France
was--as he allowed to my eager son--beginning to advance rapidly on
the road of glory, it might be of universal empire. He agreed to it,
but, said he, with a curious perverse smile: 'For all that, M. le
Marquis, I remain thankful that my wife's inheritance is on this side
of the Channel, and though I myself may be but an exile and a
fugitive, I rejoice that my sons and their children after them will
not grow up where there is brilliancy and grandeur without, but
beneath them corruption and a people's misery!'
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