I should have been forever ashamed of such conduct; I chose that which was alone becoming for him who, having clung to his place from honorable motives, cannot, on quitting it, sever himself for one instant from the commonwealth." M.Necker fell with the fixed intention and firm hope of soon regaining power.

He had not calculated either the strength or inveteracy of his enemies, or the changeableness of that public opinion on which he relied.
Before the distresses of the state forced Louis XVI.

to recall a minister whom he had deeply wounded, the evils which the latter had sought to palliate would have increased with frightful rapidity, and the remedy would have slipped definitively out of hands too feeble for the immense burden they were still ambitious to bear..