Part 82

‘robes’, here +Staatskleider+.

Here place the verb ‘is’.

‘priv. gentl.’, here +Civilist+.

+begierig+; ‘to depart’, here = to flee.

would fain = would willingly; use the Imperf. Subj. of +mögen+ with the adv. +gern+. To meet danger, +der Gefahr die Stirne bieten+.

+Se.+ (for +Seine+) +Majestät+, after which place the verb in the 3rd pers. pl., which is customary in speaking of Sovereigns.

to put to = to put the horses to, +an´spannen+.

+erschießen.+

+Pöbel+, m.

‘from’, here +aus ... hinaus+. Comp. S. 102, N. 4.

Form a compound of ‘castle’ and ‘garden’.

‘end’, here +Ausgang+, m.

Form a comp. of ‘friend’ and ‘hand’ according to S. 76, N. 22, B.

+Mietskutsche+, f.

The King would address his Consort in the 2nd pers. sing.

to lean heavily upon, +sich fest stützen auf+ (with Acc.).

+welche mit stolzerhobenem Haupte einherschreitet.+

are reached, +werden bestiegen+.

+entkommen.+

+~Sanct Cloud~ bei Versailles war zu jener Zeit eine beliebte Residenz der königlichen Familie.+ ‘+Sanct+’ (abbreviated +St.+) comes from the Latin ‘sanctus’.

+Es geht weiter.+

+~Dreux~ ist ein Städtchen im Departement Eure-Loire, an der Eure, mit 7000 Einwohnern und enthält ein Schloß mit Grabkapelle des Hauses Orléans, welche von der Mutter des Königs Ludwig Philipp gegründet wurde.+

Section 104.

THE DRAMA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848.

IV.

At one in the morning they are joined by (+von+) one of the King’s sons, who informs the unhappy pair that the claims of the grandson had been disregarded, and that the republic had been declared by the people of Paris. It is enough. The King shaves off his whiskers, puts on green spectacles, buries his face in a handkerchief, speaks English, and calls himself Smith. The wind is high, the coast dangerous, embarkation is out of question at the moment, and before an opportunity offers, the rank of the runaways is discovered. Fortune (S. 3, N. 2), however, is with them: they escape capture and put to sea. Protected by Heaven, they reach in safety the hospitable shores of England.

Meanwhile, what has happened in Paris? The whole city has given way to a handful of rioters—men (S. 53, N. 9) who meditated an “emeute”, and effected, to their astonishment, an actual revolution. But two individuals upon the side of the King evinced a particle of courage, and these were women—his wife and his daughter-in-law already mentioned. The rest of the city were faithless to themselves as well as to the King.

‘to be joined’, here +eingeholt werden+ (to be overtaken).