If Louis Napoleon disappoints their expectation, he won't sit long where he is.
Of that I feel satisfactory assurance; and, considering the national habits of insurrection, I really think that others may.
Meanwhile it is just to tell you that the two deepest-minded persons whom we have known in Paris--one an ultra-Republican of European reputation (I don't like mentioning names), and the other a Constitutionalist of the purest and noblest moral nature--are both inclined to take favorable views of the President's personal character and intentions.

For my part, I don't pretend to an opinion.

He may be, as they say, '_bon enfant_,' '_homme de conscience_,' and 'so much in earnest as to be fanatical,' or he may be a wretch and a reptile, as you say in England.

That's nothing to the question as I see it.

I don't take it up by that handle at all.