The Ambush Chapter 1

The Ambush chapter I "security" On December 1,1851, Charras shrugged his shoulder and unloaded his pistols. In the truth the belief in the possibility of the coupr d etet had become humiliating. The supposition of such illegal violence on the part of M.Louis Bonaparte vanished upon serious consideration. The great question of the day was manifestly the Devincq election, it was clear that the Government was only thinking of that matter. As to conspiracy against the Republic and against the people, how could anyone premeditate such a plot? where was the man capable of entertaining such a dream ? For a tragedy the must be an actor, and hore assuredly the actor was wanting to outrage right, to suppress the assembly,to abolish the constitution, to strangle the Republic, To overthrow the nation, to sully the flag, to dishonour the Army, to suborn the clergy and the Magistracy, to succeed, to triumph, to govern, to administer, to exile, to banish, to transport, to ruin, to assassinate, to reign, wit such complicities that the law at last resembles of foul bed of corruption. What all these ernomities were to be committed! And by whom ? By colossus ? No, by a dwarf people laughed at the nation. They no longer said " what a crime I " what a farce! for after all the did