They wished to be led out, as they imagine that their undisciplined valour would be a match for the German army.

They showed their sense by demanding that Dorian should be at the head of the new Government.

He is not a Demagogue, he has written no despatches, nor made any speeches, nor decreed any Utopian reforms after the manner of his colleagues.

But, unlike them, he is a practical man of business, and this the working men have had discernment enough to discover.

They are hardly to be blamed if they have accepted literally the rhetorical figures of Jules Favre.