To-day the ambitious Nathan,rich in ink and poor in will,has ended by capitulating entirely,and has settled down into a sinecure,like any other commonplace man.After lending his pen to all disorganizing efforts,he now lives in peace under the protecting shade of a ministerial organ.The cross of the Legion of honor,formerly the fruitful text of his satire,adorns his button-hole."Peace at any price,"ridicule of which was the stock-in-trade of his revolutionary editorship,is now the topic of his laudatory articles.Heredity,attacked by him in Saint-Simonian phrases,he now defends with solid arguments.This illogical conduct has its origin and its explanation in the change of front performed by many men besides Raoul during our recent political evolutions.
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