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what--yes! I have a family of friends to Voulangis, approximately two miles the
other side of Crecy-en-Brie. Neighbors don't clearly see each other
in the country as often as in the city, but there they is; then I hasten me
to assuage just now Your mind, when there is a threat of war, and I am
tightly sitting on my top of hill on the road to the frontier.
YOU
August 2 nd 1914.
Well, dear, what evidently seemed impossible is coming to pass.
Soon yesterday morning the garde champetre--in who the only thing is
the way of a police officer that we have--it marched on the road that strikes his
drum. To every intersection he stopped him and he/she read an order. I felt him/it to
the foot of the hill, but I waited for him to pass. To the top of the
reduces to a hillock he stopped to glue an account on the door of the carriage-house on
You protect the farm of Abelard. You can imagine me,--in my apron of long study, with
my head tied in a muslin cap,--in march the hill to connect the group
of poor women of the small village, to read the proclamation to the armies of
earth and sea--the order for the mobilization of French military and
naval strengths--it led from his/her French flags and you cross. It was the first one
you experiment in my life of a thing as that. I was down a cold cold my
backbone as me understood that it was not so easy as me I had thought to separate
me from the Life. We was standing there together--a little group of women--and
silently read him/it through--this command for the increase on a Nation.
Any need for the men to read him/it. Each with his/her military papers in his
pocket knew the moment he felt the drum what wanted to say, and he/she knew equally
well his/her place. I was a foreigner among them, but I forgot that, and if
some of theirs remembered that they didn't do signal. We didn't say a word to one
another. I silently returned to my garden and I took a seat me. Wage war again!
This closing of war of time from--not war around what you/he/she can read, as a law
it in the newspapers, as you will read him/it in States, far street from