I wouldn't give four sous for its chance of surviving." He referred to the ministry, and began to recount the sitting to a fellow journalist who had just arrived.

Mege had spoken very eloquently, with extraordinary fury of indignation against the rotten _bourgeoisie_, which rotted everything it touched; but, as usual, he had gone much too far, alarming the Chamber by his very violence.

And so, when Barroux had ascended the tribune to ask for a month's adjournment of the interpellation, he had merely had occasion to wax indignant, in all sincerity be it said, full of lofty anger that such infamous campaigns should be carried on by a certain portion of the press.

Were the shameful Panama scandals about to be renewed?
Were the national representatives going to let themselves be intimidated by fresh threats of denunciation?
It was the Republic itself which its adversaries were seeking to submerge beneath a flood of abominations.

No, no, the hour had come for one to collect one's thoughts, and work in quietude without allowing those who hungered for scandal to disturb the public peace.