20/24 This is answerable for everything. You venture timidly to observe: "It is perhaps a pity so many families have been ruined, so many people transported, so many citizens proscribed, so many coffins filled, so many graves dug, so much blood spilt" "Aha!" replies a coarse voice with a Dutch accent; "so you mistrust parliamentarism, do you ?" Get out of the dilemma if you can. I give my vote to M.Louis Bonaparte for the next vacant seat at the Institute. What's that? He marries the wit of the Hotel de Rambouillet to the odour of Montfaucon. |