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MADAME DE STAËL.
and opinion in favor of the government, laws and legitimate authorities." A similar circular is published by General Almonte.
Having arrived at this satisfactory conclusion, which must be as agreeable to you as it is to us, I shall close this long letter, merely observing, in apology, that as Madame de Staël said, in answer to the remark, that "Women have nothing to do with politics;"—"That may be, but when a woman's head is about to be cut off, it is natural she should ask why?" so it appears to me, that when bullets are whizzing about our ears, and shells falling within a few yards of us, it ought to be considered extremely natural and quite feminine to inquire into the cause of such phenomena.
