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- 7. “I like thedifferent aspects that are included that get the students engaged in learning. It is a comprehensive text to use when teaching Maternal child nursing. It is simple enough for all students but engaging enough to keep even your most adept student challenged.” - Teresa Carnevale, PhD, MSN, RN Beaver College of Health Sciences “A complete continuum of the child from preconception through adolescents. All inclusive in a easy to read and understandable format.” - Stephanie Palmersheim MSN, RN St. Luke’s College Sioux City, Iowa “Good flow with information and material from Care of Maternal Health Nursing to Care of Pediatric Nursing." - Lisa Stoddart, MSN, RN, FNP-BC Associate Nursing Professor Pediatrics San Joaquin Delta College 1. Cover 2. Title Page 3. Copyright Page 4. About the Authors 5. Dedication 6. Preface 7. LPN/LVN Connections 8. F. A. Davis LPN/LVN Advisory Board 9. Contributors to the First Edition 10. Reviewers 11. Brief Contents 12. Contents 13. UNIT ONE: Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing 14. 1 Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing 15. Roles In Maternal-Child and Pediatric Nursing 16. Legalities and Ethics 17. Evidence-Based Practice 18. Informed Consent
- 8. 19. Family-Centered Care 20.Special Considerations in Pediatric Nursing 21. The Maternal-Child and Pediatric Nursing Student 22. 2 Culture 23. Encountering Diversity 24. The Importance of Cultural Awareness and Knowledge in Nursing and Health-Care Delivery 25. Culturally Appropriate Assessment 26. 3 Women’s Health Promotion Across the Life Span 27. Preventive Health Care for Women 28. Menstrual Disorders 29. Family Planning 30. Infertility Care 31. Menopause 32. Female Reproductive Tract Disorders 33. Infectious Disorders of the Reproductive Tract 34. Pelvic Floor Disorders 35. UNIT TWO: Pregnancy and the Family 36. 4 Human Reproduction and Fetal Development 37. Female Reproductive System 38. Male Reproductive System 39. Fertilization 40. Stages of Fetal Development 41. Accessory Structures of Pregnancy 61 42. Multiple Pregnancy 43. Effects of Teratogens on Fetal Development 44. 5 Physical and Psychological Changes of Pregnancy 45. Diagnosis of Pregnancy 46. Normal Physiological Changes in Pregnancy 47. Psychological Adaptation to Pregnancy 48. 6 Nursing Care During Pregnancy 49. Initial Prenatal Assessment 50. Prenatal Assessment and Care 51. 7 Promoting a Healthy Pregnancy 52. Focus on the Patient 53. Promotion of Self-Care During Pregnancy 54. Avoiding Infections 55. Nutrition in Pregnancy 56. Care of the Pregnant Adolescent 57. Care of Lesbian Patients 58. Care of the Expectant Woman Older Than Age 35 59. Focus on the Fetus 60. Focus on the Growing Family 61. 8 Nursing Care of the Woman With Complications During Pregnancy 62. Care of the Woman With Hyperemesis Gravidarum 63. Care of the Woman With Bleeding Disorders of Early Pregnancy
- 9. 64. Care ofthe Woman With Bleeding Disorders of Late Pregnancy 65. Care of the Woman With Incompetent Cervix 66. Care of the Woman With Rh Incompatibility Between Maternal and Fetal Blood 67. Care of the Woman With a Multiple Gestation Pregnancy 68. Care of the Woman With Hypertension Disorders 69. Care of the Woman With Gestational Diabetes 70. UNIT THREE: Birth and the Family 71. 9 Nursing Care During Labor and Childbirth 72. The Physiology of Labor 73. Critical Factors in Labor 74. Maternal Systemic Response to Labor 75. Fetal Response to Labor 76. Stages of Labor and Birth 77. Settings for Childbirth 78. Admission to the Hospital or Birthing Center 79. Fetal Monitoring 80. Pain Management in Labor and Birth 81. 10 Nursing Care of the Woman With Complications During Labor and Birth 82. Care of the Woman at Risk of Preterm Labor 83. Care of the Woman With Premature Rupture of Membranes 84. Care of the Woman With a Post-Term Pregnancy 85. Care of the Woman With Abnormal Amniotic Fluid Volume 86. Labor-Related Complications 87. Emergencies and Complications During Birth 88. Care of the Family Experiencing Perinatal Loss 89. 11 Birth-Related Procedures 90. Amniotomy 91. Amnioinfusion 92. External Cephalic Version 93. Care of the Woman Undergoing Induction or the Augmentation of Labor 94. Assisted Vaginal Birth 95. Cesarean Birth 96. UNIT FOUR: Postpartum Period and the Family 97. 12 Postpartum Nursing Care 98. Postpartum Physical Adaptations 99. Nursing Care During the Early Postpartum Period 100. Postpartum Psychological Adaptations 101. Development of Family Attachment 102. 13 Postpartum Complications 103. Care of the Woman With Postpartum Hemorrhage 104. Care of the Woman With a Hematoma 105. Care of the Woman With a Uterine Infection 106. Care of the Woman With a Wound Infection 107. Care of the Woman With a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) 108. Care of the Woman With Mastitis 109. Care of the Woman With Postpartum Thromboembolic Disease
- 10. 110. Care ofthe Woman With Postpartum Depression 111. Care of the Woman With a Postpartum Psychiatric Disorder 112. UNIT FIVE: The Newborn 113. 14 Physiological and Behavioral Adaptations of the Newborn 114. Physiological Adaptations 115. Behavioral Adjustment to Extrauterine Life 116. 15 Nursing Care of the Newborn 117. Physical Examination of the Newborn 118. Nursing Care of the Newborn 119. Discharge Teaching for Newborn Care 120. 16 Newborn Nutrition 121. Recommended Infant Nutrition 122. The Breastfeeding Mother and Infant 123. The Formula-Feeding Parents and Infant 124. 17 Nursing Care of the Newborn at Risk 125. Identification of the At-Risk Newborn 126. Care of the Newborn at Risk Because of Birth Asphyxia 127. Care of the Newborn with Respiratory Distress 128. Care of the Newborn with Cold Stress 129. Neonatal Hypoglycemia 130. Care of the Newborn with Birth Injuries 131. Hyperbilirubinemia 132. Care of the Newborn with an Infection 133. Sepsis 134. Care of Newborns With Problems Related to Gestational Age and Development 135. Care of the Infant of a Diabetic Mother 136. Care of Chemically Exposed Infants 137. Care of the Newborn Exposed to HIV 138. Care of the Family of an At-Risk Newborn 139. UNIT SIX: Growth and Development 140. 18 Health Promotion of the Infant: Birth to One Year 141. Growth and Development of the Infant 142. Anticipatory Guidance for New Parents of an Infant 143. Screening and Health Promotion for the Infant 144. Safety and the Hospitalized Infant 145. Disease and Injury Prevention for the Infant 146. Disorders of the Infant 147. 19 Health Promotion of the Toddler 148. Growth and Development of the Toddler 149. Anticipatory Guidance for Parents of the Toddler 150. Screening and Health Promotion for the Toddler 151. Injury Prevention for the Toddler 152. Disorders of the Toddler 153. 20 Health Promotion of the Preschooler 154. Growth and Development of the Preschooler
