This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...country than out of it. He never openly explained the reason of his apparent leniency. He was not equally reticent to his intimate friends. 'A beau mentir qui vient de loin, ' he said, 'and their tales of suffering and of my tyranny are much more likely to find credence at a distance than at home, where people can ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...country than out of it. He never openly explained the reason of his apparent leniency. He was not equally reticent to his intimate friends. 'A beau mentir qui vient de loin, ' he said, 'and their tales of suffering and of my tyranny are much more likely to find credence at a distance than at home, where people can judge for themselves.'1 For eighteen years these men had been prating either in the guise of writers or of professors about Caesarism and oppression. Alphonse Esquiros, taking refuge in England, never ceased to hold up our institutions, political and social, to the admiration of his countrymen. Let us see how he profited by the lessons he wished to convey. When the 4th September dawned M. Esquiros repre 1 The sentence has its English equivalent in connection with the word 1 Cataian' as used by Shakespeare to denote a liar. It means that a man coming from afar may tell any number of cock-and-bull stories with impunity. It is borrowed from a kind of fairy play, Nicodime dans la Lune, dating from the First Revolution, and has passed into the French language as a proverb. sented Marseilles in the Corps Legislatif of the Second Empire. The close of that day saw him on his way as proconsul to the city he had represented in the parliament which was so unceremoniously dismissed by a couple of fifth-rate Cromwells--minus the valiance of the original one. M. Esquiros was bent upon making a triumphal entry into the Hellenic city, and left nothing to chance or to the spontaneous enthusiasm of its inhabitants. In fact, all the men of the 4th September, from the ringleaders in their hastily purchased furs to the hangers-on in their clothes hastily redeemed from the pawnshop, were aware of one thing. They knew that the republican regime--whether spurious or real-...
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