“Hé bien, que veux tu dire, tarte à la erême?”
“Parbleu, tarte à la crème, chevalier!”
“Mais encore?”
“Tarte à la crème!”
“Dî-nous un peu tes raisons.”
“Tarte à la crème!”
“Mais il faut expliquer ta pensée, ce me semble.”
“Tarte à la crème, Madame.”
“Que trouvez-vouz là à redire?”
“Moi, rien;—tarte à la crème!” With equal taste and judgment, the writers and speakers of the Opposition repeat their favourite phrases,—“deserted principles,” “unnatural coalition,” “base love of office.” They have not, we must allow, been unfortunate in their choice of a topic. The English are but too much accustomed to consider every public virtue as comprised in consistency; and the name of coalition has to many ears a startling and ominous sound. Of all the charges brought, against the Ministry, this alone, as far as we can discover, has any meaning; and even to this we can allow no force.