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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 12: Paris.—Society and the courts.—March to May, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
it is in Paris to detect thieves. He drew from his pocket a white, red, and blue sash, which he told me he always carried with him, and in any emergency put it on, when at once his person became sacred. He spoke with something approaching contempt of our laws; and said, Dans votre pays il n'y a pas de justice du tout: if he could have the making of the laws, he would make a law by which all thieves should be hung! Here the Journal ends. To Simon Greenleaf, Cambridge. Paris, April 13, 1838. my dear friend,—Your letter was a green leaf cast up by the ocean, —fresh, cheering, and full of goodly tokens. Would that I could take the wings of the morning,—or of the evening rather,—and cross for one day the depths of water that part me from Cambridge and Boston! One draught from the deep fountains of home would be better than all the rich sources which are open about me. And yet I have renounced the former willingly, ay, joyously for the time, and have found no occasion to