Great names will begin by ennobling vile offices; but, by a terrible reaction, those offices will end by rendering great names vile.

Estranged from their homes, the nobility will be dependent upon the employments which they shall have received; and if the people, over whom they will no longer have any influence, choose to revolt--" "How gloomy you are to-day, Marechal!" interrupted the Marquise; "I hope that neither I nor my children will ever see that time.

I no longer perceive your cheerful disposition, now that you talk like a politician.
I expected to hear you give advice to my son.

Henri, what troubles you?
You seem very absent." Cinq-Mars, with eyes fixed upon the great bay window of the dining-room, looked sorrowfully upon the magnificent landscape.

The sun shone in full splendor, and colored the sands of the Loire, the trees, and the lawns with gold and emerald.