"We were at the play last night." "Ah!" he murmured politely.

"And was Talma in veine ?" "More brilliant than ever," answered she.
"He is a great actor, Citoyenne." A shade of annoyance crossed her face.
"Why do you always address me as Citoyenne ?" she asked, with some testiness.
He turned at last and looked at her a moment.
"We live in a censorious world, Citoyenne," he answered gravely.
She tossed her head with an exclamation of impatience.
"We live in a free world, Citizen.

Freedom is our motto.

Is it for nothing that we are Republicans ?" "Freedom of action begets freedom of words," said he, "and freedom of words leads to freedom of criticism--and that is a thing to which no wise woman will expose herself, no matter under what regime we live.
You would be well-advised, Citoyenne, in thinking of that when you come here." "But you never come to us, Caron," she returned, in a voice of mild complaint.

"You have not been once to Duplay's since your return from Belgium.