The innocents abroad; . NAPOLEON III. Abdul Aziz, absolute lord of the Ottoman Empire,— clad in dark greenEuropean clothes,almost without or-nament or insigniaof rank; a redTurkish fez on hishead—a short, stout,dark man, black-bearded, black-eyed, stupid, unpre^possessing—a manwhose whole ap-pearance somehowsuggested that if heonly had a cleaverin his hand and awhite apron on, one would not be at all surprised to hear him say: A mutton-roast to-day, or willyou have a niceporter-house steak ?]Slapoleon III.,the representativeol the highest mod-ern civilization, pro-gress, and refine-ment; Abdul
The innocents abroad; . NAPOLEON III. Abdul Aziz, absolute lord of the Ottoman Empire,— clad in dark greenEuropean clothes,almost without or-nament or insigniaof rank; a redTurkish fez on hishead—a short, stout,dark man, black-bearded, black-eyed, stupid, unpre^possessing—a manwhose whole ap-pearance somehowsuggested that if heonly had a cleaverin his hand and awhite apron on, one would not be at all surprised to hear him say: A mutton-roast to-day, or willyou have a niceporter-house steak ?]Slapoleon III.,the representativeol the highest mod-ern civilization, pro-gress, and refine-ment; Abdul-Aziz,the representativeof a people by na-ture and trainingfilthy, brutish, ig-norant, unprogress-ive, superstitious—and a governmentwhose Three Graces are Tyranny, Eapacity, Blood. Here in brilliant Paris, under. ABDUL AZIZ. jStapoleon III. 127 this majestic Arch of Triumph, the First Century greets theNineteenth! J!!^APOLEON III., Emperor of France ! Surrounded by shout-ing thousands, by military pomp, by the splendors of hiscapital city, and companioned by kings and princes—this isthe man who was sneered at, and reviled, and called Bastard—yet who was dreaming of a crown and an Empire all thewhile; who was driven into exile—but carried his dreamswith him; who associated with the common herd in America,and ran foot-races for a wager—^but still sat upon a throne, infancy; who braved every danger to go to his dying mother—?and grieved that she could not be spared to see him cast asidehis plebeian vestments for the purple of royalty; who kepthis faithful watch and walked his weary beat a common po-liceman of London—but dreamed the while of a coming-night when he should tread the long-drawn corridors of theTuileries; who made the miserable fiasco of Strasbourg; sawhis poor, shabby e
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