"The Panthéon——"
"Yes,—exactly,—they would never risk the Panthéon. Even the Prussians spared that."
"Oh, Monsieur Jean, see!"
She had discovered a white silk flag embroidered with the lilies of France.
"The wretches! They would restore the hated emblem of the Louis! This is too much!" he exclaimed, in wrath.
"It is the way of the king, n'est-ce pas?"
She looked at him curiously.
"But the Duc d'Orléans should know that the people of France will never abandon the tricolor,—never!"
"The people of France are fools!"
"True!" he rejoined, hotly, "and I am but one of them!"