"Let him alone, Rand.

He doesn't know what he is saying." Rand turned to the first speaker.

"'Buonapartism,'-- that's a word that's as ample as Charity, but I hardly think, sir, that it covers this case.
It's a very vague word.

But writers to the Gazette are apt to be more fluent than accurate." "I shouldn't call it vague," cried his opponent.

"It's a damned good word, and so I'd tell 'Aurelius,' if I knew who he was." "It wasn't random firing in that letter," said a voice from another quarter of the room.