CHAPTER XV.
Flight "Repousser sa croix, c'est l'appesantir." During the first week of August the excitement in Paris reached its greatest height, and culminated on the Saturday after the battle of Weissenburg.

Of this defeat John Turner had, as I believe, the news before any other in Paris.

Indeed, the evil tidings came to the city from the English _Times_.

The stout banker, whose astuteness I had never doubted, displayed at this time a number of those qualities--such as courage, cool-headedness and foresight--to which we undoubtedly owe our greatness in the world.

We are, as our neighbours say, a nation of shopkeepers, but we keep a rifle under the counter.