A Spaniard ?" "Do you find me so devout a Catholic that you think so ?" She laughed.

"A Greek, then ?" "Still worse.

Have you seen me cheat at cards ?" "An Austrian?
You waltz like a White Coat!" He shook his head.
She stamped her little foot into the ground--a foot fit for a model, with its shapely military boot; spurred, too, for Cigarette rode like a circus-rider.
"Say what you are, then, at once." "A soldier of France.

Can you wish me more ?" For the first time her eyes flashed and softened--her one love was the tricolor.
"True!" she said simply.

"But you were not always a soldier of France?
You joined, they say, twelve years ago.