All his subsequent conduct justified the confidence of the queen.

Audacious, when opposed to tyranny, he was powerless against weakness, beauty, and misfortune; and this lost him his life, but rendered his memory glorious.

Until then he had been only eloquent; he now showed that he possessed sensibility.

Petion, on the contrary, remained cold as a sectarian, and rude as a _parvenu_; he affected a brusque familiarity with the royal family, eating in the queen's presence, and throwing the rind of fruit out of the window, at the risk of striking the king's face.

When Madame Elizabeth poured him out some wine, he raised his glass without thanking her to show that he had enough.