Are you moving ?" "That will appear." "When?
When, man?
That is what his Highness wants to know.

At present there is no appearance of anything." "No," Basterga replied with fine irony.

"There is not.

I know it.

It is only when the fireworks are discovered and the mines opened and the engineers are flying for their lives--that there is really an appearance of something." "And that is the answer I am to carry to the Grand Duke ?" d'Albigny retorted in a tone which betrayed how deeply he resented such taunts at the lips of his inferior.