a right-down handsome costume, too. I wish we fellows could dress like
that nowadays."

"I wish so, too," said Elise; "it's a heap more picturesque than the
clothes men wear at the present day."

"I begin to feel," said Patty, "that I wish I had studied my French
history harder. How many kings lived here after Louis XIV.?"

"Two," replied Mr. Farrington, "and when, Patty, at one o'clock on the
sixth of October, 1789, the line of carriages drove Louis XVI. and his
family away from here to Paris, the Chateau was left vacant and has
never since been occupied."

"In October," said Patty, "and probably just such a blue and gold day as
this! Oh, how they must have felt!"

"I wouldn't weep over it now, Patty," said the matter-of-fact Elise;
"they've been gone so long, and so many people have wept for them, that
I think it wasted emotion."

"I believe it would be," said Patty, smiling, "as far as they're
concerned; but I can't help feeling sorry for them, only I could never
weep before, because I never realised what it was they were leaving."

The party went on into the Chateau, and visited rooms and apartments one
after the other. It was necessary to do this quickly if they were to do
it at all, and, as Mr. Farrington said, a hasty tour of the palace would
give them an idea of it as a whole, and sometime he would bring the
girls again to enjoy the details more at leisure.