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10967Why not?
20636The English claim it all on one side of the river, and the French on the other: where does the Indian''s land lie?"
20636[ Footnote 48: M''Mahon?]
13665Some one''s out of luck,said I to the driver;"whose roll is it?"
13665He''s at Moascar, is n''t he?"
13665I remember well when I inquired at the Australian headquarters in Cairo how the man I asked turned to a comrade and said:"Say, where''s''Banjo''now?
13665Who goes there?"
1067What appointment?
1067Can Grant supply himself from the Mississippi?
1067Often"Johnny"would call:"Well, Yank, when are you coming into town?"
1067The next was,"What are WE to do?"
1067When he did speak it was to ask:"Grant, how many wolves do you think there are in that pack?"
1067Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command?
1067will you work?
15896How far off the top of that hill does that shell go?
15896After these two had finished, Captain Jefferies went over to the man and said,"Would you like a drink of water?"
15896Australian say''Where the hell did that come from?''"
15896He was a bright, chubby, sunny- faced little chap, and with a smile said:"Is n''t it beautiful, sir?
15896I asked"What did you do?"
15896One of the officers, who apparently was unacquainted with the Australian vocabulary, said:"What was that you said, my man?"
15896The men were all in great spirits, laughing and chaffing and giving the usual"Are we down''earted?".
15896said Captain Dawson,"There''s a war on-- didn''t you hear about it?"
15896said the man,"what''s up?"
16056;''Ow are yer goin'', son?
16056A Cockney member of our company, after catching a particularly active jumper, called out:"Now then, you blighter, where is your respirator?"
16056Between men of the incoming and outgoing battalions such casual greetings were exchanged as:"Wot''s it like up here, matie?
16056He jumped about in his big boots, exclaiming:"Vat your vife say if she see you in ze water?
16056Is it too late to tell again the story of the origin of"The Marseillaise"?
16056Shortly after this, de Lisle received a letter from his mother, the Baroness, dated from her chateau, saying,"What is this dreadful song we hear?"
16056These cottages were inhabited, and the terrified people made us welcome indeed-- had not we come to protect them from the Germans?
16056Vat she say if she see you ici?"
16056What did we find?
1068Well,said he,"did n''t you think it was the biggest shuck and the littlest ear that ever you did see?"
1068Well,said he,"did you see him take it off?"
1068Where?
1068Halleck was present and spoke up, saying:"How would Sheridan do?"
1068MAJOR- GENERAL THOMAS, Nashville, Tenn. Is there not danger of Forrest moving down the Cumberland to where he can cross it?
1068Should his request be granted, who would you like as his successor?
1068Why not attack at once?
19521I''ve lost my cap("ton chapeau?")
19521At 10- 45 five officers came to see me-- I was where?
19521Did you receive my letters asking May to get me gramophone catalogues of Decca and Master''s Voice gramophones as soon as possible?
19521Does anyone else see my letters?
19521How long was it?
19521My darling Mother,-- Do you send any of my letters on to Winnie?
19521Then I asked him"Avez- vous de l''eau a boire?"
19521To- day we went up to the trenches and worked hard(?)
19521We went into----( do you know where now?)
19521Who was it sent all the chocolates?
19521or anybody?
11679This war can not last always, little one, and when it is over we will buy a pig and a cow and we will go to the cure, wo n''t we, beloved?
11679What was wrong?
11679( Where do you come from?)
11679France draws around her her tattered and bloodstained robe, yet what matters the outer raiment?
11679General Petain appeared slightly surprised, and turning to me asked:"Do you thoroughly realise the danger?
11679I am safe here, but there is no cellar to our house, and oh, what will happen to the little mother?"
11679I wonder if you would be permitted to visit them?"
11679If all the Mothers, Wives and Sweethearts thought as you, what would happen to the country?
11679One asked the other,''Do you know how this War started, Milan?
11679One morning she sent for him and asked him:"Herr Karl, can you tell me what was wrong with my bath water this morning?"
11679Which is your boy''s number?
15802Why this sudden appearance?
15802( Need I add that after events showed there had been gross exaggeration?)
15802Besides, were there not always refrigerators and condensing machinery?
15802But how to picture vividly the scene before Riet that day?
15802Did one Teuton in the place have to suffer as a consequence even the insult of a word?
15802How much looting occurred in these towns?
15802The Swakop River?
15802Was a single defenceless citizen of Windhuk or Karibib the worse for it after the occupation?
15802Was there water there?
15802What was the idea with this stupendous thing?
15802What would the Germans have done?
15802Why did the German forces in the Protectorate surrender without making the big stand they threatened?
17587Where can we lodge for to- night?
17587Where is the Red Cross Bureau?
17587Where is the hotel?
17587How should we have borne it, I wonder, if it had been London?
17587It was all very well in Denmark to think one would come and help Russia-- but supposing they did not want us after all?
17587Later they got more bitter and we heard,"Why do n''t the English come and help us as they promised?
17587Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?_ Contents CHAPTER PAGE I.
17587The concierge then looked at us suspiciously, and said,"You are English?"
17587What was the end of all this going to be?
17587What would the lifted veil of time disclose in this momentous year just opening for us?
17587Will you give me yourselves, will you come travel with me?
16992''But how are we to get Him to give it?''
16992''DO YOU THINK THAT SORT OF THING MATTERS NOW?''
16992''Do you think that sort of thing matters now, Padre?''
16992A wise old Scots minister was once asked,''How are we to bring about a revival?''
16992But how many Belgians have lost their all?
16992But is not every sentence a spur to the imagination?
16992But poets used to write verses to their mistresses''eyebrows, and why not a letter to a mother''s face?
16992How is this to be explained?
16992II''_ Do you think that sort of thing matters now?_''A clearing station is just what its name denotes.
16992III_ Ubique_ After this war is over no soldier can ask''What does the Christian Church do for me?''
16992Is there no painter, no poet, who can enshrine for future generations the memory of this historic scene?
16992Of how many in civilian occupations could that be said?
16992We said,''Not a bad show, is it?''
16992Who could ever vanquish you?
16945Nonsense!--it ca n''t be very terrible,replied Doctor X;"what was wrong?"
16945This war can not last always, little one, and when it is over we will buy a pig and a cow and we will go to the curé, wo n''t we, beloved?
16945Who knows whether my dear lad will be there to receive the parcel? 16945 (Where do you come from?").
16945France draws around her her tattered and blood- stained robe, yet what matters the outer raiment?
16945General Pétain appeared slightly surprised, and turning to me, asked,"Do you thoroughly realise the danger?
16945I excused myself to the General, who smilingly replied,"Why complain, mademoiselle?
16945I wonder if you would be permitted to visit them?"
16945If all the mothers, wives, and sweethearts thought as you, what would happen to the country?
16945One asked the other,''Do you know how this war started, Milan?
16945One morning she sent for him and asked him,"Herr Karl, can you tell me what was wrong with my bath water this morning?"
16945what will happen to the little mother?"
10338Do you know to whom you are speaking?
10338How could you get one?
10338So you were trying to escape, were you?
10338Then what did you do on the cruiser?
10338Who are your friends in America?
10338Why did n''t she help us against the Italians during the war for Tripoli?
10338Had not Djemal Pasha, commander- in- chief of the armies in Palestine, given his word of honor that we should have redress?
10338How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?"
10338How was I to pass this double scrutiny?
10338How well I could now understand his despairing cry:"How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord?
10338This was the substance of our conversation:--"How did you get aboard the ship?"
10338Truly, the Jew lifts his eyes to the mountains, asking the ancient and still unanswered question,"Whence shall come my help?"
10338What would you suggest?"
10338for ever?...
19339How are they dealt with?
19339Last time I saw you was in your pulpit at St. John''s, Boscombe; life''s a funny game, is n''t it?''
19339Many times I have been asked,''Were you afraid?''
19339One of them, who acted as spokesman, held up his selection, and astonished the woman at the other side of the counter by saying,''How mooch monnee?''
19339Putting his head in at the door, at the risk of his life he cried:''How many of yer are there in there?''
19339The question is often asked,''Should a chaplain be under fire?''
19339They put the fear of God into your heart, do n''t they?''
19339Where are they to go to?
19339Would I go?
19339what''s up?
19339who can describe it?
20005What shall I do?
20005''How much will it cost?
20005''What are they putting it up for?''
20005--''Who will own it, when finished?''
20005But it is asked, who owns this building?
20005But it may be asked, to what extent are parents bound to comply with these high and solemn obligations?
20005But the bond for three hundred dollars was now due, and how must this be met?
20005But we will consider in the second place, what is meant by providing for our own house?--"and especially for those of his own house?"
20005But what are the objects for which this house has been built?
20005She replied,"Do you think you are converted?"
20005The last question, how is the money obtained to pay for the building?
20005Then came another thought,--"As my master was a rich man, could he not do something to help me?"
20005and who will pay for it?''"
17584And what power of Government will be left to Turkey after the war?
17584Are you at liberty to tell me whether there is already an understanding with Russia about this country, and if so how far it goes?
17584But what does it all lead to?
17584Do they get right back to Germany before daylight?
17584Harris said"I do: is he dead?"
17584How could I equal this for instance"The Bible says this is a land of milk and honey there is plenty of water and dust about if that s what they mean?"
17584I enclose an extract from a speech which might have been made by you, but was made by-- who do you think?
17584Lord, how long Shall Satan in high places lead the blind To battle for the passions of the strong?
17584Not very interesting is it?
17584The most celebrated thing in it is the story of Cupid and Psyche: did n''t Correggio paint it round the walls of a palace in Rome?
17584They have still a little snow( did I mention that the storm which gave us rain at A. had capped these hills with a fine snow mantle?)
17584What has happened so far?
17584What will Turkey be like?
17584Why?
17584at Quetta had merely passed down the line asking each man"Are you fit?"
21977And how were they lying?
21977Did you see no wrecks on the beach?
21977You shall have it,replied his excellency,"but who are you?"
21977As I pronounced it a forgery, the junior turned to the senior and exclaimed,"What did I tell you?
21977As they forced their horses over it, I discovered my friend, the"vidette"among them, who cried out as he saw me"_ That_ is General Wilson, kill him?"
21977Do I_ look_ like a Henglish og?"
21977did n''t I say it was a hoax of that d----d Major Ficklen?"
14466Does it always go on like that?
14466Hark, what is that?
14466Is He dead indeed? 14466 Is that all?"
14466What will they do with us?
14466And then, quickly turning to Mr. Baker, she continued:"What have you been telling Lady Sarah to make her think I am not loyal?"
14466Could this small force have for one moment been a match for the well- equipped besiegers if the inhabitants had not fought for and with the garrison?
14466Have not their courage and endurance thrilled the whole world?
14466How many head of cattle had they on the farm?
14466In the meantime the cry of the loyal colonists went up from all sides:"How much longer can it last?"
14466Is he really here?"
14466It comes last, but is it least?
14466Labouchere?"
14466Was he fighting for the English?
14466What was Mr. Keeley doing in Mafeking?
14466where were you caught?"
15160''Guard, is there any news this morning?''
15160''Is intervention advisable under the circumstances?
15160''Must the Kaffirs or natives have more rights?''
15160A woman can not flee from place to place like a man, and life in a''refugee''(?)
15160And for the Kaffirs to be eventually allowed to vote?
15160But what if the enemy, prepared for our arrival, were to pepper at us unexpectedly from a different direction, or to point their Maxims at us?
15160For had we not made up our minds not to risk a repetition of the attack on Rooirandjes?
15160Had we indeed fought so long and so fiercely only to become an English colony, and not to be allowed to carry arms unless we had a license?
15160How long should we still be chased from place to place?
15160I asked him,''Uncle, are you sure that our lager is in the hands of the khakies?''
15160Some women called out to us:''Why were you so stupid as to let yourselves be caught?''
15160What does it matter if_ I_ do go on leave?
15160What must they have thought of us?
15160What was the good of our fighting if the Colony would not help us?
15160When his father angrily asked,''Have you found Kindermeid now?''
15160When would there be rest for our exhausted bodies?
15160Who shall blame the man who rides away with an anxious heart to his wife and children, no matter what the consequences may be to himself?
16690And your submarines?
16690If a man were full of hot air, how could he have cold feet?
16690What is that?
16690Why should they stop?
16690A German officer came up to him and said in my hearing,"Were you not told this morning that you were to go on the_ Igotz Mendi_?"
16690Also, had these two ships seen the_ Wolf_, from which we had parted only twenty- four hours before?
16690And what of the women and children on board?
16690But, after all, we reflected, what is one ship in this vast expanse of stormy seas?
16690Could anything be worse?
16690Did he feel no remorse, no regret?
16690Liberty, or continued captivity; life, or death at sea?
16690On this morning the Captain said to me,"Mr. Trayes, did n''t you say you were going to Cape Town?"
16690Quoting the Board of Trade under such conditions-- was this a sample of German humour?
16690The first mate came along and jokingly said to us,"What more can you want?
16690We, who had not seen the shore for months, and had never expected to land on any, much less a free one, were to go ashore?_ Were we dreaming?
16690We, who had not seen the shore for months, and had never expected to land on any, much less a free one, were to go ashore?_ Were we dreaming?
16690Were we really to be saved at the very last minute?
16690What would our fate have been if we had tried-- and failed?
16690What would the New Year bring forth?
16690What would their fate be now?
16690Why, indeed?
16690Would help never come?
16690_ We were to go ashore?
10918Do you speak English?
10918Then, would you like to see those in the Royal Chambers upstairs?
10918We two speak together?
10918Were you satisfied with your treatment by the War Office in Brussels, Herr Green? 10918 Where to?"
10918You are for the American newspapers?
10918You have to do a lot of quick transporting?
10918You know the road?
10918And did the private, ordered against his will to perform an act whose memory drove him insane, commit an atrocity?
10918And why do you come?"
10918And why, if you have already been wiss ze army in scenes of war, do you now come to me for permission?"
10918For the third time he interrupted himself to ask:--"You are Amerikaner-- yes?
10918Later a crowd of big brutes, apparently pretty drunk, swaggered down and clapped me on the back with a''Who are you, my friend?''
10918Later a mother in black and a girl, also in black( the daughter, or daughter- in- law, I should judge), came into the Heiniger(?)
10918Therefore, each eye was turned against its neighbor, and each man, as he passed you, asked the silent question,--"Did you shoot Herman Rosenthal?"
10918Under the law of military reprisal was there justification for the death of this woman?
10918WO GEHEN SIE?"
10918WOHIN?
10918Was the dying officer guilty of barbarian conduct?
10918What loyal German could possibly remain sober on the Crown Princess''s birthday?"
10918When will the awakening come?
10918Where were we going, and why?
10918Why did you not?"
10918exclaimed the major, bursting into a laugh;"vatever can be done mit such a man?"
13235Ga''rn, what battle''s that?
13235Had ye ever a thun rred line?
13235What shall we do?
13235Why, what''s the time?
13235''Who goes there?''
13235)_--The Boers, as it seemed to me( but what does one know?
13235Can it be that De Wet has got round here, and that we are up against his main position?
13235Dare I take my boots off to- night?
13235How can I fill my water- bottle?
13235How to cook it?
13235If I ca n''t cook it, shall I eat it raw?
13235Is he really here, sick or wounded?
13235Is it going to rain?
13235Is there time for a snooze at this halt?
13235Or is it a mistake for me, my name having been seen in a newspaper and mistaken for his?
13235Shall we be wanted?
13235Shall we camp in time to dry my blankets?
13235Some one shouted,"Anything to sell?"
13235What regiment was there?
13235What will they do with them?
13235Where to make a bed?
13235Why should men be fighting here?
13235Why?
13235_ September 4._--_Monday._--In the evening got a cable from"London,"apparently meant for Henry( my brother), saying"How are you?"
13235_ September 7._--To my delight this afternoon, I heard a voice at my tent door, saying,"Is Childers here?"
20655Course; what''s matter?
20655Had plenty rest; where''s Number Twelve?
20655How we going in?
20655Sure, Mike; why not?
20655What hospital; why ca n''t I talk?
20655What you think you''re going to do; shoot from the farm?
20655Who''s your friend?
20655CHAPTER X A FINE DAY FOR MURDER"Say, kid, want to go sniping?"
20655Do n''t you think you could eat something?"
20655How is it done?
20655I overheard one of our men say:"_ General_ Turner?
20655Now, how do you suppose Heinie got that?
20655Now, they saw us come over here, did n''t they?
20655See him, right beside that leaning tree?
20655See?"
20655There were other ships there, loading just as we were, some of which were known to be destined for the eastern theater; so how could we know?
20655Would they call a Canadian or Australian or Scotch soldier a"Tommy"?
20655[ Illustration: Canadian Soldiers in Action with Colt Machine Guns]"Oh, nothing; but do you think we can get away with it?"
20928Has he?
20928Indeed, madam,replied Hardee,"and how old do you take me for?"
20928''Uncle Robert''will get us into Washington yet; you bet he will?"
20928Cease firing, sir; what is your name, sir?''
20928Every traveller we met on the road was eagerly asked the questions,"Are the Yanks in Brookhaven?
20928Fairfax then said,"Is it a woman who speaks in such a manner of a dead body which can do no one any harm?"
20928Is the railroad open?"
20928It is said that at the end of a Texan journey the question asked is not,"Have you been upset?"
20928The woman made a gesture with her foot, and replied,"If it was a rebel, do you think it would be here long?"
20928Which is the General?
20928but,"How many times have you been upset?"
20928which is the Great Officer?
20928who''s afraid of fire?"
22074Shoot him?
22074Well, why did n''t you shoot him?
2207417th._ The first question was, Was Canteleux occupied by the enemy?
22074A message now came down from the plateau saying that some East Surreys and Bedfords were still up in the wood, and should they retire or hold on?
22074And when the relief came again, was the best battalion always to be doomed to the worst and most dangerous trenches, merely because it_ was_ the best?
22074And would you like to reinforce one battalion, in case of attack, by another battalion?
22074Let them come?
22074On its relief, who should hold it?
22074Shoot?
22074We were perpetually being urged to advance and attack, but how could we?
22074What on earth would our destination be?
22074What were our men to do?
22074or would you like to make it thin in front and deep behind, and support itself?
22074the next best, who was badly wanted somewhere else, or another one weak in numbers and consequently unfit?
26138Is it any wonder that on such occasions we frequently gave way to our emotions?
26040But why did so many of the early settlers, quickly leave the Atlantic coast for the Connecticut valley?
26040There is still preserved a letter from England, written in a fine hand, with red ink, dated Obeydon?
19705And the brown horse?
19705Fearest thou?
19705What shall we do? 19705 But whence is he likely to emerge? 19705 Did ever priest pronounce a blessing more grimly like a ban? 19705 How, otherwise, could they stand a long unbroken course of free living, with such infinitesimal correctives of exercise? 19705 I believed that Brigadier Turchin would soon want an_ aide_, and who knows? 19705 I wonder how many voices, if they dared speak out, would join in the dreary_ refrain_ of those last few words?"
19705In Baltimore,"Is she beautiful?"
19705In New York,"Is she wealthy?"
19705In Philadelphia,"Is she well- born?"
19705In which direction do the sympathies and interests of the_ Border_ States actually tend?
19705On the appearance of a_ debutante_, they say, the first question in Boston is,"Is she clever?"
19705So I answered, rather impatiently:"What the deuce would you have one do-- with a dead horse and a lamed leg?
19705Then I pondered within myself--"If her hate be heavy to bear, what-- what-- would her love be?"
19705Then he said,"_ Tiens-- tu aimes ton mari?
19705What would you have?
19705Which position was the most enviable at that moment-- the"full private''s"or that of his silent superiors?
19705Who are you?
19705Why did n''t you stop, and tell us who you are, and where you''re going?"
19705Will you surrender?"
19705Would you like to hear of the process?
11086And how many of us realize that we English- speaking nations alone in the world have such nurses?
11086And if so, how?
11086And then?
11086And when we return, what do we bring with us?
11086And who shall say that it is not right?
11086Are our cathedrals only stones and mortar, and are our paintings only dust and oil?
11086Are you quite so sure about that?
11086But we were quite happy, for had we not got Madame with us, and had her genius ever been known to fail, especially in the face of the impossible?
11086For if once the navy of Britain is gone, who else can stop her course?
11086Is any single man in this world worth as much as the Titanic?
11086Is he?
11086Is it too much to hope that some day its voice may be heard and may command?
11086Is there such a thing as neutrality in this war?
11086No one who has slept all his life in a bed would ever realize how comfortable straw is, and for picturesqueness has it an equal?
11086We did our best to identify them, but what are the chances that many of them will ever see their parents again?
11086What is going to happen to those children?
11086What is there in a name after all?
11086What more could the heart of surgeon desire?
11086Who can tell what the next turn of the wheel will bring?
12454And how long have you dealt with them?
12454And this bombardment happens often?
12454And were the baths by any chance called Denmark, Austria, and France in 1870?
12454And where are the guns?
12454And who are those women?
12454And you?
12454But what else could the people have done?
12454But you_ are_ French, little one?
12454By the way,he said to the gunner at last,"ca n''t you find something better than_ that?
12454How?
12454Is n''t it an adorable country?
12454Nice people, are n''t they?
12454Now why,asked a shopkeeper,"does not our Government, or your Government, or both our Governments, send some of the British Army to Paris?
12454What is that place?
12454What made the change?
12454What_ is_ the tune?
12454Who should be singing here?
12454And next week would see them, hidden singly or in lurking confederacies, by mountain and marsh and forest, or the wrecked habitations of men-- where?
12454Hand on hilt( rememberest thou?
12454Now we count new keels afloat, and new hosts on land, Massed liked ours( rememberest thou?)
12454Now we hear new voices rise, question, boast or gird, As we raged( rememberest thou?)
12454Or as a woman put it more logically,"What else can we do?
12454The epilogue, at least, was as old as both Armies:"And what did he say then?"
12454To each other''s open court with our proofs we came, Where could we find honour else or men to test the claim?
12454We have learned by keenest use to know each other''s mind: What shall blood and iron loose that we can not bind?
12454We were schooled for dear life sake, to know each other''s blade: What can blood and iron make more than we have made?
12454Would it please me to look at a chapel?
12454Would you like to look at the railway station?
12454_ He_ knew, of course; but what could a stranger identify in that earth- shaking passage of thirty thousand?
12454_ Why_ did n''t we realize?"
12454to its dogs; or met, in a forest, a procession of perfectly new big guns, apparently taking themselves from the foundry to the front?
16868Mr Brown here?
16868Ye-- e-- s,sleepily,"what the devil do you want?"
16868And the chateau itself?
16868Are not the flower of the young cut off in the spring of their youth?"
16868Are they defeated?
16868Do you know what I long for more than anything else?
16868Had the multitudinous Anglo- German societies at Oxford worked in vain?
16868Had we heard that the Germans were at Compiègne, ten miles or so over the hill?
16868Have you anything to say?"
16868He started shouting, as men will--"What does it matter what I sell, what I receive?
16868I wonder if you realise at home what the Frontier meant to us at first?
16868I wonder what difference you will find in us when we come home---- Do you know what a night scare is?
16868In his best French--"Avez- vous pommes- de- terre à vendre?"
16868Is it not a monstrous cemetery?
16868MY DEAR ROBERT,-- Do you remember how in the old days we used to talk about my first book?
16868On we rode by La Couture to Estaires, where we dined, and so to St Jans Cappel.... Do you know what the Line means?
16868She shook her head--"How can the good God look down without a tear on the miseries of his people?
16868She wept bitterly and loudly,"Ah, my baby, what will they do to us?
16868Silly fool, wanted to have a look round-- Full of buck?
16868Sounds simple?
16868Still something was wrong, and Huggie, who had been smiling at my puzzled face, said gently in an off- hand way--"Seen the church?"
