He is short like Napoleon, he has the same large and beautifully shaped head, and the same penetrating eyes that seem able to look you through and through.

Maybe it was a spark of genius in him that impressed me." "It may be so," said Lannes thoughtfully.

"It was said, and said truly that the First Republic meant the open career to all the talents, and the Third offers the same chance.

One never can tell where military genius is going to appear and God knows we need it now in whatever shape or form it may come.

Did you hear of the bomb ?" "I saw it fall.