All the systems had their share in it, softened by the certainty of easy triumph, a universal kiss which would bring to an end all class misunderstandings; without taking count, however, of the thick-heads among the masters and bourgeois whom it would perhaps be necessary to bring to reason by force.
Tous les systemes y passaient, adoucis d'une certitude de triomphe facile, d'un baiser universel qui terminerait le malentendu des classes; sans tenir compte pourtant des mauvaises tetes, parmi les patrons et les bourgeois, qu'on serait peut-etre forcé de mettre a la raison.