Greater than the play created by the poet was the effect which this description of the July days produced upon Otto.

This was the reality itself in which he lived.
His heart was filled with admiration for France, who fought for Liberty the holy fight, and who, with the language of the sword, had pronounced the anathema of the age on the enemies of enlightenment and improvement.
The old preacher folded his hands as he heard it; his eyes sparkled: but soon he shook his head.

"May men so judge the anointed ones of God?
'He who taketh the sword shall perish by the sword!'" "The king is for the people," said Otto; "not the people for the king!" "Louis XVIth's unhappy daughter!" sighed Rosalie; "for the third time is she driven from her father-land.

Her parents and brothers killed! her husband dishonored! She herself has a mind and heart.

'She is the only man among the Bourbons,'" said Napoleon.
The preacher, with his old-fashioned honesty, and a royalist from his whole heart, regarded the affair with wavering opinion, and with fear for the future.