Quarrels between soldiers are family quarrels, which never blot out the relationship.
Calmly satisfied that he was not alone in the world, M.Fougas derived pleasure from all the new objects which civilization placed before his eyes.

The speed of the rail-cars fairly intoxicated him.

He was inspired with a positive enthusiasm for this force of steam, whose theory was a closed book to him, but on whose results he meditated much.
"With a thousand machines like this, two thousand rifled cannon, and two hundred thousand such chaps as I am, Napoleon would have conquered the world in six weeks.

Why doesn't this young fellow on the throne make some use of the resources he has under his control?
Perhaps he hasn't thought of it.

Very well, I'll go to see him.