One must be such a man as Sagnier to picture a parliament as an open market, where every conscience is for sale and is impudently knocked down to the highest bidder.

Oh! things happened in a very different way indeed; and they are explainable, and at times even excusable.

Thus the article is levelled in particular against Barroux and Monferrand, who are designated in the clearest possible manner although they are not named.

You are no doubt aware that at the time of the vote Barroux was at the Home Department and Monferrand at that of Public Works, and so now they are accused of having betrayed their trusts, the blackest of all social crimes.

I don't know into what political combinations Barroux may have entered, but I am ready to swear that he put nothing in his pocket, for he is the most honest of men.