"They took _their_ turn once, in France." "Of course, they must be _kept down_, consistently, steadily, as I _should_," said Alfred, setting his foot hard down as if he were standing on somebody.
"It makes a terrible slip when they get up," said Augustine,--"in St.
Domingo, for instance." "Poh!" said Alfred, "we'll take care of that, in this country.

We must set our face against all this educating, elevating talk, that is getting about now; the lower class must not be educated." "That is past praying for," said Augustine; "educated they will be, and we have only to say how.

Our system is educating them in barbarism and brutality.

We are breaking all humanizing ties, and making them brute beasts; and, if they get the upper hand, such we shall find them." "They shall never get the upper hand!" said Alfred.
"That's right," said St.Clare; "put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see where you'll land." "Well," said Alfred, "we _will_ see.

I'm not afraid to sit on the escape-valve, as long as the boilers are strong, and the machinery works well." "The nobles in Louis XVI.'s time thought just so; and Austria and Pius IX.