16868The old man turned round, smiled, and replied in broadest Yorkshire,"Wanting any''taters?"
16868Was it a heavy attack on our lines?
16868Was it safe to go on into Béthisy?
16868What does it matter, for have I not to leave all this?"
16868Who are these fussy fellows with badges on their arms?
16868Why are the English retreating?
16868Will the dirty Germans pass by here?
16868Yes, it was a pretty fair scrap-- Smith?
16868You remember, too, the room?
16588Where is her mother?
16588''Could it be fixed up for this afternoon, I have brought the body down?''
16588''Did you hear that one, Bill?''
16588''Me mates?
16588''Well, it does give you a bit of a headache, you know,''he replied;''have you got a fag?''
16588''What are you doing with that stove?''
165881 Rest(?)
16588Are all so strong that they can dispense with guidance, or so pure that sin ceases to allure?
16588As he passed, the General acknowledged the reluctant turn of his head by way of salute, and then asked,''Where are you going, my man?''
16588Can this have been a Paradise before, Now up- blown, blasted, drear and desolate?
16588From different parts of the building the same query was advanced:''Are you all right?''
16588Is it Christ- like to condemn those whose actions are called into question?
16588Is it right that all should be condemned because of the capricious behaviour of an infinitesimal section?
16588The accommodation provided was fairly comfortable, though the carriages(?)
16588The officers stopped, and one of them peremptorily inquired,''Are n''t you a soldier?''
16588The usual question of the sleepless individual is''Where did that one land?''
16588Their query is not''Are you a member of a certain religious organization?''
16588Troops were forbidden to enter houses under any pretence whatever; but very occasionally men lost their way, and unwittingly(?)
16588W''ere is my mates?''
16588What of the future?
16588Without abating his speed he called out,''Do you think that I want to drop dead in that blimey mud?''
16588[ Illustration:''Did you hear that one, Bill?'']
16588[ Illustration:''Where are you going, my man?''
16588but''Are you a member of_ The Church_?''
16588this one?''
17918_ A._--How? 17918 ''Is there really one here? 17918 1._--How do you find time to write so much? 17918 2._--Is a dug- out a hidden structure covered with sand- bags where you only sleep, and are there such luxuries as beds? 17918 4._--In the battles you have been in, did you come face to face with the Huns, or just shoot at range? 17918 5._--How do you get posts-- are carriers in danger? 17918 6._--Do you get acquainted with French civilians, and have you picked up any of their language? 17918 7._--When one series of trenches is built, how does the enemy get a chance to build close to them? 17918 8._--Do you have any fear of air raids over the trenches? 17918 9._--What about gas? 17918 And yet, what was my duty? 17918 Are you a Londoner?'' 17918 But who am I, and of what account am I, in the scheme of things? 17918 Can I see the end, as He can? 17918 Can I understand the infinite thought of God? 17918 Hallo, thinks I, what am I wanted for? 17918 I clambered out of the carriage prepared to rush to the Bakerloo, when a voice at my elbow asked,''Is there anything I can do for you? 17918 I lifted him up and said,''Did you catch it?'' 17918 I wonder if it has ever occurred to them how much their presence meant to us boys? 17918 I wonder what they will put me into? 17918 Is n''t it wonderful how many sorrows the British army can drown in a cup of tea? 17918 Nice occupation, was n''t it? 17918 The Padre just says,''Well, boys what shall we have?'' 17918 The chaps said to me,''Of course_ you_ are going, Baxter?'' 17918 The favourites are''John Peel,''''Cock Robin,''''Oh, who will o''er the downs so free?'' 17918 To fight-- or to stay and look after our little home? 17918 We rarely see a civilian, and when we do we say,''Avez vous du pain?'' 17918 What man who has not been through it can even dimly imagine the after- effect of continuous bombardment and heavy shelling? 17918 What words, then, have I? 17918 Will any of those ladies read these lines? 17918 Will you look at him-- afterwards? 17918 Will you picture to yourself this sightless young man, with torn head and shattered hand piteously struggling from those shambles? 17918 and I answered,''Why not?'' 17918 and the reply is generally''How many do you want?'' 2651 At this General Grant remarked:Did he say so?
2651I presume that some one said to the Governor about this time,"Why do n''t you get Sheridan?"
2651This feature was more than acceptable to the parents at times, for how else could they so thoroughly learn all the neighborhood gossip?
2651Where are you?"
27259We were once more to be on land and what person would not be happy over this thought after so long a voyage over the great waters of the Pacific?
26879Does what?
26879Is this war?
26879But who can account for the fortunes of war?
26879How many artillery officers laughed at the suggestion that a day was coming when thousands of great guns would be directed from the air?
26879What would the past generation have said of a man who had prophesied great armies fighting in the air?
11641And drinking?
11641And how did you yourself get on?
11641And the other interred-- the dead?
11641Anybody in there?
11641But about eating?
11641But where did you sleep?
11641But where?
11641Did you yourself see any Germans?
11641How many?
11641How were they deceived?
11641Is this really the first- line trench?
11641Was there a cottage here?
11641What do you call your dog?
11641What dost thou want?
11641What is this?
11641What would you?
11641What''s the name of the street?
11641Where?
11641( Needless to say that the regiment had come during the night from a long spell of the trenches-- but what trenches?)
11641A little further on we might hear an officer speaking somewhat ardently into a telephone:"What are they doing with that gun?
11641And again she said, speaking of the fearful days in September 1914:"What would you?
11641And, even if by chance they do, for what reason has that particular patch been selected?
11641As we were parting he said:"Well, what do you think of our''trenches''?"
11641But what are you to do?
11641Do I not tell you one was obliged to stand up?
11641Do they hate them, veritably?
11641Had one any desire to go to bed?
11641How long do you think the war will last?"
11641Sincerely-- do they hate the Germans in England?
11641The inevitable thought was:"Is it possible that so much killing has been done for such trifling specks of earth?"
11641Was she locking it against shells, or against burglars?
11641What do you say?"
11641What influence could its destruction have on the mighty course of the struggle?
11641What was the part of that regiment in the gigantic tactics of Joffre?
11641What would you?"
26930Halt,cried the sentry,"who goes there?"
26930But what is taking place on the right of us?
26930He said"What is your name my lad?"
26930I wonder if Fritz''s planes would wait?
26930When we reached this village the very first thing we had to do was to shave and clean up, for were we not the best unit in France?
13279Darby,he sighed hopelessly,"wot th''blinkin''''ell do you think is up now?"
13279What the dickens can this be?
13279Yer blinkin''''igh wif yer wants, ayen''t ye? 13279 ''Ow''d''e git loose?
13279And then, having gotten filled up with the long- denied oxygen, I asked,"Where''s the others?"
13279Ayen''t there no trouble t''''ome?"
13279Breeks on a Scotchman?
13279Did that muddy old trench look good when we tumbled in?
13279Do n''t you just love to hike?"
13279Do yer call that a loaf o''bread?
13279Fightin''fer wot?
13279Gimme another, will yer, corporal?"
13279I turned to Bonesie and said,"What about that safety stuff, old top?"
13279Instead he looked me over with unqualified scorn and spat out,"Yank, ayen''t ye?"
13279Is it right, I arsks yer?
13279Is it right?
13279Is it?"
13279Is it?"
13279It seems that after Issy had been fixed up, the surgeon turned to Bealer and said:"What''s the matter with you?"
13279It was very early in the morning when Wells shook me up with,"Hi sye, Darby, wot the blinkin''blazes is that noise?"
13279One of them would slyly say,"Darby,''oo th''blinkin''''ell was this blighter, General Grant?"
13279One who spoke English said in a quavering voice:"Gott in Himmel, Kamarad, how could one endure?
13279Rest, did I say?
13279The question uppermost in his mind every time and all of the time, is,"When do we eat?"
13279What is it?
13279What is it?"
13279What''s wrong?"
13279Where from?"
13279Wot are we fightin''for?
13279Wot th''bloody''ell are you in this bloomin''row for?
13279Wot''d th''Belgiums hever do fer us?
13279Wot''d th''Rooshians hever do fer us?
13279Wot''ll Hi do wif''i m?"
13279Wot''s th''good of hanybody but th''Henglish?
13279Wot''s th''good of th''Frenchies?
13279Wot, I arsks yer?
13279Wot?
27293And do the devils dare to treat with neglect and contempt that little corps of gallant men who saved them from despair and slavery?
27293Will any such honorable testimony be erected to the memory of our departed heroes?"
26529:45 p.m."LIEUTENANT- GENERAL GRANT:"Would it not be well for Warren to go down with his whole corps and smash up the force in front of Sheridan?
2652As I drew up by the party, Bismarck accosted me with,"Well, General, are n''t you hungry?
2652Could not your cavalry go back by the way of Stony Creek depot and destroy or capture the store of supplies there?
2652Have any more troops arrived from Richmond, or are any more coming, or reported to be coming?
2652He remaining mounted, spoke first to me, saying simply,"How are you, Sheridan?"
2652I assured him with thanks that I was"first- rate,"when, pointing toward the village, he asked,"Is General Lee up there?"
2652Offering the flask to his uncle, he said:"You''ve had a hard day of it; wo n''t you refresh yourself?"
19074Do you appreciate,he asked,"that on three miles of that ridge a million men--400,000 French and 600,000 Germans-- have already fallen?"
19074Do you see that little black speck on the snow at the very top?
19074Ostend?
19074To what regiment do you belong?
19074We are in Austria now, I suppose?
19074Which do you consider the best gun?
19074Who ever heard of a machine- gun being called upon to fire two thousand rounds under actual service conditions?
19074Will we need them?
19074You do n''t mean to tell me that you can photograph a telephone- wire from a mile in the air?
19074( Did you know that during an intense bombardment the springs of the guns will last only two days?)
19074A moment later he added:"The poor devil looked pretty cold, though, did n''t he?"
19074A strange reversal of history, is it not?
19074And when I came back they greeted me with"You did n''t see much, did you?"
19074But what burned them?
19074But you ca n''t blame them, can you?
19074Did you know that the British have laid and are operating more than a thousand miles of new railway in France?
19074Do you see that square?"
19074How can he know that what he takes to be a farmstead is but a piece of painted canvas concealing a small mountain of potential death?
19074How far may Serbia come?
19074How far will Italy be permitted to go?
19074How would you feel then, Mr. American?
19074I would go to Verdun?
19074Is Hungary to become an independent kingdom?
19074Is Montenegro to disappear?
19074Laden with what?
19074O Death, where is thy sting- a- ling- a- ling, O Grave thy victoree?
19074Shall Austria be cut off from the sea?
19074They were dog- tired, dirty, caked with mud and blood, but they grinned at us cheerfully-- for were they not beating the Austrians?
19074What is Greece to get?
19074Why did it sink so deeply?
19074Why were the wheel- ruts shown on the plate so black?
19074Would you care to go out to it?"
19074You question this?
19074and"What are the Italians doing, anyway?"
14086( By the way, did I tell you that I had been made Right Section Commander?)
14086After death is there only nothingness?
14086Am I really in jeopardy myself?
14086Am I really killing men day by day?
14086And I am wishing-- As I wish, I stop and ask myself,"Would I be there if I could have my choice?"
14086And was I really the budding novelist in New York?
14086Can it be true that I am here and you are in the still aloofness of the Rockies?
14086Can you dimly picture me with my groom, followed by a mess- cart, going from stall to stall and bartering with the peasants?
14086Confess-- aren''t you more honestly happy to be our father as we are now than as we were?
14086D''you remember the birthday three years ago when we set the victrola going outside your room door?
14086Do n''t you wish I had caught some quite harmless sickness?
14086Do you remember Captain S. at the Camp?
14086Do you remember how you once offered me money to walk through the Forest of Dean after dark, and I would n''t?
14086Do you set the victrola going now- a- days?
14086Do you want any German souvenirs?
14086Does one see more truly life''s worth on a battlefield?
14086For myself I try to analyse my emotions; am I simply numb, or do I imitate other people''s coolness and shall I fear life again when the war is ended?
14086Have I mentioned rum to you?
14086Have you seen Lloyd George''s great speech?
14086I wonder what we''ll want to do most-- sit quiet or go to theatres?
14086Is n''t it a funny change from comfortable breakfasts, press notices and a blazing fire?
14086Is the contempt that is hourly shown for life the real standard of life''s worth?
14086My Dearest Mother: Are n''t the papers good reading now- a- days with nothing to record but success?
14086My birthday comes round soon, does n''t it?
14086Now that I''m in touch with you all again, it''s almost like saying"How- do?"
14086Perhaps the war may be ended and then wo n''t you be glad that we dared all this sorrow of good- byes?
14086Shall I see you standing on the station when I puff into London-- or will it be Folkestone where we meet-- or shall I arrive before you?
14086Shall we dream of our old life''s passion,-- To toil for our heart''s desire, Whose souls War has taken to fashion With molten death and with fire?
14086That''s what we''re all doing, is n''t it-- you at your end and we at ours?
14086Was it M.''s cross the other night that accounted for my luck?
14086Was it imagination?
14086What are you to say to such men?
14086What do you think of the Kaiser''s absurd peace proposals?
14086What has happened to me?
14086Where does the soul go in sleep?
14086Where will our meeting be and when?
14086Wo n''t we have a time?
14086Would n''t it be good, instead of sitting in a Hun dug- out?
22067If you are a commissioned officer,Shoemaker replied,"why are you here, working at a gun?"
22067Staying all night? 22067 What was that,''General''?"
22067What,I asked myself,"are ghosts abroad, and in such a place?
220673 was, shout,"Ned Moore, where is that priming- wire?"
22067As I held aside the limb of a tree in his way, near our gun, he extended his hand and, as he gave me a hearty shake, said,"How do you do, Edward?"
22067Bob Lee came creeping up from his gun in the ravine, and called to me,"Ned, that is n''t making batter- cakes, is it?"
22067But he called out,"Where is my partner?"
22067But, as the thing met me, a voice cried out,"Is that you, Ned?
22067Do you think your men can stand it?"
22067First,"Can this horse carry two?"
22067He drew back, startled at my question,"What do you want?"
22067He replied she was, and waited as if inclined to ask,"What business is that of yours?"
22067Hear those Minies?"
22067I could not believe it to be the vanguard of Hunter''s army, but what on earth could it be?
22067I drew rein, but thought,"How can I help him?
22067I then said,''General, are you going to send us in again?''
22067I told him my predicament and asked,"Shall I get in and get it?"
22067Is Gettysburg giving up her dead so soon?"
22067Is that you, Marse Eddie?
22067Is that you?
22067My dinner was to be sent by a boy named Phil, so I said,"Is that you, Phil?"
22067On Friday who would serve such repast, Except an unchristianlike glutton?''
10972In destroying the landlord and capitalist are not the Russian proletariat merely taking back its own property?
10972Surely it is less unjust to allow the many to continue to rob the few?
10972What did the general then do?
10972What if the Czech commanders made the demand?
10972Who ever heard of mosquitoes in Siberia?
10972Why should we allow law to be re- established, which was always used by the few to rob the many?
10972--rarely, if ever,"How will it affect the country?"
10972A straight- forward recognition of the Omsk Government would have been an honest hand for honest work, but where would Allied diplomacy have come in?
10972And if it did, who could guarantee a friendly reception?
10972Are they moral, military, or political?
10972Did the Japanese give"line clear"throughout?
10972Every man looks at every order from the personal point of view--"How will this affect me?"
10972Has this no longer any place in the political curriculum of the Allied Powers?
10972I answer that by asking:"How did a one- man government exist in Russia from''Ivan the Terrible''to Nicholas II?"
10972I grant all these things; but what about honour?
10972I was asked:"Would you take God from His place over this work?"
10972I wonder how that will pan out?
10972Quartermaster- Captain Boulton put it to one prisoner:"But suppose Germany were defeated?"
10972The question now to be solved was: What attitude would the anarchist adopt to this new evangelism?
10972This great people can do almost anything, but even they can not live without a head, and the question was, how was some sort of head to be provided?
10972What are these hidden objects?
10972Who would think of taking a military force over six thousand miles from its base through a partially hostile country?
10972Why are the churches of the world so hostile to the popular education of the people?
10972Why?
10972Would I defend the Ministers who were still in session if they were attacked?
10972Would it get through the many dangers and difficulties it was certain to encounter on the way?
10972Would you give them up?"
10972and if not, how could a ghastly disaster be avoided?
18390And what have we to fear now?
18390And what if some of us do pass over before this struggle is ended-- what is there in that? 18390 Anything new, Fritz?"
18390Are you hit, sir?
18390Are you the Scottish Horse?
18390Hey, mate,it said,"is this the track to the races?"
18390How long do you think it would take a New Zealander to chop down a tree like that?
18390Is n''t Australians good enough?
18390Is n''t it the most wonderful thing that could ever have happened?
18390Room in here?
18390That''s not one of their 5.9''s, surely?
18390Was you hit?
18390What they want to get us stuck in this flaming mud- hole for?
18390Which is the way to our tents, Bill?
18390Why did n''t it strike old Brassribs to make the inhabitants do a job of work occasionally?
18390You call us just Australians and New Zealanders, do n''t you?
18390And is n''t that the very thing that has happened?
18390And now when they stood on the brink of the last great sacrifice, could he not seize upon those truths--?
18390As one of the best of their officers said to me,"I have to walk about as if I liked it-- what else can you do when your own men teach you to?"
18390But if such an offensive ever does happen, have the British people any idea of its difficulties?
18390But what are we going to do for them?
18390CHAPTER XXXIII WHY HE IS NOT"THE ANZAC"_ France, November 28th._"You do n''t call us the Anzacs, do you?"
18390Could it be about her that these personages of the ocean were calling one to another?
18390If it were not for the dear ones whom he leaves behind him, might n''t a man almost pray for a death like that?
18390Little was hit, was n''t he?"
18390Of the men whom you find there, what can one say?
18390The chief anxiety in the mind of the soldier is-- have we got the guns and the shells-- can we keep ahead of them with guns and our ammunition?
18390The result was an immediate message posted on the German trenches,"Once more would you let us see the message?"
18390What can we do for him?
18390What could we do?"
18390Who would have thought that scene believable two years before?
18390Yet the people are still there-- it is their home, and why should they leave it?
23747The ammunition wagons?
23747Why did you keep the story until the bridge was burnt?
23747Accepting the harshest conditions and faithfully observing them, they have struggled in all honorable ways, and for what?
23747And how can they live through the winter in the woods?"
23747Dining with Toombs in New York just after the event, he said to me:"Seen the story about old Cassius Clay?
23747For their slaves?
23747Jackson joined me, and, in response to my question,"Where is the cavalry?"
23747May we not well ask whether religion, education, science and art combined have lessened the brutality of man since the days of Wallenstein and Tilly?
23747One of my officers has already been asked''If we would not burn our gunboats as soon as the army left?''
23747Others say,''What are we to do?
23747Some say,''I have such a one sick at my house; who will wait on them when I am gone?''
23747The President listened attentively to this, and asked,"What then?"
23747This being so, how is it possible for the people still here, mostly women and children, to find shelter?
23747Were the Federals in possession of the road?
23747What do you suppose President Davis made me a major- general for?"
23747Where are our legions?"
23533Did you see the English?
23533Gehen die Schottländer wirklich mit nackten Beinen in die Schlacht?
23533Ist Namur belgisch oder französisch?
23533Wie lange wird es ungefähr dauern, bis die Deutschen Paris eingenommen haben?
23533With the French?
23533Your passport?
23533''How ridiculous?''
23533''What does she do ridiculous, I should like to know?''
23533( Do the Highlanders really go into battle with naked legs?)
23533( How long will it be before the Germans have taken Paris?)
23533( Is Namur Belgian or French?)
23533A young clerk, pale with excitement and anger, in reply to my question:"Gibt es etwas neues?"
23533After this who shall dare say that women have the monopoly of vanity?
23533Did we come here to enjoy ourselves, or what?"
23533He had a long paper in his hand, and read out our names;"Hamilton?"
23533I am so sick of"Heil Dir i m Sieger Kranz"that as the children pass my villa shouting it or"Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland?"
23533I ask you what chance of escape a poor_ Junggeselle_ has?
23533Is it best for me to let these cursed Germans make an end of me, or live to cook another day for my country?"
23533Now, we''d heard of Paris and Cologne, and Heidelberg, and Baden, and Dresden, and Berlin, and Hamburg, but we do n''t know now how they come-- see?
23533When he found German bullets whizzing about him at Mülhausen, he said to himself( so the story goes),"What is my duty?
23533Who that has seen can forget the last exposition in 1891?
23533warum kommst du mir immer in den Weg?_''(''Oh, you stupid cow, why will you always get in my way?'')
23533warum kommst du mir immer in den Weg?_''(''Oh, you stupid cow, why will you always get in my way?'')
17316And he asks himself the anxious question,''Is it even sure that moral effort bears any fruit?''
17316And what can I say of this Nature?
17316Are they not friends of ours?
17316Are we to speak of him in the present tense or in the past?
17316Are you bombarded by the frightful aeroplanes?
17316But how shall I ever tell of the certainties this tempest has made clear to me?
17316Can I say that it is even something different from the immense joy of our meeting again?
17316Can any one describe the grace of winter trees?
17316Dear mother, how shall I ever speak of the unspeakable things I have had to see?
17316Dear, have you this beautiful sun to- day?
17316Did I already tell you what Anatole France says in the_ Mannequin d''Osier_?
17316Did I tell you that I learnt from the papers of the death of Hillemacher?
17316Did you get my photograph?
17316Do they not walk with us in those blessed solitudes wherein our truest self awakens, and where our thoughts flow free?
17316For whom, and for what age?
17316Have we not made the genius of those two ours by understanding them as we understand them, and by so taking them into our hearts?
17316How can I explain to you the chiselled effect, allied to the dream- like mists, with the moon soaring above?
17316How can things be so horrible?
17316How do we know that this violence and disorder are not leading the universal destinies towards a final good?
17316How is it possible to think of Schumann as a barbarian?
17316In what?
17316Is André''s wound serious?
17316My corporal, who, like me, was dodging from bush to bush back to our house, said:''Do you know what that star is?
17316Shall it be counted a crime against them that they were Germans?
17316Shall we have to bear the shock again?
17316Sometimes I am afraid of always saying the same thing, but how can I find new words for my poor love, tossed always through the same vicissitudes?
17316Suppose one comes to skirt a precipice?
17316True, he does not attain his end, but is he wiser who remains motionless under the pretext that he might fall?
17316What does it matter if Providence does not allow me to bring it to light?
17316What if sacrifice itself were also a delusion?
17316What shall I say to you on this strange January afternoon, when thunder is followed by snow?
17316What shall I tell you of my life?
17316Who will say that the rough peasant, comrade of the fallen thinker, will not be the inheritor of his thoughts?
17316Why am I so sacrificed, when so many others, not my equals, are spared?
17316Why am I so sacrificed, when so many others, not my equals, are spared?
17316Will they be followed by others?
17316Yet is it even sure that moral effort bears any fruit?
22655How can you keep your faith in humanity? 22655 How madly busy all the little people are, bussing over the planet, and for what?
22655Where can I read something holding your point of view which would be more within my range of understanding than Hegel? 22655 And must one struggle through a peppery sequence of years just to know this?
22655Beauty is truthfulness of what?
22655Can beautiful be applied to whatever pleases?
22655Did I tell you how we all slept in a row with the old tartar and his wife and child?"
22655Did I tell you that the Consulate was in several places shattered by shells?
22655Do n''t you think that is an undertaking?
22655Do you know the''Melee''of Victor Hugo?
22655How did I happen to fall on it?"
22655How does one live now?
22655How will I even put my whole self into one thing?
22655How will it all affect the necessary routine of life?"
