English Pharisees and French Crocodiles

: they can stand any amount of incense; you may burn all the perfumes of A

rence, however,

s voice that,[1] "La France, Monsieur, sera toujours la Fr-r-rance, les Fran?ais seront toujours les Fr-r-ran?ais." As you listen to him, you are

He has not a doubt that the whole world was made for him; not only this one, but the next. In the meantime-for he is in no hurry to put on the angel plumage that awaits him-he congratulates himself on his position here below. Everything is done to add to his comfort and happiness: the Italians give him concerts, the French dig the Suez Canal for him, the Germans sweep out his offices and do his

hink a Frenchman your equal? You don't, you gallant British snob, you know

vice. To hear him joke about matrimony, for instance, you would take him for a libertine. To listen to some of the plays that he will applaud, to see the caricatures that amuse him, you might come to the conclusion that, in his eyes, marriage was not a sacred tie. But do not form yo

, I must leave you; I have an appointment." And if you heard the response, "Ah! you rascal, I'll tell your wife," accompanied by a knowing shake of the head, you might rashly take the pair

elf, do not believe him, he is merely boasting. Be sure that nothing

roached with them. On this subject I might tell an a

eers are all ex-pupils of the Polytechnic School. I mean the engineers of mines, roads, and bridges. These young men, having passed their youth in study, in order to prepare for the most difficult examination we have, natu

their reply, but it ran, a

hat you know something about. W

this little anecdote: I was one

od father and a good citizen, and he used to be a good garde-national, notwithstanding his objection to be told so. He p

ces more to proclaim urbi et orbi that he is a good father and a good citizen, it is because the idea nev

faults as we can hide our virtues, what a respectab

osed him, but have not succeeded in extinguishing him; the Chadbands, the Stigginses, the

tuffe; at the present day the type is extinct; the religious hy

two daughters, Mercy and Charity. In France, this worthy father and the Misses Mercy and Charity w

tes, however. We keep the article

is the hypocrite of s

enough that it

igious (I mean church-going), the French sentimental; therefore, the English hypocrit

eace be upon this house." Then, seeing the table garnished with good things, he cries: "My friends, why must we eat? To live. And why must we live? To do good. It is then right that we should eat. Therefore, let us pa

ur woes with touching displays of feeling; when occasion seems to require, he can shed a few tears, his lachrymal g

rally supported to the grave by the two friends on whose arms he leans. Tears trickle down his cheeks, he is pale and exhausted. His handkerchief has a wide black

ites to his upholsterer

ome as the other, are clearly manifested

t the letters he writes to his friends, and to which the newspapers generally give publicity, show him in his true light. "

akes professions of s

s from the trial of the vile

e. Ballerich for a fictitious person, in orde

crime was far from my thoughts. A crime is going too far

that killed the victim. When

in affairs of that kind! It made me feel sick to see the blood. I suffered internally; I was str

his friends rendezvous in the better land, and implores his Make

both of them probably