No National Guard has, indeed, yet been good enough to die; but of course this fact was regarded as irrelevant.

The next resolution was that the concubines of patriots should enjoy the same right to rations as legitimate wives.

As the Club prides itself upon the stern severity of its morals, this resolution was not carried.

An orator then proposed that all strangers should be banished from France.

He was so exceedingly lengthy that I did not wait until the end of his speech; I am, therefore, unable to say whether his proposal was carried.