The president is a man to retire before our legitimate masters." The marquis, who had retained his aristocratic coolness, was the only one who greeted these words with a smile.

The others, in the enthusiasm of the moment, concerned themselves very little about what might follow.
All their opinions foundered.

Roudier, forgetting the esteem which as a former shopkeeper he had entertained for the Orleanists, stopped Pierre rather abruptly.

And everybody exclaimed: "Don't argue the matter.

Let us think of preserving order." These good people were terribly afraid of the Republicans.