22655I shall have learned a lot of things when I die-- and all for what?"
22655I wonder how much I fool myself?
22655If I am attracted to some puritanical offspring-- some representative of the progressing(?)
22655Is beautiful something or is it not?
22655Is beauty independent of taste?
22655Is n''t it awful about the priest being hung in Adrianople?
22655Oh, what is it all about?"
22655So much of humanity, whatever it looks like or however cannily it has devised to exist, has not begun, and why have such a respect for numbers?
22655This, following my last sentence, is charmingly typical of my character, is it not?
22655Was n''t it nice?
22655What does it matter?
22655What for?
22655What matters externally?"
22655Where will they be next year?
22655Who is going to do away with it all?
22655Why are there such beautiful things, conceptions, possibilities only to be ruined by fatal microbes this human nature puts into it?
22655Why could n''t anything have happened to me that would not have hurt Tibi?
22655Why, oh, why anything?"
22655Wo n''t you bring Tibi and the boys and stay here?
27229("What are you doing there?").
27229But then what is one to do?
27229Could it be that the victorious German fleet, of which they had so often heard, was at this very moment bearing down upon us?
27229Did the turnip''s voice deceive the Hun?
27229Had I a sporting chance or were the odds against me too great?
27229I wonder what he would have done had some one enticingly rattled a shilling on a plate?
27229I worked in several tunnels at different times, fitted with air pumps and perhaps even electric light-- who knows?
27229Now what about the Cambrai officer''s question,"Why do you call us Huns?"
27229Should this book in the near future be read in Germany, as I expect it will, would some kind Hun take the trouble to satisfy my curiosity?
27229To what was it due?
27229To what was it due?
27229Towards evening we passed through Hameln?
27229Vaguely I wondered what it could be?
27229Was it possible that they were only heaps of peat?
27229Whereupon he snapped,"What, you say that the commandant''s note is useless?
27229With a sinking heart I slowly made out the letters B-- R-- I-- E. Was it necessary to read any further?
27229_ Why, indeed?_ The German captain nearly always took roll call.
29927Who are you?
29927The first cry from the ship was"How is City getting on?"
29927They tracked cleverly across the moor, and were met by an eager Australian with the question:"Have you brought the water, cobbers?"
29927To the call:"Who are you?"
29927What have become of like devices that were once deep cut on the scarped cliff of Bruce''s Ravine on Gallipoli?
29927When are you going to do your bit?"
29927Who would wish for more romantic trophies?
29045All well, H----?
29045Do n''t you know?
29045Nevair mind, I speak bloody good English,and then amidst our whoops of applause she demanded"It ees good?
29045Qu''est- ce que vous voulez?
29045Why did you not tell me?
29045A tailor''s agent had somehow made his way into that sanctuary, and voices were demanding"Who can lend me a blank cheque?"
29045And as for chivalry, how can it live in the midst of machine- guns, asphyxiating gases, and liquid flames?
29045And the neutral nations-- what of them?
29045Are they not after all"accessories after the fact"and equally guilty?
28981Five devils,said Saunders;"What is it for?"
28981I told him that they were nearly so, and added,"I suppose they wo''n''t be wanted, at all events, before to- morrow?"
28981Meeting one, next morning, a very little fellow, I asked what had happened to them yesterday?
28981The marine officer, looking down, with some astonishment, demanded,"d-- n you, sir, who are you?"
28981The usual salutation on meeting an acquaintance of another regiment after an action was to ask who had been hit?
28981but on this occasion it was"Who''s alive?"
28981to which the head and shoulders immediately rejoined,"and d-- n and b-- t you, sir, who are you?"
30011Where were you? 30011 And what was the thanks I got for having sailed around over the enemy''s lines for over two and a half hours? 30011 Are you crazy? 30011 But what can you do in such a case, in the air? 30011 What have you been doing? 17813 ''What the d----s the use of detailing unmounted officers for the job?''
17813''Who? 17813 After orders, Colonel Best- Dunkley asked me:''What is your strong point?''
17813How is Lord Rhondda going on as Food Controller? 17813 What about Holland?
17813Which gate did you come in at?
17813Would you mind sending me a Lancashire Fusilier cap badge? 17813 ''Is that you, Floyd? 17813 ''Well, do you think those helmets were worth the life of one man and injury to four others?'' 17813 ''What? 17813 ''Where is the Battalion?'' 17813 ''Will you take my sentence? 17813 Are things any better than they were under Devonport? 17813 Are you pleased to hear that Churchill is in office again?'' 17813 Could you possibly imagine what it was like? 17813 Did it occur to us that within twenty- four hours we should all be scattered to the winds-- some killed, others wounded? 17813 Do n''t you think I am really exceedingly lucky? 17813 Had he any presentiment or intention as to the future himself? 17813 He has not been there long, has he? 17813 His greeting to Verity when he arrived a month ago was:''Who the d---- are you?'' 17813 How are you going on?'' 17813 How are you?'' 17813 How long had I been gazetted? 17813 How long had I been in the Army? 17813 How long is it going to last?'' 17813 I always said that I would be in at the finish whether that finish happens to be in Belgium, on the Rhine, or in Palestine, did n''t I?
17813If we can fraternize so speedily on the battlefield, why can not those who are not shooting each other also fraternize?
17813Is the news of the raid yet in the papers?
17813It is funny, is n''t it?
17813Now the question which arises is: What was its object?
17813Or will you have a court martial?''
17813So what will happen?
17813So what will it become as the days roll on?
17813The question is-- how long shall I remain on good terms with him?
17813We kept asking everybody we passed whether they had''seen any L.F.''s?''
17813What do you say?
17813What is there to worry about?
17813What the b---- h---- do you mean by it?
17813What unit was I in before?
17813What''s the use of worrying?
17813When I entered the mess for breakfast I was greeted by the inquiry from Captain Andrews:''How''s Palestine?''
17813When he arrived at the Orderly Room he saw me and said:"''Who are you?
17813Where had I been educated?
17813Why should not the public be allowed to laugh with us?
17813You call that a Battalion?
17813You understand that, Floyd?''
17813_ The_ C.O.--Colonel Best- Dunkley?''
17813because Sir Douglas Haig considers us the best brigade in the Division, and that if we could not stick Saturday what would we do then?
17813like that?''
13777What did I say?
13777What was Rhodes doing in Germany for twelve months,he cried,"tell me that?"
13777All this would have been entertaining, even exciting,_ before_ Magersfontein; but after?
13777And how were we prepared to meet the attentions of this well- equipped and watchful enemy?
13777And where all this time, it may be asked, where was Long Cecil?
13777As one of the Pitts( was it one of the Pitts?)
13777But would they do so; would they screw their courage to the sticking point?
13777Could it be, was it conceivable that Methuen had been worsted at Magersfontein?
13777Could such an interference with the freedom of the subject be brooked for five minutes?
13777Did not the Colonel represent the Queen?
13777Did they realise its gravity?
13777Had not the"black"an"equal right"to quench his thirst?
13777How long would the Siege last?
13777How many more were to follow?
13777How was it all going to end?
13777How were we to hold the positions we had sought to get possession of?
13777Of what avail were these against the potent engines of destruction on the other side?
13777Oom Paul, looking on in dismay, enquires:"Where do I come in?"
13777Or how_ into_ Mafeking?
13777People asked, in their indignation, if they really lived in a British Colony?
13777Perhaps it was; but how was the view to be reconciled with our previous positiveness to the contrary?
13777The Colonel heard of it-- what did he not hear?
13777The enterprise displayed was admirable; but-- had we to wait till the vegetables grew?
13777The possibility of forwarding them to their destination was out of the question; how were they to be sent out of Kimberley?
13777Was it a fabrication?
13777Was it the province of a military man to advocate, still less to enforce, temperance?
13777Were facts being witheld?
13777Were they to grow while we waited?
13777What did he want?
13777What did he want?
13777What did it mean?
13777What did the transformation mean?
13777What else on Saturday?
13777Where should they be housed?
13777Where was the Military despotism to stop?
13777Where was the necessary material to come from?
13777Wherefore the need of risking so many lives, at such a moment, with a Column outside, on its way to set us free?
13777Whither would they go?
13777Who could tell?
13777Who could tell?
13777Who knew that the Seventh Division would not follow suit?
13777Who now shall say that hunger is good sauce?
13777Who was Gorle?
13777Who was to tell what the morning might not show?
13777Why did the Military insist on aggravating the enemy?
13777Will they remember that we have fought alone and unaided for four long months?
13777With troops pouring into the country, wherefore the need of so much supererogation?
13777Would it come?
13777Would the"Military Situation"answer whither?
13777all?
13777in a voice of thunder,"who goes there?"
13777what am I saying?
29263He replied;"Yes, has he not relieved you since?"
29263I said,"Were you not with the officer when he placed me on sentry last night?"
29263I said,"Would you like a piece of it?"
29263I went over and he was there threshing, so I said,"Well, friend, do you thresh by the day or the quarter?"
29263On our arriving at the breach, the French sentry on the wall cried out,"Who comes there?"
29263She cried out,"Come in; why do n''t you shave?"
29263Then, noticing my Waterloo medal on my breast, he said,"I see you have been in the battle of Waterloo, sergeant?"
29263What can you advise me for it?"
29263and what are you going to do with all those shoes?"
28145Are you hit, sir?
28145Are you quite sure it has n''t touched the stomach?
28145Dead? 28145 Do n''t you recognise me?"
28145German? 28145 How were you hit?"
28145I think that''s a Blighty one, is n''t it?
28145Is this the support line?
28145What have they done to you?
28145What''s happened to Mr. A----, do you know?
28145What''s wrong with him?
28145Where are you hit?
28145Would you like whisky- and- soda, or beer, or lemonade?
28145Abdominal wound?
28145After a time he said--"Is your name L----?"
28145Can I stand it any longer?
28145Could n''t want a better morning for an attack, could you?"
28145How are we getting on?"
28145Is n''t the sun fine here?
28145Now, for I still remember it distinctly, my thought was,"Will my name appear in the casualty list under the head of''Killed''or''Wounded''?"
28145Really and truly what was the difference?
28145These were the kind of directions:"Wounded Sergeant?
28145What was the difference between twenty minutes and twenty years?
28145What was time?
28145Where have you caught it?"
28145Would I like to see him?
10798A lot of those poor devils will die?
10798And for what, might I ask?
10798Are you sufficiently wearied?
10798Are you sure you saw it?
10798But in the name of God, man,I said,"why do n''t they call a truce-- both sides-- and put that horror underground?"
10798But the bayonet wounds and the saber wounds?
10798Can not this thing be done more quietly?
10798Did n''t you have a pass to go through the lines?
10798Did you have any losses in the charge?
10798Do these things count in the sum total? 10798 Do you see that man?"
10798Get you?
10798Highly interesting, is it not? 10798 How about them?"
10798How far away are the Germans?
10798Hurt anyone? 10798 I say, what news have you from the front?
10798The British, then-- they must be there by now?
10798This war-- it is a most terrible thing that it should come on Belgium, eh? 10798 Well, if they are Americans, why do n''t they talk the American language then?"
10798What''s the news there?
10798When did he die?
10798Where is he?
10798Where was this?
10798Who killed him?
10798Who wanted to get you?
10798Why all the noise, Herr Lieutenant?
10798You had charge of another execution this morning, did n''t you?
10798You won that lately?
10798A German said to me afterwards:"Why do we win?
10798All goes well, eh?
10798All?
10798Are we giving the Germans a proper''iding all along the line?"
10798Assuredly many innocent ones will suffer then with the guilty; but what else can we do?
10798Bullet wounds?
10798But had anybody been killed?
10798Do you know what my men say?
10798Do you think I shall be permitted to enter Brussels and seek for my two daughters?
10798Had he beheld these things with his own eyes?
10798He said:"We had not our daily victory to- day, eh?
10798Hostile gun butts had splintered her front door; why not a stray bullet or two through her back window?
10798I buy me a swine-- what you call him?--a pork?
10798Is it not so, doctor?"
10798Is not that so?"
10798Shrapnel wounds?
10798So, then, I shall have the pleasure of seeing you in the morning, shall I not?
10798Speaking so low that we could scarcely catch his words, he said in broken English:"M''sieurs, the French are in Brussels, are they not?"
10798Then he added:"Could you tell us, sir,''ow''s the war going?
10798There might be some stupid, angry common soldier, some over- zealous under officer-- you understand me, do you not, gentlemen?
10798To him I put the question:"What have you done, now, to merit the bestowal of the Cross?"
10798What did he care for the code of war?
10798What do you want to know?"
10798Why should they?
10798Will you buy some postal cards, m''sieur?
10798Wounds from fragments of bombs?
10798Yes?
10798You heard about the case, did n''t you?"
12068''What regiment do you belong to?'' 12068 Ah, I beg your pardon; but what is your impression of Fort Donelson?"
12068Are you sure of that?
12068Battle sure to come off-- is it?
12068But how is it when a negro, by working nights or Saturdays, manages to make something for himself?
12068Can you tell me on which days he gave you each ticket?
12068Certainly we are,responded another;"but who will represent us?"
12068Come back here,said the officer;"what do you mean by this?"
12068D-- n your friends,said the guerrilla leader;"I suppose they are Yankees?"
12068Did you earn all these this week?
12068Do you dislike the Black Republicans very much?
12068Do you see that young man crossing the street toward----''s store?
12068How did you cross the river, gentlemen?
12068How do you know?
12068How far are you firing?
12068If it was given to them,I asked,"was it not theirs to sell?"
12068Is it possible?
12068Is the plan arranged?
12068No,we responded;"what is it?"
12068That is very true; but how was it at Shiloh?
12068Them round things? 12068 Then why ai n''t you killed, too, you d----d coward?"
12068Then why should n''t you pay me ten dollars every time I''tend upon the black folks on the plantation?
12068What are you doing here?
12068What are you doing there?
12068What kind of a Union man are you?
12068What''s you- uns come down here to fight we- uns for?
12068What_ are_ you crying for, then?
12068Where did you come from?
12068Where is K----, and where is Colburn?
12068Where were they from?
12068Which one did he give you to- day?
12068Whisky, is n''t it?
12068White people are free, too, ai n''t they?
12068Who comes there?
12068Who will we send? 12068 Will some of you learned ones tell me,"said he,"what is the Latin word for_ true_?"
12068After a little preliminary talk, one of them said:"Are you aware, general, there is no law of the State allowing you to make a cut- off, here?"
12068After a pause, she spoke again:"Did n''t you say the black people are free?"
12068After some desultory conversation, he threw out the question:--"What does martial law do?"
12068An Arkansas colonel was in bed when the order reached him, and lazily asked,"Is that official?"
12068As soon as he could speak, he asked, breathing between, the words--"Have you heard the news?"
12068But, pray, what do you consider the capture of Island Number Ten and the naval battle here?"
12068By- the- way, Mr. K----, how did you come over?"
12068Do you think, if I put them with yours, there is any danger of their straying, on account of being on a strange place?"
12068Does any soldier, who reads this, imagine himself tendering his resignation in the above manner with any prospect of its acceptance?
12068He promptly replied:"The parish of Madison gave a large majority in favor of secession; did it not?"
12068If the deeds of which the Rebels were guilty are characteristic of chivalry, who would wish to be a son of the Cavaliers?
12068Is it not acknowledged everywhere that a man shall be tried by his peers?"
12068K----?"
12068Mysteries of Mule- trading.--"What''s in a Name?"
12068Mysteries of Mule- trading.--"What''s in a Name?"
12068Once I asked a rough- looking farmer,"How far is it to Sand Springs?"
12068Should it banish me from that spot, or should I receive an official censure?
12068Who can resist the questions of a woman, even though she be an uneducated and unkempt Missourian?
12068Who could believe in the existence of a reliable countryman, after that?
31049And do not these come of honest ambition?
31049What richer legacy can you hand down?
11232Anything in for me?
11232Are you going to stay here as well?
11232Come and split one at the Faucon d''Or?
11232Had I been seen?
11232Hear what?
11232How about this gun, Corporal-- is everything all right?
11232Hullo, you''re here too, are you?
11232I say, Sentry, which house does Mr. Hudson live in?
11232Locre? 11232 Topping about our brigade, is n''t it?"
11232We shall be very glad to accept your sketch,''Where did that one go to?'' 11232 Well, how are things going with you?"
11232What about going into that house over there and see if there''s a fire?
11232What about my sergeant and those other guns?
11232What have I got to do?
11232What''s on beyond Locre?
11232What''s this about leave?
11232What''s topping?
11232What?
11232When do you want it moved, sir?
11232Where are you going''B.B.''?
11232Where are you living, Bairnsfather?
11232Where is he?
11232Where''s that right- hand gun of yours, Bairnsfather?
11232Where''s the corporal?
11232Where?
11232You know what to do here, Corporal?
11232''oo goes there?"
11232--THE FIRST FRAGMENT DISPATCHED-- THE EXODUS-- WHERE?
11232--The First Fragment dispatched-- The exodus-- Where?
11232A hole in the floor, a three- legged chair, and brown paper pushed into the largest of the holes in the walls-- what more could a man want?
11232A lurid thing in gendarmes advanced upon me, and I let off one of my curtailed French sentences at him:"Pour Bléville, Monsieur?"
11232A sentence which must have been said countless times in this war,_ i.e._,"Where did that one go?"
11232Ah, yes; and what''s beyond Locre?"
11232CHAPTER XV ARRIVAL OF THE"JOHNSONS"--"WHERE DID THAT ONE GO?"
11232CHAPTER XV Arrival of the"Johnsons"--"Where did that one go?"
11232CHAPTER XXII A DAYLIGHT STALK-- THE DISUSED TRENCH--"DID THEY SEE ME?"
11232CHAPTER XXII A daylight stalk-- The disused trench--"Did they see me?"
11232Every one then thought of only one thing-- where were we going?
11232Everybody to stop and say,"What was that?"
11232Have a bit of cake?"
11232Hudson?"
11232I squeezed out the same old sentence:"Pour Bléville, Monsieur?"
11232No sandbags to spare, of course, so the question was,"What shall we make a parapet of?"
11232The Tin- opener"They''re devils to snipe, ai n''t they, Bill?"
11232There''s a''ell of a draught in''ere"A Memory of Christmas, 1914 The Sentry A Messines Memory:"''Ow about shiftin''a bit further down the road, Fred?"
11232Was I all right or all wrong?
11232What could be up now?
11232What paper should I send it to?
11232Where were we going to?
11232Why were we going before our time?
11232[ Illustration: Comin''on down to the Estaminet tonight, Arry?]
11232[ Illustration: hayseed]"Do you hear the Boches kicking up that racket over there?"
28060Anything doing up at the front?
28060Captain,said the Major,"how are your men dressed?"
28060Do they still have their summer underwear?
28060Hello, Mr. Y- Man, do n''t you want to see a fellow that has three holes through him and still going strong?
28060How do you stay here and keep sane?
28060How many prisoners did you have?
28060THE AMERICAN DEAD"Will we be able to locate the body of our boy?
28060Were they allowed to keep any of their belongings?
28060You do n''t really mean it, do you? 28060 _ Who Goes There?_""A friend with the countersign."
28060After the hisses had died down some one asked,"Why is it you want to study German rather than French?"
28060Ca n''t you get some action?"
28060In all this is there not more than a hint for the Church of to- morrow?
28060Major Hazlett was instantly aroused:"What is the matter with your voice?"
28060One of the nurses said,"Have you seen Tony in Ward N?
28060Was a swift and merciful bullet sufficient revenge, or should he wait and give his foe that which he so much feared, the cold steel?
28060What is the story of the morality of the American army during the struggle just ended?
28060When in answer to the requests,"Ca n''t you sell us a cake of chocolate or a pack of Camels?"
28060Where would the next American blow be struck?
28060Whose fault is that?
28060Why were our soldiers in this bitter world conflict better and stronger than the soldiers of previous wars?
28060Wo n''t you write her too and tell her that her son has given himself to the Lord Jesus Christ?"
28060Would they get a chance for the"big push"?
28060_ How long could they last?_ And how speedily could artillery be brought to their aid?
28060_ How long could they last?_ And how speedily could artillery be brought to their aid?
28060secretary?
18910Where?
18910Who did that?
18910Who said War?
1891011 P.M.--Just heard a shell burst, first the whistling scream, and then the bang-- wonder where?
1891011.15.--Just off for----?
18910; thought I''d better bide a wee, and it was to say"Your train is urgently required; how soon can you start?"
18910A sleepy major has just waked up and said,"Did you hear the shells?
18910Blackguards, are n''t they?"
18910But who could yesterday and to- day?
18910Could anybody go to bed and undress?
18910Did you ever know such luck?
18910He said the Boches are throwing stones across to our men wrapped in paper with messages like this written on them,"Why do n''t you stop the War?
18910I asked the boy how many wounds?
18910I did n''t happen to answer for a minute, and in a changed voice he said,"Sha n''t I?
18910I wonder if Botha will be able to hold it?
18910If it is so deadly cold on this unheated train, what do they do in the trenches with practically the same equipment they came out with in August?
18910In the middle of the worst rush the sergeant said to me,"You know they''re shelling the town again?"
18910Is it the weather or the Russian advance?
18910Is n''t it absolutely rotten?
18910Is n''t it beastly?
18910Is n''t it horrible?
18910Is there anything else quite like it anywhere else?
18910My boy with the dressings on his head has not the slightest idea that he''s got no eyes, and who is going to tell him?
18910One boy said suddenly, when I was attending to his leg,"Are n''t you very foolish to be staying up here?"
18910One very ill boy, wounded in the lungs, who was put off at Abbeville, was wailing,"Where''s my Mary Box?"
18910The train stays here to- night and we are off to- morrow?
18910There is a great deal about the French and English heavy losses, but where are the wounded being sent?
18910There is but one task for all-- For each one life to give, Who stands if freedom fall?
18910They do n''t lose much time finding these things out, do they?
18910They had all that and one mouth- organ-- wasn''t it lucky?
18910They spell War, and War only-- nothing else( but perhaps an earthquake?)
18910They stayed there several hours with no dressings on, sinking into the mud( can you wonder it has gone wrong?
18910We are still in the same train, and shall not reach Le Mans till 11 P.M. Then what?
18910We want to get home to our wives these beautiful days, and so do you, so why do you go on fighting?"
18910What about the Russians who came through England?
18910What do you think of that?
18910When I said to the first boy,"Have you got a muffler?"
18910When they got the khaki hankies they said,"Khaki?
18910Who dies if England live?"
18910Why?
18910Wo n''t it be thrilling to see it all?
18910Would n''t you like to be under the table when K. and J. and F. are poring over their maps to- night?
18910_ Monday, September 28th._--There are hundreds of people in deep new black in this town; what must it be in Berlin?
18910_ Still Good Friday_, 10 P.M.--Who said Active Service?
18910_ Tuesday, May 18th, is it?_ 1 A.M.,_ in bed._--It has been about the worst night of all the worst nights.
18910_ Xmas Eve, 1914._--And no fire and no chauffage, and cotton frocks; funny life, is n''t it?
18910doing their dressings, all as busy as bees, only stopping to say to us,"Are n''t they brave?"
18910for----?
18910sha n''t I?"
30114Has he seen our periscope in the second it was exposed, and is he running away from us?
30114How much water then must we take in?
30114No U- boat had ever attempted such a feat before, but why not try?
30114Or would they get away from us before our guns could take effect?
30114Or, on the contrary, having seen us, will he put on full steam and try to run us down with a fatal death stroke from his prow?
30114Ought we not therefore to rejoice in our justifiable satisfaction?
30114The question was, should we be able to perform this new duty?
30114Was it diminishing?
30114We are often asked,"How can you breathe under water?"
30114What would have happened to us in this war had we not so proudly excelled above the earth and beneath the sea?
