"How bad they are!" said the dauphin, looking with widely-opened
eyes at the king, between whose knees he was standing.
"No," answered Louis, gently, "they are not bad, they are only
misled."
At seven in the evening they reached the gloomy building which was
now to be the home of the King and Queen of France. "Long live the
nation!" roared the mob, which filled the inner court as Marie
Antoinette and her husband dismounted from the carriage. "Long live
the nation!--down with the tyrants!" The queen paid no attention to
the cries; she looked down at her black shoe, which was torn, and
out of whose tip her white silk stocking peeped. "See," she said, to
Princess Lamballe, who was walking by her side, "see my foot, it
would hardly be believed that the Queen of France has no shoes."
CHAPTER XX.
TO THE 21ST 0F JANUARY.
"We must look misfortune directly in the eye, and have courage to
bear it worthily," said Marie Antoinette." "We are prisoners, and
shall long remain so! Let us seek to have a kind of household life
even in our prison. Let us make a fixed plan how to spend our days."
"You are right, Marie," replied Louis; "let us arrange how to spend
each day. As I am no longer a king, I will be the teacher of my son,
and try to educate him to be a good king."
"Do you believe, then, husband, that there are to be kings after
this in France?" asked Marie Antoinette, with a shrug.
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