that
only, shall be anathema marantha. (Moniteur, Seance du 6 Juillet 1792.)
Touching to behold! For, literally on the morrow morning, they must
again quarrel, driven by Fate; and their sublime reconcilement is called
derisively Baiser de L'amourette, or Delilah Kiss.

Like fated Eteocles-Polynices Brothers, embracing, though in vain;
weeping that they must not love, that they must hate only, and die by
each other's hands! Or say, like doomed Familiar Spirits; ordered, by
Art Magic under penalties, to do a harder than twist ropes of sand: 'to
make the Constitution march.' If the Constitution would but march! Alas,
the Constitution will not stir. It falls on its face; they tremblingly
lift it on end again: march, thou gold Constitution! The Constitution
will not march.--"He shall march, by--!" said kind Uncle Toby, and even
swore. The Corporal answered mournfully: "He will never march in this
world."

A constitution, as we often say, will march when it images, if not the
old Habits and Beliefs of the Constituted; then accurately their Rights,
or better indeed, their Mights;--for these two, well-understood, are
they not one and the same? The old Habits of France are gone: her new
Rights and Mights are not yet ascertained, except in Paper-theorem;
nor can be, in any sort, till she have tried. Till she have measured
herself, in fell death-grip, and were it in utmost preternatural spasm
of madness, with Principalities and Powers, with the upper and the
under, internal and external; with the Earth and Tophet and the very
Heaven! Then will she know.--Three things bode ill for the marching of
this French Constitution: the French People; the French King; thirdly
the French Noblesse and an assembled European World.

Chapter 2.5.III.

Avignon.

But quitting generalities, what strange Fact is this, in the far
South-West, towards which the eyes of all men do now, in the end of
October, bend themselves? A tragical combustion, long smoking and
smouldering unluminous, has now burst into flame there.

Hot is that Southern Provencal blood: alas, collisions, as was once
said, must occur in a career of Freedom; different directions will
produce such; nay different velocities in the same direction will! To
much that went on there History, busied elsewhere, would not specially
give heed: to troubles of Uzez, troubles of Nismes, Protestant and
Catholic, Patriot and Aristocrat; to troubles of Marseilles, Montpelier,
Arles; to Arist