But, oh! the grimaces by which I have seen human face distorted by persons wearing this masquerading attire! Some roll their eyes and knit their brows as if they would bully the whole universe; others fix their dark glances on the ground in fearful meditation; while other some there be who, while gloomily leaning against a statue or a tree, throw such terrific meaning into their looks as might naturally be interpreted into the language of the witches in Macbeth-- "We must, we will--we must, we will Have much more blood,--and become worse, And become worse" ... &c. &c. The three young men who had just passed us were exactly of this stamp. Our legitimate friend looked after them and laughed heartily. "C'est à nous autres, mon cher," said de L----, "to enjoy that sight. You and yours would have but small reason to laugh at such as these, if it were not the business of us and ours to take care that they should do you no harm. You may thank the eighty thousand National Guards of Paris for the pleasure of quizzing with such a complacent feeling of security these very ferocious-looking persons." "For that I thank them heartily," replied M. P----; "only I think the business would have been quite as well done if those who performed it had the right to do so." "Bah! Have you not tried, and found you could make nothing of it?" "I think not, my friend," replied the legitimatist: "we were doing very well, and exerting ourselves to keep the unruly spirits in order, when you stepped in, and promised all the naughty boys in Paris a holiday if they would but make you master. They did make you master--they have had their holiday, and now...." "And now ..." said I, "what will come next?" Both the gentlemen answered me at once. "Riots," said the legitimatist. "Good order," said the doctrinaire. We proceeded in our walk, and having crossed the Pont Royal, kept along the Quai Voltaire, to avoid the Rue du Bac; as we all agreed that, notwithstanding Madame de Staël spoke so lovingly of it at a distance, it was far from agreeable when near.