"Monseigneur, I will hide it in a pocket-book and only show it once a week."
"Do you promise?"
"On my word of honour!"
"In that case, you can take it, and as you are longing to leave me to go and tell the good news to your protégé, go along with you."
"Oh, monseigneur, you shall not have the trouble of telling me twice."
"Go, go."
He waved me off with his hand, and I left him.
Poor prince! I have many anecdotes to tell of him like this one; and I mean to tell them. It was because of his goodness of heart and the loyalty of his patriotism that he became popular. And, when he died, I wrote these prophetic words:—
"God has just taken away the only obstacle that exists between the Monarchy and a Republic."
That is why you died, monseigneur: you were an obstacle: the Republic was a necessity.