Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

"They're worse than animals," replied Monsieur Sauvage. And Morissot, who had just caught a bleak, declared: "And to think that it will be just the same so long as there are governments!" "The Republic would not have declared war," interposed Monsieur Sauvage. Morissot interrupted him: "Under a king we have foreign wars; under a republic we have civil war." And the two began placidly discussing political problems with the sound common sense of peaceful, matter-of-fact citizens—agreeing on one point: that they would never be free.