"You follow your principles--this is a party matter, and I tell you frankly, that until lately I had believed you had surrounded me by a turbulent faction of persons of your own way of thinking in order to mislead me, but that yours was not the real opinion of France.

I have learnt during my journey that I was deceived, and that this was the general wish." "Has your majesty any orders to give me ?" replied La Fayette.

"It seems to me," retorted the king with a smile, "that I am more at your orders than you are at mine." The queen allowed the bitterness of her ill-restrained resentment to display itself.

She wished to force on M.de La Fayette the keys of her caskets, which were in the carriages: he refused.

She insisted; and when he was firm in his refusal, she placed them in his hat with her own hands.