But the situation was not one for joking, and he continued talking in the hope of convincing him.
He had always loved liberty and been on the side opposed to despotism!...

England was the great tyrant of the sea; she had provoked the war in order to strengthen her jurisdiction and if she should achieve the victory, her haughtiness would have no limit.

Poor Germany had done nothing more than defend herself....

Ferragut repeated all that he had heard in the doctor's home, winding up in a tone of reproach: "And are you on the side of the English, Toni?
You, a man of advanced ideas ?..." The pilot scratched his beard with an expression of perplexity, searching for the elusive words.

He knew what he ought to say.