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Bureaucracy

CHAPTER V
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"It would be a shameful injustice if Rabourdin lost the place; I swear I'd leave the service.

Did you find that anagram, papa Colleville ?" Colleville.

"Yes, here it is." Fleury [leaning over Colleville's desk].

"Capital! famous! This is just what will happen if the administration continues to play the hypocrite." [He makes a sign to the clerks that Baudoyer is listening.] "If the government would frankly state its intentions without concealments of any kind, the liberals would know what they had to deal with.

An administration which sets its best friends against itself, such men as those of the 'Debats,' Chateaubriand, and Royer-Collard, is only to be pitied!" Colleville [after consulting his colleagues].


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