So normal did she appear to her travelling companions, that one
among them, with an eye for beauty, pestered her with amorous
attentions, and actually proposed marriage to her before the
coach had rolled over the bridge of Neuilly into Paris two days
later.
She repaired to the Providence Inn in the Rue des Vieux
Augustine, where she engaged a room on the first floor, and then
she set out in quest of the Deputy Duperret. She had a letter of
introduction to him from the Girondin Barbaroux, with whom she
had been on friendly terms at Caen. Duperret was to assist her to
obtain an interview with the Minister of the Interior. She had
undertaken to see the latter on the subject of certain papers
relating to the affairs of a nun of Caen, an old convent friend
of her own, and she was in haste to discharge this errand, so as
to be free for the great task upon which she was come.
From inquiries that she made, she learnt at once that Marat was
ill, and confined to his house. This rendered necessary a change
of plans, and the relinquishing of her project of affording him a
spectacular death in the crowded hall of the Convention.
The next day, which was Friday, she devoted to furthering the
business of her friend the nun.
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