When can she be here ?" "It is just possible that she may be with us to-morrow at this time--by driving rapidly to Toulon." "With promptitude," muttered the Vicomte, musingly.
"Yes--such as one may expect from Madame." The Vicomte looked up at me with a smile.
"Ah!--you have discovered that.

One is never safe with you men who know horses.

You find out so much from observation." But I think it is no great thing to have discovered that one may usually look for prompt action in men and women of a quiet tongue.
Lucille's name was not mentioned between us.

My own desires and feelings had been pushed into the background by the events of the last few days, and he is but half a man who cannot submit cheerfully to such treatment at the hand of Fate from time to time.
During the day we learnt further details respecting the theft of the money, amounting in all to rather more than eight hundred thousand pounds of our coinage.

Miste, it appeared, had been instructed to leave Paris by the eight o'clock train that morning for London, taking with him a large sum.