The Marquis de Gemosac, himself always on the surface, had stirred others more deeply than he had anticipated or could now understand.

France has always been the victim of her own emotions; aroused in the first instance half in idleness, allowed to swell with a semi-restraining laugh, and then suddenly sweeping and overwhelming.

History tells of a hundred such crises in the pilgrimage of the French people.

A few more--and historians shall write "Ichabod" across the most favoured land in Europe.
It is customary to relate that, after a crisis, those most concerned in it know not how they faced it or what events succeeded it.

"He never knew," we are informed, "how he got through the rest of the evening." Loo Barebone knew and remembered every incident, every glance.