"Just wait till it gets here," murmured some woman.
THE COURTYARD LEADING TO MADAME HUARD'S CELLAR
"It'll come, it's bound to come some time," he cried, evidently pursuing a favourite theme. "And we'll like it all the better for having waited so long."
Monsieur Laurent has firm faith in the immediate business future.
"Voilà! all we've got to do is to lay Germany out flat. Even then the economical struggle that will follow the war will be terrible," he prophesies. "The French must come to the fore with all the resources of their national genius. As to myself, I have my own idea on the subject."
We were fairly drinking in his words.
"You've all doubtless seen the sign that I put up in my window?"
We acquiesced.