- 11. 155. Anticipatory Guidancefor Parents With a Preschooler 156. Screening and Health Promotion for the Preschooler 157. Safety and the Hospitalized Preschooler 158. Injury Prevention for the Preschooler 159. Disorders of the Preschooler 160. 21 Health Promotion of the School-Aged Child 161. Growth and Development of the School-Aged Child 162. Anticipatory Guidance for Parents of a School-Aged Child 163. Concerns of the School-Aged Child 164. Injury Prevention for the School-Aged Child 165. Screening and Health Promotion for the School-Aged Child 166. Safety and the Hospitalized School-Aged Child 167. 22 Health Promotion of the Adolescent 168. Growth and Development of the Adolescent 169. Legal Issues in Adolescent Health Care 170. Anticipatory Guidance for Parents of the Adolescent 171. Screening and Health Promotion for the Adolescent 172. Injury Prevention for Adolescents 173. Challenges in Adolescence 174. UNIT SEVEN: Pediatric Concerns and Considerations 175. 23 Nursing Care of the Hospitalized Child 176. Hospital Settings for Children Versus Adults 177. Play Therapy and Child Life Specialists 178. Providing a Safe Environment 179. Pain Management 180. Hospital Procedures With Children in Mind 181. Feeding Considerations for Hospitalized Children 182. Administering Medications to Hospitalized Children 183. Specimen Collection 184. Guidelines for Parents Administering Medications at Home 185. Discharge Procedures 186. 24 Acutely Ill Children and Their Needs 187. Providing Safety at the Bedside 188. Responding to Emergencies 189. Higher Level of Equipment Provided in the Hospital Environment 190. Caring for Families Present During Emergencies 191. Rapid Response Teams 192. Helpful Emergency Response Mnemonics 193. Assessing an Acutely Ill Child 194. Chain of Command and Request for a Higher Level of Care 195. 25 Adapting to Chronic Illness and Supporting the Family Unit 196. Defining Chronic Illness and Its Scope 197. Chronic Illnesses by Body System 198. Establishment of a Therapeutic Relationship 199. Symptoms Associated With Childhood Chronic Illness 200. Examples of Care Environments for Chronically Ill Children
- 12. 201. Assisting Childrenin Coping With Chronic Illness 202. The Effect of Chronic Illness on the Family 203. The Effect of a Chronic Disease on Parenting 204. The Effect of a Chronic Disease on Siblings 205. 26 The Abused Child 206. Child Abuse Global Perspectives 207. Child Abuse and Prevention 208. Types of Abuse 209. Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy 210. Abuse Statistics 211. Fatal Abuse 212. Prevention of Child Abuse 213. Medical and Nursing Management of Child Abuse 214. Nursing Considerations and Care 215. Human Trafficking 216. UNIT EIGHT: Deviations in Pediatric Health 217. 27 Child With a Neurological Condition 218. The Development of the Nervous System 219. Common Neurological Disorders During Childhood 220. The Senses 221. Congenital Neurological Disorders 222. Neurological Injuries 223. Other Neurological Disorders 224. 28 Child With a Sensory Impairment 225. The Development of Visual Acuity 226. Visual Impairment 227. Disorders of the Eye 228. The Development of Hearing 229. Hearing Impairment 230. Disorders of the Ear 231. Overall Nursing Considerations for a Child With a Sensory Impairment 232. 29 Child With a Mental Health Condition 233. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 234. Autism Spectrum Disorder 235. Feeding and Eating Disorders 236. Anxiety, Mood Disorders, and Schizophrenia 237. Other Types of Mental Health Disorders 238. 30 Child With a Respiratory Condition 239. The Development of the Respiratory Tract 240. Health History 241. Physical Evaluation 242. Respiratory Abnormalities 243. Interventions for a Child With Respiratory Difficulties 244. Oxygen Therapy Guidelines 245. Interventions to Assist a Child With Respiratory Distress 246. Common Respiratory Disorders
- 13. 247. 31 ChildWith a Cardiac Condition 248. The Development of the Cardiovascular System 249. Introduction to Cardiac Conditions 250. General Nursing Care of the Child With a Cardiac Condition 251. System-Focused Nursing Care 252. Cardiac Disorders 253. 32 Child With a Metabolic Condition 254. The Endocrine Glands 255. Common Endocrine Gland Disorders 256. Diabetes Mellitus 257. Inborn Errors of Metabolism 258. 33 Child With a Musculoskeletal Condition 259. The Development of the Musculoskeletal System 260. Common Childhood Injuries 261. Childhood Screening for Musculoskeletal Conditions 262. Common Musculoskeletal Disorders: Congenital Disorders 263. Common Musculoskeletal Disorders: Acquired Disorders 264. 34 Child With a Gastrointestinal Condition 265. The Development of Gastrointestinal Abnormalities 266. Health History 267. Physical Assessment 268. Common Gastrointestinal Disorders 269. 35 Child With a Genitourinary Condition 270. The Development of the Genitourinary System 271. Renal Function 272. Fluid Maintenance Requirements 273. Dehydration 274. Common Genitourinary Disorders 275. 36 Child With a Skin Condition 276. Skin and Childhood 277. Special Considerations for Skin Disorders 278. Common Skin Disorders 279. 37 Child With a Communicable Disease 280. Vaccines 281. Common Communicable Disorders 282. Nonimmunizable Communicable Illnesses 283. 38 Child With an Oncological or Hematological Condition 284. Introduction to Hematological Conditions 285. The Development of the Hematological System 286. Common Hematological Abnormalities and Disorders 287. Transfusion Therapy 288. Common Oncological Disorders 289. Appendix A: Joint Commission’s “Do Not Use” Abbreviations List 290. Appendix B: Thirty-Four Types of Medical Errors and Tips for Preventing Harm: Quality and Safety Imperatives for Nurses Caring for Patients Across the Developmental Period
- 14. 291. Appendix C:Universal and Standard Precautions for Preventing Disease Transmission 292. Appendix D: Conversion Factors 293. Appendix E: Common Medication Administration Calculations in Pediatrics 294. Glossary 295. Credits 296. Index
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- 16. Finally the returnof the august prisoners were heralded. They slept at Meaux. At eleven in the morning, veiled and dressed most plainly she went and waited till three o'clock at the east end, for it was supposed that the party would enter by St. Martin's suburb. At that hour the mob began to move away, hearing that the King was going round to enter through the Champs Elysees. It was half the city to cross afoot as no vehicles could move in the throng, unexampled since the Taking of the Bastile. Andrea did not hesitate and was one of the first on the spot where she had still three mortal hours to wait. At last the procession appeared, we know in what order. She hailed the royal coach with a cry of joy for she saw Charny on the box. A scream which seemed an echo of her own, though different in tone, arose, and she saw a girl in convulsions in the crowd. She would have gone to her help, though three or four kind persons flew to her side, but she heard the men around her pour imprecations on the three on the box seat. On them would fall the popular rage as the scapegoats of the royal treachery; when the coach stopped they would be torn to pieces. And Charny was one! She resolved to do her utmost to get within the Tuileries gardens; this she managed by going round about but the crush was so dense that she could not get into the front. She retired to the waterside terrace where she saw and heard badly, but that was better than not seeing at all. She saw Charny, indeed, on the same level, little suspecting that the heart beating for him alone was so near; probably he had no thought for her—solely for the Queen, forgetting his own safety to watch over hers. Oh, had she known that he was pressing her letter on his heart and offering her the last sigh which he thought he must soon yield!
