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But these complaints are not peculiar to large places; the causes of them equally exist in the smallest village, and the only difference which fixes the imputation of aristocracy on one more than the other, is, daring to murmur, or submitting in silence. I must here remark to you, that the term aristocrate has much varied from its former signification.
Yet a weariness, a bitterness, he had never known in the excitement of active service came on him, brought by this sting of insult brought from the fair hand of an aristocrate. There was absolutely no hope possible in his future. The uttermost that could ever come to him would be a grade something higher in the army that now enrolled him; the gift of the cross, or a post in the bureau.
A year ago, aristocrate implied one who was an advocate for the privileges of the nobility, and a partizan of the ancient government at present a man is an aristocrate for entertaining exactly the same principles which at that time constituted a patriot; and, I believe, the computation is moderate, when I say, that more than three parts of the nation are aristocrates.
The answer failed to conciliate her; there was an accent of compassion in it that ill-suited her pride, and a lack of admiration that was not less new and unwelcome. "It was well for you that I was unsexed enough to be able to send an ounce of lead into a drunkard!" she pursued with immeasurable disdain. "If I had been like that dainty aristocrate down there pardieu! It had been worse for you.
She told me she did not come to the town, "a cause de la foederation" "Vous etes aristocrate donc?" "Ah, mon Dieu non ce n'est pas que je suis aristocrate, ou democrate, mais que je suis Chretienne.*" *"On account of the foederation." "You are an aristocrate then, I suppose?" "Lord, no! It is not because I am an aristocrate, or a democrate, but because I am a Christian."
These party violences are terrible; and I was happy to perceive that the reciprocal claims of duty and affection were not diminished by them, either in M. de , or his son. He, however, at first refused to come to A, because he suspected the patriotism of our society. I pleaded, as an inducement, the beauty of Mad. G, but he told me she was an aristocrate.
The brilliant beauty who for two seasons had ruled the world in which she moved so imperiously insatiate of conquest, and defying rivalry the delicate aristocrate who from her childhood had been used to every imaginable luxury, and had appreciated them all was found again, here, in the gray robe of a Sister of Charity, content to endure real, bitter hardships, and to witness daily sights from which womanhood, with all its bravery, must needs recoil.
These party violences are terrible; and I was happy to perceive that the reciprocal claims of duty and affection were not diminished by them, either in M. de , or his son. He, however, at first refused to come to A, because he suspected the patriotism of our society. I pleaded, as an inducement, the beauty of Mad. G, but he told me she was an aristocrate.
At Amiens, where almost every individual is an aristocrate, the fugitive Deputies could not procure the least encouragement, but the town would have received Dumouriez, and proclaimed the King without opposition.
Order of the Committee of Surveillance of the third section of Troyes, refusing civic certificates to seventy-two persons, or sending them before the central committee as "marchands d'argant, aristocrate, douteux, modere, intrigant, egoiste fanatique. Fait et arete par nous, membre du Comite." It is my native town and I know more people there than anywhere else."-Ibid. Cf. 179.
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