rllSITORS now begftn. to drop in
at the ho\ise''of the great re-
vohitionist, ■who, accompanied by
Jankowski and Ferrari,' went into his
. dramng-room to receive them. Some' weite
genuine rerohitiomsts, "nieB, -whoae sha^y
beards and ; untombed hjiir>'iirere in thettt-
selvee protests against the existing order
of society ; while others were ' merely men
without " a profession, without an income,
and with a 'talent for ' intrigiie,'' who liad
become revolntioniits;' as men 'of tfortuine and
position in Ehgland become legitiinate poli-
ticians. Most of these intriguers, ' whose
■one object in tevolntion was so to turn the



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108 THE governor's DAUGHTER,

world that they should be uppermost, were
also unkempt and unshorn, and were attired
in the height of the revolutionary fashion —
for the revolutionists have also their fashions
in dress, being in this and in many other
respects quite as conventional as those whose
conventions they despise.
Nearly all these political Bohemians car-
ried wide-awakes instead of hats ; doubtless
because it is impossible to put on or take oflF
a wide-awake without disarranging, that is
to say, Avithout giving a revolutionary ap-
pearance to, the hair.
One man who inveighed against the clergy
-of all creeds and countries, and who preached
himself every Thursday, was clean shaved
and attired like a priest.
A few scrupulously well-dressed men
seemed to be attempting the part of the
revolutionary nobles in France immediately
before 1789. They denied that the pro-
prietor had any right to his land, and
laughed at titles, though their own, sur-



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mounted by coronets, were engraved on
their visiting cards. They wished it to be
understood that they were not as other revo-
lutionists, and that they had, at least, some-
thing to lose.