30114Will the fellow continue on the same course?
11008Accident- insurance, old- age pensions, and all that-- what do we want to fight the Kaiser for? 11008 And on which side?"
11008And what did he say?
11008Can you not take coffee and rolls in London as well as in some Paris café?
11008Did you ever see it?
11008Did you ever see one of these soldiers salute?
11008Did you ever see them salute? 11008 Do they know how to shoot?"
11008Do you speak English?
11008Go to war?
11008Have you any idea of the moral effect of that step? 11008 How are the English?"
11008I suppose you are surprised to see the Dom, yes?
11008Kill him?
11008Monsieur is a stranger?
11008Oh,she said, and in her crisp, English voice, without further ado,"will you help me with a leg?"
11008Paris? 11008 The King of Spain ran over to Bordeaux one day, and came to us and said:''I''ve got two hours; what can you show me?''
11008There''s seven hundred good men gone, maybe-- how many did the Triumph carry? 11008 Where''s it going to end?"
11008Will you give us time to get off?
11008With Servia?
11008''Are you sufficiently reassured now?''
11008--is this one meant for you?
11008--it was he who had no money and nothing to cover him, and what did they want him to do?
11008And the Germans-- how were they?
11008And then--"What do you think about the war?"
11008Another breakfast like this, another day of rain and fog, another''"Q?"
11008At the first bewildering''"Q?"
11008But Treitschke-- who was he?
11008But was it overhead?
11008But where?
11008But why staggering?
11008Did it take those three motor- cars and those little dots for some reconnoitring division commander and his staff?
11008Has he made a convention With perfidious Albion?
11008He was going back home--"to fight?"
11008Husbands gone, food gone, the country swept bare-- why did they not go, too?
11008I did n''t say anything about it to anybody-- they''d only laugh at me-- d''you know what I mean?
11008If a man should invent something that would kill a hundred thousand men at once, he''d be a great man... Now, what is that?"
11008Is it merely quiet and sun?
11008Nobody knows--")"Is he for the Germans?
11008On n''sait pas--"("What thinks the Prime Minister?
11008Practically all the wounds were infected when the men came in, but suppose he could have picked up something in that bath?
11008They could n''t afford to keep a place in England and live somewhere else half the time--"and, after all, what is there in being a cabbage?"
11008To fight?--I suggested.
11008To- night?"
11008Unfortunate, no doubt, but what do you wish?
11008What can you say about it?
11008What do you think of it?
11008What was to become of these people when their little supply of food was exhausted?
11008When he came to the majorums he said:''What on earth do you do with those?''
11008Where could they go?
11008Who was Take Ionesco in comparison with the fate of a race?
11008Who was he, then-- king of his country?
11008Why could n''t people knock each other out in a stand- up fight like men in a ring, instead of strewing the open road with explosives?
11008Wounded?
11008like the Mexican''s"Who knows?"
11008says the journalist; he likes hard bread; but why must several million people go on cracking their teeth because of that idiosyncrasy?
11008the lieutenant called out to a Belgian officer standing not far away,"ca n''t you telephone over to your people to stop that?
11008the old woman repeated, looking from one to the other, and then added, as one putting an unanswerable question:"But you are not soldiers?"
29660''A friend to North or South?'' 29660 ''Gin''ral,''said I,''_ you all_ do n''t think of capterin''them are Yankee wagons, do you?''
29660''Why not? 29660 So great was the danger which he thus ran, that one of his staff said:''General, do n''t you think this is the wrong place for you?''
29660That gun must be captured,exclaimed Lieutenant Elmer J. Barker, of the Fifth New York,"and who will volunteer to charge it with me?"
29660Why do we not advance?
29660''Well,''said I,''Buford, what can I do?''
29660But as they have failed to do so, the inquiry is very general among us,"Where are they?"
29660Does it not appear to be an overruling act of Providence?
29660Is not this the case everywhere?
29660It appears that a certain Colonel Turner Ashby, with a force of cavaliers(?)
29660The first great impulse of the authorities was in the direction of self- defence( and what could be more natural and proper?
29660Who comes there?"
29660Why do not our guns reopen their fire?
29660and,"What do they intend?"
29660exclaimed the general,''have not the Yankees a large wagon- train there?''
29660who goes there?''
12880Are there many women in Canada-- women in every house-- like here?
12880But,said Lena,"what do they do in house-- when bread is made and dish- wash?"
12880Do you think it will be over soon?
12880How are the folks at home?
12880How long shall I be there?
12880Is it well?
12880My country-- is it well?
12880What are the flags up for?
12880What are you?
12880What did you do to it?
12880What good would books be to me in this black hole?
12880What reason had we? 12880 What time is it?"
12880Who are you?
12880Why?
12880Did I not like girls?
12880Did he by any chance know a boy from Vancouver called Wallen Gordon, who had been"Missing"since the 2d of June, 1916?
12880Did they get enough to eat?
12880Did they get their parcels?
12880Do you hear of any who did?"
12880Have you got any?"
12880Have you the rings?
12880He came to me and said,"Well, what have you got?"
12880He fairly danced at his work after that, and when I saw him afterwards, he eagerly asked--"My country-- is it well?"
12880He looked thin and worried, and, as usual, the questions were put to us--"Why did we want to leave?"
12880He walked over to the gendarme and glared in his face,--"What do I want to get back for?"
12880How were they treated?
12880I said--"what things?
12880It took time, of course, but what was time to us?
12880Lena had heard women worked in the house, and not outside, in Canada-- was it true?
12880No?
12880Of course, we all knew we were taking a grave risk, but then, why should n''t we?
12880Or Reg Black from Manitou?
12880The Russians were scurrying out like scared rabbits, but the British, not so easily intimidated, were asking,"What''s the row?"
12880The gendarme at last broke out into English, cutting his words off with a snarl:"What do you fellows want to get back for anyway?
12880The possession of a compass is an indication that the subject of"escaping"has been thought of, and the question,"Have you a compass?"
12880Then came the moment of tense anxiety.... Would he lock me in?
12880Then he asked me what did Canada hope to get out of the war?
12880Then, after a few minutes''conference-- Had I a girl?
12880This is the form in which the question came:"You have no girl, but you say you like girls; is n''t it all right to have a girl?"
12880Was Fanny my girl?
12880Was I married?
12880Was it the food, or was it because we had to work?"
12880We asked him if there was any danger of our being interned?
12880We did not enjoy the notoriety very much, but the guard enjoyed it immensely, for was he not the keeper of two hardened and desperate men?
12880We were asked our names, ages, previous occupation, when captured, and the most important questions of all,"Why were we fighting against Germany?"
12880Wer da?"
12880Were they very lonely?
12880What if they were burnt on the outside?
12880What matter if I never saw it again?
12880What spite have you and I at each other?"
12880What_ do_ they understand?"
12880When he came in, he blew his breath in the frosty air, and asked,"Kalt?"
12880Who do you know that has got away?
12880Why go to England?
12880Why had n''t I a girl?
12880Why had n''t I thought to put sugar in it when I mixed it up?
12880Would we sign a paper-- he asked us then-- to show this?
12880and,"Why did we want to leave Germany?"
12880is the prison- camp way of saying,"What do you think of making a try?"
12880or Garnet Stewart from Winnipeg?
12880or what?
27193Are all you boys feeling right?
27193But why should that stop you?
27193Do n''t you know that there are still hundreds of boys coming down the line wounded and broken?
27193Do you really mean that, Jim?
27193Do you smoke them?
27193Liza,replied the first speaker''s companion, in a somewhat indignant voice,"Bill''s over there, ai n''t''e?
27193Say,said one,"ai n''t it time that this war wuz over?
27193Well, Rawlinson, and how are you getting along? 27193 Well,"said I,"will she shake hands now?"
27193When?
27193Why?
27193Yes,he replied,"I should enjoy something to drink; but who will take me to your tea- room?"
27193You are a soldier, are you not, Canada?
27193But who are you?"
27193CHAPTER IV BRAILLE I have often been asked,"What is Braille?
27193Have you got a cigarette to give a fellow?"
27193He answered:"Say, Digger, I''ve been taking some chances, have n''t I?
27193He was most solicitous about the welfare of the"head- case,"and kept showering me with questions, such as:"Are you comfortable, Mac?"
27193How do you like it?"
27193How is the boy this morning?"
27193I have heard some of the men of the other teams asking:"Why do they always pull us over?
27193Is it raised letters?"
27193Suddenly, from the direction of the door, a cheery voice exclaimed:"Are any new men here?
27193The matron asked her, somewhat sternly,"Did you not hear that man calling?"
27193Two queens in one afternoon is not bad going for an old Canuck, is it?"
27193What need is there of the beautiful for those who are without eyes, or who have eyes that see not?
27193What other educational establishment can boast such a record?
27193When do they figure on letting you get away from here?
27193When we met, I began our conversation with:"Well, kid, how are things?"
27193Where''s Rawlinson?"
27193Why do n''t they stop?
16078And are you goin''to march in them drorin''-room abominations?
16078But Wankin--"What?
16078Do n''t I?
16078Do n''t know? 16078 Do you think I mistook this damned place for the canteen?"
16078Everything you say is about things we all know; who wants to''ear about them? 16078 Form fours-- where?"
16078France I suppose, is n''t it?
16078Going to---- pub?
16078Have you any room to spare here?
16078Here on account of drink?
16078How do you know?
16078Is it to line the streets when the troops come home? 16078 Is that so?"
16078The crutch?
16078They do n''t pinch or-- what''s wrong with you?
16078Was it rheumatic pains last time?
16078Well, sir, the last time was when--"How many times?
16078What about that apartment there?
16078What are you supposed to leave for the men? 16078 What did you think of it?"
16078What do you think of it?
16078What have you got?
16078What is it?
16078What the dickens did you take this here for?
16078What''s wrong with it?
16078Where are we going?
16078Where to, sir?
16078Where''ll yer go then?
16078Why have we joined?
16078Why?
16078Why?
16078Will you? 16078 Would I?"
16078Would you like a holiday?
16078Would you mind me lookin''at passes, mateys?
16078''Wot''s my gime?''
16078''Wot''s yer gime?''
16078:"''Ow many are there of yer?"
16078:"Gentlemen, ai n''t yer?"
16078:"Oo are you?"
16078And our enemies?
16078And the landladies''daughters?
16078And you, what''s wrong with your understandings?"
16078D''ye get paid for writin''that?"
16078Did you not know that you were right?...
16078France, Egypt, or India?
16078Is that clear to every man?"
16078It pains me when marching, and sometimes--""Have you ever heard that Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach?"
16078Lyin''out on the grass last field day--""How many times have you been here before?"
16078Now, who is this friend I''m talking about?"
16078Some, who are not the least ill, whine till one is sick-- what''s the matter with you?"
16078The Jersey youth made a remark:"Where are we going to?"
16078The poet says:''I sing my songs to you-- and well, You''ll maybe like them-- who can tell?''
16078What are my men to get?"
16078What brought you here?"
16078Where are we going to when we leave England?
16078Where''s Eyeglass, the platoon sergeant, now?
16078Who''s pinched him?"
16078Your boots are good?"
16078he repeated;"what the devil does it matter to you?
31969I thought, to what extent is this slaughter to go on, and when will the sacrifice for patriotism''s sake be complete?
16337Has it hit the gun?
16337How will the war go? 16337 Imperial Light Horse?"
16337Over where?
16337What,said the weak voice-- the smile struggled to come out again, but dropped back even sooner than before--"have they got my finger too?"
16337Where?
1633710._"Good morning,"banged four- point- seven;"have you used Long Tom?"
16337And now what does it feel like to be bombarded?
16337And this is more or less what he said:--"Information?
16337And what was the good?
16337And who''s fault''s that?
16337Armoured train blown up, Mafeking cut off, Kimberley in danger, and General Butler-- what?
16337But what matters it whether they lost one or one million?
16337But what odds?
16337But when that was done, what could they do?
16337But where do you come from?
16337Every Dutchman''s armed, and how many rifles will you find among the English?
16337Has a man of that Army Corps left England?
16337Has not the Government sent us a garrison?
16337He turned with the beginning of a smile that would not finish:"Would you mind straightening out my arm?"
16337Hour by hour-- would day never break?
16337How could that be possible at this hour?
16337How could we expect undergraduates to be moral if Mr Steevens did such things?
16337How, indeed?
16337I wonder if it is all real?
16337I''ve left my property in the Free State, and odds are I shall lose every penny I''ve got-- what part?
16337In the mean time the good lady of the refreshment- room says:"Dinner?
16337In the morning they asked the Director of Military Intelligence what the shelling was; he replied,"What shelling?"
16337In the rain- blurred light of the lantern-- could it not cease, that piercing drizzle to- night of all nights at least?
16337Is there no stretcher?"
16337It seems bitter, unjust, a quite superfluous dispensation; and then one''s eye falls on the next sentence--''What have we to show in return?''
16337Now how could we have confidence after all this in British Government?
16337O Lord, how long?
16337Only where?
16337Six policemen, gentlemen, and the Boers are at Pieter''s farrm, and they''ll be here to- night and sjambok--_ Thin- faced man._ Where are the troops?
16337That on their side-- and on ours?
16337Then the third line and the second were lost on the brown, and the third-- where?
16337They tould me there was a box of cigars here; do ye know, sorr, if the bhoys have shmoked them all?"
16337WILL IT BE CIVIL WAR?
16337WILL IT BE CIVIL WAR?
16337Was it an apparition, or was that under the kummerbund a bit of kilt and an end of sporran?
16337Well, then, if the Army Corps had left three months ago, would n''t the Boers have declared war three months ago too?
16337Were we mad?
16337What in the name of gunpowder is it all about?
16337What next?
16337What was I to do?
16337What were they?
16337What were we doing?
16337Where are the volunteers?
16337Where was I to go?
16337Where were we?
16337Where''s the Army Corps?
16337Who goes there?"
16337Who would not weep over the extinction of a career set in a promise so golden, in an accomplishment so rare and splendid?
16337Why didna they send the Army Corps out three months ago?
16337Why does our Government--_ Brown- faced man._ Are you accustomed to shoot?
16337Would it never end?
16337Would this cursed hill never end?
16337_ Thick- set man._ And where are the British arms?
16337_ Thin- faced man._ Any trouble in getting away?
16337_ Thin- faced man._ But I want to know why the Boers are armed and we are n''t?
16337all over-- and come here on to British soil, and what do I find?
16337cried the staff officer with amazement in his voice;"what on earth for?"
16337who are you fallin''up against?
31998For was not God my father, Jesus my elder brother, and Heaven my home?
15644Are they sincere?
15644Bullion or coin?
15644But were there not many who if they had opportunity would have proclaimed themselves for the United States Government?
15644Did he tell you to bring it to me?
15644How do you know?
15644How was he killed?
15644I saw him die ten minutes ago?
15644Why?
15644[*] Can a jealous God consolidate and perpetuate a power commenced in perjury? 15644 -- One more Move-- but how? 15644 -- One more Move-- but how? 15644 -- Was my Oath binding? 15644 -- Was my Oath binding? 15644 -- Why? 15644 -- Why? 15644 Among the questions to be settled by this war, are not these important? 15644 B._ Now, honey, be aisy, ca n''t ye? 15644 B._ Och, Colonel dear, ye would n''t be so bad as that, would ye? 15644 B._ Ye''ll gag me, will ye? 15644 But how could this be accomplished? 15644 But the question now arose, where was the guard to come from-- no one would answer to the guard detail? 15644 But what could one man, and he a youth and a stranger, do against a corrupt and reckless populace? 15644 But what plea shall shield the sin which claims to love one''s own petty State better than either country or God? 15644 But, in this case, can it be done safely? 15644 Did he not deserve my special care?'' 15644 Does any reader say,You did wrong-- you had better have died than have given your name to such an infamous and causeless rebellion?"
15644Does the reader ask, Why such sacrifice?
15644From their stand- point, why should it?
15644Has not the day of avenging already commenced?
15644He called out,"Pat, what have you got in your gun?
15644He seemed overcome, and said,"My friend, why this kindness to an enemy?"
15644How have they secured and manufactured an adequate supply of these, during such a protracted and destructive struggle?
15644How long is this system of terrorism to continue?
15644I came up to him, and said,"You seem to be badly wounded, sir; will you have some water?"
15644Is it possible to treat such a number as banditti, without inaugurating a more bloody retaliation and massacre than the world has ever seen?
15644Morgan asked, in short quick words,"Do you understand my orders?"
15644Must all the cruelties and iniquities which accompany its existence be left unchallenged, and their authors uncondemned?
15644Saffarrens, ran into the river waist- deep, in his desire for safety, when one of his men called out,"Captain, dear, are ye off for Memphis?
15644Shall an American citizen be allowed in safety to travel or reside anywhere in his own land?
15644Shall there be any freedom of opinion and speech upon the question of slavery?
15644Should the Federal authorities suspect me of having been in the Rebel service, would they allow me to take the oath and go my way?
15644Still, can there be no calm and considerate discussion of the rightfulness or sinfulness of the laws which define and regulate slavery?
15644The general stood near, why should not others?
15644The question is often asked, Where does the ammunition come from to supply the Southern army?
15644Their commander was equally non- committal, and demanded,"Who comes there?"
15644Then, how was I to travel thirty miles before daybreak, as it was now two o''clock?
15644This utter disregard of law and the sanctity of human life?
15644To his question,"Are you wounded?"
15644Was I not demonstrating my sentiments, by seceding from a government which affirmed the right in its fundamental law?
15644When he had read it, he asked--"Why did you not take this to General Johnson?"
15644When we sat down to eat and missed a messmate, the query went round,"Will it be my turn next?"
15644Where is your wound?"
15644Whiskey?"
15644Will you do it?"
21976But are you not a confederate?
21976But why do you not cut down some of this forest and till more land? 21976 Have you no husband?"
21976How do you like Fort Donelson?
21976How long will it take you to load your ambulances, doctor?
21976How shall I reach him?
21976What do you want?
21976What troops are those?
21976What''ll Ole Missus do Now?
21976What,replied the militia- men,"You do n''t expect us to eat that hard tack do you?"
21976Why Do n''t he Come?
21976A laugh from the comrades of the luckless ones, while some one would call out,"Have you a pass to go down there?"
21976Boys who had plied the trade of bootblack gave up their profession and with pail and sponge in hand called to the passer by,"Wash your boots, sir?"
21976But of what use do you make it?
21976Can you not stay?"
21976Could he have died a grander death had he been spared longer?
21976Could his last words have been better chosen had he expired in the embrace of loved ones at home?
21976Deyoe, turning his face toward that of the straggler with a look of unruffled coolness and unmitigated contempt, replied,"Well, who the d-- is afraid?
21976During the lovely month of December we had been impatient for action; but now the oft repeated question,"Why do n''t the Army of the Potomac move?"
21976General Sumner rode up to him and said quietly,"General, do you know that Hooker is badly cut up?"
21976Hereafter, men were not to ask,"Who ever saw a dead cavalryman?"
21976How large a portion of this great State was in this sad condition?
21976Meridian Hill-- Neighboring scenery-- First Sunday in camp-- Drills-- Sickness-- The Hospital-- General Casey--"Why do n''t the army move?"
21976Meridian Hill-- Neighboring scenery-- First Sunday in camp-- Drills-- Sickness-- The Hospital-- General Casey--"Why do n''t the army move?"
21976Must this little be reduced?
21976She sadly leans her head upon her hand and sighs,"Why do n''t he come?"
21976The amount of hospital supplies carried in the wagons was already limited; could it be reduced?
21976The doctor stooped over him, and the boy, pressing his hand in his own, said,"You are a friend, are you not?"
21976The major says,''Doctor, can nothing be done?''
21976The writer of these pages, reining his horse to the side of the vehicle, addressed the aged negress,"Well, aunty, are all those your children?"
21976There can be but one question-- who was responsible for the criminal neglect to send the Sixth corps to the assistance of Pope''s army?
21976Was it because agriculture was unprofitable?
21976Was it because the war had put a stop to agricultural pursuits?
21976Was it worse to keep a corps out of the fight, when on the field, than to keep another corps off from the field altogether without any good reason?
21976Were reinforcements coming?
21976Were they not grand dying words?
21976Were we now, notwithstanding all our brilliant successes and our proud consciousness of superiority, to see our prestige fade in an hour?
21976Were we to pursue the retreating army, or were we to return to Washington to take a new start?
21976What cared the men of the Nineteenth corps that they were forced to lie upon the ground without tents or blankets?
21976What cared they now for the fury of the waves or the hardships of short rations?
21976What do you think of Bull Run?"
21976What was the cause?
21976What''l ole missus do now?"
21976Who would have selected this lovely valley as the scene of one of the most bloody struggles ever recorded?
21976Who would have suspected that it was the Sabbath?
21976Why were these fine lands desolate?
21976[ Illustration:"WHAT''LL OLE MISSUS DO NOW?"]
21976[ Illustration:"WHY DON''T HE COME?"]
21976can I ever write anything beside these mournful details?
21976who comes there?"
21976why do n''t you hit it?
15131How long?
15131That''s a most extraordinary thing,thinks I, deeply interested,"what land whale of these plains blows sand up in that fashion?"
15131What are they shooting at?
15131Where are you to- day?
15131Will the Guides kindly...?
15131A pleasant morning for a ride, is it not?"
15131All this is very sad and lugubrious, is it not?
15131And the Guards?
15131And what must have been the feelings of the poor Boers?
15131Are these the prisoners that we played at dice for?
15131Are thieving, and lying, and looting, and bestial talk very bad things?
15131Are those kopjes out of range?
15131Are you going to burn down every house, and turn the whole country into a desert?
15131Are you less of these things?
15131Are you wide- awake, sharp, and shrewd, plucky; can you lead?
15131But what a revelation, is it not?
15131But what was the reason of this latest?
15131But where does their main strength lie?
15131Can anything in that hell down there be left alive?
15131Can there be so blessed a place?
15131Can there be such a land?
15131Can you conceive a more disgusting termination to a morning stroll?
15131Do n''t you?
15131Do you know Colonials?
15131Do you know the emancipated feeling yourself?
15131Have we been through Belmont and Graspan and Modder River and Magersfontein for nothing?
15131Here is a bit of raw humanity for you to study, a sample of the old Anglo- Saxon breed; what do you make of it?
15131Here''s another-- First Tommy:"And the bullets was comin''that thick----"Second Tommy:"Well, but''adn''t you got no ant''ills?"
15131Horse is it, or man?
15131How are you?
15131How far do you mean to go in this?
15131How many of this little brotherhood under the mud wall, idly I wonder, will ever see English meadows again?
15131How often has this happened to the Colonials?
15131If the plot existed, why did n''t the plot work?
15131If this scheme for a general rising existed, why is not the Colony in arms now?
15131In a grey light I rouse myself to look out across the wet misty flat, hearing some one say,"Who''s that?
15131Is n''t there?
15131It is generally considered rather a coup in war, I believe, to take the enemy''s capital, is n''t it?
15131Let''s all lie and steal; what does it signify?
15131Of what use is even courage itself if it goes with impatience and a flash in the pan endurance?
15131Shall I ever submit to that varlet again?
15131The question is, how are we to collar them?
15131Then what about your bedding?
15131Then where was French?
15131These are roughish traits, are they not?
15131Was ever such luck?
15131We have always said,"Why, with all these armies in the field, can not we surround them, or catch them, or deal a decisive blow of some sort?"
15131We have come along well, have we not?
15131What do you think the answer to that is?
15131What force is that?"
15131What is it to be a child of the veldt, and never to have known any other life except the life of these plains?
15131What manner of life, think you, is in yonder ditch?
15131What news can you expect in such times?
15131What sterner test can a nation be put to than this?
