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These people I suppose that if two castaways landed naked on a desert island, one of them would instantly be the ancien regime had spoken of Mrs. Henderson and her ambition to the Earl of Chisholm in a way that pained him. They graciously assumed that he, as one of the elect, would understand them. It was therefore with a heavy heart that he came to say good-by to Margaret before his return.
These rooms adjoining this basse-cour, hens and chicks would enter unceremoniously and pick up the crumbs we threw to them. Fastidious tourists might resent so primitive a state of things, the hotel, I should say, remaining exactly what it was under the Ancien Regime. The beauty and interest of various kinds around, more than make up for small drawbacks.
He laid before the Intendant at Caraccas, on whom Trinidad then depended, a scheme of colonisation, which was accepted, and carried out in 1783, by a man who, as far as I can discover, possessed in a pre-eminent degree that instinct of ruling justly, wisely, gently, and firmly, which is just as rare in this age as it was under the ancien regime.
Understand me I am not speaking against the hereditary principle of the Ancien Regime, but against its caste principle two widely different elements, continually confounded nowadays. The hereditary principle is good, because it is founded on fact and nature.
One capital fact, however, seems to prove that under the ancien regime the situation of the inhabitants of the rural districts could not have been so very wretched, since it seems established that more than a third of the soil had been bought by peasants. We are better informed as to the financial system. It was very oppressive and extremely complicated.
Her French mind of the Ancien Régime could not contemplate a Thormonde son of Anne de Mont-Anbin falling in love with an insignificant Miss Sharp who brings bandages to the Courville hospital! These thoughts tormented me so all yesterday that I was quite feverish by the evening and Burton wore an air of thorough disapproval.
These were new and startling considerations to the feather-light mind of the Frenchman, and unconsciously his fancy began to busy itself with the old romantic histories of the ancient French chivalry, when faith, and love, and loyalty, kept white the lilies of France, and the stately courtesy and unflinching pride of the ancien regime made its name honored throughout the world.
He admits that there are still some good scholars in France, but he proves need we add, by statistics? that the illiteracy of the masses is greater than it was under the ancien regime, if not in the reign of Clovis.
From this pamphlet it may be seen how even the ablest individuals of the ancien régime, how even people who in their own way are not devoid of historical talent have been so completely thrown off their balance by the fatal event of February as to have lost all historical comprehension, even the comprehension of their former behaviour.
He remembered again that the flippant young Frenchman had said, "Un ancien curé, qui a fait quelque bêtise." Was it possible that some tragic sin lay under this gentle life? And was the four-funnelled, twin-screwed Parana but a ghostly ship bearing a cargo of haunted souls into their earthly purgatory? "But listen, monsieur," the old man began next day. But listen! There would be difficulties.
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