- 17. At last thecoach stopped amid the howling, groaning and clamor. Almost instantly around it rose an immense turbulence, weapons swaying like a steel wheat-field shaken by the breeze. Precipitated from the box, the three Lifeguards disappeared as if dropped into a gulf. Then there was such a back-wave of the crowd that the retiring rear ranks broke against the terrace front. Andrea was shrouded in anguish; she could hear and see nothing; breathless and with outstretched arms, she screamed inarticulate sounds into the midst of the dreadful concert of maledictions, blasphemy and death cries. She could no longer understand what went on: the earth turned, the sky grew red, and a roar as of the sea rang in her ears. She fell, half dead, knowing only that she lived from her feeling suffering. A sensation of coolness brought her round: a woman was putting to her forehead a handkerchief dipped in river water. She remembered her as having fainted when the royal coach came into sight, without guessing what sympathy attached her to this mistress of her husband's brother—for this was Catherine Billet. "Are they dead?" was her first question. Compassion is intelligent: they around her understood that she asked after the three Lifeguardsmen. "No, all three are saved." "The Lord be praised! Where are they?" "I believe in the palace." Rising and shaking her head, seeing where she was in a distracted way, she went around to the Princes' Court and sprang into the janitor's room. This man knew the countess as having been in attendance when the court first came back from Versailles. He had also seen her go away, with Sebastian in her carriage.
- 18. He related thatthe Guardsmen were safe; Count Charny had gone out for a little while, when he returned dressed in naval uniform to appear in the Queen's rooms, where he probably was at that period. Andrea thanked the good fellow and hastened home, now that George was safe. She knelt on her praying stand, to thank heaven, with all her soul going up to her Maker. She was plunged in ecstasy when she heard the door open, and she wondered what this earthly sound could be, disturbing her in her deepest reverie. The shadow in the doorway was dim but her instinct told her who it was without the girl announcing: "My lord the Count of Charny." Andrea tried to rise but her strength failed her: half turning, she slid down the slope of the stand, leaning her arm on the guard. "The count," she murmured, disbelieving her eyes. The servant closed the door on her master and mistress. "I was told you had recently returned home? Am I rude in following you indoors so closely?" he asked. "No, you are welcome, my lord," she tremblingly replied. "I was so uneasy that I left the house to learn what had happened." "Were you long out?" "Since morning; I was first out to St. Martin's Bars, and then went to the Champs Elysees; there I saw—" she hesitated—"I saw the Royal Family—you, and momentarily I was set at ease, though I feared for you when the carriage should set you down. Then I went into the Tuileries Gardens, where I thought I should have died." "Yes, the crowd was great; you were crushed, and I understand ——"
- 19. "No," said Andrea,shaking her head, "that was not it. I inquired and learned that you were unhurt, so that I hastened home to thank God on my knees." "Since you are so, praying, say a word for my poor brother." "Isidore—poor youth! was it he, then?" exclaimed Andrea. She let her head sink on her hands. Charny stepped forward a few steps to regard the chaste creature at her devotions. In his look was immense commiseration, together with a longing restrained. Had not the Queen said—or rather revealed that Andrea loved him? "And he is no more?" queried the lady, turning round after finishing her prayer. "He died, madam, like Valence, and for the same cause, fulfilling the same duty." "And in the great grief which you must have felt, you still thought of me?" asked Andrea in so weak a voice that her words were barely audible. Luckily Charny was listening with the heart as well as ear. "Did you not charge my brother with a message for me?" he inquired. "A letter to my address?" She rose on one knee and looked with anxiety upon him. "After poor Isidore's death, his papers were handed to me and among them was this letter." "And you have read it—ah!" she cried, hiding her face in her hands. "I ought to know the contents only if I were mortally wounded and you see I have returned safe. Consequently, as you see, it is intact, as you gave it to Isidore." "Oh, what you have done is very lofty—or very unkind," muttered the countess, taking the letter.
- 20. Charny stretched outhis hand and caught her hand in spite of an effort to retain it. As Charny persisted, uttering a reproachful "Oh!" she sighed almost with fright; but she gave way, leaving it quivering in his clasp. Embarrassed, not knowing where to turn her eyes, to avoid his glance, which she felt to be fastened on her, and unable to retreat as her back was against the wall, she said: "I understand—you came to restore the letter." "For that, and another matter. I have to beg your pardon heartily, Andrea." She shuddered to the bottom of her soul for this was the first time he had addressed her so informally. The whole sentence had been spoken with indescribable softness. "Pardon of me, my lord? on what grounds?" "For my behavior towards you these six years." "Have I ever complained?" she asked, eyeing him in profound astonishment. "No, because you are an angel." Despite herself her eyes were veiled and tears welled out. "You weep, Andrea," exclaimed Charny. "Excuse me, my lord," she sobbed, "but I am not used to being thus spoken to. Oh, heavens!" She sank on an easy chair, hiding her face in her hands for a space but then withdrawing them, she said: "Really, I must be going mad." She stopped—while she had her eyes hid, Charny had fallen on his knees to her. "Oh, you, on your knees to me?" she said. "Did I not say I must ask your forgiveness?" "What can this mean?" she muttered.
