As to the pheasants, they could have waited.

Perhaps my fears are without foundation, unless you have been the unconscious cause of my true name being known.

Every one has heard the story.

It is known as 'Fitzgerald's folly,' and has gone the rounds of the diplomatic circles for ten years.

I shall ask for an audience to-morrow morning." "And these certificates fall due the same day that the princess is to be married," mused his auditor.