Part 25 (2/2)

”You don't say so Why, how long have you been here?”

”Oh, about seventeen hours!”

”What! haven't you slept? Haven't you eaten?”

”Yes, I have had soet it, of course?”

”No, I didn't, a sentry does not quit his post! ThisI shouted to the people in the shop across the way that I was hungry, and they brought me some bread”

I hastened to have the brave child relieved fro in the Place Royale I inquired for Victor He had not returned I was seized with a shudder of fear I do not knohy the vision of the dead who had been transported to the Salle Saint Jean should have coht in that bloody affray? I gave soain Vacquerie was there; I told hiuish in a whisper, and he offered to accompany me

First of all we called upon M Froment-Meurice, whose establishment was in the Rue Lobau, next to the Hotel de Ville, and I asked him to have ht to dissuade ht; he had seen it the previous day and was still under the impression of the horror it inspired I fancied his reluctance was a bad sign, that he was trying to keep so from me This e Salle Saint Jean, transfor line of corpses upon canisable And I held the dreadful review, quaking inand slim with chestnut hair Yes, the spectacle of the poor blood-stained dead was horrible indeed! But I could not describe it; all that I saw of each body was that it was not that of th I reached the last one, and breathed freely once ubrious place I saw Victor, veryhe had left the roo able to find his way back, had been to see a friend

II EXPULSIONS AND ESCAPES

May 3, 1848

On February 24 the Duke and duchess Decazes were literally driven fro And by whom? By the very denizens of the palace, all erand referendary A ruht the peers would commit some anti-revolutionary act, publish a procla Saint Jacques prepared to reat terror First the Duke and duchess were begged, then pressed, then constrained to leave the palace

”We will leave to-ht here,” they said

They were driven out

They slept in a lodging-house Next day they took up their abode at 9, Rue Verneuil

M Decazes was very ill A week before he had undergone an operation

Me This is a trait of character that woh the stupidity of men

The ministers escaped, but not without difficulty M Duchatel, in particular, had a great fright

M Guizot, three days previously, had quitted the Hotel des Capucines and installed himself at the Ministry of the Interior He lived there _en famille_ with M Duchatel

On February 24, MM Duchatel and Guizot were about to sit down to luncheon when an usher rushed in with a frightened air The head of the colune The two ed to escape just in tiarden Their fa wife, M

Guizot's agedabout this flight was that the luncheon of M Guizot became the supper of M Ledru-Rollin It was not the first time that the Republic had eaten what had been served to the Monarchy

Meanwhile the fugitives had taken the Rue Bellechasse M Guizot walked first, giving his arm to Mme Duchatel His fur-lined overcoat was buttoned up and his hat as usual was stuck on the back of his head