e, and resign in favor of a younger brother.
The strict-minded Max departed, home to paternal Arras; and even had a
Law-case there, and pleaded, not unsuccessfully, "in favor of the
first Franklin thunder-rod." With a strict, painful mind, an
understanding small but clear and ready, he grew in favor with
official persons, who could foresee in him an excellent man of
business, happily quite free from genius. The Bishop, therefore,
taking counsel, appoints him Judge of his diocese, and he faithfully
does justice to the people: till behold, one day, a culprit comes
whose crime merits hanging, and the strict-minded Max must abdicate,
for his conscience will not permit the dooming of any son of Adam to
die. A strict-minded, strait-laced man! A man unfit for Revolutions?
whose small soul, transparent wholesome-looking as small-ale, could by
no chance ferment into virulent _alegar_,--the mother of ever-new
alegar;--till all France were grown acetous virulent? We shall see.

Between which two extremes of grandest and meanest, so many grand and
mean roll on, towards their several destinies, in that Procession!
There is Cazales, the learned young soldier, who shall become the
eloquent orator of Royalism, and earn the shadow of a name.
Experienced Mounier, experienced Malouet, whose Presidential
Parlementary experience the stream of things shall soon leave
stranded. A Petion has left his gown and briefs at Chartres for a
stormier sort of pleading; has not forgotten his violin, being fond of
music. His hair is grizzled, though he is still young; convictions,
beliefs placid-unalterable, are in that man; not hindmost of them,
belief in himself. A Protestant-clerical Rabaut-St.-Etienne, a slender
young eloquent and vehement Barnave, will help to regenerate France.
There are so many of them young. Till thirty the Spartans did not
suffer a man to marry: but how many men here under thirty; coming to
produce not one sufficient citizen, but a nation and a world of such!
The old to heal up rents, the young to remove rubbish:--which latter
is it not, indeed, the task here?

Dim, formless from this distance, yet authentically there, thou
noticest the Deputies from Nantes? To us mere clothes-screens, with
slouch-hat and cloak, but bearing in their pocket a _Cahier_ of
_doleances_ with this singular clause, and more such, in it:--"That
the master wigmakers of Nantes be not troubled with new
guild-brethren, the actually existing number of nine