I am utterly sick and tired of the eternal brag and bombast around me.

Let the Parisians gain some success, and then celebrate it as loudly as they please: but why, in the name of common sense, will they rejoice over victories yet to come?
"We are preserving," they say, "a dignified expectative attitude." Mr.Micawber put the thing in more simple vernacular when, he said that he was waiting for something to turn up.

"First catch your hare" is a piece of advice which our patriots here would scoff at.

They have not yet caught the Prussians, but they have already, by a flight of imagination, cooked and eaten them.

Count Moltke may as well--if I am to believe one quarter of what I hear--like the American coon, come down.