The town is as quiet as always, and there are not 200 people gathered at the gate through which the deputies pass.

Compared to an election convention in Chicago, it is most interesting.

How lively it is inside of the chamber where the thing is going on I cannot say.

I shall not wait to hear the result, but will return on the coach.
Nothing could be more curious than the apparent indifference of the people of Paris to the assassination of the President.

Two days after he died there was not a single flag at half mast among the private residences.