"But where of ye, O tempests, is the goal!
Are ye like those within the human breast,
Or do ye find, like eagles, some high nest?"
Childe Harold.
[255]: The snake-stone sucks at the wound till it has sucked out all the poison.
[256]: In a nutshell.—Tr.
[257]: The conservative or court party in the French Revolution were called the noirs (blacks), from the fact of the emigrant nobles wearing black velvet. The Ensragés was the name of a radical club.—Tr.
[258]: Literally, the game of man (ombre, Spanish).—Tr.
[259]: Joachime, Clotilda, Victor, and the Devil.
[260]: Mort (French) in the original.—Tr.
[261]: Manager of the game.—Tr.