The terrible wars through which France passed, to aggrandize an ambitious and selfish egotist, were attended with far greater evils than those which the nation sought to abolish when the States-General first met at Versailles.

Frock-coated the first thing in the morning, he was already smoking a big cigar; and his loud voice, his peals of gayety, his bustling ways, all betokened an egotist and good liver still in his prime, a man for whom moneycapital increased and increased by the labor of otherswas the one only sovereign power.

But those dense persons inhabiting the thickly populated region bordering on foolishnessthose self-satisfied, uncomprehending egotists occupying the half-way house between wisdom and folly, known as stupidityagainst such my wrath burns fiercely.

' "So now, leaving Prior's pretty verses, and leaving Dr. Johnson too, who was himself severely censured for his rough criticism on a writer who had pleased all in our Augustan age of Literature, poor H.L.P. turns egotist at eighty, and tells her own adventures.