15131What the devil''s the use of the bravest man with half- a- dozen bullets through him?
15131What were they there for?
15131What would you give for a peep at the show; to see the types and hear the talk?
15131What would you think of giving Puckie a rifle and sending him out to fight?
15131Who decides these things?
15131Who goes there?"
15131Why on earth did Broadwood camp the wrong side of that ditch?
15131Why should naval guns be so vastly superior to land ones?
15131Will Methuen decide the point, or the war correspondents, or will they hold a cabinet council about it?
15131Would any one kindly tell him why the Guards were not somewhere else?
15131You know a hawk''s hover?
15131what the dash are you running for?"
15131where are their guns?
2617Any guerrillas?
2617Is it a good road, and how far?
2617Well, ai n''t you on our side?
2617What do you know of Uncle Billy?
2617What is to be done with the freedmen?
2617But it first became necessary to settle the important question of who should succeed General McPherson?
2617But what next?
2617Can it be that such a resort finds root in any stratum of American opinion?
2617Can you expedite the sending to Nashville of the recruits that are in Indiana and Ohio?
2617Could not such a camp be established about Pocotaligo or Coosawhatchie?
2617Could not such escaped slaves find at least a partial supply of food in the rice- fields about Savannah, and cotton plantations on the coast?
2617Davis, etc.?
2617General Blair simply asked,"Do you like it?"
2617General Grant remarked,"What is to prevent their laying the rails again?"
2617If Hood goes to the Alabama line, will it not be impossible for him to subsist his army?
2617If the rebel leaders were to arm the slaves, what would be its effect?
2617Others say:"What are we to do?
2617Pausing awhile, and watching the operations of this man roasting his corn, he said,"What are you doing?"
2617Should we allow them to escape, etc.?
2617So that the only questions that remained were, would he surrender at Raleigh?
2617Some say:"I have such a one sick at my house; who will wait on them when I am gone?"
2617State in what manner you would rather live--whether scattered among the whites, or in colonies by yourselves?
2617State what you understand by slavery, and the freedom that was to be given by the President''s proclamation?
2617State what, in your opinion, is the best way to enlist colored men as soldiers?
2617Then followed the question,"Is Fort McAllister taken?"
2617This being so, how is it possible for the people still here( mostly women and children) to find any shelter?
2617What signified the terms to them, so long as we obtained the actual surrender of people who only wanted a good opportunity to give up gracefully?
2617What was to be done with the rebel armies when defeated?
2617Who ever supposed they would come away down here in Alabama?"
2617Who have prompted him?
2617Why was this, or why was all mention of any field of duty for the head of the army left out of the army regulations?
2617said a listener,"do n''t you know that old Sherman carries a duplicate tunnel along?"
31991Can he ever forget the holy inspiration of the silent cheer from his speechless father, mother, sister or lover as he passed them?
31991Can the picture ever fade?
31991Seeing this, our Colonel raised his hand in a forbidding attitude and called out,--"Why, boys, you would not shoot a man in that way, would you?
23031And how air you going?
23031And you are going to the front, old lady-- you, of all people in the world?
23031But, Madame Seacole,( this in a very altered tone),"_ you''ll_ surely help me?
23031Do you think I shall be of any use to you when I get there?
23031I am yours, truly obliged,J. K., 18th R. S."Does n''t that read like a sick man''s letter, glad enough to welcome any woman''s face?
23031I say, Mrs. Seacole, how''s that---- boy?
23031Oh, Dr. Casey, how could you shoot the poor lad, and now call him bad names, as though he''d injured you? 23031 What am I to do?
23031What can I do or say, Dr. Casey? 23031 Where air you going?"
23031Why not, my sons?--won''t they be glad to have me there?
23031Another equally terrible and lengthy siege of the north?
23031As it was, he came forward, and shook hands very kindly, saying,"How do you do, ma''am?
23031But what have I gained?
23031But who, indeed, has not been kind to me?
23031By what conveyance air you going?"
23031Ca n''t I rig up a hut with the packing- cases, and sleep, if need be, on straw, like Margery Daw?"
23031Come, Madame Seacole, you''ll never leave me to be murdered by these bloodthirsty savages?"
23031Did these ladies shrink from accepting my aid because my blood flowed beneath a somewhat duskier skin than theirs?
23031Her colour was grey; would not a thick coating of flour from my dredger make all right?
23031How could it be otherwise?
23031How was I to know when I brought them what camp- life was?
23031I could give many other similar instances, but why should I sadden myself or my readers?
23031I felt it to be so, for I never failed( although who was I, that I should preach?)
23031I wonder if I can ever forget the scenes I witnessed there?
23031In a few days the camp could find plenty to talk about in their novel position-- and what then?
23031Is n''t there a something we can du for you, ma''am?"
23031More fighting?
23031Now, would all this have happened if I had returned to England a rich woman?
23031Perhaps you''ll see them some day, and if the Russians should knock me over, mother, just tell them I thought of them all-- will you?"
23031Tell me, reader, can you fancy what the want of so simple a thing as a pocket- handkerchief is?
23031To put a case-- have you ever gone out for the day without one; sat in a draught and caught a sneezing cold in the head?
23031Was it not so with me?
23031Was it possible that American prejudices against colour had some root here?
23031What better or happier lot could possibly befall me?
23031What can you do for me, mami?"
23031What object has Mrs. Seacole in coming out?
23031What was to be done?
23031Why did n''t he show a little pluck?
23031Why did you ever bring me to this place?
23031Why not trust to their welcome and kindness, and start at once?
23031Will the reader take any interest in my Crimean Christmas- pudding?
23031Would you like, reader, to know my recipe for the favourite claret cup?
23031_ you''ll_ surely tell the alcalde that the wound''s a slight one?
23031do I, Aunty?"
32733General, while you were standing by a large tree during that battle, how near to your head did a bullet come, which struck a little above you?
13827But why,asks one of the men best qualified to speak in our Army--"why use the words''retreat''and''disaster''at all?"
13827But, finally-- what do you expect or wish for?
13827How?
13827Since when did you expect the French to come back?
13827Then we have not muddled through?
13827What could we do?
13827Why do n''t you_ boom_ your Generals?
13827Yes--_but what about France_?
13827_ What!_--you think nothing is changed?--that you are the masters here as you used to be-- that you can treat us as you used to treat us? 13827 A tired Army, and an attack pushed too far?--is that the summing up of the first battle of Cambrai? 13827 An American Army of 5,000,000 men was in contemplation, and,Why,"said the President at Baltimore in April,"limit it to 5,000,000?"
13827And now?
13827And when all is said, when our grave losses in casualties, prisoners, and guns are fully admitted, what was the general result?
13827Another, less profitable, asks:"Could the Allies have won without America?"
13827At last Sir Julian Byng had achieved surprise; at last there had been open fighting; if by happy chance we took Cambrai what might not happen?
13827But had it ever occurred to such a Greek to ponder the general stimulus given to human faculty by war?
13827But loss of prestige?
13827But without seeing, how can any man foretell the future-- how he may fare?"
13827Do not allow us even to_ begin_ to ask ourselves whether, after all, we have not paid too much for the alliance we gloried in?"
13827For what are those facts?
13827Has Christianity, swathed as it is in half- decayed beliefs, any longer power to help us?
13827How are his men fighting?
13827How can we bring our two nations closer together in this vital matter?
13827How long shall we keep our wrath?
13827Is there any consolation?
13827Is there anything to console us for such a spectacle?
13827May one not hope that they may still be of use in the reconstruction of French towns and the revival of French agriculture?
13827Most true-- and yet?
13827Of the vast hospital service, what can one say that has not been said a thousand tunes already?
13827PRISONERS.--What are the enemy losses?
13827She wants nothing more for herself-- the Great Mother of Nations-- why should she?
13827Should we really have to sleep in the car?
13827Suppose the war is over, and France swallowed up,_ before_ they begin?"
13827The Air Force?
13827The Peace Terms are no final solution-- how could they be?
13827The_ North American Review_ asked in December, 1917:"Are we losing the war?
13827Was it true-- or not true?
13827Was there ever a more lovely winter evening?
13827We are victors indeed; we have won to the shore; but the wreck of the tempest lies all round us; and what is the future to be?
13827We''ll show you?
13827What does that leaping line mean?
13827What homes did they come from?
13827What is it that makes the special charm of the distinguished soldier, as compared with other distinguished men?
13827What is your business?"
13827What manner of men were they that fought this fight?
13827What traditions did they represent?
13827What was it, asks M. Reinach, that enabled the French to hold out as they did?
13827What was the Hindenburg line?
13827When was her Army coming?
13827When we arrived on March 6th at the Visitors''Château at G.H.Q.--then, of course, at St. Omer-- our first question was:"Verdun?"
13827When would America come in?
13827Who knew what the coming spring campaign would bring forth?
13827Who was responsible for this unpreparedness?
13827Why not break off?
13827Why not?
13827Why?
13827said the Frenchmen, in a kind of despair--"but when are they going to_ begin_?
26548Aw, yer mean this''ere row in Yourope? 26548 Do n''t those chaps look as if they''re enjoying themselves?"
26548How d''you come by that bit of landscape, Mick?
26548Midday on Monday or Tuesday?
26548Shall I stop her?
26548To starboard-- or port?
26548Well,they would reply,"it would n''t be a bad idea, would it?
26548What''s up, cobber?
26548Which way?
26548Who are you?
26548Why in the devil did n''t that bloomin''war come in our time?
26548''Anyhow, if yer was,''I says,''wy did n''t yer stop''em brandin''me?
26548*****"Where are we going, d''you know, Bill?"
265483, Rhododendron and Baeuchop''s[ Transcriber''s note: Beauchop''s?]
26548And would this fine old station life ever be his again?
26548Anyhow it''s what we''re here for, and they oughter keep out of our way if they do n''t want to get dinged, eh, cobber?"
26548But, I say, would n''t it be a lot of trouble?"
26548Did dawn find them gained?
26548He was awake, but why was it he could not see?
26548How''s things?
26548However, why not?
26548Incidentally, they often terminated an exceptionally fluent flow with"Eh, Mistah Mickkenzie?"
26548Is that some more of O''Grady''s blanky rubbish?"
26548It''s a bit of a business, ai n''t it?"
26548Minutes passed slowly, five, ten, twenty, thirty-- what on earth did this mean?
26548Nice feller you are to call yerself me cobber?''
26548No?
26548Savvy?"
26548See?"
26548The first would come tripping down the path to the soldiers and inquire:"Mother says would you like some tea?"
26548The honoured guests would take the State gharries to their hotel?
26548The troopships lay in the harbours, the men were ready in camp, why not embark?
26548Was it, he thought, worth while gradually to spoil this wonderful building for the sake of lucre from twentieth century Egypt?
26548What about it?"
26548What d''you think of what''s happening?"
26548What have you crawled out of the tent for?"
26548What mattered it if the sheep got on their backs or the cattle broke their silly necks?
26548What''s that blanky stuff doing there?
26548Where in the devil are you?
26548Where was that great force from Suvla Bay?
26548Why did they not make a general advance?
26548Why had not Colonel Macpherson managed to move his flank- guard three miles in two minutes?
26548Why should the fool be so bally unreasonable as to report?
26548Why were the anchors not weighed?
26548Wonder how long we''ll be here?"
26548Wot d''you think?"
26548Would he be a funk?
26548Would he trust to luck that the shell was not for him, and save the bacon, or would he crouch for safety under the protection wall?
26548Would they be worthy of the glorious traditions of their old chiefs?
33001Our next stop was the frontier Ghevghili(?).
33001When a Serbian introduces his wife, he says,"Excuse me, but may I introduce my wife?"
19131And getting wounded, that''s jolly, is n''t it? 19131 Are they coming?"
19131Did you get it, man? 19131 Do you call this a battle?"
19131ENCHANTED CIGARETTESWhere does the comfort of the trenches lie?
19131Happy days?
19131Have you ever heard the true inside account of an Arctic expedition?
19131How are you coming?
19131Sister, will you hold this lamp?
19131Sister? 19131 Talking to himself?"
19131What are women going to do about this war?
19131What do you mean by that?
19131What do you mean?
19131What was it I was saying? 19131 What''s the matter with you?"
19131When can I send my child?
19131Where does all that chatter come from?
19131Why do the Germans do these things? 19131 Why?
19131After the hospital-- what?
19131And the business men will think:''Are they coming as faithful partners, or simply to steal and rob?''
19131Are not the Belgians very ungrateful?
19131Are they to submit once again to that secret process of the Germans?
19131Are we quite worthy of their sacrifice?
19131Are you indicting a nation?
19131Are you, comfortable reader, altogether sure that Pierre Depage and André Simont are called on to spill their blood for your good name?
19131As to myself, when I meet them again in my country-- I shall ask myself:''Is he a friend, or is he a spy?''
19131But what of the wounded themselves?
19131But, as to what the Germans are doing, good or not, they will never appreciate that-- what does it matter?
19131Did you get it?"
19131Do you remember your street- fighting in Les Miserables?"
19131How can the Allies state their terms of peace in other than a militant way?
19131How can you let this be done?"
19131How could Red Cross work be impersonal?
19131How will they be received this time?
19131How would a man have handled such a strain?
19131How would the plot come out?
19131Is n''t the wreck of Termonde, where I thought I spent two days, perhaps a figment of the fancy?
19131Is she waging a"holy war,"ringed around by jealous foes?
19131Is the bloody business worth while?
19131Is the bloody business worth while?
19131Is there a test left to the pride of man that the modern woman does not take lightly and skilfully?
19131Is there any far- off divine event which his death will hasten?
19131Many persons have asked me,"How do you account for these terrible acts of mutilation?"
19131May I have it a moment?"
19131Shall these men who have defended France be left to rot?
19131The issue of the war, as Belgium and France see it, is this: Are they to live or die?
19131Tired so soon?
19131WAS IT REAL?
19131Was the bayoneted girl child of Alost a pleasant dream creation?
19131Was this struggle forced on an unwilling Germany, or was she the aggressor?
19131What happens?
19131What is a splintered forehead or a damaged leg compared to the happiness of an honorable discharge?
19131What is this idea of country, so passionately held, that the women walk to the city gates with son and husband and send them out to die?
19131What solace do the soldiers find for a weary life of unemployment and for sudden death?
19131What would he make of it?
19131What would the action be?
19131What''s your idea of the real thing?"
19131When has it happened before that the older generation holds up the hands of the young?
19131Who but Marins would have devised a celebration for us on July 4?
19131Who knows but Albert saw in his silent heart that the only thing to weld his people together, honeycombed as they were, was the shedding of blood?
19131Why not teach him a trade?
19131Why not train him?
19131Why should the son of Ysaye die for me?
19131Why will he use these literary words?
19131Would I go to Belgium with him?
19131of the"Marseillaise"but is a sharer for a moment in the rush of glory that every now and again has made France the light of the world?
30597Can not troops be sent out here immediately, or authority to raise companies, which could be easily done, for one year?
30597Do their families travel with them?
30597Have you sent me cavalry yet?
30597Have you spies in their camps?
30597He turned upon me and said,"Dodge, you whipped them today, did n''t you?"
30597I walked away, not thinking of Shields; but he called back to me and said,"Colonel, you are not going to leave me this way are you?"
30597The questions I wish to bring before you, however, are, What are the rights of an officer in such matters?
30597Then he said:"Ca n''t you do it again tomorrow?"
30597What Indians are engaged in the struggle?
30597What action have you taken to repair telegraph- lines?
30597What are his duties and privileges in war in an enemy''s country that is under martial law?
30597What measures are you taking to keep open the route and protect it?
30597Where are their villages?
32650He laughingly said"No,"and then he asked, hearing the firing of the small- arms of the charging squadrons,"Are you going to have a battle here?
32650If so, how long will it last?"
32650What would have been the result had this charge been made?
21806And what''s going on here?
21806Brown lines or white on blue?
21806D''you want ferro- prussiate or ferro- gallic?
21806Eh?
21806For how much?
21806I am the Orderly Officer,said flashlight,"what''s your name and number?"
21806I see, and how metal are you removing?
21806Of what?
21806On teleprinters?
21806Precision grinder and you do n''t know how much metal you''re removing?
21806To what?
21806Vy do n''t ve do like in ze old country?
21806What choice is there?
21806What colour d''you want?
21806What colour d''you want?
21806What d''you mean?
21806What''s that you''re reading?
21806What''s the difference?
21806What''s the matter with it?
21806What''s up, Sir?
21806What''s your job in civvy street?
21806What''s your trade?
21806Who are you?
21806Who said that?
21806Who''s the senior soldier?
21806Yes,I replied, then in my right ear,"and that?"
21806Yessir, this morning"Then there does n''t seem to be any complaint now does there?
21806You are?
21806You mean you''re prepared to forfeit your trade pay without even giving it a try? 21806 You want to return to the Drawing Office?"
21806********************"And the shouts and the jeers Of the young muleteers,******************** Do you remember an inn?"
21806After a minute the instructor said,"How''re you doing, Johnny?"
21806At the end of each roll she seemed to pause for a second or two-- would she recover?
21806Did I ever get an apology for being accused of stealing?
21806Having acquired these what use could be made of them?
21806He was holding a seven- pound tin of marmalade above my head; engrossed in conversation he allowed the tin to tilt-- need I say more?
21806Hoop snakes?
21806I identified myself"I believe you''ve been spending your drill nights at the Post Office, is that correct?"
21806I suppose that my answers to his semi- technical questions were satisfactory and eventually he asked,"Have you ever thought of a commission?"
21806In the early part of 1942 in bitterly cold weather I was on daytime guard duty at the gate( what else is new?
21806Inevitably I suppose the question has to be asked, was it worth it, would I do it again?
21806One hospital orderly amused me with his line of thinking; judging by his accent I asked him,"You are an Afrikaner?"
21806One lad stood on the make- shift stage and recited,"Do you remember an inn, Miranda, Do you remember an inn?
21806Or to protect he system and avoid answering awkward questions?
21806Technically correct I suppose but why not tell the truth?
21806The Orderly Sergeant yelled out,"Any complaints?"
21806The meeting was about to break up and Brigadier Barbary picked up his baton and asked,"Where''s me''at?"
21806The pair approached the voice and the officer asked,"Yes, my man and what is your complaint?"
21806The sequel?
21806Then what had the army done for me?
21806To spare the family pain and disgrace?
21806Uncomprehending soldiers stood around the notice- board saying things like,"Wot''s''ee mean?"
21806Very poisonous?
21806We also visited a zoo( Victoria?)
21806Were conditions very strict?
21806Were there any poisonous creatures around?
21806Were we then to be cavalry?
21806What about Sunday, was there a church parade?
21806What about snakes?
21806What difference had the last six- and- a- half years made to me?
21806What had the army done for me and what had I done for the army?
21806What skills had the army given me?
21806Where was the convoy?
21806Where were we going?
21806Why?
21806Why?
21806and the sergeant- major enquired,"Then why do n''t you-- Sir?"
21806he enquired,"do n''t they salute officers there now?
21806or"Wot the''ell''s a penultimate syllable?"
21806then what are you doing here?"
31115Are you German?
31115But when can we go?
31115Have you seen enough?
31115Where do your father and mother live?
31115Where is your husband?
31115Where is your son?
31115Where were you born?
31115Can we communicate with any one?"
31115Did this dangerous woman think he was going to allow her to throw a bomb in this her moment of despair?
31115Even if Germany and Russia did go to war, why should we not tour in the Ardennes?
31115From what are you flying?"
31115If you wanted a large town, why did you not stop in Berlin?"
31115Was this the first letter of the awful alphabet Europe was to be called on to spell?
31115Was this the first of the mighty German conquests?
31115What possible danger can there be?"
32031But that it did its full duty in the obedience of every order, who will deny?
32031Comrade, did you ever swear?
32031Do you think you ever heard anybody swear?
32031Immediately upon seeing him standing in front of his shop, our boys began to sing out,"Vater hot, or vater cold?"
32031She then asked,"Is that in North Carolina?"
32031What regiment do you belong to?"
32031With what result?
33139Can either of these gentlemen answer?
33139If such be the case,_ why_ am I out of the service?
10362And how shall I pay for food the next two months, if my pay is 200 rupees only, and hospital expenses 500?
10362Before I consider surrender,he said,"tell me what force you''ve got?"
10362Can we give you a hand?
10362How about the lice?
10362How can you ask your men to carry loads and then fight as well, in Equatorial Africa?
10362How is it that I do n''t get close to the good fellows on board the ship?
10362It ca n''t be you?
10362We are not barbarians, are we Fritz?
10362Well, what about it?
10362What do you mean,he exclaimed in anger,"by a little longer?"
10362What,I said again,"do you suggest that these soldiers are thieves?"
10362Why do n''t these fellow- officers of mine come to church? 10362 Why do they put you in with coloured men?"
10362Would you care to nurse our wounded soldiers?
10362And had the Hun been of such, a fibre as to appreciate the lesson, of what great value we might hope that it would be?
10362But how could a man of character go to God''s House and be such an infernal hypocrite?
10362But the true Hun character came out when he asked whether the hated Boers were coming?
10362But what does it profit him to tuck in the net when dysentery drags him from his blanket every hour at night?
10362But will the French?
10362Can one wonder that she was everywhere and anywhere at all homes and in all places?
10362Can you wonder that Tommy understood, and, understanding, copied this example?
10362Can you wonder that the soldier spoke of his padre comrade in such generous terms and that the whole tone of the regiment improved?
10362Could one wonder at the wolfish look upon his face, the dreary hopelessness of his expression?
10362Do we not think that it is a good thing that our army is, by force of circumstances, a teetotal one?
10362Do you blame gentle Sister Mabel that she would never speak to any Hun in German, using only Swahili and precious little of that?
10362Do you think these two ruffians will get the rope?
10362Do you wonder that the stewards and crew of the Union Castle liner struck work rather than convey and look after these beasts on the voyage to Europe?
10362For did not the Emperor''s Eagle now float over Paris and Petersburg?
10362Have n''t you heard the tale that Rumpel tells after his escape?
10362He did not look to be made of heroic mould, but who can tell?
10362How could I hold him back?
10362How could one think that harm could lurk in the tincture of such fragrant things as the flowers of English meadows?
10362How could we tell he was a doctor?
10362How is it that fellows I know to be good and generous and kindly are yet to be found at the bar, in the smoking- room, when my service is on?
10362How is it, you might ask me, that there are any natives left, if tropical Africa is so full of such beastly diseases as this?
10362How should he need the padre, when God Himself is near?
10362How the prestige of the white man had fallen, for had not natives seen white men, on both sides, run away before them?
10362How then could one expect him to put up a mosquito net in the pitch- black darkness in a country where every tree has got a thorn?
10362Is there anything I can do for you?
10362Rather an unpleasant name, is n''t it?
10362SHERRY AND BITTERS A common inquiry put to doctors is,"What do you think of the alcohol question in a tropical campaign?"
10362THE GERMAN IN PEACE AND WAR"What do I think of this country, and how does the Hun of East Africa compare with his European brother?"
10362The Governor''s palace, where is it?
10362The railway was broken, the bridges down, and where could we look for help or hospital comforts or medical necessities?
10362To one in whom the spirit of adventure and romance is not dead what more attractive than an elephant hunter''s life?
10362True they built the railway; but what use to a planter to build a line and rob him of his profits in the freight?
10362We, however, are natural, we like to look at such things, why should we not carry them with us?"
10362What are we to believe?"
10362What can one do with such a people?
10362What can the native do?
10362What could I do but tell him the truth?
10362What do you tell us when we go to early chapel in the morning?
10362What is going to happen to German children?
10362What more natural than that they should keep their drugs for their own troops?
10362What of the two dry docks that were to make Dar- es- Salaam the only ship- repairing station on the East Coast?
