"All is lost!" he exclaimed one morning. "The King has certainly neverbeen other than a revolutionary. But for Monsieur, who neverderogates, and is some comfort to his faithful adherents, I do notknow what hands the crown of France might not fall into if things areto go on like this. Their cursed constitutional system is the worstpossible government, and can never suit France. Louis XVIII. andMonsieur Beugnot spoiled everything at Saint 0uen."