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The History Of Madame And Monsieur. C—
had no longer power , however , to restrain her husband from emi grating , and considering it as her first duty to follow his fortunes and share his destiny , she was only prevented from going with him by his desire that she should endeavour to preserve their property by remaining in France till the counter-revolution arrived , which he was firmly persuaded was at no great distance . After making the tour of Switzerlandhe crossed the Al
, ps with a party of emio-rantsand finding , that although the counter revolution was on its way , its march was less rapid than he had expected , determined to wait foi that event-at Bellinzone . Not long after , that ferocious tyranny , with its train of horrors , to which regal despotism was mild , and al | its abuses fihtestablished itself in France . Madame C '
g , s cor . respondence became every day more difficult and dangerous , and at length the friend to whom his letters were addressed declared , that if this epistolary intercourse was continued , it would lead not Only himself , but Madame C , to the scaffold .
Deprived of all communication with her husband , and a melanchol y witness of crimes which she execrated , and of miseries which she deplored , she : ooi : became herself involved in the general calamity . All the property of Mons . C was sequestered , and the seals were placed upon every apartment ofhis hotel , after a strict search had been made for Madame C , who escaped imprisonment by having found a temporary shelter for herself and her little boy , in the house of her
friend . This person , a man of sense and virtue , who , abhorrent cf the sanguinary measures which then prevailed , had , from , circumstances of a private nature , some influence with one high in power , and was ever ready to employ th . it influence for the purpose of doing . good , or rather of averting evil , found means toj snatch Madame C from danger , by obtaining passports for her and Victoire , as the wives of two Swiss traders , who had come toI Pwris upon affairs of commerce , and were returning : to their own
country . Madame C , after thanking her friend for life , since life was then included in the gift of a passport , set off in the diligence to Basil , with her little boy in her arms , and accompanied by Victoire . During the journey Madame C had many alarms , on account of the iniempeiate resentments of her waiting-woman , who , whenincident b
ever any happened y which she was offended , was ready to betray all . Victoire was astonished that nobody found out th . it she was Xhefemme de chambre of the lady of a cordon rouge , and was as angry at what . he considered as disrespect , to use the words of Johnson , as the < Czar of Muscovy , when he passed through Sweden in disguise . ' It required many a private lecture , during the route ,
from Madame C , to make Victoire preserve the incognita ; she longed to burst upon the impertinent fellow-travellers , who greeted her with tutoi , citoyenne , and egalite , with a detail of all the former splendour of her iady , a large portion of which she considered as reflated upon herself . She owned that she was d ying to tell them , that they were not fit company for the anti-chamber , and that this was the first time she herself bad ever travelled in a diligence .
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The History Of Madame And Monsieur. C—
had no longer power , however , to restrain her husband from emi grating , and considering it as her first duty to follow his fortunes and share his destiny , she was only prevented from going with him by his desire that she should endeavour to preserve their property by remaining in France till the counter-revolution arrived , which he was firmly persuaded was at no great distance . After making the tour of Switzerlandhe crossed the Al
, ps with a party of emio-rantsand finding , that although the counter revolution was on its way , its march was less rapid than he had expected , determined to wait foi that event-at Bellinzone . Not long after , that ferocious tyranny , with its train of horrors , to which regal despotism was mild , and al | its abuses fihtestablished itself in France . Madame C '
g , s cor . respondence became every day more difficult and dangerous , and at length the friend to whom his letters were addressed declared , that if this epistolary intercourse was continued , it would lead not Only himself , but Madame C , to the scaffold .
Deprived of all communication with her husband , and a melanchol y witness of crimes which she execrated , and of miseries which she deplored , she : ooi : became herself involved in the general calamity . All the property of Mons . C was sequestered , and the seals were placed upon every apartment ofhis hotel , after a strict search had been made for Madame C , who escaped imprisonment by having found a temporary shelter for herself and her little boy , in the house of her
friend . This person , a man of sense and virtue , who , abhorrent cf the sanguinary measures which then prevailed , had , from , circumstances of a private nature , some influence with one high in power , and was ever ready to employ th . it influence for the purpose of doing . good , or rather of averting evil , found means toj snatch Madame C from danger , by obtaining passports for her and Victoire , as the wives of two Swiss traders , who had come toI Pwris upon affairs of commerce , and were returning : to their own
country . Madame C , after thanking her friend for life , since life was then included in the gift of a passport , set off in the diligence to Basil , with her little boy in her arms , and accompanied by Victoire . During the journey Madame C had many alarms , on account of the iniempeiate resentments of her waiting-woman , who , whenincident b
ever any happened y which she was offended , was ready to betray all . Victoire was astonished that nobody found out th . it she was Xhefemme de chambre of the lady of a cordon rouge , and was as angry at what . he considered as disrespect , to use the words of Johnson , as the < Czar of Muscovy , when he passed through Sweden in disguise . ' It required many a private lecture , during the route ,
from Madame C , to make Victoire preserve the incognita ; she longed to burst upon the impertinent fellow-travellers , who greeted her with tutoi , citoyenne , and egalite , with a detail of all the former splendour of her iady , a large portion of which she considered as reflated upon herself . She owned that she was d ying to tell them , that they were not fit company for the anti-chamber , and that this was the first time she herself bad ever travelled in a diligence .