And I cannot forget that Marie Antoinette was at bay: all her senses, all her wit alert.

She can only have thought of her children.

Human nature would dictate such thoughts.

One cannot forget that she had devoted friends, and that these friends possessed unlimited money.

Do you think, Marquis, that any one man of that rabble was above the reach--of money ?" And Mr.Dormer Colville's reflective smile, as he gazed at the distant sea, would seem to indicate that, after a considerable experience of men and women, he had reluctantly arrived at a certain conclusion respecting them.
"No man born of woman, Marquis, is proof against bribery or flattery--or both." "One can believe anything that is bad of such dregs of human-kind, my friend," said Monsieur de Gemosac, contemptuously.
"I speak to one," continued Colville, "who has given the attention of a lifetime to the subject.