10362Where are our prisoners that the Belgians took in Ujiji and along the line?
10362Who could blame a Hun when the British were such fools and forgery of receipts so easy?
10362Who could tell their pressing need in months to come?
10362Who would run his machine- gun section, if he were away, and his battalion in action?
10362Will Italy forgive?
10362Will the Mohammedan world condone this?
10362Would you care to go for walks?"
10362Would you like native servants?
10362You do n''t believe these stories of German brutalities, do you?"
10362what will the Belgians do when they hear the tales that are told of our German troops in Belgium?
33625Says the colonel,"What are you going to do about it; are you going home now, or are you going to wait for the rest of the boys?"
26561Adjutant,I said,"What does this mean-- our having to run this way?
26561How are de poys?
26561Huh,said he,"what is it?"
26561Stillwell,asked Sam,"do you think we are going to have a fight?"
26561Well, Allender,inquired Dr. Anthony,"egad, what''s the matter with you?"
26561What did the Colonel say? 26561 What is that?"
26561What regiment is this?
26561What''s that?
26561Where is he?
26561''John,''I said, speaking low,''what in thunder do you mean?
26561Ai n''t that just perfectly bully?"
26561Ai n''t we whipped?"
26561And with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness?"
26561But the lady walked towards us and said in a very kind and friendly manner:''Do you men want anything?''
26561But,--how in the world did I happen to miss him?
26561D''ye moind that, now?"
26561Enoch Wallace came to me and said:"Stillwell, are you going to try to carry your knapsack?"
26561He looked up with an aggrieved air and responded in a tone of cruelly injured innocence,"Have n''t I the right to eat my r- a- a- tion?"
26561He turned towards me, and tilting his can slightly to enable me to see the contents, spoke thus:"Now, ai n''t this nice stuff to give a sick man?
26561I looked in the haversacks of some of the dead to see what they had to eat,--and what do you suppose was found?
26561I said to him:"Enoch, what are those men there for?"
26561I slipped out of ranks and approached the fellow, and when close to him said,"Partner, wo n''t you give me a hardtack?"
26561I turned to Phil in a fury, exclaiming,"What in the hell and damnation do you mean?"
26561I was filling my haversack with bologna when Col. Fry rode up to me and said:"My son, will you please give me a link of that sausage?"
26561Looking at us very sharply, she asked:''Do n''t you men want something to eat?''
26561Must I just lie here and suffer indefinitely?"
26561One day I said to him,"Doctor, is there nothing that can be done for me?
26561Take care of my watch, will you?
26561The officer scribbled in his note- book, then turned to me,"And yours?"
26561What did that mean?
26561What is that you say?"
26561What should I do?
26561What''s that?"
26561What''s up, Stillwell?"
26561What''s wanted?"
26561Where is Sergeant Stillwell?"
26561Who comes there?"
26561Why do n''t you shoot?"
26561and where had they come from?
26561he exclaimed, as he extended his hand,"why comest thou down hither?
30179What regiment?
30179("What are you doing?
30179A flake of snow?
30179Could they deposit their jewels in the Embassy vaults?
30179Did Belgium quarrel with Germany?
30179First question:"Do you get enough to eat?"
30179He finally approached me, saying in English of a most perfect and pronounced British accent,"Are you an American?"
30179He wore a tremendous frown and with an authoritative sweep of his arm cried:"Qu''est ce que vous faites?
30179I replied,"Yes, are you a police officer?
30179In order to make a pretence of conversation, one of the two captains who escorted me would sometimes say to a prisoner,"What nationality are you?"
30179Second question:"How do present conditions compare with the past?"
30179The war was not declared four weeks ago; how then would it be possible for the Germans already to be at Compiègne?
30179Third question:"How often do you write home?"
30179WHY were passports necessary?
30179Was Paris safe?
30179Were passports necessary?
30179What more fitting, they asked, than that we neutrals should witness this celebration?
30179What was"the government"going to do about sending them home?
30179Would there be immediate attacks by Zeppelins?
30179Would you know what"sinkim pork"might mean?
29608But what can you do? 29608 How much do you weigh, colonel?"
29608How much will you take for all there is in the cup?
29608Mr.----,said he one morning when the officers were grouped in front of his tent in response to''officers''call,''"Mr.----, have you gloves, sir?"
29608Now you know it is a rebel, do n''t you?
29608Well,said I,"have you recovered and are you ready for duty?"
29608What is the position?
29608Where did I meet you?
29608Why do you leave the hospital, then?
29608You prefer to perform your duties as a good soldier, then?
29608All wondered if the end had really come, or was it yet afar off?
29608But where was Dahlgren?
29608How about Mexico and Maximilian?
29608I said to him:"Colonel, what would you do if you were in my place?"
29608In the meantime, what was the infantry doing?
29608May it not then be said with truth that he was"distant and detached"and"without orders that contemplate the contingency?"
29608The officers were introduced, one by one, and Mr. Lincoln gave each hand a shake as he uttered a perfunctory, but kindly,"How do you do?"
29608There was a cordial shaking of hands and after the first friendly greetings had been exchanged I said:"But what does this mean?
29608What has been going on in the valley?
29608Where is Mosby?
29608Where was the enemy?
29608Where were the two divisions of Gibbon, posted for the very purpose of looking out for Longstreet?
29608While he was there a man named Mattoon, a good soldier, came up, and seeing Halleck, jumped over with the exclamation,"What are you doing here?"
29608Who can say how much it had to do in stopping the further progress of Early''s attack?
29608Who comes there?"
29608Why not put hoops on and make them into barrels?
29608Why then wonder if historians differ also?
29608Why try to prolong the war and cause further useless bloodshed?"
29608Would Lee allow that and go on to Baltimore, or turn and meet the army that Hooker was massing against him?
29608Would he?
16089Can you help me, sir?
16089Did you foresee it?
16089Fattigay?
16089For what can it be intended but to attack England?
16089Have you ever done any machine work before?
16089How many years have we been at war?
16089If I go down to the shed and say:''Girls!--there''s a bit of work the Government are pushing for-- they say they must have-- can you get it done?'' 16089 Is it possible that all this is the work of eighteen months?"
16089Narpoo? 16089 Probably,"I said,"you would like to find the men?"
16089So you are still, in England, taking the war lying down?
16089Was he not,asks a well- known Eton master,"that tall, smiling, strong, gentle- mannered boy at White- Thomson''s?"
16089Well, my boys, you could stick it all right?
16089What country has ever raised over sixty per cent of its total recruitable strength, for service beyond the seas in a few months?
16089What do they think we are about?
16089Why are you so anxious to go to Egypt?
16089Why do n''t they give more Red Crosses to the_ working nurses_? 16089 Will_ they_ come out?
16089You have your passes?
16089You''re Welsh, then?
16089''And what''ll our men at the front do, if we go holiday- making?''
16089A more practical religion"lifting mankind again"?--a new St. Francis, preaching the old things in new ways?
16089And the New Armies?--"Kitchener''s Men"?
16089And what are the results?
16089And what of the Dominions?
16089And yet-- was it after all so slow?
16089Are we?
16089Are you yet fully awake-- yet fully in earnest, in this crisis of England''s fate?
16089As to Dilution, it is now accepted by the men, who said when it was proposed to them:"Why did n''t you come to us six months ago?"
16089At the same moment he turned to address a young artillery- officer in the road:"Is your gun near here?"
16089At the same time, what is Great Britain doing_ for her Allies_?
16089But since then?
16089But the war itself-- the deadly struggle of that distant line to which it all tends?
16089But what are we getting for our money?
16089But what of the men, the Armies, for which these munitions are being made and hurried to the fighting- lines?
16089By whom has this result been brought about?
16089Can we keep it up?
16089Compree?"
16089Could any one have made such an omelet without breaking a great many eggs?
16089First-- what have the rich been doing?
16089For what had we paid so sore a price?
16089Hours?
16089Hours?
16089How far are we from them?
16089If not, what sort of relations will shape themselves, and how quickly, between the Central Empires and America?
16089In one of his latest letters, quoted by a friend in a short biography, Robert Palmer wrote:--"Who is n''t weary to death of the war?
16089Is it defects of administration, or a certain"cussedness"in the Scotch character, which resents any tightening of law?
16089Knows what?
16089May n''t they be glad of it some day?
16089Meanwhile, what has Germany been doing in her shipyards all this time?
16089Seafaring, tillage, house- building, horse- taming, so muses Sophocles, two thousand three hundred years ago; how did man ever find them out?
16089Shall I always regret that lost opportunity?
16089The great Allied attack on the West-- was it ready,_ at last_?
16089The shell has sped on its way to the German trenches-- with what result to human flesh and blood?
16089The temper of the nation?
16089Was the return adequate, and not only to our safety, but to our prestige?
16089Was your own vast levy in the Civil War without them?
16089What are these lines of light among the pine woods?
16089What is Dilution?
16089What is it that alone has secured us the time to make the effort we have made?
16089What is the proof of this-- the proof which history will accept as final-- against the vain and lying pleas of Germany?
16089What of the mothers who reared them, the schools and universities which sent them forth?--the comrades who are making ready to carry on their work?
16089What of the_ young_, of all classes and opportunities, who have laid down their lives in this war?
16089What strange moving bodies are those, scudding along over the dim surface, like the ghosts of sea planes?
16089What vast and effective stir, for a great end, was ever made in the world without them?
16089What will happen?
16089When has our naval supremacy ever hurt them?
16089When will they come out?"
16089Where was my friend who had hoped to come for me himself?
16089Where was the boat?
16089Will Germany give way?
16089Will he recover?
3383He took the boy''s wrist between his thumb and finger, and asked tenderly as he leaned over him,"Poco mejor?"
3383How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
3383Shall I say that a sense of something domestic, something homelike, imparted itself from what I had seen?
33718Do you remember Sergeant----, of Company----?
33718Yes, Colonel, I do; what about him?
33718In such a state of public feeling what could I, a young unmarried man, do consistent with a fair amount of self- respect but enlist?
33718Some papers and letters in my pockets supported the testimony of my host, and after considerable time spent in examining them, my brave(?)
28241And what did he say?
28241And what did you do then?
28241Are you,they asked,"going to B.?"
28241Do you know her?
28241Do you mean,I said,"that no train ever goes there?"
28241He''s little, but he''s wise, And he does not advertise, Do you, Bobs?
28241How am I to get there?
28241How many men have you?
28241Is it true that the cavalry are through?
28241What does your party consist of?
28241What sort of a passage?
28241Behind the laughter-- who knows?
28241But what words can I find?
28241Can I get a drink?"
28241Did ever men before fix such a name on the country for which they fight?
28241Did ever men do greater things than these?
28241Does Fritz, drafted into a regiment commanded by him, march forward serenely confident of victory?
28241Have the German soldiers any kind of confidence in his star?
28241He speaks:"What the----?
28241How will they deal with the ordinary politician?
28241In what mood, with what spirit does the soldier, the man in the ranks, go forth into the night to his supremely great adventure?
28241In what school of what remote province did he learn to construe and repeats bits of the_ Æneid_?
28241Is not England mistress of the seas?
28241Is that the sort of way the fighting men thought of the staff after Neuve Chapelle?
28241Is the kingdom of heaven best advanced by men who strike the world as being"padres"or by"turbulent priests"?
28241Sentry:"Who goes there?"
28241Then one of the men said"Beg pardon, sir, but do you know who we are?"
28241There is a man towards the end of the evening who wins one unmistakably with an inimitable burlesque of"Alice, where art thou?"
28241What am I to do?"
28241What did they think when day after day they retreated at top speed?
28241What does rain matter?
28241What part of the train do you think I ought to get into?"
28241What shall I do?"
28241What supplication fits the time and place?
28241What would that butter cost in France?"
28241When the----?
28241Where the----?"
28241Why the----?
28241Will the boat start?
28241Will you take a letter for us?
28241You ca n''t expect me to take it there just to suit you?"
28241_ Compris?_''Second British Soldier:''You leave it to me, Bill.
28241or what do gales matter?
28241where you were to go?"
33241Could I not and can I not now expose the hollow misery of the sham, the real nature of which is as plain as the noon- day sun?
33241Could they not have legally coerced me to keep the peace?
33241Do they perhaps think their conduct so outrageous, that the meekness of Moses could no longer endure it without resentment?
33241What must be their effect if they continue for months?
33241What would Humboldt, Grimm, Ampère, Burnouf, and some of our other friends on the other side of the water say to such proceedings?
31353About noon he came to me and said,"Fuller, can you stand some good news?"
31353And what would he say?
31353As we were working our way to the front he spoke to me, and said,"Charley, am I hurt much?"
31353He at once roared out,"Who ordered you to lie down?
31353He had read the account, and I said to him,"Of course, you remember it?"
31353He replied,"Do n''t you want them to come down here?"
31353He said,"Some one has come to see you?"
31353I lay there in semi- consciousness, until the rear guard came along, when I was accosted with the question,"What are you here for?"
31353I said to him,"Are you badly wounded, Frank?"
31353I stooped down and said,"Lieutenant, do you think you are mortally wounded?"
31353I was making my way to the rear when one of the officers turned up his head and said to me,"Where in the devil are you trying to get to?"
31353It was too dark to see anything, but our ears took in every word of the question asked,"What regiment is that?"
31353King?"
31353Of what avail all our unceasing and exhaustless endurance?
31353Of what avail had it been to us that our best blood had flowed for six long days?
31353One old Irishman of Co. A, turned on me in hot anger, and asked,"Why do you say that?
31353The captain wiggled about some and then asked,"How do you know men, do you see the blood run?"
31353The question I asked myself was,"Why not test your leg gear NOW, and see what you can do as a foot- man?"
31353This was delightful information, and made us feel very jolly--"over the left?"
31353What are you crouching for?"
31353Where are the other 80?
31353While we were all on the qui vive, wondering what would come next, a voice broke forth from the woods clear and distinct,"What regiment is that?"
31353Who would answer?
31353was yee''s_ intinded_ for me?"
34069--Is Ginger a bad fellow?
34069Arab population of Kut(?)
34069As one went past, he would lean over and whisper confidentially:"Ginger fennah?"
34069He took in our story, but asked some awkward questions, such as why we carried no revolvers?
34069Is it not a pity that you still go on assisting them?
34069Is that all the respect and share of wealth for the sake of which we should let them enjoy our country?
31075Are there any of Company D of the Eleventh Reserves here?
31075Do you see that thing?
31075Well, what the---- did you wake us up for, to tell us that?
31075Why, you---- lunatic, are n''t two sleeps better than one?
31075A child may pronounce it; but what word that ever fell from human lips has a meaning full of such intensity of horror as this little word?
31075Are we a civilized people?
31075As he was picking his way stealthily among the dead and dying, he heard a well known voice calling softly near by,"Joe, Joe, is that you?"
31075But the soap mines?
31075But where_ was_ rear?
31075Do these careless men realize that they are about to decide the fate of a great nation?
31075George Preston was there, his face as honest and bright as in boyhood''s days; and George Dillinger-- or was his name Hugh?
31075Had death come more swiftly and mercifully, or was he a prisoner and unharmed?
31075Had he been disabled that first day in the wilderness and perished in the flames of the burning woods?
31075Had he been mortally wounded, and died alone in the thick underbrush which veiled so many tragic scenes?
31075Had he known that the midsummer sun would look down upon his grave, would his decision have been different?
31075Have you heard their solemn songs?
31075He looked at us with a frightened, helpless look, and asked:"You wo n''t hurt me, will you?"
31075How was it done?
31075Is it possible to eliminate the tiger from human nature?
31075Looking at me intently a moment, his face brightened, and he exclaimed:"You are Rob M''Bride, are n''t you?"
31075Perhaps they are unconscious of the greatness of the present hour; but what of that?
31075Psalm singing?
31075Was this night given over to ghosts and spirits intangible?
31075What is civilization?
31075What man of ordinary humanity can be unmoved by such surroundings?
31075Where was any thing?
31075Where was front?
31075Why do n''t these men come on?"
31075Why so?
31075Why were not the videttes, at least, advanced into the underbrush, instead of being posted at its edge, to be shot at by rebel sharpshooters?
31075[*] 2D WELDON RAILROAD,{ 190th,} Captain Birkman.(?)
32595No-- are they?
32595Am I not in the hands of a merciful God who has promised to take care of the widow and orphan?
32595Did you ever see one before?"
32595I thank God that they are freed, and yet what can I do with them?
32595Is this the way to make us love them and their Union?
32595Sadai[ Mrs. Burge''s nine- year- old daughter] said:"Oh, Mama, what shall we do?"
32595Shall I ever forget the deliverance?
32595Shall we be a nation or shall we be annihilated?...
32595They asked about our soldiers and, passing themselves off as Wheeler''s men, said:"Have you seen any of our men go by?"
32595What must it have been to the woman and the little girl living on these acres, in this very house?
32595What provision can I make?
32595What shall I do?
32595What will be our future?
32595Where go?
32595Who are you?"
32595Why must the innocent suffer with the guilty?
32595Will another year find us among carnage and bloodshed?
26884Dost thou know,_ mon ami_, that when we captured that German battery a few days ago, we found the gunners chained to their guns?
26884How long have you been engaged in this work of mercy? 26884 How long is it since I have been wounded?
26884Once more?
26884What are_ you_ here for? 26884 And hast thou ever heard the guns, nearer than this safe point behind the lines? 26884 And so many blood- vessels being dead, being scooped away by that sharp curette, how could the blood circulate in the top half of that flaccid thigh? 26884 And the patients, who missed him, asked:Where is Fouquet?
26884And what do you know about illness such as mine?
26884And what knowledge dost thou bring to thy task, thou ignorant grocer''s clerk?
26884And why art thou there, my friend?
26884Besides, who could have suspected at first that these two girls were spies?
26884But do they enlist?
26884But what mercy had we?
26884Ca n''t you see?
26884Calling that the Generals are coming, both of them, together?
26884Could one cherish standards so noble, yet be himself so ignoble, so petty, so commonplace?
26884Courageous dreams of freedom and patriotism?
26884Did you come for me ten hours ago, when I needed you?
26884Do I not know how to drive, to manage an engine?
26884Do n''t you see that his bed and the bed next are covered with rubber sheets?
26884Do you think he''s thinking of the Germans?
26884Had he seen so much suffering_ en gros_ that it meant nothing to him_ en detail_?
26884Have I not conducted a Paris taxi for these past ten years?
26884Have you ever watched the village girls when a regiment comes through, or stops for a night or two,_ en repos_, on its way to the Front?
26884Have you seen the girls make fools of themselves over the men?
26884How can they do it, these old men?
26884How could one live with such pain as that?
26884How do they get there, to the Zone of the Armies?
26884How much honour lay in that?
26884Is that Erard, calling?
26884My head in mud, my blood warm under me?
26884Only, why does he talk so incessantly about his wife, and show her pictures to me, to everyone about the place?
26884Opposition from whom?
26884Or was this his attitude to all suffering?
26884Punished?"
26884See that man in the bed next?
26884So thou goest to jail, then to the_ Bataillon d''Afrique_, and the wine flows, and thy Mimi-- where is she?
26884Something different this time?
26884The surgeon of the French hospital said:"What have we to do with this?"
26884Thou bidst me be quiet,_ sale embusqué_?"
26884To see me, with my bowels running on the ground?
26884Was this the Nation''s attitude to the suffering of their sons?
26884Were they finer, nobler, than he?
26884What are they here for-- France?
26884What else could he say, knowing that there were eighteen little holes, cut by the bullet, leaking poison into that gashed, distended abdomen?
26884Wherein lay the difference?
26884Who''s There?
26884Why should we all be bored with tales of Simon''s stupid wife, when that''s all she means to him?
26884Yet did they contrast, after all?
26884Yet had they?
26884Yet if so, how could such beliefs fail to influence their daily lives?
32177Are you? 32177 But we''ll see you in Bordeaux wo n''t we, Miss Shortall?"
32177Do n''t any of you boys play or sing?
32177Do you play the guitar?
32177Now shall we give the lady a song?
32177The officers danced all night, why ca n''t we?
32177Well, Sis, how are you standing it?
32177Where will you get the girls?
32177And one boy who kept hanging round all day taking it all in, said,"What''d you go to all that trouble for?
32177Do you want the job?"
32177Est- ce vrai que la vie est l''amour de mourir?"
32177How would you like to send all your copies of"Life"and any other magazines to me instead of to the great unknown?
32177Let''s see; what else have I been doing?
32177Now does n''t that sound like a happy Easter?
32177Ou se cache- t- elle, dis- moi?
32177Whenever I passed, some one would call out,"Miss, ai n''t you gwine to play for us?"
32177Where to get the girls?
32177and"Est- ce vrai que la mort est une vie immense?
32177well what do you play?"
34889He came in due time, and asked if he might smoke my big pipe?
34889One of our smart Alicks sung out to him,"I say, Johnny Reb., why do n''t you wear better clothes?"
34889Ten thousand questions were asked of those who had been wounded,"how goes the battle?"
34889The people of Harrisburg asked:"has Michigan sent another Regiment equipped?"
28116But wo n''t you have difficulties with Quebec?
28116But you do n''t mean that Canada is going to take an active part in the war?
28116Colonel Currie,he said,"How many men of this kind have you with you?
28116Do you think that three years''residence in Canada entitles you to abuse your countrymen, and call them''fat- headed Englishmen''?
28116FredMacdonald''s question to me would always be,"How long are they going to keep us at this rotten trench business?"
28116He must have been somebody important to have such a fine monument?
28116How is it all going to end?
28116How is the Scotch?
28116How is your bloody Ross Rifle?
28116Is your establishment complete?
28116My husband is in one of the Highland Regiments, perhaps you have seen his battalion, the Argyles?
28116Perhaps you are from the war, Sir?
28116Was he the man who wrote the dictionary?
28116What shell?
28116What''s the matter?
28116Who was this Salisbury?
28116Who was this chap Goldsmith? 28116 Why are they throwing away so much good ammunition?"
28116Will you let me have the bullet as a souvenir?
28116CHAPTER X HIS MAJESTY THE KING, AND FIELD MARSHAL THE RIGHT HONORABLE VISCOUNT KITCHENER"Did they bury him standing on his head, or the other way on?"
28116Have you all the Toronto Highlanders with you?"
28116He asked quite coolly,"Where is Major MacKenzie?
28116In the afternoon after the review I met Canon Scott, who had lost(?)
28116In the meantime what steps were being taken to succor the hard pressed 3rd Brigade?
28116No sooner was a man in uniform than everybody began asking him the question"When are you going to the Front?"
28116Or, was it petty parish politics?
28116The great question for a few days was, would Canada be allowed to send a contingent to serve with the Allies?
28116The question everybody was asking of the men in khaki was"When are you going to the Front?"
28116They all anchored apart in a separate part of the harbor, and the signaller on the Admiral''s ship amused himself by signalling,"Is your bar open?"
28116This re- acts on the men, and with everyone asking"When are you going to the Front?"
28116Was he the first pawnbroker, or the man who invented watches?"
28116Was it some individual?
28116Was it the old Colonial policy?
28116We listened and it came across"Are we down- hearted?
28116We were all glad to get away, for it was becoming monotonous having everybody we met asking"When are you going away?"
28116What is a listening post?
28116What is a sap?
28116What is the use of these invasions, these fierce raids by the Germans?
28116What would it be when we got to the latitude of Toronto?
28116What would old Sir Francis have said at this sight if he had lived to- day?
28116When they saw Aubers tower disappear in a cloud of dust they inquired again,"What bally gunners are those?"
28116When would the supporting troops and artillery come?
28116Who was responsible for this great criminal folly?
28116Why did not the Canadians retire when they found the Germans were in such force and determined to take their trenches?
28116Why did you, with those two little children, let your husband go to the war?"
