If the spirit of her sons is the same now as it was in the days of which our fathers have told us, I think that she will not quietly accept repulse." Corinne's eyes flashed; she seemed to take a strange sort of pride in anticipations such as these.
"I like that spirit," she cried; "it has not been the spirit of France.

She has boasted, boasted, boasted of all the wonders she was to perform, and yet she has never made good her hold in the south.

Now the tide seems to have turned here in the north; and though men speak brave words of defiance, their hearts are failing them for fear.

And have they not reason to fear--they who have done so ignobly ?" "Do you remember what you told us when we met in the forest long ago ?" asked Fritz.

"Do you remember the name you spoke--the name of Pitt--and told us that when that man's hand was on the helm of England's statecraft the turn of the tide would come?
And so we waited for news from home, and at last we heard the name of Pitt.
And, behold, since then the tide has turned indeed.