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CHAPTER IX
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I have sent to him to legislate for us: he is wise in the law, and astrology, and all sciences; he shall aid my Ministers in their councils.

I have written to him by the post.

There shall be no more infamous mad-houses in France, where poor souls shiver in strait-waistcoats.
"'I recognized Louis Philippe, my good cousin.

He was in his counting-house, counting out his money, as the old prophecy warned me.
He gave me up the keys of his gold; I shall know well how to use it.
Taught by adversity, I am not a spendthrift, neither am I a miser.

I will endow the land with noble institutions instead of diabolical forts.


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