Vulgar words in The Innocents Abroad — Volume 02 (Page 1)
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He did not mention that he was a lineal descendant of Balaam's ass, but everybody knew that without his telling it.
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Surrounded by shouting thousands, by military pomp, by the splendors of his capital city, and companioned by kings and princes-this is the man who was sneered at and reviled and called Bastard-yet who was dreaming of a crown and an empire all the while; who was driven into exile-but carried his dreams with him; who associated with the common herd in America and ran foot races for a wager-but still sat upon a throne in fancy; who braved every danger to go to his dying mother-and grieved that she could not be spared to see him cast aside his plebeian vestments for the purple of royalty; who kept his faithful watch and walked his weary beat a common policeman of London-but dreamed the while of a coming night when he should tread the long-drawn corridors of the Tuileries; who made the miserable fiasco of Strasbourg; saw his poor, shabby eagle, forgetful of its lesson, refuse to perch upon his shoulder; delivered his carefully prepared, sententious burst of eloquence upon unsympathetic ears; found himself a prisoner, the butt of small wits, a mark for the pitiless ridicule of all the world-yet went on dreaming of coronations and splendid pageants as before; who lay a forgotten captive in the dungeons of Ham-and still schemed and planned and pondered over future glory and future power; President of France at last!