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Title: The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Vallée, Léon, 1850-1919 Brandl, Alois, 1855-1940 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: London : The Standard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ights of Paris. Above thatriver, in which but now he had thought to fling himself, the oldmans prediction had been fulfilled, the hour of his death hadbeen already put back by fate. We really regretted you, said his friend, still pursuinghis theme. It was a question of a plan in which we includedyou as a superior person, that is to say, somebody who can puthimself above other people. The constitutional thimblerig iscarried on to-day, dear boy, more seriously than ever. Theinfamous monarchy, disjilacsd by the heroism of the people,was a sort of drab, you could laugli and revel with her; butLa Patrie is a shrewish and virtuous wife, and willy-nilly youmust take her prescribed endearments. Then besides, as youknow, authority passed over from the Tuileries to the journal-ists, at the time when the Budget changed its quarters andwent from the Faubourg Saint Germain to the Chauss^edAntin. But this you may not know perhaps. The Gov-ernment, that is, the aristocracy of lawyers and bankers who
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Kfl PhI ao THE POAVER OF THE WILD ASS SKIN. 8213 represent the country to-day, just as the priests used to do inthe time of the monarchy, has felt the necessity of mystifyingthe worthy people of France with a few new words and oldideas, like philosophers of every school, and all strong intellectsever since time began. So now Royalist-national ideas mustbe inculcated, by proving to us that it is far better to paytwelve hundred million francs, thirty-three centimes to LaPatrie, represented by Messieurs Such-and-Such, than to payeleven hundred million francs, nine centimes to a king whoused to say I instead of we. In a word, a journal, withtwo or three hundred thousand francs, good, at the back of it,has just been started, with a view to making an opposition paperto content the discontented, without prejudice to the nationalgovernment of the citizen king. We scoff at liberty as at des-potism now, and at religion or incredulity quite impartially.And since, for us, our country means a capi

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