[Penguin Island by Anatole France]@TWC D-Link bookPenguin Island BOOK V 58/93
He was cheered. The committee had been carefully formed.
A man of the people, a workman, but a man of sound principles, M.Rauchin, the secretary of the yellow syndicate, was asked to preside, supported by Count Clena and M. Michaud, a butcher. The government which Penguinia had freely given itself was called by such names as cesspool and drain in several eloquent speeches.
But President Formose was spared and no mention was made of Crucho or the priests. The meeting was not unanimous.
A defender of the modern State and of the Republic, a manual labourer, stood up. "Gentlemen," said M.Rauchin, the chairman, "we have told you that this meeting would not be unanimous.
We are not like our opponents, we are honest men.
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