The pacha of Egypt was so struck with the advantages of that system, that, when I came away he was on the point of organizing his own administration on that footing--" "But," said Leger, who no longer understood a single word, "how ?" "How ?" said Georges.

"Why, agents go round and take all the harvests, and leave the fellahs just enough to live on.

That's a system that does away with stamped papers and bureaucracy, the curse of France, hein ?" "By virtue of what right ?" said Leger.
"Right?
why it is a land of despotism.

They haven't any rights.

Don't you know the fine definition Montesquieu gives of despotism.