If proof was wanted of this, added Janzen, it could be found in the fact that the police had allowed Bergaz to escape.
"I fancied that the newspapers might have exaggerated matters," said Guillaume, when the Princess had finished her story.

"They are inventing such abominable things just now, in order to blacken the case of that poor devil Salvat." "Oh! they've exaggerated nothing!" Rosemonde gaily rejoined.

"As a matter of fact they have omitted a number of particulars which were too filthy for publication....

For my part, I've merely had to go to an hotel.
I'm very comfortable there; I was beginning to feel bored in that house of mine....

All the same, however, Anarchism is hardly a clean business, and I no longer like to say that I have any connection with it." She again laughed, and then passed to another subject, asking Guillaume to tell her of his most recent researches, in order, no doubt, that she might show she knew enough chemistry to understand him.