28116Why should it?
28116Why then should Britain be asked to disarm and turn over the business of maintaining the world''s peace to the Hun and the Turk?
35578My reply is,"I do; but what are fifteen dollars a month toward supporting a man and wife?"
36204Whereat I asked, have you not enjoyed your usual good health and happy intercourse with your devoted daughters and friends?
18765And is that the way you think of the men of your own blood and race?
18765And this?
18765And this?
18765Be ye sellin''tablecloths?
18765Do n''t you think you''re rather hard on Pemberton? 18765 Do yours know it?"
18765H., do you think these can be the Federal soldiers?
18765Has the owner been consulted?
18765Have I not done so as soon as you rung? 18765 Heard the news?"
18765How can you speak so plainly before them?
18765How do I know who you are? 18765 I wonder,"said Annie,"when I shall ever have nicely starched clothes after these?
18765Is he here?
18765Is it true about the surrender?
18765Is that so, general?
18765Max, what interest has a man like you, without slaves, in a war for slavery? 18765 Mrs. L.,"she said, turning to me,"are you not going to send your husband?
18765So, Mike, you are really going to be a soldier?
18765That''s my kind, considerate wife,replied Mr. D."Why did n''t I think of that before?
18765Then where did you get them blue pantaloons?
18765Well, H.,I questioned, as we walked home after crossing the lake,"can you stand the pressure, or shall you be forced into volunteering?"
18765Well, is the war over?
18765What can this mean, H.? 18765 What do you mean?"
18765What is the news?
18765What room is that?
18765Where can he be found?
18765Who are you? 18765 Who got out last night?"
18765Who has done this?
18765Who lives here?
18765Why did n''t you open the door?
18765Why do you fear so?
18765Why, what matter? 18765 Will he furnish another house also?"
18765Will you fire on an unarmed man? 18765 Wish to search for arms?
18765You are right, madam; and besides, when our women are so willing to brave death and endure discomfort, how can we ever be conquered?
18765You felt with the South at first; who has changed you?
1876510 is gone?"
18765A white man, standing in the stern, with two negroes paddling, replied:"What did you fire on us for?
18765Are the populace turning out to greet the despised conquerors?"
18765As he was roused up, he asked:"Marse John, whar is you, and whar is you goin''?
18765Aunt Judy goes about in a dignified silence, too full for words, only asking two or three times,"W''at I done tole you fum de fust?"
18765Ca n''t I have yours, G.?
18765Could the gentleman tell me where I could get a canoe and some one to go with me?
18765H. said:"This is strangely quiet, Mr. L.""Ah, sir,"shaking his head gloomily,"I''m afraid(?)
18765Has n''t Pemberton acted like a fool?"
18765He responded,"Who are you?"
18765He responded,"Yes; and you are Captain Hines, are you not?"
18765How can they ever take a town that has such advantages for defense and protection as this?
18765I replied,"Yes; and what is your name?"
18765I wonder if it is to keep up their spirits?
18765It wraps me like a soft garment; how else can I express this peace?"
18765L.?"
18765Morgan ordered their capture, saying,"What will those Yankees do with the thousand men I have?"
18765Morgan, and Allen[ Ward?
18765One of Shackelford''s officers rode across the field and inquired,"What are you fools shooting at?"
18765Presently Mr. J. passed and called:"Are n''t you coming, Mr. L.?
18765Receiving a sharp negative in reply, he continued,"Well, can Tom get to stay all night?"
18765The general rose, saying,"Yes, indeed, Tom, I will; but where is the rum?"
18765The guard called,"Who goes there?"
18765The preacher''s text was,"Shall we have fellowship with the stool of iniquity which frameth mischief as a law?"
18765The question at once arose, What was the best course to pursue?
18765Want to see''em?
18765Were you not convinced?"
18765What are you doing here?"
18765What is it?"
18765What news?"
18765What other man could sustain such losses with so little embarrassment?"
18765What proof is there in this dark hour that they are not right?
18765What sustains you when nobody agrees with you?"
18765When I answered,"Well, what do you expect?
18765Why did he not go on?
18765Why did n''t you tell dem folks who you was?"
18765Why is it so easy for them and not for me to"ring out the old, ring in the new"?
18765Would he be kind enough to show me the way there, that I might get an early start and keep my engagement?
18765Would it be wise like the scorpion to sting ourselves to death?
18765_ April 28._--I never understood before the full force of those questions-- What shall we eat?
18765almost stuttering from surprise and anger,"are you aware I had the right to break down this door if you had n''t opened it?"
18765and wherewithal shall we be clothed?
18765inquired H."Are arrangements for surrender made?"
18765what shall we drink?
33280As we were riding through this division, the men called out,"What regiment is that?"
33280He looked so badly that I asked him what the matter was, when he replied,"Have n''t you heard the news?"
33280He then said,"Well, what is it?"
33280I had been polite in my remarks to her when she turned upon me and asked,"Are n''t you from New Orleans?"
33280Inquiring,"Whom have you got there?"
33280Looking up, General Grant quietly asked,"I assume you have questioned him?"
33280On admitting it, he said,"Do you know the chapter General Washington always used to read before he went into a fight?"
33280This officer leaned forward and said in an earnest manner,"Whose cavalry is this?"
33280When she had said this several times an Irishman of my company remarked,"And who the divil is he anyhow?"
33280You see their line across this clearing?"
31453Did the colored troops fight much?
31453How long have you known him?
31453Now, sir; I ask you a direct question: Do you believe a Negro has got a character?
31453Then if ye had two hogs would ye give me one?
31453Then if ye had two horses, would ye give me one?
31453Well, Cap''n, if you say so, reckon I''ll have to move; but what you goin''to do when we all gits to heaven?
31453Well, sir; what is his character?
31453What did the Colonel say?
31453What sort of a man was Jones?
31453What you- ens doin''dar? 31453 At Raleigh I can jest walk right into the Governor''s office and nobody''ll say, Where you gwine? 31453 Barney says,Pat, if ye had two homes, would ye give me one?"
31453Den he say,"And what is your business here?"
31453Do n''t you see its the easiest place to live you ever saw?
31453He:"And where do I get my marbles?"
31453He:"Do I get marbles?"
31453He:"Salute how?"
31453I said,"Ai n''t you a Pennsylvanian?"
31453Jones?"
31453Now what can we do with the Negro?
31453One big, red- whiskered fellow said to me:"What you fellers doing back here so far in the rear?"
31453Solicitor:"Do you know this man?"
31453The young men looked puzzled and one said,''And where would we get the corn?''
31453Then I retorted:"You are putting it off for six months now, are you?
31453Then one says,''And how could we get the turkeys to market?''
31453They inquired,"Did you get your marbles?"
31453What greater sacrifice can any people show?
31453When he had had an insight of the coveted goal and turned in that direction, he was accosted by a harsh voice,"Whar ye goin''?"
31453Which type of civilization would endure?
31453Would the soldier and aristocrat, or the merchant and artisan, survive in the struggle which had already begun?
32268The question is often asked,''Who is responsible for this calamity?'' 32268 And have not these border counties a right to expect such protection? 32268 And reproaches_ for what_? 32268 But you ask:Was not General Averill near enough to have prevented the rebels from executing their nefarious design upon your town?
32268He followed her some distance, and leaning down, asked her earnestly,''Madam, ca n''t I save something for you?''
32268Is not the Government pledged, after it has taken their men and their money, to afford them protection, so far as it has ability?
32268Is your revenge sweet?''
32268Reproaches-- and from_ whom_ and_ whence_?
32268Said he:"Do you belong to this house?"
32268The Chaplain said to me,"Do you reside in this house?"
32268We have a home and can get another; but can you spare no homes for those poor, helpless people and their children?
32268Would it not invite to pillage and arson and murder?
32268and, if so, why did not General Couch inform him of the situation of affairs, and urge him forward?"
17206Are you an Australian officer?
17206Could n''t we find him for you?
17206Here, Pat, what on earth did you do with Fritz?
17206How long have you been in the trenches?
17206Sea, sea, why are you angry with me? 17206 They''re fools, you say?
17206Well, do you know that I am supposed to be the---- colonel?
17206Well, why do n''t you take your men in hand?
17206What tent is my brother in, d''you know?
17206What the h---- are you makin''all that row about?
17206Why? 17206 ''But I have n''t missed a scrap,''says I,''since I was one- and- twenty, And shall I miss the biggest? 17206 A snobbish English officer came up to this man who happened to be only a private, and said:What are you doing in here, my man?"
17206And had you been there and these your men, would n''t you love them as I do?
17206Blood on the sword, our eyes blood- red, Blind in our puny reign of power, Do we forget how soon is sped One little hour?
17206Blood on the sword, our eyes blood- red, Blind in our puny reign of power, Do we forget how soon is sped One little hour?
17206But what if they had been?
17206But who can tell which holds the more peril for the soldier?
17206But"could he be depended on?"
17206Ca n''t I get you anything?"
17206Did heaven intervene?
17206Did the Germans destroy it or was it the rats that undermined its foundations?
17206Down at the gate the picket was having a busy time answering questions:"Could you tell me where I will find Private McIntosh?"
17206Go home to Australia and tell them I had been in London and not seen St. Paul''s, or the Abbey, or anything?
17206Had we not forgotten in our countries that the democracy that we boast of is no credit to us because it was won by the blood of other men?
17206Has Germany shown signs of repentance yet?
17206Has n''t our luck been out ever since we left Australia?"
17206He complained in the end to our brigadier, but the answer he got was:"What are you there for?
17206He said to me:"Do you see that battery down there?"
17206He will ask:"Is that dinkum news?"
17206How did they do it?
17206How was any one left alive?
17206I asked:"Why is it my leg is dead?"
17206I have gone along the trench and kicked and punched my boys into sensibility, and said:"Is there anything I can do for you, boys?
17206I remember one sentry failing to recognize the Commander- in- chief, and presently the colonel spoke to him thus:"What are you doing here, my man?"
17206I said to him;"Pat, what on earth are you doing with Fritz?"
17206I spat question after question at him:"What''s your regiment?"
17206If he had not called out,"Who the hell are you?"
17206In those days the orderly officer would go round with his question of"Any complaints?"
17206Into every heart crept the dread of what might await us down there, and to every mind came the question:"When are we going?"
17206It must be that right has_ physical_ might, else why did n''t the Kaiser get to Paris?
17206One day their major came along to us in a great rage, and wanted to know why we were always stirring up trouble-- couldn''t we let well enough alone?
17206Shall not the mingling blood of Frenchmen, Britons, and Americans make the flowers of peace to grow?
17206So many months was I there that they were something like a home to me, and who knew what was awaiting one in another and an unknown section?
17206Some one called out,"Where?"
17206Tell me, where are we going to replace these men?
17206The blood of him who to you was more precious than any prince or king that ever lived has been poured out like water and uselessly"?
17206The gods love romance, else why was the youngest nation of earth tried out on the oldest battlefield of history?
17206The rustle of grass, or the passing quiver Of one of the ghosts of No Man''s Land?"
17206Then when the great- hearted, plain- faced doctor who was attending to me said,"How''s the man of many wounds this morning?"
17206There were occasions, however, when some one would call out from the ships:"D''you know Private Brown of the Yorkshires?"
17206To no one in particular our fellows would remark,"Why, look?
17206Was it just the shiver Of an eerie wind or a clammy hand?
17206Was there ever a more favorable setting for a massacre?
17206Was this like the darkness after Calvary?
17206We could understand them as eating quarters, but where were we to sleep?
17206We had achieved the impossible in landing-- why did we not in the many months we were there, do the comparatively easy thing and advance?
17206We were now well at sea and the general cry was in the words of the song:"Sea, sea, why are you angry with me?"
17206What do you think of that?"
17206What do you think of this?"
17206What if he had been yours?
17206What makes real friendship between men?
17206What means this eager, anxious thrill?
17206What was that?
17206What will we do?"
17206What''s your business?"
17206When she discovered where I was, she said:"Who gave you permission to come in here?"
17206Where are you going?"
17206Where''d you come from?
17206While other nations make their colonies_ pay_ for the protection they give them, the British people pay very heavily for the privilege(?)
17206Who is there that is not abashed in the presence of a spirit like that?
17206Who would not turn round on seeing an R. S. V. P. eye in a face whose veil enhanced the beauty it did not hide?
17206Why?"
17206With excitement in my voice I said to the officer in charge:"Do you know that there is a mine under here?"
17206Would they, had they not been captured early in the war, have changed and become like the vile, cowardly sharks that infest the seas in U- boats?
17206Would you then have felt as bitter as these people?
17003Have you seen them?
17003What do you mean by deceiving me?
17003And yet what did this mean?
17003Are they traces of a forgotten siege?
17003But about the trains-- why are they stopping?
17003But could anything have dared to move to us?
17003But for how long?
17003But the ultimatum-- what is it, and against whom is it so summarily directed?
17003But will this last?
17003Does he not know his history?
17003Everybody was obviously making for the north of the city; what was going on in the other quarters to cause this exodus?
17003Foolish bishop he is, is he not, when Christians have been expressly born to be massacred?
17003From whence came that shot?
17003Had they seen me?
17003Have you ever heard a high- velocity machine- gun firing down deserted and gloomy thorough- fares?
17003How could it have been?
17003How long will this last?...
17003I asked for them-- where were they kept?
17003I began to ask myself this question: Were we really playing an immense comedy, or was there a great and terrible peril menacing us?
17003I know that half of them are much upset at the_ role_ they are being forced to play, but who can help them?
17003I waited patiently to see how they proposed to solve this problem-- did they wish a bold, open, frontal attack or an underground plot?
17003In all the clouds of dust and smoke around them, how can they understand?
17003Is it always thus with faith?
17003Is it good to hope on a 13th, or is it mere foolishness to thing about such things?
17003Is it only the power not to be afraid which makes one a hero?
17003Is it true that they are losing courage?
17003Is it true, or is it merely a mistake, such as life- loving man most naturally makes?
17003Is not the South African War still proceeding, and has England not enough troubles without this additional one?
17003It means... what the devil does it mean?
17003K---- was manifestly plotting for those watches; it was not my business-- what did it matter to me if he took everything there was?
17003Marines, sailors, and Legation juniors groaned; was this opportunity to be missed?
17003Meanwhile, is there anything special for me to chronicle?
17003Now do you wonder about our clocks and our watches, and our time?
17003Of course the Boxers coming in openly through the gates can not be true, and yet-- shades of Genghis Khan and all his Tartars, what is that?
17003Otherwise, why had they been brought?
17003Passers- by, did I say?
17003Somehow my heart sank within me at this; was it too late?
17003Suddenly a quiet voice said to him in French out of the gloom:"_ Monsieur desire quelque chose?
17003They had not made anything-- was not that a sufficient excuse for any behaviour?
17003They wanted to go to the British Legation; not to this place-- what was it; where was the British Legation?
17003Was all the world still asleep, tired from the night''s debauch, or was it merely the end of everything?
17003Was it really so?
17003We are still on speaking terms with the Chinese Government, but who knows what the morrow may bring?
17003Were they white troops at last-- were they Bannermen of the white Banners?...
17003Were we trapped?
17003What could I do?...
17003What course should we take, if the attack was suddenly carried all round our area?
17003What did it matter?
17003What did that door mean?
17003What did this fleeing to the north of the city and this ominous quiet mean?
17003What did this mean?
17003What did we wish?
17003What had happened to all the inhabitants?
17003What has happened to justify all this, you will ask?
17003What in the name of all that is extraordinary was happening to cause these strange doings?
17003What is going to happen?
17003What is the use of depriving one''s self for the common good later on under such circumstances?
17003What is to be the next thing?
17003What should we do-- push on or go back?
17003What was it?
17003What were these newcomers?
17003What, indeed, did it matter?
17003What, then, has happened?
17003Where had the famed Boxers vanished to?
17003Where the devil were our relieving columns?
17003Where were the Russians, the Italians, and the Germans?
17003Where were they all?...
17003Who has not heard that pleasant sound?
17003Who was to go?
17003Who would not rob a fleeing Emperor of his possessions?
17003Why have they wives, you will ask, since they are only half men, and can not perform the duties of the male?
17003Why should so many be called-- why should we die thus in a hole?...
17003Why should the obvious be so often discovered?
17003Why, you will ask?
17003Wife of a eunuch, did I say?
17003Will not something happen which will fling our enemy against us animated by one desire--a desire to slay us one and all?
17003With a natural impulse, everybody''s attention became concentrated on this fugitive: would he reach cover in safety?
17003Would I go?
17003Would it have been safety?
17003Yet can one ever forget?
17003Yet, what could be done-- what steps could be taken?
17003You remember the V- shaped barricade garrisoned by Russian sailors, I spoke about a few days ago?
17003mais ou est l''or?_"It was almost pitiful to hear him repeat these words again and again like a child.
17003was I no longer to experience that supreme delight of shooting and being shot at-- of that unending excitement?
17003was it really over?...
19655''Ard? 19655 ''Ave you joined up, matey?"
19655''Ow far we got to go fer water?
19655''Ow''s that one, Fritzie boy?
19655Ai n''t we a''andsome lot o''pozzie wallopers? 19655 Alf,''ow''s this:''Madamaselly, avay vu dee pang?''"
19655Are we downhearted? 19655 Did you hear anything?"
19655Get the idea? 19655 Give me a lift, boys, ca n''t you?
19655Got yer mouth- organ''andy, Nobby?
19655Is this the last line o''Fritzie''s trenches?
19655Jamie,he said,"take my place at sentry for a few minutes, will you?
19655Now s''y,''Gor blimy,''Arry,''ow''s the missus?''
19655Now, would n''t that give you the camel''s''ump?
19655One o''you fetch me a bit o''soap, will you?''
19655See''er? 19655 See?
19655Shoot''i m?
19655W''ere''s yer mouth- organ, Ginger?
19655W''ere''s''e caught it?
19655W''y do n''t they get on with it? 19655 W''y do you suppose they makes the dugouts open at one end?"
19655We''re a goin''back to Blightey-- Wot''s the use a- witin''''ere Like a lot o''bloomin''mud- larks Fer old Fritzie to appear? 19655 Who are you?"
19655Wot do you s''y for''Gimme a tuppenny packet o''Nosegay''?
19655Wot sort of a week you''ad, mate?
19655Wot''s up, Jerry? 19655 Wot''s your mob?"
19655You ai n''t a- go''n''to talk about tea water to a bloke wot ai n''t''ad a bawth in seven weeks?
19655''Member''ow they fixed old Ginger up?
19655ARE WE READY?
19655Ai n''t I a- tellin''you that you ca n''t always size''em by the screech?"
19655Ai n''t a gentleman a gentleman?
19655Ai n''t that just wot they been a- tryin''?
19655Ai n''t they_ some_ way you can get me back out o''this?"
19655Ai n''t we got no pigs in England?
19655An''at''ome they''re a- s''yin'',''W''y do n''t they get on with it?
19655And to- morrow, when the war is ended, who will come marching home again, old campaigners, war- worn remnants of once mighty armies?
19655Anything new?"
19655Are we downhearted?"
19655But of what avail were cupboards to a jam- loving and jam- fed British army living in open ditches in the summer time?
19655But the question is, Who need them most?
19655Ca n''t you get me back to the ambulance?
19655Do you think it''ll''ave to come off?
19655Frequently they shouted,"Got any''woodbines,''Tommy?"
19655I was deeply touched when one of them said:--"Ai n''t''e a plucky little chap, singin''right in front of Fritzie''s trenches fer us English blokes?"
19655I''m arskin''you, ai n''t''e?"
19655IS WAR DIMINISHING?
19655If the Germans is so bloomin''rotten,''ow is it we ai n''t a- fightin''''em sommers along the Rhine, or in Austry- Hungry?
19655In England, before I knew him for the man he is, I said,"How am I to endure living with him?"
19655Not bad, wot?"
19655Not''arf bad, wot?"
19655Or was it the blood of military forebears asserting itself after many years of inanition?
19655Our first question was, of course,"How far is it to the German lines?"
19655See wot I mean?"
19655See''i m?
19655Service?
19655Shall I bring''em over or will you come an''fetch''em?"
19655Soldiers?
19655Sometimes they shouted:--"Any of you from London?"
19655Tell me old lady I''m still up an''comin'', will you?
19655That ai n''t so dusty, Freddie, wot?"
19655The Stites?"
19655Then, turning to the men behind,--"''Ave you got yer wills made out, you lads?
19655This wot you calls a fight?
19655Tommy would say, as the platoon sergeant felt his way along the trench in the darkness,"w''en is the next relief comin''on?
19655W''ere you caught it, mate?"
19655W''y do n''t they smash through?''
19655Was it an act of weakness, a want of character, evidenced by my inability to say no?
19655What could he say to the women of England who would bring him fruit and flowers in hospital, call him a"poor brave fellow,"and ask how he was wounded?
19655What could he tell them at home?
19655When we had gone on a little way he said:--"Ai n''t it a proper beauty parlor?
19655Why did I ever join Kitchener''s Mob?
19655Why did I join the army?
19655Witin''tible at Sam Isaac''s fish- shop?"
19655Wo n''t some of you give me a lift?
19655Wot do you s''y, Jerry?"
19655Wot to blazes are we a- doin''of, givin''''em a chanct to get dug in again?
19655Wot was you a- doin''of in London?
19655Wot''ll you''ave, lads?"
19655You gettin''cold feet?"
19655You''ll just say you are an Englishman, wo n''t you, as a matter of formality?"
19655_ Chorus_"Fritzie w''en you comin''out?
19655said an exasperating voice,"bathin''in our private pool without a permit?"
19655w''ere do you come from?
36971God willing, I shall be able to do something by and by,he said,"and what shall it be?"
36971He would n''t let me go back; and what would Mrs. Holmes do without me?"
36971If Christ was on earth now, I do believe that he would make his home there-- a part of the time at least: do n''t you?"
36971Of a pleasant home where he had passed a brief time, he wrote,"It''s a second paradise: is n''t it?
36971but what could I do?
22523And another thing, Ed, are they really holding a separate war up here for our benefit? 22523 And where is the cause of its success?
22523Fires on your outposts, captain?
22523In our issue of your very popular paper we noticed a cartoon,Pity the boys in Siberia,"but what about us, Ed?
22523What, then, is my arraignment of sovietism according to the soviet constitution? 22523 ''Ah,''he will say,''yah ochen rrad vasveedyat, kak vui pazhavaetye?'' 22523 ?? 22523 ?? 22523 And again arose the old question persistent, demanding an answer: Why had we come at all? 22523 And as to numbers, why,Ten Americans are as good as a hundred Bolos, are n''t they?"
22523And the conversation was something like this:"Graham, what is the matter?
22523Bolshevik?
22523Buildings( hangars?)
22523But how shall we extricate ourselves?
22523But where is the cutting?
22523But why fret?
22523Ca n''t you realize that this is the same war that you have been carrying on in England and America against the master class?
22523Can it be that the enemy heard some of these rumors and were unwilling at times to go against the Americans?
22523Can staggering men again survive the treacherous morass?
22523Can the Russians be educated?
22523Can you call a tangle of woods a field?
22523Could they hold on?
22523Does anyone recall a general order that came out from our American Commanding officer of the Expedition?
22523Does he look interested in Bolshevism Or downhearted over America?
22523Ever hear of the"lost platoon of"D"Company?"
22523Government?''
22523Have we missed it in, the dark?
22523How could armistice terms be extended to it without a tacit recognition of the Lenine- Trotsky government?
22523How had she accomplished the metamorphosis?
22523How now, Paul, my poilu comrade, bon ami, why do n''t you add the house itself to the pack on your back?
22523If you have any manhood, do n''t you think it would be fair to call all these debts off?
22523Is war cruel?
