The French Revolution : a history . the Altar-steps to do his miracle,the material Heaven grew black; a north-wind, moan-ing cold moisture, began to sing; and there descendeda very deluge of rain. Sad to see ! The thirty-stairedSeats, all round our Amphitheatre, get instantaneouslyslated with mere umbrellas, fallacious when so thickset: our antique Cassolettes become water-pots; theirincense-smoke gone hissing, in a whiff of muddy , instead of vivats, there is nothing now but thefurious peppering and rattling. From three to fourhundred thousand human individuals feel that they havea
The French Revolution : a history . the Altar-steps to do his miracle,the material Heaven grew black; a north-wind, moan-ing cold moisture, began to sing; and there descendeda very deluge of rain. Sad to see ! The thirty-stairedSeats, all round our Amphitheatre, get instantaneouslyslated with mere umbrellas, fallacious when so thickset: our antique Cassolettes become water-pots; theirincense-smoke gone hissing, in a whiff of muddy , instead of vivats, there is nothing now but thefurious peppering and rattling. From three to fourhundred thousand human individuals feel that they havea skin; happily mpervious. The Generals sash runswater: how all military banners droop; and will notwave, but lazily flap, as if metamorphosed into paintedtin-banners ! Worse, far worse, these hundred thousand, [Owing to the schism in the Church produced by the CivilConstitution of the Clergy, Talleyrand was the only high ecclesiasticwho would officiate. His well-known scepticism justifies Carlylessarcasm at his action here.—Ed.]. >£ JULY 14-18, 1790] SOUND AND SMOKE 81 such is the Historians testimony, of the fairest of France!Their snowy muslins all splashed and draggled; theostrich-feather shrunk shamefully to the backbone of afeather: all caps are ruined; innermost pasteboardmolten into its original pap: Beauty no longer swimsdecorated in her garniture, like Love-goddess hidden-revealed in her Paphian clouds, but struggles in disastrousimprisonment in it, for the shape was noticeable ; andnow only sympathetic interjections, titterings, teheeings,and resolute good-humour will avail. A deluge; anincessant sheet or fluid-column of rain ;—such that ourOverseers very mitre must be filled ; not a mitre, but afilled and leaky fire-bucket on his reverend head!—Re-gardless of which. Overseer Talleyrand performs hismiracle : the Blessing of Talleyrand, another than thatof Jacob, is on all the Eighty-three departmental flagsof France; which wave or flap, with such thankfulnes
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