MX FERROUS CHAUDHARY

last resembles a foul bed of corruption. What! All these
enormities were to be committed! And by whom? By a
Colossus? No, by a dwarf. People laughed at the notion.
They no longer said What a crime! but What a farce!
For after all they reflected; heinous crimes require stature.
Certain crimes are too lofty for certain hands. A man who
would achieve an 18th Brumaire must have Arcola in his
past and Austerlitz in his future. The art of becoming a
great scoundrel is not accorded to the first comer. People
said to themselves, Who is this son of Hortense? He has
Strasbourg behind him instead of Arcola, and Boulogne in
place of Austerlitz. He is a Frenchman, born a Dutchman,
and naturalized a Swiss; he is a Bonaparte crossed with a
Verhuell; he is only celebrated for the ludicrousness of his
imperial attitude, and he who would pluck a feather from
his eagle would risk finding a gooses quill in his hand. This
Bonaparte does not pass currency in the array, he is a
counterfeit image less of gold than of lead, and assuredly
French soldiers will not give us the change for this false