lands. That Queen had for a long time
nourished a fatal passion for Chatillon.

VII. CONCLUSION

Nunc est bibendum. Delivered from its fears and pleased at having
escaped from so great a danger, the government resolved to celebrate
the anniversary of the Penguin regeneration and the establishment of the
Republic by holding a general holiday.

President Formose, the Ministers, and the members of the Chamber and of
the Senate were present at the ceremony.

The Generalissimo of the Penguin army was present in uniform. He was
cheered.

Preceded by the black flag of misery and the red flag of revolt,
deputations of workmen walked in the procession, their aspect one of
grim protection.

President, Ministers, Deputies, officials, heads of the magistracy and
of the army, each, in their own names and in the name of the sovereign
people, renewed the ancient oath to live in freedom or to die. It was
an alternative upon which they were resolutely determined. But they
preferred to live in freedom. There were games, speeches, and songs.

After the departure of the representatives of the State the crowd of
citizens separated slowly and peaceably, shouting out, "Hurrah for the
Republic!" "Hurrah for liberty!" "Down with the shaven pates!"

The newspapers mentioned only one regrettable incident that happened on
that wonderful day. Prince des Boscenos was quietly smoking a cigar
in the Queen's Meadow when the State procession passed by. The prince
approached the Minister's carriage and said in a loud voice: "Death to
the Republicans!" He was immediately apprehended by the police, to whom
he offered a most desperate resistance. He knocked them down in crowds,
but he was conquered by numbers, and, bruised, scratched, swollen, and
unrecognisable even to the eyes of his wife, he was dragged through the
joyous streets into an obscure prison.

The magistrates carried on the case against Chatillon in a peculiar
style. Letters were found at the Admiralty which revealed the complicity
of the Reverend Father Agaric in the plot. Immediately public opinion
was inflamed against the monks, and Parliament voted, one after the
other, a dozen laws which restrained, diminished, limited, prescribed,
suppressed, determined, and curtailed, their rights, immunities,
exemptions, privileges, and benefits, and created many invalidating
disqualifications against them.

The Reverend Father Agaric steadfastly endured the rigour of the laws
which