We shall also know how to circumvent the scandalous heretic with all his adherents and followers." Certainly, if this letter were true, it was high time for the friends of the "scandalous heretic" to look about them.

If it were a forgery, which is highly probable, it was ingeniously imagined, and did the work of truth.

The revolutionary party, being in a small minority in the assembly, were advised by their leaders to bow before the storm.

They did so, and the bluster of the reactionary party grew louder as they marked the apparent discomfiture of their foes.

They openly asserted that the men who were clamoring for privileges should obtain nothing but halters.
The buried charters should never be resuscitated; but the spirit of the dead Emperor, who had once put a rope around the necks of the insolent Ghenters, still lived in that of his son.