'"What! monsieur—you make me tremble."
'"Can you, then, be afraid of a revolution which will bring about what you wish for?"
'"No; but we shall have some cruel moments to pass through."
'"Some may; but not everybody."
'"Bah! revolutions make no selection; and then, when once the scaffold is set up"——
'"How fast you travel, madame: in our day we shall never bear with scaffolds. The days of Terror will never return!"
'"I think with M. de P——," chimes in a young dandy, playing with a Chinese ape on the table: "I rather look for civil war."
'"I do not expect it; we have not energy enough for a civil war." ...
'"But you will have household assassinations, probably, if that will be any comfort."
'"And then, the pillage of Paris!"