eau quartier = swanky neighborhood; Broadway = in New York City, of
course}

We now had an opportunity of learning some of the great events that had
recently occurred in France, and which still troubled Europe. The
Bourbons were again dethroned, as it was termed, and another Bourbon
seated in their place. It would seem il y a Bourbon et Bourbon. The
result has since shown that "what is bred in the bone will break out in
the flesh." Commerce was at a standstill; our master passed half his
time under arms, as a national guard, in order to keep the
revolutionists from revolutionizing the revolution. The great families
had laid aside their liveries; some of them their coaches; most of them
their arms. Pocket-handkerchiefs of OUR calibre would be thought
decidedly aristocratic; and aristocracy in Paris, just at that moment,
was almost in as bad odor as it is in America, where it ranks as an
eighth deadly sin, though no one seems to know precisely what it means.
In the latter country, an honest development of democracy is certain to
be stigmatized as tainted with this crime. No governor would dare to
pardon it.

{il y a Bourbon et Bourbon = there are Bourbons and Bourbons (i.e.,
they're all the same); "What is bred in the bone...." = a possibly
deliberate misquotation of "It will not out of the flesh that is bred
in the bone" from John Heywood, "Proverbes", Part II, Chapter VIII
(1546)}

The groans over the state of trade were loud and deep among those who
lived by its innocent arts. Still, the holidays were near, and hope
revived. If revolutionized Paris would not buy as the jour de l'an
approached, Paris must have a new dynasty. The police foresaw this,
and it ceased to agitate, in order to bring the republicans into
discredit; men must eat, and trade was permitted to revive a little.
Alas! how little do they who vote, know WHY they vote, or they who dye
their hands in the blood of their kind, why the deed has been done!

{jour de l'an = New Years Day}

The duchesse had not returned to Paris, neither had she emigrated. Like
most of the high nobility, who rightly enough believed that
primogeniture and birth were of the last importance to THEM, she
preferred to show her distaste for the present order of things, by
which the youngest prince of a numerous family had been put upon the
throne of the oldest, by remaining at her chateau. All expectations of
selling us to HER were abandoned, and we were thrown fairly into th