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‘We are adopting so many of those English habits that we are likely to become as hypocritical and prudish as they,’ said Henri.

Thus, Paul de Manerville, could be classed only among the great, illustrious, and powerful family of brainless ‘arrivistes’. He was likely to become a member of parliament one day, …

…to prevent the most putrid mud from filtering up through the ground, poisoning the wells and continuing to justify the famous and ancient name of ‘Lutetia’. A good half of Paris lies floating in stinking vapours, whether from yards, streets, or underground works.

Their strenuous efforts are governed by the crack of the whip of interest, as the scourge of ambition torments the upper circles of this monstrous city, as the world of the proletariat is under the cruel sway of the material schemes unceasingly required by the despotism of the ‘I want’ of the aristocrats.

The Comte de Lanty was short, ugly and skinny; sulky as a Spaniard, boring as a banker. He passed, it should be said, for a profound political thinker because he rarely laughed,