Madame, however, would not allow me to make my report until we had dined, and we spent the intervening hour in talk of Paris, and the extraordinary events passing there. The ladies, as indeed ladies mostly are, were staunch Royalists, and while evincing but little sympathy for the fallen Buonapartes, learnt with horror of the rise of Anarchy and Republicanism in Paris.
"My poor country," exclaimed Madame. "It will be impossible to live in France again."
And Lucille's eyes lighted up with anger when I told her of the plots to assassinate the Duc D'Aumale--that brave soldier and worthiest member of his family--merely because he was of the Royal race.
All Europe awaited at this time the fall of the desperate Communards, who held Paris and defied the government of Versailles, while experts
