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clear and separate. But after three days of the activity, three days with
the soldiers around, it seemed, for the first one turned from when I came here,
solitary; and for the first time me understood that indeed I was stopped
from the world of out. All the bridges in front of me had gone, and
the great bridge behind me. Any communication possibly with the north, and
anybody with the south except from road on the hill to Lagny. Esbly
evacuated, Couilly evacuated, Quincy evacuated. All the shops closed.
Anybody government, any place-office, and completely any knowledge of that that had
happened since Wednesday. I had a horrible sense of isolation.
Fortunately for me, part of the morning was killed by what would have called
an accident or a disaster or a farce--in the moment in which you look at him. Before
all, immediately after the breakfast I had the test that I was right around the
The Germans. Well it evidently informed about the movements of the English them,
audaciously ridden in the open one. Fortunately they seemed aroused antipathy to do some
damage. The place perhaps seemed too much humble to be annoyed with.
They simply asked--one of them spoke French, and perhaps all of them
it did--where they was, and it was said, "Huiry, common of Quincy." Them
looks him/it on on their maps, it mentioned with the head and churches if the bridges on the
Marne had been destroyed to that I responded that I didn't do know,--me I had
not state down to the river. Half a truth and half a lie but the goodness
he/she knows that enough it was hard to have to be kind. They thanked me to Them
civilly enough and the hill rode, down as they could not pass the
barricade unless they had desired to give an exposure of "high school."
Everywhere they had been their you/they had not suffered. Their horses were well
animals and horses and men, were well groomed and in spring
condition.
The other event was distressing, but around that self I held my language.
Only after the Germans were here, I went down the road to call on mine new