Have you noticed that the 'Globe,' after throwing Barroux overboard in all haste, now refers to Monferrand every day with the most respectful sympathy?
That's a grave sign; for it isn't Fonsegue's habit to show any solicitude for the vanquished.

But what can one expect from that wretched Chamber! The only point certain is that something dirty is being plotted there." "And that big dunderhead Mege who works for every party except his own!" exclaimed Morin; "what a dupe he is with that idea that he need merely overthrow first one cabinet and then another, in order to become the leader of one himself!" The mention of Mege brought them all to agreement, for they unanimously hated him.

Bache, although his views coincided on many points with those of the apostle of State Collectivism, judged each of his speeches, each of his actions, with pitiless severity.

Janzen, for his part, treated the Collectivist leader as a mere reactionary _bourgeois_, who ought to be swept away one of the first.

This hatred of Mege was indeed the common passion of Guillaume's friends.