This will prove to you how little we have feared for ourselves.
But the natural emotion of the situation one could not escape from, and on Thursday night I sate up in my dressing gown till nearly one, listening to the distant firing from the boulevards.

Thursday was the only day in which there was fighting of any serious kind.

There has been _no resistance_ on the part of the real people--nothing but sympathy for the President, I _believe_, if you except the natural mortification and disappointment of baffled parties.

To judge from our own tradespeople: 'il a bien fait! c'est le vrai neveu de son oncle!' such phrases rung on every tone expressed the prevailing sentiment.
For my own part I have not only more hope in the situation but more faith in the French people than is ordinary among the English, who really try to exceed one another in discoloration and distortion of the circumstances.

The government was in a deadlock--what was to be done?
Yes, all parties cried out, 'What was to be done ?' and felt that we were waist deep a fortnight ago in a state of crisis.