NIGHTMARE ABBEY.
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friend: but the cases are different. Brutus had some hope of political good: Mr. Cypress has none. How should he, after what we have seen in France?
Scythrop.
A Frenchman is a monstrous compound of monkey, spaniel, and tiger: the most parasitical, the most servile, and the most cruel, of all animals in human shape. He is born in harness, ready saddled, bitted, and bridled, for any tyrant to ride. He will fawn under his rider one moment, and throw him and kick him to death the next: but another adventurer springs on his back, and, by dint of whip and spur, on he goes as before, dipping his handkerchief in blood or in otto of roses with the same polite empressement, and cutting a throat or an orange with the same grinning nonchalance.
