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Vauquelas uttered these last words with an air of triumph; then, as if fearing Coursegol's objections, he made haste to develop his scheme. "The assignats have already undergone a very considerable depreciation. With fifty thousand francs in gold one can, to-day, purchase at least two hundred thousand francs in assignats; and the depreciation will become much greater.
Did she not speak to you? Her madness disappeared as soon as her maternal instincts were re-awakened." They carried the Marquise to her chamber and laid her upon the bed. In obedience to Coursegol's directions a cradle was placed in her room and the infant deposited in it; then the devoted servant mounted a horse and started for Nîmes in quest of a physician.
She dare not believe that Coursegol's efforts, or even the order of release which he had obtained through Vauquelas, could save them; but it seemed to her if she could only see her lover once more before she died, she could mount the scaffold without a regret. One morning, on entering the public hall, she saw Coursegol behind the grating in the corridor.
"The hour when the master of the house usually returns is fast approaching," she resumed. "He must not find you here. I will take you to Coursegol's room; you will be safe there." But Philip would not heed her. He wept like a child, and, in a voice broken with sobs, he cried: "Ah, the sacrifice you demand is too much to ask of any human creature! God does not require it of us.
From there I shall conduct you to a cottage in the Forest of Chévreuse, some little distance from Versailles. The place is almost a wilderness; no one will ever think of looking for us there." Coursegol's words made a deep impression upon the girl's mind.
She disappeared, but soon returned, bearing in one hand a double candlestick which she placed upon a table, and in the other the lantern for which her master had called. "Follow me," said Coursegol's host. Coursegol obeyed. They left the drawing-room, passed through several small and shabbily furnished apartments, and at last entered a small passage.
"Am I in your house?" he asked. "No; you are in the house of Citizen Vauquelas, Coursegol's business partner." "Vauquelas! How unfortunate!" "Why?" "Because, unless there are two individuals by that name, the master of this house is the friend of Robespierre, and one of the men who aided in the discovery of the plot formed by my companions and myself for the rescue of the queen."
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