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She could not comprehend it , because she was born royal ; and it seemed to her as natural that princes should be served and obeyed by everybody below them as that children should be ruled by their parents . She also knew nothing of the miseries caused for long years past by the abuse of power by both kings and nobles , and by herself among the rest . Unconscious of all this , she could make nothing of what she heard this evening from a member of the Assembly . -- Some of the members arrived at six o'clock , too late to do any good . The queen directed their notice to the broken doors , bidding them observe the outrageous way in which the home of the royal family had been violated . She saw signs of emotion in the countenance of Monsieur Merlin de Thionville , and observed upon it . Monsieur Merlin replied that he felt for her as a woman , a wife , and mother , but that she must not suppose that he shed a single tear for the king or the queen ; that he hated kings and queens .