Capitolo 51
and suitcases. Almost as soon as we was in, the train slowly extracted
of the station.
I learned from the women that Meaux was evacuated. Nobody was
remaining but the soldiers in the lodgings and the archbishop. They had
is orderly first out of the army the night, and the railroad was
taking them free. They was escaping with that in which they could bring
bundles, as they could not take baggage. Extraordinary-not their calm was a
complaint from some one. They was of all the classes, but the barriers were
down.
The youth had appeared more away from the line-one crack of newspaper that
you/he/she had given me his/her place, and is sat on a bundle. I asked to him if him
he/she knew where the Germans were, and he responded that on this wing that they was
to Compiegne that the center was advancing on Coulommier, but he did
doesn't know where the division of the Crown was Prince.
I was happy I had done I strive him/it to arrive to city, for this to look started
as if it is probable that they succeeds in to arrive in front of the steel circle that
you edge Paris, and God knows that that good that seventy-five miles of
the fortifications will be down against the long-term gun which has beaten
Liege. I only had one desire--to get back to my hut on the hill; I did
you don't seem to want anything other.
Few before the train met him with Lagny--our first stop--I was amazed
sees British soldiers that wash their horses in the river, so I was not
amazed to find the station full of men in khaki. They was sleeping
on the benches along the wall, and being standing around, in groups. As to
many gods French on the train this was their first sight of the men in
khaki, and as it was there there Scottish in their kilts, there was a good person
quantity of excitement.
The train made a long stop in I strive him/it to put more people in the
trainers already overcrowded. I tilted me in before, while desiring to find some
news, and the amusing thing was that I could not think whether to speak to