One night the commandant of the guard, who watched between the two doors, seeing that this woman was asleep, and the queen was awake, ventured to approach the couch of his royal mistress, and gave her in a low tone some information and advice as to her situation.

This conversation aroused the sleeping attendant, who, alarmed at seeing a man in uniform close to the royal bed, was about to call aloud, when the queen desired her to be silent, saying, "Do not alarm yourself; this is a good Frenchman, who is mistaken as to the intentions of the king and myself, but whose conversation betokens a sincere attachment to his masters." Providence thus made some of their persecutors to convey some consolation to the victims.

The king, so resigned, so unmoved, was bowed for a moment beneath the weight of so many troubles--so much humiliation.

Such was his mental occupation, that he remained for ten days without exchanging a word with one of his family.

His last struggle with misfortune seemed to have exhausted his strength.