It would be a war for markets; for spheres of commercial influence; a sordid war that would degrade the people.

War, the supreme test of a nation's worth, must be reserved for great ideals.

Besides, she wanted to down Carleton.
One of the women on her list, and the one to whom Mrs.Denton appeared to attach chief importance, a Madame de Barante, disappointed Joan.

She seemed to have so few opinions of her own.

She had buried her young husband during the Franco-Prussian war.