An air of gloom was over them all. Mademoiselle d��Orl��ans was crying bitterly. Mme. de Genlis, as she restored her to her father��s care, in the presence of the rest, told him that she resigned her post of governess, and should start for England the next morning.There can be no doubt that, as always happens in these cases, a great deal was said that was neither true nor possible. It was inevitable that it should be so; but her way of going on, both politically and in other ways, was decidedly suspicious.CHAPTER X
ONE:Paul I.��Terror he inspired��Death of the mother of Mme. Le Brun��Marriage of her daughter��Moscow��The Tsarevitch Alexander��Assassination of Paul I.����I salute my Emperor����Mme. Le Brun returns to Paris��Changes��London��Life in England��Paris��Separated from M. Le Brun��Society during the Empire��Caroline Murat��Switzerland��Fall of the Empire��Restoration��Death of M. Le Brun��Of her daughter��Travels in France��Her nieces��Conclusion.A crowd began to gather, and he went on in a loud voice��
TWO:Their first house in Paris was a sort of imitation cottage, after the execrable taste of the day, in the Champs-Elys��es, from which they moved into a h?tel in the rue de la Victoire, which was for some time the resort of all the chiefs of their political party, and the scene of constant contention between the Thermidoriens and the remnants of the Montagne. The discussions were generally political, and often violent; they would have been abhorrent to the well-bred society of former days.
