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People accuse me, not of being an incendiary Sansculotte, but of being a Tory, thank Heaven! Some one has written with a big brush, "He who is not a radical in his youth is a knave, he who is not a conservative in his age is a fool." The rough, if not rude, generalisation has been plausibly supported by the changes in the mental careers of Burke, Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth.
She played her part valiantly, and one look at the perfection of her disguise was sufficient to assure the leader of this band of heroes that his instructions would be carried through to the letter. Deroulede too now looked the ragged sansculotte to the life, with bare and muddy feet, frayed breeches, and shabby, black-shag spencer.
Again, a half-crazed sansculotte had won a girl and in token of triumph was spinning her body horizontally around like a top, upheld by the open palm of his huge right arm. But what might be this comic figure, quite unpartnered knocked and shoved from human pillar to human post winning the deep curses of the dancers, and their hearty wallops when not o'er-busied with Terpsichore?
How could we not be struck by such portents?... What! the sect of the sansculotte Jesus has lasted well-nigh eighteen centuries, and the religion of Liberty is to be abolished after barely four years of existence!" But Jean Blaise resumed in a tone of superiority: "You walk in a dream; I see life as it is. Believe me, friend, the Revolution is a bore; it lasts over long.
He was thinking out a design, for a sansculotte, in red cap and carmagnole, who was to supersede the discredited knave of spades in his pack of cards.
We'll get at it presently." "You've got at it first try. I should say you've struck his height to about a sixteenth of an inch." "Sunburnt face? Skulking, fugitive appearance generally?" "Your description's wonderfully correct, Mr. Q . You might, without libel, call him a sansculotte." "I'm seldom far out in these matters. How was he dressed?"
Having, after the abolition of offices, attained a post in the Mairie of Paris, he was now a sansculotte dragoon and the hanger-on of a ci-devant Countess. "A noble! an émigré!" muttered Gamelin, whom she took good care not to undeceive, never having been desirous he should know the whole truth. "And he deserted you like a dastard?" She nodded in answer.
That she should have felt his burning kisses on her hand was heavenly compensation for all she would have to suffer. And so she allowed them to drag her through the sansculotte mob of Paris, who would have torn her to pieces then and there, so as not to delay the pleasure of seeing her die.
"But he looks like a sansculotte, madame," the staunch fellow warned her. Her thoughts and hopes leapt at once to Rougane. "Bring him in," she commanded breathlessly. Jacques went out, to return presently accompanied by a tall man in a long, shabby, and very ample overcoat and a wide-brimmed hat that was turned down all round, and adorned by an enormous tricolour cockade.
Scotch ale is very good and strong, but it is not stronger than all the other beer in the world, as some Scottish patriots would insist. When there has been a war, and stout old Sandy Sansculotte returns home from India or Crimea, what a bagpiping, shouting, hurraying, and self-glorification takes place round about him!
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