tself against
mind; the Nation looks on with ever deeper interest. Thus do the Commons
Deputies sit incubating.

There are private conclaves, supper-parties, consultations; Breton Club,
Club of Viroflay; germs of many Clubs. Wholly an element of confused
noise, dimness, angry heat;--wherein, however, the Eros-egg, kept at the
fit temperature, may hover safe, unbroken till it be hatched. In your
Mouniers, Malouets, Lechapeliers in science sufficient for that; fervour
in your Barnaves, Rabauts. At times shall come an inspiration from royal
Mirabeau: he is nowise yet recognised as royal; nay he was 'groaned
at,' when his name was first mentioned: but he is struggling towards
recognition.

In the course of the week, the Commons having called their Eldest to
the chair, and furnished him with young stronger-lunged assistants,--can
speak articulately; and, in audible lamentable words, declare, as
we said, that they are an inorganic body, longing to become organic.
Letters arrive; but an inorganic body cannot open letters; they lie on
the table unopened. The Eldest may at most procure for himself some kind
of List or Muster-roll, to take the votes by, and wait what will betide.
Noblesse and Clergy are all elsewhere: however, an eager public crowds
all galleries and vacancies; which is some comfort. With effort, it
is determined, not that a Deputation shall be sent,--for how can an
inorganic body send deputations?--but that certain individual Commons
Members shall, in an accidental way, stroll into the Clergy Chamber,
and then into the Noblesse one; and mention there, as a thing they have
happened to observe, that the Commons seem to be sitting waiting for
them, in order to verify their powers. That is the wiser method!

The Clergy, among whom are such a multitude of Undignified, of mere
Commons in Curates' frocks, depute instant respectful answer that they
are, and will now more than ever be, in deepest study as to that very
matter. Contrariwise the Noblesse, in cavalier attitude, reply, after
four days, that they, for their part, are all verified and constituted;
which, they had trusted, the Commons also were; such separate
verification being clearly the proper constitutional wisdom-of-ancestors
method;--as they the Noblesse will have much pleasure in demonstrating
by a Commission of their number, if the Commons will meet them,
Commission against Commission! Directly in the rear of which comes a
deputation of Clergy, reiter