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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Thuillier," replied the beggars' banker, "is an oyster; he hasn't any opinions. Until the publication of his pamphlet he was, like all those bourgeois, a rabid conservative; but since the seizure he has gone over to the Opposition. His first stage will probably be the Left-centre; but if the election wind should blow from another quarter, he'll go straight before it to the extreme left.
This will lead him towards the little Church of the Left-centre; but there again for there's always a but he finds only a collection of ambitious minds and eunuchs unconsciously smoothing the way to a revolution, which he, for his part, sees looming on the horizon with great regret, because, he says, the masses are too little prepared, and too little intelligent, not to let it slip through their fingers.
But while he is neither legitimist, nor conservative, nor Left-centre, and is republican without wanting a republic, he proclaims himself a Catholic, and sits astride the hobby of that party, namely, liberty of education. But this man, who wants free education for every one, is afraid of the Jesuits; and he is still, as in 1829, uneasy about the encroachments of the clergy and the Congregation.
As for me, the mere meddling in electoral matters in the interests of other people has sobered me." "Did you say you went to Arcis-sur-Aube to hinder the election of that stone-cutter?" "Not at all; I went there to throw myself in the way of the election of a Left-centre candidate." "Pah! the Left, pure and simple, is hardly worse. But take a cigar; these are excellent. The princes smoke them."
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