Do you think the Prince of Auersperg would be honoring me ?" "I'm not a judge to make decisions.

I'm merely stating the facts on either side." "But suppose I should meet this simple and obscure republican and, through some singular chance, should happen to love him, would it not be better for my pride and more promising for my happiness to marry him on terms of full equality rather than to marry Prince Karl of Auersperg, a man old enough to be my father, and yet remain all my life his inferior?
As we understand it in France and as you understand it in America, republicanism means equality, does it not, sir ?" "If it doesn't mean that it means nothing." "Then, sir, being what I am, you may be sure that I shall not stay here to await Prince Karl of Auersperg, and his unsought honors." "You are the judge, Julie, after all, and I believed it was the decision you would make.

Yet, it was only fair to lay the full facts before you." John knew that the attempt to escape southward through the mountains would be attended by great danger, not only from the Austrians, but from the risks of the road itself, when the great automobile, slipping on melting snow and ice, might go crashing at any moment into a gorge.
Yet it must be done.

Another day brought home the extreme necessity of it.

All the mountains thundered with the sliding snow, and the prince's men would certainly come soon.
The garage contained an ample supply of gasoline and extra tires, and John saw that the machine was in perfect order.