All progressed capitally.
At Bondy, they found the two femmes-de-chambre, who were to have awaited them at Claye.
It appeared that they came in a cabriolet, expecting to find at Bondy a post-chaise; but there were none, so they had struck a bargain with the postmaster for a cabriolet, the price of which was a thousand francs.
The driver of the other cabriolet was brushing down his horse previously to returning to Paris.
At this place, M. de Fersen was to leave their Majesties.
He kissed the King’s hand, in order that he might be able to kiss the Queen’s.
M. de Fersen would rejoin them in Austria.
He returned to Paris, to acquaint himself with what was going on; he would then start for Brussels.
Man proposes, God disposes.
The Queen, two years later, was executed in the Place de la Revolution; and M. de Person perished at Stockholm, where he was slain in a riot, stricken to death by blows from umbrellas, administered by drunken women.