And in any case the profession of arms is done for.

All faith in it is dying out, and it will soon be forsaken, just as men have begun to forsake the priesthood." Thereupon he made a gesture of mingled grief and anger, almost cursing that parliament, that Republican legislature before him, as if he considered it responsible for the future extinction of warfare.

But little Massot was wagging his head dubiously, for he regarded the subject as rather too serious a one for him to write upon.

And, all at once, in order to turn the conversation into another channel, he exclaimed: "Ah! there's Monseigneur Martha in the diplomatic gallery beside the Spanish Ambassador.

It's denied, you know, that he intends to come forward as a candidate in Morbihan.