"In due course it will be the storm center of the world." "You read the wrong American newspapers," laughed Armitage.
They were silent for a moment, in which each was busy with his own thoughts; then the count remarked, in as amiable a tone as he ever used: "Your French is first rate.

Do you speak English as well ?" "As readily as German, I think.

You may recall that I had an English tutor, and maybe I did not tell you in that interview at Paris that I had spent a year at Harvard University." "What the devil did you do that for ?" growled Von Stroebel.
"From curiosity, or ambition, as you like.

I was in Cambridge at the law school for a year before the Archduke died.

That was three years ago.