endome;
with temporary celebrity, with graces and wreathed smiles; not without
cost. There, amid wide babble and jingle, our plan of Legislative Debate
is settled for the day, and much counselling held. Strict Roland is seen
there, but does not go often. (Dumont, Souvenirs, p. 374.)

Chapter 2.5.IV.

No Sugar.

Such are our inward troubles; seen in the Cities of the South; extant,
seen or unseen, in all cities and districts, North as well as South. For
in all are Aristocrats, more or less malignant; watched by Patriotism;
which again, being of various shades, from light Fayettist-Feuillant
down to deep-sombre Jacobin, has to watch itself!

Directories of Departments, what we call County Magistracies, being
chosen by Citizens of a too 'active' class, are found to pull one way;
Municipalities, Town Magistracies, to pull the other way. In all places
too are Dissident Priests; whom the Legislative will have to deal
with: contumacious individuals, working on that angriest of passions;
plotting, enlisting for Coblentz; or suspected of plotting: fuel of
a universal unconstitutional heat. What to do with them? They may be
conscientious as well as contumacious: gently they should be dealt with,
and yet it must be speedily. In unilluminated La Vendee the simple are
like to be seduced by them; many a simple peasant, a Cathelineau the
wool-dealer wayfaring meditative with his wool-packs, in these hamlets,
dubiously shakes his head! Two Assembly Commissioners went thither last
Autumn; considerate Gensonne, not yet called to be a Senator; Gallois,
an editorial man. These Two, consulting with General Dumouriez, spake
and worked, softly, with judgment; they have hushed down the irritation,
and produced a soft Report,--for the time.

The General himself doubts not in the least but he can keep peace there;
being an able man. He passes these frosty months among the pleasant
people of Niort, occupies 'tolerably handsome apartments in the Castle
of Niort,' and tempers the minds of men. (Dumouriez, ii. 129.) Why is
there but one Dumouriez? Elsewhere you find South or North, nothing but
untempered obscure jarring; which breaks forth ever and anon into open
clangour of riot. Southern Perpignan has its tocsin, by torch light;
with rushing and onslaught: Northern Caen not less, by daylight; with
Aristocrats ranged in arms at Places of Worship; Departmental compromise
proving impossible; breaking into musketry and a Plot discovered! (His