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 abominable designs, at any rate don't dare to tell us of them."

Many articles on the celebrations actually contain a direct and naive expression of pleasure that during the celebrations nobody expressed what, tacitu consensu, it had been resolved to conceal from all, and that only one incautious individual (immediately removed by the police) shouted what all were thinking: "À bas l'Allemagne!" In the same way children are sometimes so delighted at having concealed their mischief that their very delight betrays them.

Why be so delighted that no one has said anything about war if we really are not thinking of it?