approach, the real obstacle to full expression. But the moments were
and the use of the plural pronoun shocked his free individualism
Around a table in a Rotterdam hotel one met some generals who
an officer. "We wash decks only twice a week instead of every day.
After dark, in a drizzling rain, we came to what seemed to be a town,
adverse circumstances, Madame de Treymes would be likely to occupy
added, "that I defend my brother. Fanny must have told you that we
Apart from the regulars she had the Territorials, who are much the
are--those in the path of the German army's advance. Two-thirds of
A man who came out of the gloom said that there was a hospital kept
amazement; but with her hands in his, and, a moment after, her whole
army out of the raw is like building a factory to be manned by expert
Aeroplanes interested them less than a trotting dog in a wheel for
And silence, only silence in Paris; the silence of the old men and the
a certain church tower. Publication of the account was followed by a
adding, as he drew their chairs under a tree: "You permit me, then,
and men of forty with some money put by, will, in turn, understand
A former British officer who had become a well-known military critic, in