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'She will soon get tired of this, and he parted from her without a sentiment which could mar his habitual blandness. The two ladies then proceeded westward. Dismissing the cab in Waterloo Place, they went along Pall Mall on foot, where in place of the usual well-dressed clubbists rubicund with alcohol were to be seen, in linen pinafores, flocks of house-painters pallid from white lead.
Forster, in other respects a man of great elevation of mind, forgetful, in his enthusiasm, of all national pride, personally carried to Paris the scandalous documents in which the French were humbly entreated to accept of a province of the German empire. Numbers of the clubbists fled, or were saved by the French, when evacuating the city, in the disguise of soldiers.
Notwithstanding the threat of being treated, in case of refusal, as slaves, the citizens and peasantry, plainly foreseeing that, instead of receiving the promised boon of liberty, they would but expose themselves to Custine's brutal tyranny, withheld their signatures, and the clubbists finally established a republic under the protection of France without the consent of the people, removed all the old authorities, and, at the close of 1792, elected Dorsch, a remarkably diminutive, ill-favored man, who had formerly been a priest, president.
Some persons within fired, and one of the assailants was killed. The violent Clubbists are trying to excite the passions of the multitude, alleging that this is Anglo-Saxon blood shed by a Frenchman. The immediate cause of this excitement is the arrest of certain persons who were implicated in the destruction of the Parliament buildings in April last.
"Artisans, once useful, but now tired of working, and whom the profession of paid clubbists, idle guardians," and paid laborers "has totally demoralized," scoundrels in league with each other and making money out of whatever they can lay their hands on, like thieves at a fair, habitually living at the expense of the public, "bestowing the favors of the nation on those who share their principles, harboring and aiding many who are under the ban of the law and calling themselves model patriots, that is, in the pay of gambling hells and houses of prostitution."
Durbeyfield, leaning back, and with his eyes closed luxuriously, was waving his hand above his head, and singing in a slow recitative "I've-got-a-gr't-family-vault-at-Kingsbere and knighted-forefathers-in-lead-coffins-there!" The clubbists tittered, except the girl called Tess in whom a slow heat seemed to rise at the sense that her father was making himself foolish in their eyes.
But if they still fancy that the advocates of 'Woman's Rights' in England are of the same temper as certain female clubbists in America, with whose sayings and doings the public has been amused or shocked, then I beg them to peruse the article on the 'Social Position of Women, by Mr. I beg also attention to Dr.
Look at him! It is only at the hulks, or among turf-men, that you ever see a face so mean, so knowing, and so gloomy. A much more humane being among the youthful Clubbists is the Lady-killing Snob. I saw Wiggle just now in the dressing-room, talking to Waggle, his inseparable. WAGGLE. 'Pon my honour, Wiggle, she did.
As a means of gaining over the lower orders among the citizens, who with plain good sense opposed their apish tricks, the clubbists demolished a large stone, by which the Archbishop Adolphus had formerly sworn, "You, citizens of Mayence, shall not regain your privileges until this stone shall melt."
In the Maison-Commune section, most of the auditory are masons, "excellent patriots," says one of the clubbists of the quarter: they always vote on our side; we make them do what we want." Numbers of day-laborers, cab-drivers, cartmen and workmen of every class, thus earn their forty sous, and have no idea that anything else might be demanded from them.
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