- 21. "Andrea, it meansthat I love you," he answered in his sweetest voice. Laying her hand on her heart, she uttered a cry. Springing upright as though impelled by a spring under her feet, she pressed her temples between her hands and cried: "He loves me? this cannot be." "Say that it is impossible you should love me, but not that I should love you." She lowered her gaze on the speaker to see if he spoke truly and his eyes said more than his tongue: though she might doubt the words she could not the glance. "Oh, God, in all the world is there a being more unfortunate than me?" she cried. "Andrea, tell me that you love me," continued Charny, "or at least that you do not hate me?" "I, hate you?" she said, with a double flash from the calm eyes usually so limpid and serene. "Oh, my lord, it would be very wrong to take for hate the feeling you inspire." "But if not hate or love, what is it?" "It is not love because I am not allowed to love you; but did you not hear me call myself the unhappiest of God's creatures?" "Why are you not allowed to love me when I love you with all the strength of my soul?" "Oh, that I cannot, dare not, must not tell you," replied she, wringing her hands. "But if another should tell me what you cannot, dare not, must not tell?" he demanded. "Heaven!" she gasped, leaning her hands on his shoulder. "Suppose I know? and that, considering you the more worthy because of the noble way you have borne that woe, it was that
- 22. terrible secret whichdetermined me upon telling you that I loved you?" "If you did this, you would be the noblest and most generous of men." "Andrea, I love you," cried he, three times. "Oh, God, I knew not that there could be such bliss in this world," she said, lifting her arms heavenward. "Now, in your turn, tell me that you love me." "Oh, no, that I dare not, but you may read that letter," said Andrea. While she covered her face with her hands, he sharply broke the letter seal, and exclaimed when he had read the first lines; parting her hands and with the same movement drawing her upon his heart, he said: "How shall I love you enough, saintly creature, to make you forget what you have undergone in these six years!" "Oh, God, if this be a dream, let me never awake, or die on awakening," prayed Andrea, bending like a reed beneath the weight of so much happiness. And now, let us forget these who are happy to return to those who hate, suffer or are struggling, and perhaps their evil fate will forget them, too.
- 23. CHAPTER XXV. CORRECTING THEPETITION. On the Field of Mars the Altar of the Country still stood, set up for the anniversary of the Bastile Capture, a skeleton of the past. On this sixteenth of July, it was used as a table on which was spread a petition to the Assembly, which considered that the King had practically abdicated by his flight, and that he ought to be replaced by "Constitutional methods." This was a cunning way to propose the Duke of Orleans as Regent. Politics is a fine veil, but the people see through it if they are given time. There was some discussion by the persons called on to sign over these very words. But they might have been glossed over by the man in charge of the paper, the pen and the ink, but for a man of the people, judging by his manners and dress, who, with a frankness next to roughness, stopped the secretary abruptly. "Halt, this is cheating the people," said he. "What do you mean?" "This stuff about replacing the abdicated King by 'constitutional means.' You want to give us King Stock instead of King Log. You want to rig up royalty again and that is just what we don't want any more of." "No, no more Kings—enough of royalty?" shouted most of the lookers on. The secretary was Brissot, a Jacobin, and strange thing, here were the arch-revolutionists, the Jacobins defending royalty!
- 24. "Have a care,gentlemen," cried he and his supporters, "with no royalty, no king; the Republic would come, and we are not ripe for anything of that kind." "Not ripe?" jeered the Commoner: "a few such suns as shone on Varennes when we nabbed the skulking King, will ripen us." "Let's vote on this petition." "Vote," shouted those who had clamored for no more royalty. "Let those who do not want Louis XVI. or any other king, put up their hand," cried the plebeian in a lusty voice. Such a powerful number held up their hands that the Ayes had it beyond a necessity of farther trial. "Good," said the stranger; "to-morrow is Sunday, the seventeenth; let all the boys come out here to sign the petition as amended to our liking. I, Billet, will get the right sort ready." At this name everybody recognized Farmer Billet, the Taker of the Bastile, the hero of the people, the volunteer envoy who had accompanied Lafayette's dandy aid to Varennes where he arrested the King whom he had brought back to Paris. Thus, at the first start, the boldest of the politicians had been surpassed by—a man of the people, the embodied instincts of the masses! The other leaders said that a storm would be raised and that they had best get permission of the Mayor to hold this meeting on the morrow. "Very well," said Billet, "obtain leave, and if refused you, I will wrest it from them." Mayor Bailly was absent when Brissot and Desmoulins called for the leave: his deputy verbally granted it, but sent word to the House what he had done. The House was caught napping, for it had done nothing in fixing the status of the King after his flight. As if from an enemy of the rulers, the decree was passed that "The suspension of the executive
- 25. power will lastuntil the King shall have accepted and signed the Constitutional Act." Thus he was as much of a king as before; the popular petition became useless. Whoever claimed the dethronement of a monarch who was constitutionally maintained by the House, so long as the King agreed to accomplish this condition, was a rebel, of course. The decree was to be posted throughout the town next morning at eight. Prudent politicians went out of the town. The Jacobins retired, and their vulgar member, Santerre, the great brewer of the working quarter, was chosen to go and withdraw the petition from the Altar of the Country. But those meant to attend, spite of governmental warning, who are like the wolves and vultures who flock to the battlefields. Marat was confined to his cellar by his monomania, but he yelled for the Assembly to be butchered and cried for a general massacre out of which he would wade a universal dictator. Verriere, the abominable hunchback, careered about on a horse like the spectre of the Apocalypse, and stopped at every crossroad to invite the masses to meet on the Field of Mars. So the thousands went to the rendezvous, to sign the paper, sing and dance and shout "The Nation Forever!" The sun rose magnificently. All the petty tradesfolk who cater to the multitude swarmed on the parade-ground where the Altar of the Country stood up in the middle like a grand catafalque. By half past four a hundred and fifty thousand souls were present. Those who rise early are usually bad sleepers, and who has not slept well is commonly in a bad humor. In the midst of the chatter a woman's scream was heard. On the crowd flocking round her, she complained of having been stabbed in the ankle while leaning against the altar. Indeed the point of a gimlet was seen sticking through the boards. In a twinkling the planks were torn down and two men were unearthed in the hollow. They were
- 26. old cronies, sotswho had taken a keg of liquor with them and eatables, and stolen a march on the crowd by hiding here overnight. But unfortunately the mob at the woman's cue thought they made peepholes for a mean purpose and cried that the keg contained powder to blow up the signers of the petition. They forgot that these new Guido Fawkes hardly looked the sort to blow themselves up with their victims. Be this as it may, they were taken to the police court where the magistrates laughingly released them; but the washer-women, great sticklers for women not to be probed in the ankle by gimlets, gave them a beating with the paddles used in thumping linen. This was not all: the cry that powder was found getting spread, they were taken from the women and slain. A few minutes after, their heads were cut off and the ready pikes were there to receive them on their points. The news was perverted on its way to the Assembly where the heads were stated to be of two friends of order who had lost them while preaching respect to the law. The Assembly at once voted the City to be under martial law. Santerre, sent by the Jacobin Club to withdraw their petition before Billet transformed it, found that worthy the centre of the immense gathering. He did not know how to write but he had let some one guide his hand when he "put his fist" to it. The brewer went up the steps of the altar, announced that the Assembly proclaimed any one a rebel who dared demand the dethronement of the King, and said he was sent to call in the petition. Billet went down three steps to face the brewer. The two members of the lower orders looked at each other, examining the symbols of the two forces ruling France, the town and the country. They had fought together to take the Bastile and acknowledged that they were brothers.
