Like many another American, he had thought often of those marshals of Napoleon who had risen from obscurity to such heights, and of them all, the republican and steadfast Lannes had been his favorite.

Her spirit was the same.

He found in it a like simplicity and courage.

They seldom talked of the war, but when they did she expressed unbounded faith in the final triumph of her nation and of those allied with it.
"I have read what the world was saying of France," she said one day when they stood together on the snowy slope.

"We hear, we girls, although we are mostly behind the walls.