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Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.

On what is a make-or-break day for the Ulster peace talks, all the British broadsheets led with stories of British government optimism for a last minute settlement, despite the Ulster Unionists' firm rejection of the draft agreement submitted by Mitchell, the former U.

" The British broadsheets strove for originality in their front-page headlines.

Only the British and German broadsheets stuck loyally with the nightmare in the Balkans, but the angles were all different.

So it never really wanted a ground invasion--just a credible threat of one! The Times , which had been just as eager as the other broadsheets to send in the troops, sought to preserve its dignity by avoiding the issue altogether.

When Pierre returned home he was handed two of Rostopchin's broadsheets that had been brought that day.


"Oh, that count of yours!" said the princess malevolently.


"He is a hypocrite, a rascal who has himself roused the people to riot.


Didn't he write in those idiotic broadsheets that anyone, 'whoever it might be, should be dragged to the lockup by his hair'? (How silly!) 'And honor and glory to whoever captures him,' he says.


This is what his cajolery has brought us to! Barbara Ivanovna told me the mob near killed her because she said something in French.


" "It is disgraceful to run away from danger; only cowards are running away from Moscow," they were told.


In his broadsheets Rostopchin impressed on them that to leave Moscow was shameful.


They were ashamed to be called cowards, ashamed to leave, but still they left, knowing it had to be done.


Why did they go? It is impossible to suppose that Rostopchin had scared them by his accounts of horrors Napoleon had committed in conquered countries.


The first people to go away were the rich educated people who knew quite well that Vienna and Berlin had remained intact and that during Napoleon's occupation the inhabitants had spent their time pleasantly in the company of the charming Frenchmen whom the Russians, and especially the Russian ladies, then liked so much.


Neither in Moscow nor anywhere in Russia did anything resembling an insurrection ever occur when the enemy entered a town.


More than ten thousand people were still in Moscow on the first and second of September, and except for a mob in the governor's courtyard, assembled there at his bidding, nothing happened.


It is obvious that there would have been even less reason to expect a disturbance among the people if after the battle of Borodino, when the surrender of Moscow became certain or at least probable, Rostopchin instead of exciting the people by distributing arms and broadsheets had taken steps to remove all the holy relics, the gunpowder, munitions, and money, and had told the population plainly that the town would be abandoned.


Rostopchin, though he had patriotic sentiments, was a sanguine and impulsive man who had always moved in the highest administrative circles and had no understanding at all of the people he supposed himself to be guiding.


Ever since the enemy's entry into Smolensk he had in imagination been playing the role of director of the popular feeling of "the heart of Russia.


" Not only did it seem to him (as to all administrators) that he controlled the external actions of Moscow's inhabitants, but he also thought he controlled their mental attitude by means of his broadsheets and posters, written in a coarse tone which the people despise in their own class and do not understand from those in authority.


Rostopchin was so pleased with the fine role of leader of popular feeling, and had grown so used to it, that the necessity of relinquishing that role and abandoning Moscow without any heroic display took him unawares and he suddenly felt the ground slip away from under his feet, so that he positively did not know what to do.


Though he knew it was coming, he did not till the last moment wholeheartedly believe that Moscow would be abandoned, and did not prepare for it.


The inhabitants left against his wishes.


If the government offices were removed, this was only done on the demand of officials to whom the count yielded reluctantly.


He was absorbed in the role he had created for himself.


As is often the case with those gifted with an ardent imagination, though he had long known that Moscow w
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