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And Bonaparte had smiled, and muttered under his moustache, "That is
only fair."
Another anecdote from Morny also amused him. This was Cavaignac's anger
on entering his cell at Mazas. There is an aperture at the door of each
cell, called the "spy-hole," through which the prisoners are played the
spy upon unknown to themselves. The jailers had watched Cavaignac. He had
begun by pacing up and down with folded arms, and then the space being
too confined, he had seated himself on the stool in his cell. These
stools are narrow pieces of plank upon three converging legs, which
pierce the seat in the centre, and project beyond the plank, so that one
is uncomfortably seated. Cavaignac had stood up, and with a violent kick
had sent the stool to the other end of the cell. Then, furious and
swearing, he had broken with a blow of his fist the little table of five
inches by twelve, which, with the stool, formed the sole furniture of the
dungeon.
This kick and fisticuff amused Louis Bonaparte.
"And Maupas is as frightened as ever," said Morny. This made Bonaparte
laugh still further.
Morny having given in his report, went away. Louis Bonaparte entered an
adjoining room; a woman awaited him there. It appears that she came to
entreat mercy for some one. Dr. Conneau heard these expressive words:
"
Madam, I wink at your loves; do you wink at my hatreds."
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