The _Noblesse_, and especially the _Noblesse of Auvergne_,
will always prefer men who will do their dirty work for them. You are
not made for that. They will therefore soon drop you, and the people, in
that case, will perhaps not take you up. Suppose a scission should take
place. The Priests and Nobles will secede, the nation will remain in
place, and, with the King, will do its own business. If violence should
be attempted, where will you be? You cannot then take side with the
people in opposition to your own vote, that very vote which will have
helped to produce the scission. Still less can you array yourself
against the people. That is impossible. Your instructions are indeed
a difficulty. But to state this at its worst, it is only a single
difficulty, which a single effort surmounts. Your instructions can never
embarrass you a second time, whereas an acquiescence under them will
re-produce greater difficulties every day, and without end. Besides, a
thousand circumstances offer as many justifications of your departure
from your instructions. Will it be impossible to persuade all parties,
that (as for good legislation two Houses are necessary) the placing
the privileged classes together in one House, and the unprivileged in
another, would be better for both than a scission? I own I think it
would.
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