The people first will shout with enthusiasm, as it always cheers that which carries it to perdition.

The upper classes have no faith in the future; they are keeping quiet, but the presentiment of disaster may easily be conjectured.

Yesterday I was talking with your father.

He is French, and he is rich.

He was indignant against the government of his country for involving the nation in the European conflict in order to defend a distant and uninteresting people.