_Ca
n'existe plus_. Your Gladstone explained the phenomenon correctly: Austria
has never done good to the world."
I gathered that the Metlaoui phosphate company had modelled its principles
on those of the "Anglo-Saxon." There is little "pestilential State
interference" in its management; the board of directors takes all it can
get, and asks for more. It is a paying concern, and consequently the
shareholders admire it unreservedly--in the rest of mankind, this feeling
is tinctured with a strong dose of envy.
_Chapter VIII_
_POST-PRANDIAL MEDITATIONS_
One dines early in Gafsa, and afterwards there is nothing, absolutely
nothing, to do. Cafes become tedious with their card-games, cowboy
politics and persistent allusions to "la femme," that protean fetich which
dominates and saturates the Gallic mind, oozing out, so to speak, at every
pore of their social and national life. They never seem to grow out of the
_Ewig-weibliche_ stage. If only, like the Maltese, they would talk less
and do more in certain respects, the "comite du peuplement" might close
its doors.
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