s. But he, being struck with the mortal stab,
flung dust towards heaven, and called on the Avenging Deities; and
from this dust there was born Marius,--Marius not so illustrious for
exterminating the Cimbri, as for overturning in Rome the tyranny of the
Nobles.' (Fils Adoptif, v. 256.) Casting up which new curious handful
of dust (through the Printing-press), to breed what it can and may,
Mirabeau stalks forth into the Third Estate.

That he now, to ingratiate himself with this Third Estate, 'opened a
cloth-shop in Marseilles,' and for moments became a furnishing tailor,
or even the fable that he did so, is to us always among the pleasant
memorabilities of this era. Stranger Clothier never wielded the
ell-wand, and rent webs for men, or fractional parts of men. The Fils
Adoptif is indignant at such disparaging fable, (Memoires de Mirabeau,
v. 307.)--which nevertheless was widely believed in those days. (Marat,
Ami-du-Peuple Newspaper (in Histoire Parlementaire, ii. 103), &c.) But
indeed, if Achilles, in the heroic ages, killed mutton, why should not
Mirabeau, in the unheroic ones, measure broadcloth?

More authentic are his triumph-progresses through that disturbed
district, with mob jubilee, flaming torches, 'windows hired for two
louis,' and voluntary guard of a hundred men. He is Deputy Elect,
both of Aix and of Marseilles; but will prefer Aix. He has opened his
far-sounding voice, the depths of his far-sounding soul; he can quell
(such virtue is in a spoken word) the pride-tumults of the rich, the
hunger-tumults of the poor; and wild multitudes move under him, as under
the moon do billows of the sea: he has become a world compeller, and
ruler over men.

One other incident and specialty we note; with how different an
interest! It is of the Parlement of Paris; which starts forward, like
the others (only with less audacity, seeing better how it lay), to
nose-ring that Behemoth of a States-General. Worthy Doctor Guillotin,
respectable practitioner in Paris, has drawn up his little 'Plan of
a Cahier of doleances;'--as had he not, having the wish and gift, the
clearest liberty to do? He is getting the people to sign it; whereupon
the surly Parlement summons him to give an account of himself. He goes;
but with all Paris at his heels; which floods the outer courts, and
copiously signs the Cahier even there, while the Doctor is giving
account of himself within! The Parlement cannot too soon dismiss
Guillotin, with complim