The innocents abroad; . e by the government at a statedprice before the speculator is permitted to purchase. Butabove all things, he has taken the sole control of the Empireof France into his hands, and made it a tolerably free land—for people who will not attempt to go too far in medding withgovernment aifairs. No country offers greater security to lifeand property than France, and one has all the freedom hewants, but no license—no license to interfere with any body,or make any one uncomfortable. As for the Sultan, one could set a trap any where and catcha dozen abler men in a ni^ht. THE REVI
The innocents abroad; . e by the government at a statedprice before the speculator is permitted to purchase. Butabove all things, he has taken the sole control of the Empireof France into his hands, and made it a tolerably free land—for people who will not attempt to go too far in medding withgovernment aifairs. No country offers greater security to lifeand property than France, and one has all the freedom hewants, but no license—no license to interfere with any body,or make any one uncomfortable. As for the Sultan, one could set a trap any where and catcha dozen abler men in a ni^ht. THE REVIEW.— CANROBERT, 129 The bands struck up, and the brilliant adventurer, JSTapo-leon III., the genius of Energy, Persistence, Enterprise; andthe feeble Abdul-Aziz, the genius of Ignorance, Bigotry, andIndolence, prepared for the Forward—March! We saw the splendid review, we saw the white-moustachedold Crimean soldier, Canrobert, Marshal of France, we saw—well, we saw every thing, and then we went home CHAPTER XIY. TTTE went to see the Cathedral of Notre Dame.—We hadVV heard of it before. It surprises me, sometimes, tothink how much we do know, and how intelligent we recognized the brown old Gothic pile in a moment; it waslike the pictures. We stood at a little distance and changedfrom one point of observation to another, and gazed long atits loftj square towers and its rich front, clustered thick withstony, mutilated saints who had been looking calmly downfrom their perches for ages. The Patriarch of Jerusalem stoodunder tHem in the old days of chivalry and romance, andpreached the third Crusade, more than six hundred years ago;and since that day they have stood there and looked quietlydown upon the most thrilling scenes, the grandest pageants,the most extraordinary spectacles that have grieved or de-lighted Paris. These battered and broken-nosed old fellowssaw many and many a cavalcade of mail-clad knights comemarching home from Holy Land; they hea
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