The state of his mind in this respect depended on the state of the kingdom; his understanding followed the flux and reflux of interior events.

If a good decree, a cordial reconciliation with the Assembly, a return of popular applause came to console his sorrows, he resumed his hopes, and wrote to his agents to break up the hostile gatherings at Coblentz.

If a new _emeute_ disturbed the palace--if the Assembly degraded the royal power by some indignity or some outrage--he again began to despair of the Constitution, and to fortify himself against it.

The incoherence of his thoughts was rather the fault of his situation than his own; but it compromised his cause equally within and without.

Every thought which is not at unity destroys itself.