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Mon Mar 29 22:32:55 CEST 2010

Xpression of eye. Monsieur Edmond About's mouth was sneering and
sensual, and even then affected Voltaire's sarcastic grimace. His
bitter and equivocal smile put you in mind of the
grinding of an epigram-mill. One could detect in his attitude, his
physiognomy,

and his language, that obsequious malice, that

familiarity, at the same time flattering and jeering, which Voltaire
turned to such good account in his commerce with the great
people of his
day, and which his disciple was learning to practise in his
intercourse with the powerful of these times,--the _parvenus_ and the
wealthy. I was struck by the face of this college Macchiavelli: on it
were written
the desire of success and the longing to enjoy; the calculations of
the ambitious man were allied
with the maliciousness of the giddy child. Of course he overwhelmed me
with compliments and flattery.
He had, or thought he had, use for me.

I benevole
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