To private interest dead, and public care.

So lived he; so he might have died.

"But now,

To the wide world's astonishment, appeared

A[130] glorious opening, the unlooked-for dawn,

That promised everlasting joy to France![BO]

Her voice of social transport[131] reached even him!

He broke from his contracted bounds, repaired

To the great City, an emporium then

Of golden expectations, and receiving