oing, faisant le mort.

Nay now, when desire whetted by difficulty has brought the matter to a
head, and the royal mind no longer halts between two, what can come
of it? Grant that poor Louis were safe with Bouille, what on the whole
could he look for there? Exasperated Tickets of Entry answer, Much, all.
But cold Reason answers, Little almost nothing. Is not loyalty a law
of Nature? ask the Tickets of Entry. Is not love of your King, and even
death for him, the glory of all Frenchmen,--except these few Democrats?
Let Democrat Constitution-builders see what they will do without
their Keystone; and France rend its hair, having lost the Hereditary
Representative!

Thus will King Louis fly; one sees not reasonably towards what. As a
maltreated Boy, shall we say, who, having a Stepmother, rushes sulky
into the wide world; and will wring the paternal heart?--Poor Louis
escapes from known unsupportable evils, to an unknown mixture of good
and evil, coloured by Hope. He goes, as Rabelais did when dying, to seek
a great May-be: je vais chercher un grand Peut-etre! As not only
the sulky Boy but the wise grown Man is obliged to do, so often, in
emergencies.

For the rest, there is still no lack of stimulants, and stepdame
maltreatments, to keep one's resolution at the due pitch. Factious
disturbance ceases not: as indeed how can they, unless authoritatively
conjured, in a Revolt which is by nature bottomless? If the ceasing
of faction be the price of the King's somnolence, he may awake when he
will, and take wing.

Remark, in any case, what somersets and contortions a dead Catholicism
is making,--skilfully galvanised: hideous, and even piteous, to
behold! Jurant and Dissident, with their shaved crowns, argue frothing
everywhere; or are ceasing to argue, and stripping for battle. In Paris
was scourging while need continued: contrariwise, in the Morbihan
of Brittany, without scourging, armed Peasants are up, roused by
pulpit-drum, they know not why. General Dumouriez, who has got missioned
thitherward, finds all in sour heat of darkness; finds also that
explanation and conciliation will still do much. (Deux Amis, v. 410-21;
Dumouriez, ii. c. 5.)

But again, consider this: that his Holiness, Pius Sixth, has seen
good to excommunicate Bishop Talleyrand! Surely, we will say then,
considering it, there is no living or dead Church in the Earth that has
not the indubitablest right to excommunicate Talleyrand. Pope Pius has
right a