You ask me what she says?
She says nothing, but she knows--she has always known--that her brother did not die in the Temple." "Then--" suggested Colville, who certainly had acquired the French art of putting much meaning into one word.
"Then why not seek him?
you would ask.

How do you know that she has not done so, my friend, with tears?
But as years passed on, and brought no word of him, it became less and less desirable.

While Louis XVIII.
continued to reign there was no reason to wish to find Louis XVII., you understand.

For there was still a Bourbon, of the direct line, upon the throne.

Louis XVIII.