Will you see my hand ?" "Mademoiselle and I," answered Bellamy, "are at least ready to listen to anything you may have to say." "You know quite well," the Baron continued, "what it is that I have come to say, yet I want you to remember this.

I do not come to bribe you in any ordinary manner.

The things which are to come will happen; they must happen, if not this year, next,--if not next year, within half a decade of years.

History is an absolute science.

The future as well as the past can be read by those who know the signs.
The thing which has been resolved upon is certain.