"Know that you are kings, and more than kings.

Do you not feel sovereignty circulating in your veins ?"] [Footnote 1124: Moniteur, V.136.

(Celebration of the Federation, July 14, 1790.)] [Footnote 1125: Albert Babeau, "Histoire de Troyes pendant la Revolution," I.436 (April 10, 1790).] [Footnote 1126: Mortimer-Ternaux, "Histoire de la Terreur," I.353.
(Petion's own narrative of this journey.) This pert blockhead cannot even spell: he writes aselle for aisselle, etc.

He is convinced that Madame Elizabeth, the king's sister, wants to seduce him, and that she makes advances to him: "If we had been alone, I believe that she would have fallen into my arms, and let the impulses of nature have their way." He makes a display of virtue however, and becomes only the more supercilious as he talks with the king, the young dauphin, and the ladies he is fetching back.] [Footnote 1127: The "Memoires de Madame Roland" is a masterpiece of that conceit supposed to be so careflilly concealed as not to be visible and never off its stilts.

"I am beautiful, I am affectionate, I am sensitive, I inspire love, I reciprocate, I remain virtuous, my mind is superior, and my courage indomitable.