Isabel Hapgood

The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall of his own family, the tragic spectacles of '93, which were, perhaps, even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, with the magnifying powers of terror

To dare; that is the price of progress.

Would you abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction?

with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a heart absolutely sombre and empty.

Still, he had a father and a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not love him.

e about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if

ellation pleased him.

appellation pleased him

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

He urged the rich to give to the poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he represented as charming and desirable.