Or, M.
de Metternich ment toujours, et ne trompe jamais." He mentioned M.de St.Aulaire,--now one of the most distinguished public men of France.

I said: "M.

de Saint-Aulaire est beau-pere de M.le duc de Cazes, n'est-ce pas ?" "Non, monsieur," said Talleyrand; "l'on disait, il y a douze ans, que M.de Saint-Aulaire etoit beau-pere de M.de Cazes; l'on dit maintenant que M.de Cazes est gendre de M.de Saint-Aulaire." [This saying remained in Macaulay's mind.

He quoted it on the margin of his Aulus Gellius, as an illustration of the passage in the nineteenth book in which Julius Caesar is described, absurdly enough as "perpetuus ille dictator, Cneii Pompeii socer".] It was not easy to describe the change in the relative positions of two men more tersely and more sharply; and these remarks were made in the lowest tone, and without the slightest change of muscle, just as if he had been remarking that the day was fine.

He added: "M.