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out all the cities through which the armies had passed. He told me one
or two that they touch and interesting histories. One was of the day first a
fights, I think that it was Saint-Quentin. The officers had been invited
you dine to a beautiful near castle that they had bivouacked. French
family could not do too much for the daughters of the house and they
expected on the table. Almost before the meal was ended the alerte
played, and the battle was on them. When they withdrew him from the house
where they had so beautifully been entertained first man few times,
there was not a stone that is standing on another and that of which it became the
family he didn't have idea.
Him anything else other than me memory was of the way the Germans they passed the river to
Saint-Quentin and forced the battle to her Fere on them. The bridge was
dug, and the captain was being standing close to attends him of engineer to give
the order to touch away the mine. It was a dirty night--a Sunday (only
last Sunday, think about that!)--and the rain was entering down streams.
Few before the Germans the bridge arrived him it ordered him blown on. The
engineer touched the button. The fuse didn't act. He was in desperation,
but the captain told him, "Firm on, my young fellow--gives her another
opportunity." The second effort failed as the first one. Then, of forehead to some one
you/he/she could stop him/it, the engineer constituted a hyphen the end of the bridge,
drawing his/her revolver as him raced, and it shot six hits in the mine,
knowing that, if he succeeded, he would climb with the bridge. Anybody good,
and he was literally dragged away the stain that he/she cries with anger to his
failure--and the Germans came through.
The whole duration that we was speaking me I had felt the cannonade in the
distance--now to the north and now in the east. This seemed a correct
moment, inhaled from the fact that he was talking war, of his really
initial, to put a question or two, so I risked him/it.
"That cannonading seems very nearer than him
him risked.