After listening to the tale of his woes, she had not the heart to stop his drinking and eating and amusing himself as a man just returned from the Champ d'Asile was likely to eat and drink and divert himself.

It was certainly a fine conception,--that of conquering Texas with the remains of the imperial army.

The failure was less in the idea than in the men who conceived it; for Texas is to-day a republic, with a future full of promise.

This scheme of Liberalism under the Restoration distinctly proves that the interests of the party were purely selfish and not national, seeking power and nothing else.

Neither men, nor occasion, nor cause, nor devotion were lacking; only the money and the support of the hypocritical party at home who dispensed enormous sums, but gave nothing when it came to recovering empire.