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Updated: June 10, 2025
The queen quickly stepped behind the high screen, and Madame Campan opened the door of the antechamber. "Come in, Mr. Toulan," she cried, and at once there appeared at the open door the tall, powerful figure of the young man. His cheeks were heated with the quick ride, his eyes glowed, and his breathing was rapid and hard.
And, kneeling before the queen, he raised his head and looked at her with an expression almost of supplication. "I am Toulan," he whispered, "the faithful servant of my queen. Will your majesty have the goodness to recall me? Here is a letter from my patroness, Madame de Campan, who speaks well for me. Will your majesty read it?"
I shall not come again, for after this I must work for you outside of the prison. But Doctor Naudin will come every day to see you, and on the day of your flight I shall be by your side. Till then, God bless you, my dear prince!" Toulan left the prison of the little Capet and repaired at once to the H6tel Dieu, where he had a long conversation with Doctor Naudin.
I will go to the palace, and may we each do our duty." She saluted Toulan with a gentle inclination of her head and with beaming looks of gratitude in her beautiful eyes, and then hurried on up the grand mall to the palace. In Versailles all was confusion and consternation. Every one had lost his senses.
Toulan is, besides, a member of the Convention; and it is not his fault that, on the day when the decision was made respecting the king's life or death, he was not in the Assembly. He had been compelled at that time to make a journey into the provinces, to attach the property of an aristocrat who had emigrated.
She had to bear all in silence, she had to appear indifferent and calm; she had to give pleasant answers to the dauphin's innocent questions, and even compel a smile to her lips when the child, reading in her looks, by the instinct of love, her great excitement, tried to cheer her up with pleasant words. It struck five, and still Toulan did not come.
If flight is impracticable to-day, it may be effected at some more favorable time, and I must hold myself in readiness for it." "But they will take you, I tell you," said Lepitre, with a downcast air. "You will do no good to the queen, and only bring yourself to harm." "Oh, nonsense! they will not catch me so soon," said Toulan, confidently.
At once Count Mirabeau, the representative of the Third Estate, put on his hat; other deputies followed his example, but Toulan, whom Mirabeau had before hindered from kneeling Toulan now wanted to prevent the proud democrats covering themselves in presence of the queen. "Hats off!" he cried, with aloud voice, and here and there in the hall the same cry was repeated.
A heavy sigh escaped from the lips of the queen, and, throwing her arms around the dauphin with a convulsive motion, she murmured: "My son, oh, my dear son! May God take my life if He will but spare thine!" Where was Toulan? Where had he been all this dreadful day? "Where was Fidele the brave, the indefatigable?
Now that Toulan was no longer there, no news came to her of what transpired beyond the prison, and Fidele's horn-signals were the only sounds of the outer world that reached her ear. The evening of the 3d of July had come. The little prince had gone to bed, and had already sunk into a deep sleep.
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