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| “The Kaiser was attired in his most magnificent costume, wearing the famous winged helmet on his head, and surrounded by a galaxy of ministers and great officers, all arrayed in the utmost military splendour.” | ||
| “A glance at the cheval glass showed me a stiff, well set-up Prussian official.” | 10 | |
| “‘I have sent for you, in two words, to find out for me the authorship of this telegram,’ the Kaiser said.” | 12 | |
| “‘My God!’ he cried out. ‘Who has done this? I shall be ruined!’” | 22 | |
| “‘We shall find out whether he is a priest,’ was the retort.” | 46 | |
| “She would talk about her convent.” | 48 | |
| “‘Father Kehler has been good enough to visit a poor sailor who is lying sick on board,’ he said, in a tone evidently meant to rebuke my impertinence.” | 50 | |
| “‘As to that—impossible!’ he exclaimed with vigour. ‘That is our secret—ours, you understand.’” | 62 | |
| “‘Am I under arrest too?’ Prince Pierre demanded with some indignation.” | 72 | |
| “The Tsar now interposed in a tone of more authority than I had ventured to hope for. ‘Do you suggest, M. V——, that the whole staff of the French army are engaged in a conspiracy to forge documents?’” | 88 | |
| “‘Your Majesty must judge me by what I have done already. Two days ago you had never heard my name. Now I am here, alone with you, with a loaded revolver in my pocket.’ The Sultan started violently.” | 98 | |
| “It was a singular scene, as I stood there laying down pile after pile of greasy ten-thousand-rouble notes on a richly inlaid table.” | 106 | |
| “There at my feet, along the widening valley, lay a double line of rails, and all across the level space stretched low banks and ditches—the lines of a vast encampment, capable of accommodating half a million men.” | 116 | |
| “I walked past him without a word.” | 126 | |
| “‘I am not under anybody’s orders,’ I said, rising to my feet.” | 130 | |
| “‘You are free,’ he said briefly. ‘The right man has been arrested, too late.’” | 144 | |
| “‘Let me see your warrant,’ I said.” | 158 | |
| “He bent forward to listen, and as he did so I launched my clenched fist at his right temple with my full force.” | 164 | |
| “I watched the brave monarch read it through from beginning to end without one manifestation of dismay.” | 168 | |
| “Finally he turned his back without a word, and rushed from the room.” | 176 | |
| “ Wilhelm II. strode to me, seized me by the shoulders, and thrust me out of the room.” | 188 | |
| “‘Will you permit me to ask you,’ he said politely, ‘if you have ever done any business on behalf of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary?’” | 192 | |
| “The Emperor could not repress a slight start.” | 198 | |
| “I rode right over him.” | 212 | |
| “I took out my loaded revolver, cocked it, and advanced to the threshold.” | 232 | |
| “Queen Draga cast herself on the inanimate form on the bed, concealed the face in her arms, and allowed herself to be stabbed by a dozen bayonets.” | 240 | |
| “‘V——!’ he exclaimed, drawing back as if he had been stung.” | 250 | |
| “‘Arrest that man!’ the Kaiser commanded, without giving him time to speak.” | 254 | |
| “‘Now,’ said the Kaiser, stepping close to my side, ‘tell me the truth—the real truth, mind—and I will spare your life.’” | 256 | |
| “‘I am going to ask you to undertake a service of an unusual kind.’” | 266 | |
| “My visitor started as she heard her name, and threw up her veil with a gesture of astonishment and indignation.” | 274 | |
| “I was stopped at the barricade by a pompous sergeant of police.” | 280 | |
| “The chief detective came close up to me, put his mouth to my ear, and whispered, ‘Le drapeau blanc!’” | 284 | |
| “I found the Cardinal absorbed in the inspection of his newly arrived treasures.” | 296 | |
| “Saddened and subdued, I quitted the audience chamber of Pius X.” | 306 | |
| “‘I can only render one more service to your Majesty, and that is to advise you to make your peace with the Black Pope.’” | 308 |
