1131—_Oui_.
1—_Non_.
The _Non_ was M. Blanc, who, being a Frenchman, ought not to have been
allowed to vote at all. I heard afterwards that on learning my departure
he had pronounced the following epitaph upon me:—
“Ah le jeune homme est parti. Je m’y attendais. Il aimait la liberté
celui là.”
The Casino is removed to Cairo, and M. Blanc’s eldest daughter is to
marry the Viceroy’s youngest son.
My tutor at Cambridge received me with a solemn face; but I laughingly
exclaimed, “You see, Sir, after all I did want an _exeat_, even if an
_absit_ would not have done.”
The only later news that I have to record is a letter from my friend
Gambetta, promising that when he becomes President of France I shall be
préfêt of the Department of the Alpes Maritimes, which includes my
ex-dominions, on condition that I am very moderate.
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