- 27. "All right," saidBillet, "we do not want your petition; take yours back to the Jacobins; we will start another." "And fetch it along to my brewery in the St. Antoine Suburb, where I will sign it and get my men and friends to do the same." He held out his broad hand in which Billet clapped his. At sight of this powerful alliance, the mob cheered. They began to know the worth of the brewer, too. He went away with one of those gestures expressive of meeting again, which the lower classes understood. "Now, look here," said Billet, "the Jacobins are afraid. They have a right to back out with their petition, but we are not afraid and we have the right to draw up another." "Hurrah for another petition! all be on hand to-morrow." "But why not to-day?" cried Billet: "who knows what may happen to-morrow?" "He's right," called out many; "to-day—at once!" A group of enlightened men flocked round Billet; they were members of the Invisibles like him, and, besides, strength has the loadstone's power to attract. Roland and his celebrated wife with Dr. Gilbert, wrote the petition, which was read in silence, while all bared their head to this document dictated by the people. It declared that the King had abdicated the throne by his flight and called for a fresh House to "proceed in a truly national manner to try the guilty ruler and organize a new executive power." It answered to everybody's wish so that it was applauded at the last phrase. Numbered sheets were served out for the signatures to be written on them by the many who sought to sign, all over the place.
- 28. During this work,which was so quietly done that women were strolling about the groups with their children, Lafayette arrived with his special guard, who were paid troops. But he could not see any cause to intervene and marched away. It is true that on the road he had to take one barricade set up by the gang who had slaughtered the two Peeping Toms of the Altar of the Country. One of his aids had been fired at in this scuffle; and the report ran to the House that in a severe action Lafayette had been shot and his officers wounded. The house sent a deputation to inquire. This party of three found the multitude still signing, and signing a document so harmless that they personally said they would put their own names to it if they were not in an official position. In the conflict of no importance between the mob and the National Guards two prisoners had been made by the latter. As usual in such cases they had nothing to do with the riot. The principal petitioners asked their release. "We can do nothing in the matter," replied the deputation; "but send a committee to the City Hall and the liberation will be given." Billet was unanimously chosen chairman of a party of twelve. They were kept waiting an hour before the Mayor Bailly came to receive them. Bailly was pale but determined; he knew he was unjust but he had the Assembly's order at his back and he would carry it out to the end. But Billet walked straight up to him, saying, in his firm tone: "Mayor, we have been kept waiting an hour." "Who are you and what have you to say to me?" "I am surprised you should ask who I am, Mayor Bailly but those who turn off the right road do not always get back on the track. I am Farmer Billet."
- 29. Bailly was remindedof one of the Takers of the Bastile, who had tried to save the objects of public wrath from the slaughterers; the man who had given the King the tricolor cockade; who had aroused Lafayette on the night when the Royal Family were nearly murdered; the leader who had not shrank from making the King and the Queen prisoners. "As for what I have to say," continued he, "we are the messengers of the people assembled on the parade-ground: we demand the fulfillment of the promise of your three envoys—that the two citizens unjustly accused and whose innocence we guarantee, shall be set free straightway." "Nonsense, whoever heard of promises being kept that were made to rioters?" returned Bailly, trying to go by. The committee looked astonished at one another and Billet frowned. "Rioters? so we are rioters now, eh?" "Yes, factious folk, among whom I will restore peace by going to the place." Billet laughed roughly in that way which is a menace on some lips. "Restore peace? Your friend Lafayette has been there, and your three delegates, and they will say it is calmer than the City Hall Square." At this juncture a captain of militia came running up in fright to tell the Mayor that there was fighting on the Field of Mars, "where fifty thousand ragamuffins were making ready to march on the Assembly." Scarce had he got the words out before he felt Billet's heavy hand on his shoulder. "Who says this?" demanded the farmer. "The Assembly."
- 30. "Then the Assemblylies." The captain drew his sword on him, which he seized by the hilt and the point and wrenched from his grasp. "Enough, gentlemen," said Bailly; "we will ourselves see into this. Farmer Billet, return the sword, and if you have influence over those you come from, hasten back, to make them disperse." Billet threw the sabre at the officer's feet. "Disperse be hanged! the right to petition is recognized by decree and till another revokes it, nobody can prevent citizens expressing their wishes—mayor, or National Guards commander, or others. Come to the place—we will be there before you." Those around expected Bailly to give orders for the arrest of this bold speaker, but he knew that this was the voice of the people, so loud and lofty. He made a sign and Billet and his friends passed out. When they arrived on the parade-ground, the crowd was a third larger, say, sixty thousand, all old, women and men. There was a rush for the news. "The two citizens are not released: the mayor will not answer except that we are all rioters." The "rioters" laughed at this title and went on signing the petition, which had some five thousand names down: by night it would be fifty thousand, and the Assembly would be forced to bow to such unanimity. Suddenly the arrival of the military was shouted. Bailly and the city officials were leading the National Guards hither. When the bayonets were seen, many proposed retiring. "Brothers, what are you talking of?" said Billet, on the Altar of the Country, "why this fear? either martial law is aimed at us, or not. If not, why should we run? if it is, the riot act must be read and that will give time to get away."
