214/237 As outside Socialists often declared, it was evident that the blood of a dictator flowed in that sectarian's veins. His feverish, stubborn rhetoric ended by exhausting his interrupters, who were compelled to listen to him. When he at last decided to leave the tribune, loud applause arose from a few benches on the left. He looked after them as carefully as an old nurse. I believe he's a very worthy fellow at heart, and lives in a very modest way." But a quiver had now sped through the assembly. |