There is something terribly uncertain in this cause of yours, in your claims.

You have no right to waste lives." "To waste lives ?" he asked mechanically.
"Yes; the Government is to proceed against you." "Ah, yes," he answered.

"Monsieur De la Riviere has seen to that; but he must pay for his interference." "That is beside the point.

If a force comes against you--what then ?" "Then I will act as becomes a Napoleon," he answered, rather grandly.
So there was a touch of the bombastic in his manner even yet! She laughed a little ironically.

Then all at once her thoughts reverted to Elise, and some latent cruelty in her awoke.