"I don't know that I shall be able.

It is my opinion that your part in the affair is only a curtain-raiser to graver things.

Every one of importance in town goes about with an air of expectancy.

I never saw anything like it.

It is the king, the archbishop and the chancellor against two hundred thousand.
You're a soldier; can't you smell powder ?" "Powder! You do not believe the duchess mad enough to wage war ?" "Trust a woman to do what no one dreams she will." "But Austria would be about her ears in a minute!" "Maybe.