Capitolo 47
Oh, the things I have seen and I have felt from when I last he/she wrote to you more than two
weeks ago. Here I am stopped again by the world, and you/he/she have been since then
the first one of the month. For a week I have not now known anything of that that was
following out in the world some limits of mine own vision. For that
you care him, since the Germans crossed the frontier our news of the war they have
is thin. We found the calm, continuous reiteration--her "left--it held from
the English--convict to retire himself/herself/themselves a small." All the same, the general
impression was, that despite that, "all were well." I suppose that it was
wise.
Domenica that was August 30,--Amelie walked to Esbly, and it came
back with the news that they was dressing again wicker trains full of wounded
soldiers and Belgian refugies I cross toward Paris, and that the
ambulance there was rather insufficient for the job it owed to whether to do. Then
Monday and Tuesday we drove down in the cart of donkey to bring bread and
fruit, water and cigarettes and "to lend a hand."
It was an enough terrible sight. There was long he/she trains of wounded
soldiers. There was train after train crowded with Belgians--it well-dressed
women and children (evidently all in their Sunday best)--packaged above to
open trucks, sitting on straw, in the sun that burns, without refuge,
covered with dust, hungry and thirsty. The sight put me to doing
of thinking very hard after I found to house that first night. But it was
not up to the afternoon of Tuesday that I found my first suggestion of the truth. That
afternoon, while I was being standing on the base, I felt a drum strike in
the road, and he/she sent Amelie to see that on which was going. You returned
immediately to say that it was the garde champetre that calls on the
inhabitants to bring all of their guns, revolvers, etc. to the mairie
in front of sunset. That intended the disarming one of our departement and it
flashed through my mind that the Germans have to be nearer than the
you announce official you/they had told us.