"Subway" held up his hand for silence, and his manner suggested that he was about to utter some peculiarly important thought.
He waited until a pin fall could have been heard before he went on.
"Maitre corbeau sur un arbre perche--" he finished the speech as he was being carried bodily from the room by DeMille and Bragdon.

The Frenchmen then imagined that Smith's remarks had been insulting, and his friends had silenced him on that account.

A riot seemed imminent when Monty succeeded in restoring silence, and with a few tactful remarks about Franklin and Lafayette quieted the excited guests.
The evening ended with fireworks and a dance in the open air,--a dance that grew gay under the masks.

The wheels had been well oiled and there was no visible failure of the carnival spirit.

To Brewster it seemed a mad game, and he found it less easy to play a part behind the foolish mask than he expected.