For the People are like that.

It is rouge or noir--one never knows.

We only know that there is no third color, no compromise." Etta was listening now with ill-disguised interest.

At last he had given her something definite--a date.
"On Thursday," he went on, "the peasants will make a demonstration.

You know as well as I do--as well as Prince Pavlo does, despite his imperturbable face--that the whole country is a volcano which may break forth at any moment.