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And there was nice split-bottom chairs, and perfectly sound, too not bagged down in the middle and busted, like an old basket. They had pictures hung on the walls mainly Washingtons and Lafayettes, and battles, and Highland Marys, and one called "Signing the Declaration."
At sixteen he had married! at eighteen he had formed his political principles, and begun his military career by crossing the Atlantic, and offering his sword to the Republic. To meet the thousand wonderings at his conduct, he exchanged the ancient motto of the Lafayettes for a new one of his own. The words, "Why not?" were his answer to all, and they were sufficient.
Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands.
But it lies not in exceptions to save a caste, or an institution; and a few Richelieus, Liancourts, Rochefoucaulds, Noailles, Lafayettes were but the storks among the cranes involved in the wholesale doom due not to each individual, but to a system and a class. But below them, and perhaps the cause of them all, lay another and deeper vice godlessness atheism.
"Is it any fault of mine if Catholicism puts a million deities in a sack of flour, that Republics will end in a Napoleon, that monarchy dwells between the assassination of Henry IV. and the trial of Louis XVI., and Liberalism produces Lafayettes?" "Didn't you embrace him in July?" "No." "Then hold your tongue, you sceptic." "Sceptics are the most conscientious of men." "They have no conscience."
This chamber was never entered except on the anniversary of her death, and then by her husband alone, who cherished her memory tenderly and faithfully as long as he lived. Many wonderful visitors came to La Grange, and in later years to the Paris home of the Lafayettes.
Singular how long the rotten will hold together, provided you do not handle it roughly. Visible in France is no such thing as a government. But beyond the Atlantic democracy is born; a sympathetic France rejoices over the rights of man. Rochambeaus, Lameths, Lafayettes have drawn their swords in this sacred quarrel; return, to be the missionaries of freedom.
The handsome Lafayettes the gallant Nolans the daring Hunters the thousands of forgotten American traders and explorers bold and enterprising they had sown the seed. For great ideas are as catching as evil ones.
And there was nice split-bottom chairs, and perfectly sound, too not bagged down in the middle and busted, like an old basket. They had pictures hung on the walls mainly Washingtons and Lafayettes, and battles, and Highland Marys, and one called "Signing the Declaration."
The family living in the old château was one whose records could be traced to the year one thousand, when a certain man by the name of Motier acquired an estate called Villa Faya, and thereafter he became known as Motier de la Fayette. In 1240 Pons Motier married the noble Alix Brun de Champetières; and from their line descended the famous Lafayettes known to all Americans.
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