Bodyguard shew face, he is hunted by Rascality;--for instance, poor 'M.
de Moucheton of the Scotch Company,' owner of the slain war-horse; and
has to be smuggled off by Versailles Captains. Or rusty firelocks belch
after him, shivering asunder his--hat. In the end, by superior Order,
the Bodyguards, all but the few on immediate duty, disappear; or as it
were abscond; and march, under cloud of night, to Rambouillet. (Weber,
ubi supra.)

We remark also that the Versaillese have now got ammunition: all
afternoon, the official Person could find none; till, in these so
critical moments, a patriotic Sublieutenant set a pistol to his ear, and
would thank him to find some,--which he thereupon succeeded in doing.
Likewise that Flandre, disarmed by Pallas Athene, says openly, it
will not fight with citizens; and for token of peace, has exchanged
cartridges with the Versaillese.

Sansculottism is now among mere friends; and can 'circulate freely;'
indignant at Bodyguards;--complaining also considerably of hunger.



Chapter 1.7.VIII.

The Equal Diet.

But why lingers Mounier; returns not with his Deputation? It is six, it
is seven o'clock; and still no Mounier, no Acceptance pure and simple.

And, behold, the dripping Menads, not now in deputation but in mass,
have penetrated into the Assembly: to the shamefullest interruption