- 31. "Yes, yes," saidmany voices, "we are lawfully here. Wait for the summons to disperse. Stand your ground." The drums were heard and the soldiers appeared at three entrances into the ground. The crowd fell back towards the Altar which resembled a pyramid of human bodies. One corps was composed of four thousand men from the working quarter and Lafayette, who did not trust them, had added a battalion of his paid Guards to them. They were old soldiers, Fayettists, who had heard of their god being fired on and were burning to avenge the insult. So, when Bailly was received by the "booing" of the boys, and one shot was heard from the mob in that part, which sent a bullet to slightly wound a dragoon, the Mayor ordered a volley, but of blank cartridge from those soldiers around him. But the Fayettists, also obeyed the command and fired on the mass at the Altar, a most inoffensive crowd. A dreadful scream arose there, and the fugitives were seen leaving corpses behind them, with the wounded dragging themselves in trails of blood! Amid the smoke and dust the cavalry rushed in chase of the running figures. The broad expanse presented a lamentable aspect, for women and children had mostly been shot and cut down. An aid galloped up to the East-end battalions and ordered them to march on their side and sweep the mob away till they had formed a junction with the other corps. But these workingmen pointed their guns at him and the cavalry running down the fugitives and made them recoil before the patriotic bayonets. All who ran in this direction found protection. Who gave the order to fire? none will ever know. It remains one of those historical mysteries inexplicable despite the most conscientious investigations. Neither the chivalric Lafayette nor the honest Bailly liked bloodshed, and this stain clung to them to the end. In vain were they congratulated by the Assembly; in vain their press organs called this slaughter a constitutional victory; this
- 32. triumph was brandedlike all those days when the slain were given no chance to fight. The people who always fit the cap to the right head, call it "The Massacre of the Champ de Mars."
- 33. CHAPTER XXVI. CAGLIOSTRO'S COUNSEL. Parishad heard the fusillade and quivered, feeling that she had been wounded and the blood was flowing. The Queen had sent her confidential valet Weber to the spot to get the latest news. To be just to her and comprehend the hatred she felt for the French, she had not only so suffered during the flight to Varennes, that her hair had turned white, but also after her return. It was a popular idea, shared in by her own retinue, that she was a witch. A Medea able to go out of window in a flying car. But if she kept her jailers on the alert, they also frightened her. She had a dream of scenes of violence, for they had always turned against her. She waited with anxiety for her envoy's return, for the mobs might have overturned this old, decrepit, trimming Assembly of which Barnave had promised the help, and which might now want help itself. The door opened: she turned her eyes swiftly thither, but instead of her foster-brother, it was Dr. Gilbert, with his stern face. She did not like this royalist whose constitutional ideas made him a republican almost; but she felt respect for him; she would not have sent him in any strait, but she submitted to his influence when by. "You, doctor?" she said with a shiver.
- 34. "It is I,madam. I bring you more precise news than those you expect by Weber. He was on the side of the Seine where no blood was spilt, while I was where the slaughter was committed. A great misfortune has taken place—the court party has triumphed." "Oh, you would call this a misfortune, doctor!" "Because the triumph is one of those which exhaust the victor and lay him beside the dead. Lafayette and Bailly have shot down the people, so that they will never be able to serve you again; they have lost their popularity." "What were the people doing when shot down?" "Signing a petition demanding the removal of the King." "And you think they were wrong to fire on men doing that?" returned the sovereign, with kindling eye. "I believe it better to argue with them than shoot them." "Argue about what?" "The King's sincerity." "But the King is sincere!" "Excuse me, madam: three days ago, I spent the evening trying to convince the King that his worst enemies were his brothers and the fugitive nobles abroad. On my knees I entreated him to break off dealings with them and frankly adopt the Constitution, with revision of the impracticable articles. I thought the King persuaded, for he kindly promised that all was ended between him and the nobles who fled: but behind my back he signed, and induced you to sign, a letter which charged his brother to get the aid of Prussia and Austria." The Queen blushed like a schoolboy caught in fault; but such a one would have hung his head—she only held hers the stiffer and higher. "Have our enemies spied in our private rooms?" she asked.
- 35. "Yes, madam," tranquillyreplied the doctor, "which is what makes such double-dealing on the King's part so dangerous." "But, sir, this letter was written wholly by the royal hand, after I signed it, too, the King sealed it up and handed it to the messenger." "It has been read none the less." "Are we surrounded by traitors?" "All men are not Charnys." "What do you mean?" "Alas, Madam! that one of the fatal tokens foretelling the doom of Kings is their driving away from them those very men whom they ought to 'grapple to them by hooks of steel.'" "I have not driven Count Charny away," said the Queen bitterly, "he went of his own free will. When monarchs become unfortunate, their friends fall off." "Do not slander Count Charny," said Gilbert mildly, "or the blood of his brothers will cry from their graves that the Queen of France is an ingrate. Oh, you know I speak the truth, madam: that on the day when unmistakable danger impends, the Count of Charny will be at his post and that the most perillous." "But I suppose you have not come to talk about Count Charny," said she testily, though she lowered her head. "No, madam; but ideas are like events, they are attached by invisible links and thus are drawn forth from darkness. No, I come to speak to the Queen and I beg pardon if I addressed the woman: but I am ready to repair the error. I wish to say that you are staking the woe or good of the world on one game: you lost the first round on the sixth of October, you win the second, in the courtiers' eyes, on this sad day; and to-morrow you will begin what is called the rub. If you lose, with it go throne, liberty and life." "Do you believe that this prospect makes us recede?" queried the proud one, quickly rising.
- 36. "I know theKing is brave and the Queen heroic; so I never try to do anything with them but reason; unfortunately I can never pass my belief into their minds." "Why trouble about what you believe useless?" "Because it is my duty. It is sweet in such times to feel, though the result is unfruitful, that one has done his duty." She looked him in the face and asked: "Do you think it possible to save the King and the throne?" "I believe for him and hope for the other." "Then you are happier than I," she responded with a sad sigh: "I believe both are lost and I fight merely to salve my conscience." "Yes, I understand that you want a despotic monarchy and the King an absolute one: like the miser who will not cast away a portion of his gold in a shipwreck so that he may swim to shore with the rest, you will go down with all. No, cut loose of all burdens and swim towards the future." "To throw the past into a gulf is to break with all the crowned heads of Europe." "Yes, but it is to join hands with the French people." "Our enemies," returned Marie Antoinette. "Because you taught them to doubt you." "They cannot struggle against an European Coalition." "Suppose a Constitutional King at their head and they will make the conquest of Europe." "They would need a million of armed men for that." "Millions do not conquer Europe—an idea will. Europe will be conquered when over the Alps and across the Rhine advance the flags bearing the mottoes: 'Death to tyranny!' and 'Freedom to all!'"
