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It has governed not only the West but the East; the twain have met in that demand for a constitutional national State which in our day has flamed up, a fire not to be put out, in Turkey, Persia, Egypt. But it is in Imperial politics that the bouleversement has been most complete.
But he calls, and he sends you tickets for the "Zoo," or he does something to show his appreciation of the friend who has given the letter. Now in America we are very tardy about all this, and often, to our shame, take no notice of letters of introduction. In the matter of dress the American lady finds a complete bouleversement of her own ideas.
The mother, poor sad-visaged martyr of deceit, would only draw her thin wrinkled collapsed lips the closer, holding hard hidden the fact that the girl's father had been looked upon by these relatives "of good quality" as a monster of ingratitude, and at the same time as a candidate for a strait waist-coat, whose apostasy and voluntary exile had hastened the good bishop's old age and broken his heart; that the children of the ingrate would be avoided by this conventional clique, like the leprosy, and esteemed sure to develop sooner or later terrible and infinitely inconvenient heresies, and occasion heaven only knew what bouleversement in any comely and orthodox and reasonable method of life.
Somewhere, deep down in him, he supposed there might be a source, a well of English waters, which some explosion in his nature might cause to flood him entirely, but such an idea was purely hypothetical; he did not, in fact, look forward to such a bouleversement as being a possible contingency.
This amounted to a bouleversement suprême of the usual order of things, and it was no wonder that there was disquietude among his hearers.
He knew that if that bouleversement were actually to take place he would be as glad for his friend's sake as poor Hartley was now for his, but he knew also that the smile of congratulation would be a grimace of almost intolerable pain, and so he knew what Hartley's black hour must be like. "You must forgive me," he said. "I had forgotten. I don't know why.
Later I was told it was not God's anger but His sense of justice that had to be appeased and satisfied, which was a distinct step in advance. A little later, however, I read that this was not the hidden truth of the doctrine. This was a complete bouleversement of the whole situation, though it came so gradually that few appreciated that fact.
Vast interests and solemn causes are no longer tossed about like shuttlecocks on the battledores of empty tongues. In the bouleversement of Revolutions the French have fallen on their feet!
"Mon Dieu, ze mal der mer!" he had exclaimed "Ze bouleversement of ze vagues! Ze choses terribles! Ze femmes sick! zen men of ze coleur blieu! Ah, quel ravissement to be in ze land!"
"Entre les signes de bouleversement que renferme ce lieu, est un rocher nommé Gebichensten, qui est en pierre
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