But my sympathies are wholly with France.

I fight in her ranks from choice." Auersperg laughed unpleasantly.
"A republic!" he said.

"Millions of the ignorant, led by demagogues! Bah! The Hohenzollerns will scatter them like chaff!" "I can't positively say that I saw any Hohenzollern, but I did see their armies turned back from Paris by those ignorant people, led by their demagogues.

I'm not even sure of the name of the French general who did it, but God gave him a better brain for war, though he may have been born a peasant for all I know, than he did to your Kaiser, or any king, prince, grand duke or duke in all the German armies!" John had been tried beyond endurance and he knew that he had spoken with impulsive passion, but he knew also that he had spoken with truth.

The face of Auersperg darkened.