Capitolo 42
of their minds.
I found Paris I calm, and every one calm--that is to say, every one but
the foreigners, fighting as people in a panic to escape. In spite
of the sad news--Brussels spent Thursday, Namur fallen Monday--there
it is not any signal of discouragement and any signal of defeat. If it were for
the excitement around the offices of steamboat almost the city would be as
he/she anchors as died. But all the foreigners, taken here by the
unexpectedness of the war, seemed you/they were fighting for getting away from the same
train and the same day to take the first ship, and they seemed to have
small realization that, before everybody, France has to transport his/her troops and
material of war. I felt it said--you/he/she cannot be true--that some of the
officers to console they were to blame for this, and that there was a gossip
to the foreign countries among foreigners that Paris was sure to be invested, and that
foreigners had been advised to go out, so that as little should be us
people in the fortifications as possible. However, this gossip was
common only among foreigners. Any French people that I have seen seemed
has some so sensitive. Separately from the excitement in which prevailed the
neighborhood of the offices of steamboat and banks the city had an abandoned
glance. The Paris that you knew exists more. Comparative with him this
Paris is a dead city. Almost every shop is closed, and it has to be up to that the
the great number of men gone to the forehead can be replaced somehow.
There are roads in that every anterior and closed bears, under a flag of paper
glued on tax or hands, a motto of signal "Closed on account of the
mobilization"; or, "All the men with the colors."
They are not almost there men in the roads. There are no kisses or
tram lines, and taxi and automobiles are rare. Of the branches of the
subsoil is working to the certain hours, and the irregular service owes
continuous up to that women, and men disable for military service, replaces the
men so he/she suddenly called to the flag, and that will take time, especially