When I say insisted, perhaps I exaggerated a little, as nothing could give me greater pleasure than to accept his present.
As for Duplay, he received an order of the value of 5,000 francs, and drank with the Duc de Chartres to the health of the nation, so that he returned home in the best of spirits, rejoiced to have combined, in his morning’s visit, pleasure and profit.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
TOUCHING THE PRINCESS LAMBALLE.
It will easily be imagined that the event of which I am treating was the subject of conversation for fifteen days in the house of Duplay in which I was apprentice, in the place of Dumont.
Félicién, seeing that I entertained for Mdlle. Cornelie and Mdlle. Estelle only such affection as every well-educated man ought to have for women, drew in his nails and teeth, and became as good a comrade towards me as it was possible for him to be.
Still the revolution marched on with gigantic strides; the flight to Varennes having given it a terrible impetus.
On the 27th and 28th June, the Assembly promulgated the following decrees:—
“The gard du corps is disbanded.