He felt sure that while he stood behind a hedge he would never be seen on a dark night by men traveling in haste.

The automobiles came quickly into view and in those in front he saw elderly men in uniforms of high rank.

Nearly all the German generals seemed to him to be old men who for forty or fifty years had studied nothing but how to conquer, men too old and hardened to think much of the rights of others or ever to give way to generous emotions.
He also saw sitting erect in one of the motors the man for whom he had felt at first sight an invincible repulsion.

Prince Karl of Auersperg.
Young von Arnheim had represented the good prince to him, but here was the medieval type, the believer in divine right, and in his own superiority, decreed even before birth.

John noted in the moonlight his air of ownership, his insolent eyes and his heavy, arrogant face.