but ...
it's the _people_ who are doing all this." Upon receiving in Teneriffe the news of war, he summed up all his doctrines with the terseness of a victor.
"In Europe there are too many kings....

If all the nations could be republics!...

This calamity just had to come!" And this time Ferragut did not venture to ridicule the single-mindedness of his second.
All the people of the _Mare Nostrum_ showed great enthusiasm over the new business aspect of things.

The seamen who in former voyages were taciturn, as though foreseeing the ruin or exhaustion of their captain, were now working as eagerly as though they were going to participate in the profits.
In the forward mess room many of them set themselves to work on commercial calculations.

The first trip of the war would be equal to ten of their former ones; the second, perhaps, might bring in the profit of twenty.