- 37. "Really, sir, thereare times when I am inclined to think the wise are madmen." "Ah, you know not that France is the Madonna of Liberty, for whose coming the peoples await around her borders. She is not merely a nation, as she advances with her hands full of freedom— but immutable Justice and eternal Reason. But if you do not profit by all not yet committed to violence, if you dally too long, these hands will be turned to rend herself. "Besides, none of these kings whose help you seek is able to make war. Two empires, or rather an empress and a minister, deeply hate us but they are powerless! Catherine of Russia and William Pitt. Your envoy to Pitt, the Princess Lamballe, can get him to do much to prevent France becoming a republic, but he hates the monarch and will not promise to save him. Is not Louis the Constitutional King, the crowned philosopher, who disputed the East Indies with him and helped America to wrest herself from the Briton's grasp? He desires only that the French will have a pendant to his Charles the Beheaded." "Oh, who can reveal such things to you?" gasped the Queen. "The same who tell me what is in the letters you secretly write." "Have we not even a thought that is our own?" "I tell you that the Kings of Europe are enmeshed in an unseen net where they write in vain. Do not you resist, madam: but put yourself at the head of ideas which will otherwise spurn you if you take the lead, and this net will be your defense when you are outside of it and the daggers threatening you will be turned towards the other monarchs." "But you forgot that the kings are our brothers, not enemies, as you style them." "But, Madam, if the French are called your sons you will see how little are your brothers according to politics and diplomacy. Besides, do you not perceive that all these monarchs are tottering towards
- 38. the gulf, tosuicide, while you, if you liked, might be marching towards the universal monarchy, the empire of the world!" "Why do you not talk thus to the King?" said the Queen, shaken. "I have, but like yourself, he has evil geniuses who undo what I have done. You have ruined Mirabeau and Barnave, and will treat me the same—whereupon the last word will be spoken." "Dr. Gilbert, await me here!" said she: "I will see the King for a while and will return." He had been waiting a quarter of an hour when another door opened than that she had left by, and a servant in the royal livery entered. He looked around warily, approached Gilbert, making a masonic sign of caution, handed him a letter and glided away. Opening the letter, Gilbert read: "Gilbert: You waste your time. At this moment, the King and the Queen are listening to Lord Breteuil fresh from Vienna, who brings this plan of policy: 'Treat Barnave as you did Mirabeau; gain time, swear to the Constitution and execute it to the letter to prove that it is unworkable. France will cool and be bored, as the French have a fanciful head and will want novelty, so that the mania for liberty will pass. If it do not, we shall gain a year and by that time we shall be ready for war.' "Leave these two condemned beings, still called King and Queen in mockery, and hasten to the Groscaillou Hospital, where an injured man is in a dying state, but not so hopeless as they: he may be saved, while they are not only lost but will drag you down to perdition with them!" The note had no signature, but the reader knew the hand of Cagliostro. Madam Campan entered from the Queen's apartments; she brought a note to the effect that the King would be glad to have Dr.
- 39. Gilbert's proposition inwriting, while the Queen could not return from being called away on important business. "Lunatics," he said after musing. "Here, take them this as my answer." And he gave the lady Cagliostro's warning, as he went out.
- 40. CHAPTER XXVII. THE SQUEEZEDLEMON. On the day after the Constituent Assembly dissolved, that is, the second of October, at Barnave's usual hour for seeing the Queen, he was ushered into the Grand Study. On the day of the King taking the oath to the Constitution, Lafayette's aids and soldiers had been withdrawn from the palace and the King had become less hampered if not more powerful. It was slender satisfaction for the humiliations they had lately undergone. In the street, when out for carriage exercise, as some voices shouted "Long live the King!" a roughly dressed man, walking beside the coach and laying his unwashed hand on the window ledge, kept repeating in a loud voice: "Do not believe them. The only cry is, 'The Nation Forever!'" The Queen had been applauded at the Opera where the "house was packed," but the same precaution could not be adopted at the Italians, where the pit was taken in advance. When the hirelings in the gallery hailed the Queen, they were hushed by the pit. Looking into the pit to see who these were who so detested her, the Queen saw that the leader was the Arch-Revolutionist, Cagliostro, the man who had pursued from her youth. Once her eyes were fastened on his, she could not turn hers aloof, for he exercised the fascination of the serpent on the bird. The play commenced and she managed to tear her gaze aloof for a time, but ever and anon it had to go back again, from the potent magnetism. It was fatal possession, as by a nightmare.
- 41. Besides, the housewas full of electricity; two clouds surcharged were floating about, restless to thunder at each other: a spark would send forth the double flame. Madam Dugazon had a song to sing with the tenor in this opera of Gretry, "Unforeseen Events." She had the line to sing: "Oh, how I love my mistress!" The Queen divined that the storm was to burst, and involuntarily she glanced towards the man controlling her. It seemed to her that he gave a signal to the audience, and from all sides was hurled the cry: "No more mistresses—no more masters! away with kings and queens!" She screamed and hid her eyes, unable to look longer on this demon of destruction who ruled the disorder. Pursued by the roar: "No more masters, no more kings and queens!" she was borne fainting to her carriage. She received the orator standing, though she knew the respect he cherished for her and saw that he was paler and sadder than ever. "Well," she said, "I suppose you are satisfied, since the King has followed your advice and sworn to the Constitution?" "You are very kind to say my advice has been followed," returned Barnave, bowing, "but if it had not been the same as that from Emperor Leopold and Prince von Kaunitz, perhaps his Majesty would have put greater hesitation in doing the act, though the only one to save the King if the King——" "Can be saved, do you imply?" questioned she, taking the dilemma by the horns with the courage, or rashness peculiar to her. "Lord preserve me from being the prophet of such miseries! And yet I do not want to dispirit your Majesty too much or leave too
- 42. many deceptions asI depart from Paris to dwell afar from the throne." "Going away from town and me?" "The work of the Assembly of which I am a member has terminated, and I have no motive to stay here." "Not even to be useful to us?" "Not even that." He smiled sadly. "For indeed I cannot be useful to you in any way now. My strength lay in my influence over the House and at the Jacobin club, in my painfully acquired popularity, in short; but the House is dissolved, the Jacobins are broke up, and my popularity is lost." He smiled more mournfully than before. She looked at him with a strange glare which resembled the glow of triumph. "You see, sir, that popularity may be lost," she said. By his sigh, she felt that she had perpetrated one of those pieces of petty cruelty which were habitual to her. Indeed, if he had lost it in a month, was it not for her, the angel of death, like Mary Stuart, to those who tried to serve her? "But you will not go?" she said. "If ordered to remain by the Queen, I will stay, like a soldier who has his furlough but remains for the battle; but if I do so, I become more than weak, a traitor." "Explain: I do not understand," she said, slightly hurt. "Perhaps the Queen takes the dissolved Assembly as her enemy?" "Let us define matters; in that body were friends of mine. You will not deny that the majority were hostile." "It never passed but one bill really an act of hostility to your Majesty and the King; that was the decree that none of its members
- 43. could belong tothe Legislative. That snatched the buckler from your friends' arms." "But also the sword from our foemen's hand, methinks." "Alas, you are wrong. The blow comes from Robespierre and is dreadful like all from that man. As things were we knew whom we had to meet; with all uncertainty we strike in the fog. Robespierre wishes to force France to take the rulers from the class above us or beneath. Above us there is nothing, the aristocracy having fled; but anyway the electors would not seek representatives among the noble. The people will choose deputies from below us and the next House will be democratic, with slight variations." The Queen began to be alarmed from following this statement. "I have studied the new-comers: particularly those from the South," went on Barnave; "they are nameless men eager to acquire fame, the more as they are all young. They are to be feared as their orders are to make war on the priests and nobles; nothing is said as to the King, but if he will be merely the executive, he may be forgiven the past." "How? they will forgive him? I thought it lay in the King to pardon?" exclaimed insulted majesty. "There it is—we shall never agree. These new-comers, as you will unhappily have the proof, will not handle the matter in gloves. For them the King is an enemy, the nucleus, willingly or otherwise, of all the external and internal foes. They think they have made a discovery though, alas! they are only saying aloud what your ardent adversaries have whispered all the time." "But, the King the enemy of the people?" repeated the lady. "Oh, M. Barnave, this is something you will never induce me to admit, for I cannot understand it." "Still it is the fact. Did not the King accept the Constitution the other day? well, he flew into a passion when he returned within the palace and wrote that night to the Emperor."
