Russia and England between them can pay an indemnity which will make Germany rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Form your party, Monsieur Guillot, spread your tidings in any way that seems fit to you, only until the hour comes, guard that document as you would your soul.

Its possession would mean death to you as it would to me." Monsieur Guillot took the document and buttoned it up in his inside pocket.
"Supposing I succeed," he said quietly, "what of your country then ?" "My country will make peace," Granet replied.
"It will be a peace that will cost us much, but nothing more than we deserve.

For generations the war has been the perfectly obvious and apparent sequence of European events.

It threw its warning shadow across our path for years, and our statesmen deliberately turned their heads the other way or walked blindfolded.