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Do you really believe that there will be war?
Don't you think that it will all end in some kind of settlement ?" Desnoyers comforted her with his optimism.

He did not believe in the possibility of a war.

That was ridiculous.
"I say so, too! Ours is not the epoch of savages.

I have known some Germans, chic and well-educated persons who surely must think exactly as we do.