly ?" And the Marquis de Gemosac's laugh rang with a hatred which must, it seems, outlive the possibility of revenge.
"There was to be a public funeral.