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Our newspapers also had been flea-biting M. Livret and his countrymen of late; and, to conclude, over in old England you may fly out against what you will, and there is little beyond a motherly smile, a nurse's rebuke, or a fool's rudeness to answer you.
He abolished passports between France and England, and also the French workman's character-book, or livret, which by law he had been compelled to have always at hand.
A ceremonious visit that M. Livret insisted on was paid to the chapel of Diane, where she had worshipped and laid her widowed ashes, which, said M. Livret, the fiends of the Revolution would not let rest. He raised his voice to denounce them. It was Roland de Croisnel that answered: 'The Revolution was our grandmother, monsieur, and I cannot hear her abused. Renee caught her brother by the hand.
'The esprit Gaulois is the sparkle of crystal common sense, madame, and may we never abandon it for a Puritanism that hides its face to conceal its filthiness, like a stagnant pond, replied M. Livret, flashing. 'It seems, then, that there are two ways of being objectionable, said Renee. 'Ah! Madame la Marquise, your wit is French, he breathed low; 'keep your heart so!
As to wit, the sneer is the cloak of clumsiness; it is the Pharisee's incense, the hypocrite's pity, the post of exaltation of the fat citizen, etc.; but, said M. Livret, the people using it should have a care that they keep powerful: they make no friends. He terminated with this warning to a nation not devoid of superior merit. M. d'Orbec said less, and was less consoled by his outburst.
It supplied Beauchamp with an excuse for staying, that he was angry with himself for being pleased to have; so he attacked the practice of duelling, and next the shrug, wherewith M. Livret and M. d'Orbec sought at first to defend the foul custom, or apologize for it, or plead for it philosophically, or altogether cast it off their shoulders; for the literal interpretation of the shrug in argument is beyond human capacity; it is the point of speech beyond our treasury of language.
In case of a workman losing his livret, he may, on the presentation of his passport, obtain provisional permission to work, but without authority to move to any other place until he can satisfy the officer of police that he is free from all engagements to his last master.
'If he would learn that he was fashioned for that purpose! exclaimed little M. Livret. 'Do not ask young men for too much head, my friend; he would cease to be amusing. 'D'Henriel should have been up in the fields at ten this morning, said M. d'Orbec. 'As to his head, I back him for a clever shot. 'Or a duelling-sword, said Renee. 'It is a quality, count it for what we will.
Excited by the supposed cold critical mind in Beauchamp, M. Livret painted and painted this lady, tricked her in casuistical niceties, scenes of pomp and boudoir pathos, with many shifting sidelights and a risky word or two, until Renee cried out, 'Spare us the esprit Gaulois, M. Livret! There was much to make him angry with this Englishman.
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