20/43 I couldn't go into politics, because I was a Bellegarde--the Bellegardes don't recognize the Bonapartes. I couldn't go into literature, because I was a dunce. I couldn't marry a rich girl, because no Bellegarde had ever married a roturiere, and it was not proper that I should begin. We shall have to come to it, yet. The only thing I could do was to go and fight for the Pope. |