unsel,
appoints him Judge of his diocese; and he faithfully does justice to
the people: till behold, one day, a culprit comes whose crime merits
hanging; and the strict-minded Max must abdicate, for his conscience
will not permit the dooming of any son of Adam to die. A strict-minded,
strait-laced man! A man unfit for Revolutions? Whose small soul,
transparent wholesome-looking as small ale, could by no chance ferment
into virulent alegar,--the mother of ever new alegar; till all France
were grown acetous virulent? We shall see.

Between which two extremes of grandest and meanest, so many grand and
mean roll on, towards their several destinies, in that Procession! There
is Cazales, the learned young soldier; who shall become the eloquent
orator of Royalism, and earn the shadow of a name. Experienced Mounier,
experienced Malouet; whose Presidential Parlementary experience the
stream of things shall soon leave stranded. A Petion has left his
gown and briefs at Chartres for a stormier sort of pleading; has not
forgotten his violin, being fond of music. His hair is grizzled, though
he is still young: convictions, beliefs, placid-unalterable are in that
man; not hindmost of them, belief in himself. A Protestant-clerical
Rabaut-St.-Etienne, a slender young eloquent and vehement Barnave, will
help to regenerate France. There are so many of them young. Till thirty
the Spartans did not suffer a man to marry: but how many men here under
thirty; coming to produce not one sufficient citizen, but a nation and
a world of such! The old to heal up rents; the young to remove
rubbish:--which latter, is it not, indeed, the task here?

Dim, formless from this distance, yet authentically there, thou noticest
the Deputies from Nantes? To us mere clothes-screens, with slouch-hat
and cloak, but bearing in their pocket a Cahier of doleances with this
singular clause, and more such in it: 'That the master wigmakers of
Nantes be not troubled with new gild-brethren, the actually
existing number of ninety-two being more than sufficient!' (Histoire
Parlementaire, i. 335.) The Rennes people have elected Farmer Gerard,
'a man of natural sense and rectitude, without any learning.' He walks
there, with solid step; unique, 'in his rustic farmer-clothes;' which
he will wear always; careless of short-cloaks and costumes. The name
Gerard, or 'Pere Gerard, Father Gerard,' as they please to call him,
will fly far; borne about in endless banter; in Royalist s