"You must pinch it," she explained, "as hard as you can.

And if I don't even squeak you will know I am to be trusted." He took the finger thus heroically proffered, hesitated a second, then put it softly to his lips.

"I would trust you with my life," he said, "with my honour, with all that I possess.

Christine, I am an inventor, and I am at the edge of a great discovery--a discovery that will make the French artillery the greatest in the world." "Goodness!" said Chris, with a gasp; then in haste, "Not--not greater than ours surely!" He turned to her impetuously in the darkness, her hands caught into his.
"Ah, you say that because you are English! And the English--_il faut que les anglais soient toujours, toujours les premiers_--is it not so--always and in all things?
Yet consider! What is it--this national rivalry--this strife for the supremacy?
We laugh at it, you and I.We know what it is worth." But Chris was too young to laugh.

"I don't quite like it," she said.