Vautrin by Honoré de Balzac
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Saint-Charles Your grace requires a very difficult thing. We are obliged to use circumspection in dealing with foreigners. They are our masters; they have turned Paris upside down. The Duke That's the trouble! Saint-Charles Does your grace belong to the opposition? The Duke I should like to have brought back the king without his following --that is my position. Saint-Charles The departure of the king resulted from the disorganization of the magnificent Asiatic police created by Bonaparte. An effort is being made nowadays to form a police of respectable people, a procedure which disbands the old police. Hemmed in by the military police of the invasion, we dare not arrest any one, for fear we might lay hands on some prince on his way to keep an assignation, or some margrave who had dined too well. But for your grace a man will attempt the impossible. Has this young man any vices? Does he play? The Duke Yes, in a social way. Saint-Charles |
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