Capitolo 37
under in the cemetery with 'Godot, Georges: Dead for the country '; and
when my boys grow them you/they can tell their comrades, 'his/her Dad, you know, him
died on the battleground.' It will be a kind of distinction that I am not
probably to earn for them some other way"; and street he went. Rather the fine
for a man of that class.
Also the women don't make to whine. As for his/her/their children--also when you are able
you think that they was old enough to understand the meaning of these
divisions that they doesn't manufacture signal, although they seems to understand the whole rest
of him well enough. There is not a boy of eight in our commune that is not able
tell him as everything needed, and that it is not just now full of histories
of 1870, what he has talked to grandmother and grandfather, for, as it is
natural, every time speaks of 1870. I have lived among these people,
them beloved and he/she believed in them, also when their politics troubled me,
but I confess that you/they have given me for them a surprise.
IX
August 17 th 1914.
I have Belgium on my soul. Small brave country that has given new
test of his/her courage and the nobility, and surprised the world with a rule
who a man as the king it is. It happens never to me to-day
in that that a marvelous epoch that we have lived. I cannot simply speak of him.
Anxiety is so great. I spoke this morning to an officer that the
The troops of English are disembarking, although he tells me that to their London they don't do
he/she still knows that the Consignment has started. If that is true, it is
marvelous. Not a word in the papers anchor, but Your press is not censored
as ours is. I imagine you he/she knows these things to New York before we do,
even if we am regularly getting now a newspaper from Meaux. But there
it is not never anything illuminating in him. The attitude of the world to the
He/she asks Belgian it is a hit to me. I confess to be me expected more
active indignation to such outrage.
Everything is very calm here. Ours small commune sent two hundred men