" * *"Marlborough is going to the wars; God knows when he'll return.

" His son only smiled.

"I don't say it's a plan I approve of," said the son; "I am only telling you what it is.

Napoleon has also formed his plan by now, not worse than this one.

" "Well, you've told me nothing new," and the old man repeated, meditatively and rapidly: "Dieu sait quand reviendra.