And with that the others burst forth into furious denunciations of the Republicans and talked of exterminating them on the frontiers so that Napoleon III, after having beaten the enemy, might reign peacefully amid universal enjoyment.
"That dirty Bismarck--there's another cad for you!" Maria Blond remarked.
"To think that I should have known him!" cried Simonne.

"If only I could have foreseen, I'm the one that would have put some poison in his glass." But Blanche, on whose heart the expulsion of her Prussian still weighed, ventured to defend Bismarck.

Perhaps he wasn't such a bad sort.

To every man his trade! "You know," she added, "he adores women." "What the hell has that got to do with us ?" said Clarisse.

"We don't want to cuddle him, eh ?" "There's always too many men of that sort!" declared Louise Violaine gravely.