Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . , pushedus ou towards the inner circle. We hadnot gone twenty steps further beforeanother seedy-looking man jostledagainst us, repeated the word ??Mouton and also the wholesome advice as topockets. He went with us a few steps,when a consumpti
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . , pushedus ou towards the inner circle. We hadnot gone twenty steps further beforeanother seedy-looking man jostledagainst us, repeated the word ??Mouton and also the wholesome advice as topockets. He went with us a few steps,when a consumptive individual, in whitecotton blouse and trousers, took up themagic word, which he seemed bound torepeat when he saw the card, still held bymy friend where it could be seen ; and webegan to understand that we were beingpassed from agent to agent, each newhelper being the obedient slave of ourtalisman. But candor compels me tostate, that just as we were about to getinto the square there was a great tumultin the outer lines of the mob, the cavaUyturned about and prepared for a charge,and our consumptive friend in whiteadvised us to beat a retreat, and to takerefuge in the upper story of some wine-shop. We took his advice, and soon foundourselves the occupants of a little room,from which, two or three hours later, as EUROPE jy STORM AND CALM. 161. POLICE BREAKING UP A REPUBLICAN MEETING. the dull wray of morning slowly cnme. drods of the waiting men looked like we could discern the sinister form of the criminals of tlie worst sort. The women guillotine and the upturned, livid, dis- were loud-mouthed, and many of them torted, ugly faces of the thousands of indecent in their language ; and when a men and women who longed to see new detaclinient of trooi)S arrived it was Troppmann die. In trulli it was a hailed with tineats and shouts of deri- dreadful and repulsive spectach;. Ilun- sion. 1(52 EUROPE IN STORM AXD CALM. It was then the tradition tliat execu-tions should take place in
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