Capitolo 32
bringing the short cut to the station that conducts on the hill, right from
my gate, to Couilly. You/he/she is thrilling so that I am me
forgetting that it is tragic. It is so different from anything me never
seen before. Here is a nation--what two weeks ago you/he/she was lacerated from political
dissent--suddenly united, and with a spirit that I have never seen
before.
I am old enough to remember well the days of our Civil War, when
regiments of volunteers, with flags volatrici and ribbons of music marched
through our roads in Boston, on the way to the forehead. Insane of
be-to-houses, insane of women and children flanked the sidewalks,
shouting deliriously, and undulant handkerchiefs, inhaled the to march
soldiers, with guns on their shoulders and the efforts of martial
music, various with the then popular "You girl that I have left behind me", or,
"When this cruel war is ended." But this is rather different. There is
any soldiers that march, any flags volatrici, any ribbons of music. It is the
rising on a Nation as a man--all the classes take on the shoulders to take on the shoulders, with
but the one idea--"you Lift on Your hearts, and France lives and long." I am rather sorry for
those that you/they have not seen him.
Since the day when war was declared, and when the Chamber of
Deputies--every party feeling forgotten--it was standing on his/her feet and he/she listened to
The furbished discourse, extraordinary of Paul Deschanel, even here in this small
common whose silence is only broken from the grumbling of the trains
passing, in sight of my garden, on the way to the frontier and the
footsteps of the groups on the way to the train, I have seen sights that
you/he/she has transported me as nothing in front of which I have ever met in the life you/he/she has done. Day
after day I have looked at the men and their families silently pass, and
one hour later you/he/she has seen the women returned additional line spacing his/her children. One
day that I have gone to Couilly to see if it were still possible for me to arrive