When the drama was over and the curtain fell on Schoenbrunn, he dashed away his tears and said: "It is well.

I have lived in a moment a man's entire life.

Now show me the map of France!" Leon began to turn over the leaves of an atlas, while M.Renault attempted to continue narrating to the colonel the history of the Restoration, and of the monarchy of 1830.

But Fougas' interest was in other things.
"What do I care," said he, "if a couple of hundred babblers of deputies put one king in place of another?
Kings! I've seen enough of them in the dirt.

If the Empire had lasted ten years longer, I could have had a king for a boot-black." When the atlas was placed before him, he at once cried out with profound disdain: "That, France!" But soon two tears of pitying affection escaping from his eyes, swelled the rivers Ardeche and Gironde.