Probably your balloon is to burst in due time, and, wind permitting, disperse printed papers all over the city ?" "What if it is ?" cried Carlo fiercely.
"Exactly.

I have divined your idea.

You have thought, or, to correct the tense, are thinking, which is more hopeful, though it may chance not to seem so meritorious.

But, if yours are the ideas of full-blown jackets, bear in mind that our enemies are coated and breeched.

It may be creditable to you that your cunning is not the cunning of the serpent; to us it would be more valuable if it were.