Part 84

+Fest ihren Zweck verfolgend.+

+zurück´weichen.+

and — himself, +und der sie Unterbrechende selbst wird+.

to pour = to rush.

+Saal+, m.

+gewaltsam hinweg´drängen+.

After the rel. pron. insert the adverb +zwar+ (certainly, it is true, indeed), which will give more force to the clause.

+darein´zuschlagen.+

‘but’, here +doch+, or +aber auch+.

‘to bring’, here = to bring back.

‘to pass’, here = to flee.

chased = pursued; by, +von+.

what is still worse.

+von dem blutgierigen Zorn eines rasenden Pöbels.+

+Vier Tage lang+.

they — places = they try to conceal themselves.

Section 106.

THE DRAMA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848.

VI.

Everybody is escaping at the same moment. There is the King’s eldest son, pale and half-naked, throwing aside his tinsel and putting on fustian, looking less than a man in his fear, trembling with emotion, and finally running like a madman for his life. There are your ministers, of European reputation and wisdom unapproachable, bounding like antelopes, northwards, southwards, “anywhere, anywhere out of the city”, which they and all the rest give up to indiscriminate riot. And now the crowning point of our first “tableau” is near. The (S. 107, N. 13) mob, masters of Paris, are sacking the Tuileries. The choicest moveables are broken to atoms; a group takes the places which Royalty filled a moment ago at the breakfast table; others are in the wine cellar drinking themselves ten times drunk; others, again, are in the Queen’s apartments, defiling that domestic sanctuary. Outside the palace and on the top of it a flag is waved by a dozen men, whose shouts and shrieks invite hundreds, whom you see crawling up with no earthly object but immediately to (S. 19, N. 7) slide down again.

at — moment = with them.

‘throwing — life’. The rendering of this passage according to the rule of S. 16, N. 4 would be inelegant, since there are a number of Present Participles following one another. I propose, therefore, to begin a new period here, saying: He throws aside his tinsel (here +Flitterstaat+, m.), puts on fustian, etc.; to put on fustian, +sich in Barchent kleiden+.

to look less than a man, +kaum einem Manne ähnlich sehen+.

+vor+; emotion = excitement.

+davon´laufen.+

+um sein Leben zu retten.+

your = the.

of — unapproachable = incomparable in (+an+) European fame and wisdom.