made them conscious of the stiff dead body lying stretched close by

them, the cries of the mob burst forth:

"A BERLIN! A BERLIN! A BERLIN!"

But soon they forgot. Lea de Horn, who had a political salon where

former ministers of Louis Philippe were wont to indulge in delicate

epigrams, shrugged her shoulders and continued the conversation in a

"What a mistake this war is! What a bloodthirsty piece of

At this Lucy forthwith took up the cudgels for the empire. She had