And Cousin Joachim?"
Yes, he relates well; but had we only traveled we should not be inferior
to him!"

"Charles X. was a Jesuit!" said Joachim; "he strove after an
unrestrained despotism, and laid violent hands on the Charter. The
expedition against Algiers was only a glittering fire-work arranged to
flatter the national pride--all glitter and falseness! Like Peirronnet,
through an embrace he would annihilate the Charter."

The conversation now turned from the Jesuits to the Charter and
Polignac. The minute particulars, which only an eyewitness can relate,
brought the struggle livingly before their eyes. They saw the last
night, the extraordinary activity in the squares where the balls
were showered, and in the streets where the barricades were erected.
Overturned wagons and carts, barrels and stones, were heaped upon each
other--even the hundred year-old trees of the Boulevards were cut
down to form barricades: the struggle began, Frenchman fought against
Frenchman--for liberty and country they sacrificed their life.

[Note:
"Ceux qui pieusement sont morts pour la patrie
Ont droit qu'a leur cerceuil la foule vienne et prie:
Entre le plus beaux noms, leur nom est le plus beau.
Toute gloire, pres d'eux, passe et tombe ephemere
Et, comme ferait une mere,
La voix d'un peuple entier les berce en leur tombeau!"
--VICTOR HUGO.]

And he described the victory and Louis Philippe, whom he admired and
loved.

"That was a world event," said the man of business. "It electrified
both king and people. They still feel the movement. Last year was an
extraordinary year!"

"For the Copenhageners also," said Otto, "there were three colors. These
things occupied the multitude with equal interest: the July Revolution,
the 'Letters of a Wandering Ghost,' and Kellermann's 'Berlin Wit.'"

"Now you are bitter, Mr. Thostrup," said the lady of the house.
"The really educated did not occupy themselves with these Berlin
'Eckensteher' which the multitude have rendered national!"

"But they hit the right mark!" said Otto; "they met with a reception
from the citizens and people in office."

"That I can easily believe," remarked Joachim; "that is like the people
here!"

"That is like the people abroad!" said the hostess. "In Paris they pass
over still more easily from a revolution, in which they themselves have
taken part, to a review by Jules Janin, or to a new step of Taglioni's,
and from that