The Vernet [32] were staunch Royalists, and watched with horror and dread only too well justified the breaking out of the Revolution.I hope not, said the Queen, we shall see. And she rang the bell. Campan, the King has an order to give you.
But Mme. de Genlis discovered, when too late, that by her attempts both to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, she had succeeded in making herself detested by both parties; and now [446] she waited in daily perplexity about money matters, and fear of the recognition which was not long in coming.