manner: figures that have come to do they know not what; figures that
have come to see it done! Distinguished among all figures, who is this,
of gaunt stature, with leaden breastplate, though a small one; (See
Weber, ii. 185-231.) bushy in red grizzled locks; nay, with long
tile-beard? It is Jourdan, unjust dealer in mules; a dealer no longer,
but a Painter's Layfigure, playing truant this day. From the necessities
of Art comes his long tile-beard; whence his leaden breastplate
(unless indeed he were some Hawker licensed by leaden badge) may have
come,--will perhaps remain for ever a Historical Problem. Another Saul
among the people we discern: 'Pere Adam, Father Adam,' as the groups
name him; to us better known as bull-voiced Marquis Saint-Huruge; hero
of the Veto; a man that has had losses, and deserved them. The tall
Marquis, emitted some days ago from limbo, looks peripatetically on this
scene, from under his umbrella, not without interest. All which persons
and things, hurled together as we see; Pallas Athene, busy with Flandre;
patriotic Versailles National Guards, short of ammunition, and deserted
by d'Estaing their Colonel, and commanded by Lecointre their Major; then
caracoling Bodyguards, sour, dispirited, with their buckskins wet; and
finally this flowing sea of indignant Squalor,--may they not give rise
to occurrences?

Behold, however, the Twelve She-deputies return from the Chateau.
Without President Mounier, indeed; but radiant with joy, shouting "Life
to the King and his House." Apparently the news are good, Mesdames? News
of the best! Five of us were admitted to the internal splendours, to the
Royal Presence. This slim damsel, 'Louison Chabray, worker in sculpture,
aged only seventeen,' as being of the best looks and address, her we
appointed speaker. On whom, and indeed on all of us, his Majesty looked
nothing but graciousness. Nay, when Louison, addressing him, was like to
faint, he took her in his royal arms; and said gallantly, "It was well