- 44. "How can youexpect us to bear such humiliations?" "Ah, you see, madam! he is the born enemy and so by his character. He was brought up by the chief of the Jesuits, and his heart is always in the hands of the priests, those opponents of free government, involuntarily but inevitably counter to Revolution. Without his quitting Paris he is with the princes at Coblentz, with the clergy in Lavendee, with his allies in Vienna and Prussia. I admit that the King does nothing, but his name cloaks the plots; in the cabin, the pulpit and the castle, the poor, good, saintly King is prated about, so that the revolution of pity is opposed to that of Freedom." "Is it really you who cast this up, M. Barnave, when you were the first to be sorry for us." "I am sorry for you still, lady; but there is this difference, that I was sorry in order to save you while these others want to ruin you." "But, in short, have these new-comers, who have vowed a war of extermination on us, any settled plan?" "No, madam, I can only catch a few vague ideas: to suppress the title of Majesty in the opening address, and set a plain arm-chair beside the Speaker's instead of throne-chair. The dreadful thing is that Bailly and Lafayette will be done away with." "I shall not regret that," quickly said the Queen. "You are wrong, madam, for they are your friends——" She smiled bitterly. "Your last friends, perhaps. Cherish them, and use what power they have: their popularity will fly, like mine." "This amounts to your leading me to the brink of the crater and making me measure the depth without telling me I may avoid the eruption." "Oh, that you had not been stopped on the road to Montmedy!" sighed Barnave after being mute for a spell.
- 45. "Here we haveM. Barnave approving of the flight to Varennes!" "I do not approve of it: but the present state is its natural consequence, and so I deplore its not having succeeded—not as the member of the House, but as Barnave your humble servant, ready to give his life, which is all he possesses." "Thank you," replied the Queen: "your tone proves you are the man to hold to your word, but I hope no such sacrifice will be required of you." "So much the worse for me, for if I must fall, I would wish it were in a death-struggle. The end will overtake me in my retreat. Your friends are sure to be hunted out; I will be taken, imprisoned and condemned: yet perhaps my obscure death will be unheard of by you. But should the news reach you, I shall have been so little a support to you that you will have forgotten the few hours of my use." "M. Barnave," said Marie Antoinette with dignity, "I am completely ignorant what fate the future reserves to the King, and myself, but I do know that the names of those to whom we are beholden are written on our memory, and nothing ill or good that may befall them will cease to interest us. Meanwhile, is there anything we can do for you?" "Only, give me your hand to kiss." A tear stood in her dry eyes as she extended to the young man the cold white hand which had at a year's interval been kissed by the two leaders, Mirabeau and Barnave. "Madam," said he, rising, "I cannot say, 'I save the monarchy!' but he who has this favor will say 'If lost, he went down with it.'" She sighed as he went forth, but her words were: "Poor squeezed lemon, they did not take much time to leave nothing of you but the peel!"
- 47. CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FIELDOF BLOOD. Lugubrious was the scene which met the eye of a young man who trod the Champ de Mars, after the tragedy of which Bailly and Lafayette were the principal actors. It was illumined by the moon two-thirds full, rolling among huge black clouds in which it was lost now and then. It had the semblance of a battle field, covered with maimed and dead, amid which wandered like shades the men charged to throw the lifeless into the River Seine and load up the wounded to be transported to the Groscaillou Hospital. The young man was dressed like a captain of the National Guards. He paused on the way over the Field, and muttered as he clasped his hands with unaffected terror: "Lord help us, the matter is worse than they gave me to understand." After looking for a while on the weird work in operation, he approached two men who were carrying a corpse towards the water, and asked: "Citizens, do you mind telling me what you are going to do with that man?" "Follow us, and you will know all about it," replied one. He followed them. On reaching the wooden bridge, they swung the body between them as they counted: "One, two, three, and it's off!" and slung it into the tide. The young officer uttered a cry of terror.
- 48. "Why, what areyou about, citizens?" he demanded. "Can't you see, officer," replied one, "we are clearing up the ground." "And you have orders to act thus?" "It looks so, does it not?" "From whom?" "From the Municipality." "Oh," ejaculated the young man, stupefied. "Have you cast many bodies into the stream?" he inquired, after a little pause during which they had returned upon the place. "Half a dozen or so," was the man's answer. "I beg your pardon, citizens," went on the captain, "but I have a great interest in the question I am about to put. Among those bodies did you notice one of a man of forty-five or so, six feet high but looking less from his being strongly built; he would have the appearance of a countryman." "Faith, we have only one thing to notice," said the man, "it is whether the men are alive or dead: if dead, we just fling them over board; if alive, we send them on to the hospital." "Ah," said the captain: "the fact is that one of my friends, not having come home and having gone out here, as I learnt, I am greatly afeared that he may be among the hurt or killed." "If he came here," said one of the undertakers, shaking a body while his mate held up a lantern, "he is likely to be here still; if he has not gone home, the chances are he has gone to his last long one." Redoubling the shaking, to the body lying at his feet, he shouted: "Hey, you! are you dead or alive? if you are not dead, make haste to tell us." "Oh, he is stiff enough," rejoined his associate; "he has a bullet clean through him."
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