Section 104. THE DRAMA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848. IV.
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At one in the morning they are joined[1] by (von) one of the King’s sons, who informs the unhappy pair that the claims[2] of the grandson had[3] 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[4] his face in a handkerchief, speaks English, and calls himself Smith. The wind is[5] high, the coast[6] dangerous, embarkation[7] is out of question at the moment, and before an opportunity offers, the rank of the runaways[8] is discovered. Fortune (S. 3, N. 2), however, is[9] with them: they escape[10] capture and put to sea. Protected by Heaven, they reach in safety[11] the hospitable shores of England.
Meanwhile[12], what has happened in Paris? The whole city has given way[13] to a handful of rioters—men (S. 53, N. 9) who meditated an “emeute[14]”, and effected, to their astonishment, an actual revolution. But[15] two individuals upon the side of the King evinced a[16] particle of courage, and these were women—his wife and his daughter-in-law already[17] mentioned. The[18] rest of the city were[19] faithless to themselves as well as to the King.