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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Citizen Toulan," she said, "I beg you to give me the ball of thread again. I have no more, and this dress is in a wretched condition; I must mend it." Toulan turned toward her with a gesture of impatience. "You disturb me, madame, and put me out in the game. What are you saying?" "I asked you, Citizen Toulan, to give me the thread again, because, without it, I cannot work."
It is time that they should feel a little that they are only dust for us to blow away!" "Yes, indeed," chimed in Toulan, "it is high time that they should feel it!" "And you both understood that matter capitally," said Simon, with a laugh, "I always see that it particularly provokes the queen to have you on service, and I like that, and I am especially glad to have you here."
The citizen Toulan is on guard again at the Temple, and this time with his friend Lepitre. He is so trustworthy and blameless a republican, and so zealous a citizen, that the republic gives him unconditional confidence. The republic had appointed him as chief of the bureau for the control of the effects of emigres.
Plans are formed for the Queen's Escape by MM. Jarjayes, Toulan, and by the Baron de Batz. Marie Antoinette refuses to leave her Son. Illness of the young King. Overthrow of the Girondins. Insanity of the Woman Tison. Kindness of the Queen to her. Her Son is taken from her, and intrusted to Simon. His Ill-treatment. The Queen is removed to the Conciergerie.
Slowly and heavily the hours of the next day rolled on. Where was Toulan? Why did he not come? The queen waited for him the whole of that long, dreadful day in feverish expectation. She listened to every sound, to every approaching step, to every voice that echoed in the corridor. At noon Toulan had purposed to come to take his post as guard.
She went again to the threshold of the sleeping-room. "Can you hear me talk, children? Nod with your head if you heard me. Good. If Tison comes in, speak to her loudly, and call her by name, so that we may hear." "And now, sister," she continued, turning to the table, "let us see what Toulan has sent us. First, the cigar-light!"
He withdrew quickly from the gate and entered the house which thereafter was to be the house of the collector Simon. All was going on busily there, for Jeanne Marie had impressed into her service not only the sub-collector but some of the curious spectators, and she scolded her husband, who was just coming in with Toulan, for talking too long with the washerwoman instead of helping her.
"I want you to accompany me to a store where they sell playthings, and afterward you must help carry back what I buy, for it will be too large and too heavy for me alone." Toulan followed him without replying, and the two went quietly and with an air of indifference through the busy crowd of men.
"Yes," answered Simon, softly and quickly. "Yes, Toulan, I am all ready for you. To-morrow morning, at ten o'clock, I leave the Temple." "I know it," whispered Toulan. "But speak loudly. There stands a man who seems to be watching us." "Come," cried Simon, loudly.
I sprang up, however, and stole softly to the door; for I thought somebody had crept in here in disguise, possibly Citizen Toulan, who had already twice made the attempt to release the Austrian and her children, and whom I then denounced at headquarters.
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