| Show I ait moments bf a queaa at ten the turnkey lariviere was sent by the concierge into the cell and to him we owe some knowledge of what passed there marie antoinette said to him sadly TOUS avez quon va ma faire mounir aites a votre respectable mere the fishwife could not have been present que je la de ses solas et que ja la charge de prier dicu moi three judges accompanied by the fabricius entered the cell the queen was kneeling in prayer against lier little bed but rose to receive the functionaries function aries they told her to attend as her sentence was to be read to her she replied in a firm voice such a reading is useless I 1 know the sentence only too well they insisted and the clerk read the document at that moment henri sanson appeared a young man of gigantic stature lie said roughly to the poor woman ibold out your hands her majesty retreated a step and pleaded that the kiner had not been bound fais ton devoir cried the judges to sanson oh mon dieul cried the wretched queen she thought that she was then and there to be as ted sanson roughly seized the shrinking hands and tied them with cruel force too bicht behind her back she looked up to heaven and tried to restrain her tears her hair when cut off sanson thrust into bis pockes and it was burned in the vestibule london quarterly review |
