Your anarchists are as timid and moderate as other Frenchmen.

The Russians have more audacity and more imagination." Countess Martin asked Paul Vence whether he knew a silent, timid-looking man among the guests.

Her husband had invited him.

She knew nothing of him, not even his name.

Paul Vence could only say that he was a senator.
He had seen him one day by chance in the Luxembourg, in the gallery that served as a library.
"I went there to look at the cupola, where Delacroix has painted, in a wood of bluish myrtles, heroes and sages of antiquity.