Just thus may be the change in the great orator whom you deemed insignificant in a drawing-room, when you see his crest rise above a reverential audience; or the great soldier, who was not distinguishable from the subaltern in a peaceful club, could you see him issuing the order to his aids-de-camp amidst the smoke and roar of the battle-field.
"Ah, Marquis!" said Graham Vane, "are you gazing at Duplessis?
He is the modern genius of Paris.

He is at once the Cousin, the Guizot, and the Victor Hugo of speculation.

Philosophy, Eloquence, audacious Romance,--all Literature now is swallowed up in the sublime epic of 'Agiotage,' and Duplessis is the poet of the Empire." "Well said, M.Grarm Varn," cried Frederic, forgetting his recent lesson in English names.

"Alain underrates that great man.

How could an Englishman appreciate him so well ?" "'Ma foi!'" returned Graham, quietly.