282-330.) He has breeches of a kind new in this world;--a fabulous kind; 'four tall lackeys,' says Mercier, as if he had seen it, 'hold him up in the air, that he may fall into the garment without vestige of wrinkle; from which rigorous encasement the same four, in the same way, and with more effort, must deliver him at night.' (Mercier, Nouveau Paris, iii.

147.) This last is he who now, as a gray time-worn man, sits desolate at Gratz; (A.D.

1834.) having winded up his destiny with the Three Days.

In such sort are poor mortals swept and shovelled to and fro..