22523Just as soon as work is finished, Do n''t you brush your hair and blouse, And go double- double timing, To the cordial Hostess House?"
22523Lost?
22523One day General Ironside leaned over his bunk and said:"What''s the trouble, corporal?"
22523Or is it lack of food that makes us more susceptible to winter''s blasts?
22523Remember that first Bolo shell?
22523Shall we see the sun today?
22523The captain then went to the barracks and demanded of the men standing around the stove:"Who refuses to turn out and load sleds?"
22523The reader may judge for himself:"Do you British working- men know what your capitalists expect you to do about the war?
22523To KOSKOGOR-- THIRD DAY, DECEMBER 20TH Oh, you silvery moon, are you interested in that bugle call?
22523U S OFFICIAL PHOTO Bolo Killed in Action-- For Russia or Trotsky?
22523U. S. OFFICIAL Toulgas Outpost[ Illustration: Wounded( dead?)
22523Was he in the hospital?
22523Was it just one of those blunders military- political that are bound to happen in every great war?
22523Was not that fine stuff?
22523Was our unofficial war on Russia''s Red government to go on?
22523Was the Red government able to feed the people by commandeering, the food?
22523What did you grab him for in the first place?"
22523What doughboy will forget the first sight he caught of an American"Y"girl in North Russia?
22523What is this train that has come through our point?
22523What transformed a hesitating, reluctant, long- suffering people into crusaders?
22523What"flu"-weakened soldier will ever forget those double decked pine board beds, sans mattress, sans linen, sans pillows?
22523Where is the"I"Co. detachment again?
22523Who else?
22523Who else?
22523Who ever heard of a half mile charge?
22523Who is it that you men are carrying?
22523Who knew?
22523Who knows where the cutting may be found?
22523Who will forget the day that the Cruiser"Des Moines"steamed in from the Arctic?
22523Why was that last sentence added?
22523Why?
22523Will their outguards hear us?
22523Will we, can we e''er forget them, In the future golden years, And the kindness that was rendered, By these Lady Volunteers?
22523[ Illustration: Sentry in forest outlined by bright light( fire?)
22523which in the United States means''How do you do?''
18364Do you know if the General will let us through?
18364Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
18364Have you been able to get us any stores?
18364Ought we to have''laissez- passer''s''or not?
18364Where are my forceps?
18364Where are the Germans?
18364Where are the dead to be put?
18364Where are the stretchers?
18364Where are we to dine?
18364--_i.e._,"Have you picked up many wounded?"
18364A Government official could easily be found to say that the cloth had been received, and meanwhile what has the soldier to cover him in the trenches?
18364A stray bullet or a piece of shell may come, but what does it matter?
18364And why are they killing all our best and bravest?
18364Are men really falling and dying in agonies quite close to us?
18364Are men so mad?
18364Are the catkins out?
18364Are the hospitals at the base all crowded?
18364At night I say to myself, as the guns boom on,"Is he lying out in the open with a bullet through his heart?"
18364But I am used now to hearing all the British out here murmur,"What_ can_ be the good of this long delay?"
18364But what did the handsome Cossack care about infection?
18364Could Christ himself desire a better resurrection?
18364Do you remember that great bit of writing in Job, when Wisdom speaks and says:"Destruction and Death say, it is not in me"?
18364Had any one of them failed to rally round the flag?
18364Had they kept anything back in this great war?
18364Have you any friends who would send us a good big lot of nice jam?
18364He said,"How do you do?"
18364How describe it all?
18364How many of the regiment are left?
18364How much can a man endure?
18364I am always too busy to write now, so would you mind sending this letter on to the family?
18364I do wonder if ladies could be persuaded to make any sort of list or felt or even flannel slippers?
18364If it was not for the wounded how would one stand the life here?
18364Is America any use to us except in the matter of supplies, and are we not getting these through as it is?
18364Is there no more room for our men?
18364Is this war time, and in a room filled with men and smoke and drink, are women in knickerbockers discussing such things?
18364It said:"Have you received two cheques already sent?
18364It was a real blow, our trip knocked on the head again, and now how were we to get on?
18364My God, what does it all mean?
18364Oh, Father God, Mother Earth, as it was in the beginning will it be in the end?
18364Once more I begin to see severed limbs and gashed flesh, and the old question arises,"Why, what evil hath he done?"
18364One hears on all sides,"Lady Dorothy, can you get us tyres for the ambulances?
18364One only ends by being"a wonderful old woman of eighty": reminiscent, perhaps a little obstinate, and in the world to come-- always eighty?
18364Or is it that nothing really changes us?
18364So where were we to spend the night?
18364Sometimes when we heard a crash near by we asked"Is that the convent?"
18364The old question arises:"To what purpose is this waste?"
18364There is a roar of battle and of bursting shells, and who can listen to a boy''s groans and his shrieks of pain?
18364They come in at all times, very dirty and hungry, and the greeting is always the same,"Did you get many?"
18364Was there ever anything half so good as that fire, or half so homely, half so warm or so much one''s own?
18364What are we to do for girls all alone?
18364What change will this make in the situation?
18364What do you think of that, my cat?
18364What does illness matter with a pretty room, and kindness showered on one, and everything clean and fragrant?
18364What is being read?
18364What new horrors will have been invented by that time?
18364What numbers of them have fallen?
18364What will Christmas Day be like at home?
18364When I had finished, a friend of mine, evidently waiting for the end of a pointless story, said,"What did they do that for?"
18364When did he die?
18364When do people say the war will end?
18364When will people discover Caucasia?
18364Where is the petrol?"
18364Who could dream of wars and tumults, hate and envy, sin and spite, Roaring London, raving Paris, in that spot of peaceful light?
18364Who could tell whether its parents had been killed or not?
18364Who is killed, and who is left?
18364Who knows how much this has cost the givers?
18364Whom shall we ever see again?
18364Why are we allowed to know nothing until the news is stale?
18364Why bring lives into the world and shell them out of it with jagged pieces of iron, and knives thrust through their quivering flesh?
18364Why make any complaint?
18364Why should humble villages in France without soldiers in them be shelled?
18364Why should the companionship of the open road be the supreme test of friendship?
18364Why talk of the time when it sang of breaking hearts and high endeavour never satisfied, and things which no one ever knew or guessed except oneself?
18364Why wo n''t these mad creatures stop at home?
18364Will you buy yourself some little thing with the enclosed cheque?
18364Will you do it?
18364Will you give us and them a good time again, and will the spring burst into singing in some other country?
18364Yet I have heard an English officer say that nothing pleases a Russian more than to ask,"When is there to be another Armenian massacre?"
18364You see, no one is safe; and, oh, my dear, have you ever seen a town that has been thoroughly shelled?
18364You thought Persia was in the tropics?
18364[ Page Heading:"WHEN WILL THE WAR END?"]
18364and why should one feel a certain fear of getting to know people too well on a journey?
18364what is heroism?
10099''Already?'' 10099 ''Are there still any soldiers here?''
10099''But, mon Commandant, you''ll leave me some of your stores for the grands blessés, whom you leave behind-- whom you ca n''t move? 10099 ''What is our crime?''
10099''Why have your people gone?--why are these houses, these shops, shut? 10099 Are we approaching victory?
10099Can you show me exactly where the French line runs?
10099Grown? 10099 How can I describe it?
10099How do they understand each other?
10099How far are we from our guns?
10099Monsieur, you are the Abbé Dourlent?
10099Well, the German general said to him roughly:''Is your town quiet?
10099What did they sing, Monsieur le Curé?--Deutschland über alles''?
10099What harm can they do to us-- old people?
10099What on earth is the Navy about?
10099Will the ladies come into the Presbytère?
10099You would like to hear the story of the German occupation?
10099Your papers, gentlemen? 10099 ''But why should he be shot, monsieur? 10099 ( Has the British Tommy in these parts really forgotten how to grouse?) 10099 ***** What had happened? 10099 ***** What is the moral of this story? 10099 And then? 10099 And what of the French on whose soil they lie? 10099 And whatever the military pretext may be, the root question remains--Why are the Germans_ in France at all_?"
10099And you see that other patch of wood a little farther east?
10099Are there some among them who saw the massacre at Dinant, the terrible things in Lorraine?
10099Are we going to forget Serbia?
10099But what are these strange figures swarming beside the road-- black tousled heads and bronze faces?
10099But what of the boys who took those trenches, with their eleven rows of barbed wire in front of them?
10099But what then?
10099But who among his English hosts could possibly have imagined the thoughts and ideas in that grey head?
10099But who, least of all a woman, can part from the tragic spectacle of this war without bitterness of spirit?
10099Can I do anything for you?''
10099Can I make it worth while?
10099Can they ever forget the blood that is mingled with their own?
10099Can we circulate safely?''
10099Do men grow hard and violent in this furnace after a while, and will the national character suffer thereby in the future?
10099Do the words express the reality before us as we move along the mile of road between Albert and La Boisselle?
10099Do you wish me to swear it?''
10099Had the Germans forgotten that we are and always have been a fighting people?
10099He used gas-- do you remember the way the Canadians got the first lot?
10099How does it look now?
10099How had there been any time for the post- mortem?
10099How is it done?
10099How many of them?
10099How much further, then, has Great Britain marched since the Spring of last year-- how much nearer is she to the end?
10099How was it done?
10099How were the gunners at home to be trained?
10099How will it all end?
10099Is not the truth rather that we had a twofold share in it?
10099Is there anything that England-- and Scotland-- should provide more abundantly?
10099Lovely prices, are n''t they?
10099Now, what will they do with their freedom?
10099Or these from Itzehoe and Hanover:"Could you get me some silk?
10099To these barbarians she cries--''You want Paris?--you want France?
10099Was it not, perhaps, as near the mark as that of our airmen hosts on March 1st has proved itself to be?
10099What can I do for you?"
10099What did he mean-- and what happened afterwards?
10099What had become of the brutal arrogance, the insolent cruelty of the first days?
10099What had happened?
10099What remains of it-- and of all the workings of the German mind that devised it?
10099What should we have done without them?
10099What then?
10099What was happening?
10099What was happening?"
10099What would the marvellous organisation which England has produced in three years avail us, without the spirit in it,--the body, without the soul?
10099Whatever_ are_ we comin''to?"
10099Where are they?
10099Where to begin?
10099Where, in fact, do we stand?
10099Whither are we tending-- your country and mine?
10099Why music?
10099Will Russia forget Belgium?--and forget Serbia?
10099Will the newly- freed forget those that are still suffering and bound?
10099Will their thrift- work in the homes complete the munition- work of women in the factories?
10099Will you come, Monsieur l''Abbé, and say a few words to these poor fellows?"
10099Would there be no fighting in defence of Paris-- only thirty miles away?
10099Your note- books?
10099Your purses?"
10099_ What_!--you must take it all away?
10099_"Who will give us back our children?
10099have been found?
10099of potatoes a day?
19876All right,agreed the Colonel,"are you sure you know how to cook it yourself?"
19876And you really think they will finally come in?
19876Are you Canadian officers?
19876But what is the matter?
19876But what''s the matter?
19876Ca n''t you identify that car?
19876Do you know how to cook that canned asparagus?
19876Do you mean to saycried Mac, jumping from his chair in a rage,"that we ca n''t get anything to eat?"
19876Do you really believe that people will change? 19876 Have you a cold?"
19876Have you been out there long?
19876Have you ever eaten asparagus?
19876So did everybody else; anybody who says he did n''t come out here for some such reason as that is a damned liar; do n''t you think so Doc.?
19876Some speech that-- eh, what?
19876The British fleet?
19876Then what?
19876We have notI replied,"what is the sense of having a number?"
19876Well how do you think you would cook it?
19876Well what would you have?
19876Well, if they do n''t see the desperate nature of the affair in England how can you expect them to realize it in Canada?
19876Well, what in thunder did you come for; what was the big idea?
19876Well, what is it?
19876Well, what is the end going to be?
19876Well, what is the matter with you?
19876What a mess- president?
19876What about that little chop house(''The Silver Grill'') which he had frequently lauded with fulsome praise?
19876What are we out here for anyway; what are we fighting for; what is the whole bally business about; that is what I would like to know?
19876What are you stopping for?
19876What did you come out for Colonel?
19876What did you come out for?
19876What did you tell him?
19876What do you mean?
19876What do you think? 19876 What do you want it for?"
19876What good did it do them? 19876 What have we done anyway?
19876What is the feeling over there anyway?
19876What is the matter?
19876What would you do with the tough part of the stalks?
19876What''s the matter with him? 19876 What?"
19876Where did the cop get hold of you, Rad?
19876Why did n''t you salute?
19876Why do you feel sore now because other fellows you know have n''t come out? 19876 Why should a government car have a number?"
19876Would n''t it?
19876Would you boil it, Sir?
19876You had a good position and a good future in your profession over in the States; something made you come; what was it?
19876( That is war, is it not?)
19876As one of them said to Rudyard Kipling when he was down visiting them,"What were trees for if they were not to be cut down?"
19876But will Englishmen see that?
19876Cawn''t you give me somethink to buck me up, Doc please?"
19876Could it be really true that I was there in Paris in the middle of the great war?
19876Could she, or could she not, save France from the invading hosts of Germany?
19876Do n''t you think so Doc.?"
19876Favorite questions were:"What does the corner of King and Yonge streets look like?"
19876Finally he asked"Are you going to turn or not?"
19876If not why worry, for the newspapers were full of the tremendous casualties inflicted on the enemy?
19876If so why will not ten or twenty times as many planes accomplish ten or twenty times as much?
19876If the British fleet failed to- day do you know how long it would take the Germans to get over to Canada?
19876Is he a jelly fish?"
19876Is there anything more you want?"
19876Shall we go?"
19876Should the theatres be kept open?
19876Supposing the Germans just kept on discharging gas?
19876The French army must be very good to be able to hold the German back like that, must it not?
19876The first question asked when you are introduced as a scientist to Frenchmen is,"Do you know our Pasteur and his work?"
19876The woman stared at me and at the retreating child and asked,"What did she do that for?"
19876Their usual question at first when they met another soldier was,"Have you been to war or in France?"
19876Then he added,"Have you been with my army in France?"
19876They told their stories simply and invariably finished with a shrug of the shoulders and the phrase"c''est la guerre n''est ce pas?"
19876To our"Bon jour"he replied, and added"Il fait bon temps n''est ce pas?"
19876Was it possible that the greatest battle of all time was taking place at the very moment not sixty miles away?
19876Was n''t it funny, Doc.?"
19876What have they done?
19876What more could be said?
19876What more would any soldier desire?
19876Where did you leave those prisoners?"
19876Why make a fuss about it?
19876Why should not Canada be doing the same?"
19876Why worry?"
19876Would I go down to the new camp at Valcartier and look after the purification of the water supply?
19876and"How is Tommy Church?"
19876asked,"Do you think you can make the field ambulance by the bridge?"
19876do you know, Colonel, nothing gives me greater pleasure than spending the afternoon looking at piles of boxes?"
19876examined the injured man and said to the lieutenant rather brusquely,"Is that your car?"
19876said the Captain,"Eh, what, Doc.?"
19876said the officer,"are you a Canadian?"
19876should German music be played at Queen''s Hall?
19876should German waiters be still allowed in the hotels?
19876what good are they?
37035You are a rebel doctor, eh?
37035Have not I been faithful in all the duties of a child, to a parent?
28319Any news of the other''busses?
28319But I can have a few days''rest, sir, ca n''t I?
28319But where''s the rest of your crew?
28319Did n''t you go on with the infantry?
28319Do you fellows know how the tanks made out?
28319Do you think we shall make it?
28319Does anybody want to join this?
28319Having a good time?
28319Having a good time?
28319How many more courses must we go through?
28319In Heaven''s name, what''s the difference?
28319Now that I''ve said''Good- bye,''where am I going?
28319We may get there, but shall we get back? 28319 Well, it''s a great war, is n''t it?"
28319What did you do?
28319What do you think about it, Old Bird?
28319What is it?
28319What the devil''s the matter?
28319What''s happened to their tank, I wonder?
28319What''s happened to your''bus?
28319When are you going? 28319 When do I start, sir?
28319Where?
28319Whose tank was it?
28319Why do n''t you telephone Headquarters and ask them to send a car over for you?
28319After mess one morning, when the conversation had consisted mainly of the question,"When are we going into a show?"
28319And the razor?
28319And what of the rugger game the next day?
28319And where do I go?"
28319Are n''t you thrilled?"
28319Are you feeling fit?"
28319Are you going there?"
28319Can I have reinforcements?"
28319Can you imagine the sensation?
28319Darwin would say,"Look here, how is the radiator connected with the differential?"
28319Had they been pushed back by a German rush?
28319He decided that he was, for who had ever heard of"telephoning for a car"?
28319He then says to himself,"Why am I spared when many better men have gone?"
28319If he does not bring it back, when can we get another bucket?"
28319If not, why should they dance up and down and wave their hats and shriek?
28319One is not moving-- is it out of action?
28319Should he take it upon himself to turn back?
28319That night at mess, Gould said suddenly:--"To- morrow''s a half day, is n''t it?"
28319The man who before the war said,"Why is he my master?"
28319Then Talbot said,"Bad luck; have you got their pay- books?"
28319Then, turning to the Major with his most ingratiating smile, he said,"By the way, sir, what about a few days in Boulogne?"
28319To- day?"
28319What are these Boches doing?"
28319What do you think had happened?
28319What effect has the war had upon those countries who in the beginning were not engaged in it?
28319What life of peace is there that produces this god- like fibre in the plainest of men?
28319What rank has he?--a General, maybe?"
28319What was Rigden doing to them inside the tank to provoke such profanity from them both?
28319Why, indeed, is it produced in the life of war?
28319Would the infantry never come?
28319Would there be any sense in just sitting there until a German shell annihilated them if the infantry never arrived?
28319[ Illustration: KING GEORGE AND QUEEN MARY INSPECTING A TANK ON THE BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE]"How did the tank happen to be invented?"
18963All right,said Snipe,"I''m game, but how in hell are you going to do it?"
18963And, by the way, Benson, what happened to our gun?
18963Are the Germans as cruel as they are painted?
18963Baldy,the American, would say to Bob Goddard,"Do you call this miniature thing a railroad?
18963Bucksheethe English troops call anything that you might have to spare, such as"Have you a buckshee razor?"
18963Did you see an officer go by here?
18963How did you get it, Tommy?
18963Is that so?
18963Oh, indeed!--and why not?
18963Then, why did you bring back the food?
18963Thinking what?
18963Tommy, Tommy, have they got you, kid?
18963Well, Bobbie, what shall I do?
18963Well,said he,"just as I came down the line I overheard the old Sergeant telling another guy about it, and if we can get on, will you come?"
18963What are the prison camps like?
18963What difference does that make?
18963What do you belong to?
18963You wo n''t leave me, will you, if you have to go back?
18963A familiar voice said,"Who in hell do you think it is?"
18963After awhile I happened to be beside Mac, and I said,"Speaking of baseball, Mac, do they serve afternoon tea here?"
18963After he had been there awhile the Sergeant asked him to wash the floor; Mac refused,"Do you think I came out here to scrub floors?"
18963As I passed Nick, he said,"Which would you rather do, Jack, work on the coke oven or go to church?"
18963Bink walked up to the lady at the table, and in his most polite tone said,"Can you let me have a program?"
18963Blackie said,"What makes you think so?"
18963Brig._ 10th April, 1918 INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH CHAPTER I"Well, boy, how did you do it?"
18963But after our light- weight boot manufactured out of paper by some of our patriotic(?)
18963But how can we get away from these blamed''square- heads''?"
18963Do n''t you know when you are well off?"
18963Do n''t you know your place is here?"
18963Do you know him?"
18963He called back:"Do you think I''m such a bleedin''fool as to stay down here and get buried alive?
18963He protested his innocence, and the judge said,"Pete, have you any witnesses?"
18963He said,"Are you Englishmen?"
18963He said,"Do you want to see Tommy?
18963He said,"What''s the matter?"
18963He said,"Why?
18963How long after reveille did O''Brien lie in bed?"
18963I got out my poisoned(?)
18963I looked at Sammy and said,"This back to back stuff is n''t all it''s cracked up to be, is it?"
18963I said to Mac,"What does this remind you of, Mac?"
18963I said,"Hello, Jack, got a Blighty?"
18963I said,"Well, how would this do?
18963I said,"What makes you think that?"
18963I said,"What''s up?"
18963I said,"Where the devil are you going to, Skinny?"
18963I spoke to him, and he said,"Ai n''t this hell?
18963I thought,"Well, is n''t this a hell of a war, when a man can be pleased over getting a bloomin''big hole through his arm?"
18963I went back to the boys feeling mighty blue, and their only greeting was,"Where in hell have you been?
18963In the darkness I heard some one moving, and I said,"Who''s there?"
18963Interpreter:"Is that all you did?"
18963Interpreter:"Then what were you doing?"
18963Marriot rushed into the next bay, and meeting our Sergeant he spluttered,"Oh say, old chap, ai n''t I a lucky devil?
18963Not long after old Tucker came along and said,"Got a Blighty, Bob?"
18963Now, would n''t that be a devil of a fix to be in?
18963One of the boys dug me in the ribs and whispered,"Some scout, eh?"
18963One of the boys said,"Is n''t that fool ever going to put down his gun?"
18963One of them said when he saw us,"Well, where the devil did you come from?"
18963Said he,"Look at those lovely old trees with the creepers on them; where in the States would you find anything to compare with them?"
18963Skinny was in front of me, and he stopped so suddenly that I said,"What''s wrong, Skinny?"
18963Slim said,"How long since you''ve had a wash?"
18963Snipe, what''s the matter with hiding in one of these tunnels?
18963Some load, eh?
18963That night I told the boys of my find, and they said,"Yes, but how are we going to get there?"
18963The first question asked was,"Where was the sap you were working in?"
18963The interpreter said,"Where was the mine you dug underground?"
18963Then they put me aboard a Red Cross train, and I was lying there feeling pretty tough when a sweet voice said,"Would you like a cigarette?"
18963Then, when he got them fixed to his liking, he very bravely marched in where we were and said,"Alle Engländer?"
18963This man was Macdonald, who had already made three attempts to escape, and when I met him he said,"Well, Jack, are you ready to try it again?"
18963We asked them what it was like and they said,"Oh, you wo n''t want a rifle, all you need is a shovel to dig yourself a hole"--cheerful, was n''t it?
18963We guided them out to the main shaft, and it was still intact, so they went up; then the Corporal said,"I wonder if there are any more back there?"
18963We told him and he said,"What size were the shells that came over?"
18963Well, when I came back from the boss''s cabin, I found Steve packing up, and I said,"Why, what''s the matter, Steve?"
18963What about him?"
18963What the devil is eating you now?
18963What the mischief are you doing?"
18963What would n''t a boy do for an officer who used him like that?
18963When I reached the orderly- room I walked in, and said,"Who is the Orderly Sergeant here?"
18963When he saw what I had done, he said,"Why in hell do n''t you take the brutes out when you want to shoot them, and not be making a mess here?"
18963When they got up to us they said,"Where the devil have you fellows been?
18963When we came up we bid him the time of day, and, in the best German we could muster, asked,"Which is this, Germany or Holland?"
18963Who goes there?"
18963is that you?
18963meaning"Have you a spare razor?"
18963what the Sam Hill are they doing with those chaps?"
18963what''s the matter, old chap?"
18078''Say, boy, are you a walking pawnshop?'' 18078 Belong to some church back home?"
18078But how did you do it?
18078But why does she come so long after he is dead?
18078Did you even go so far with your lone one- man congregation as to have a benediction?
18078Do n''t you want the Christ to help you bear your pain?
18078Even in your own beautiful America?
18078Great old hymn, is n''t it, lad?
18078Have you no mother or sister?
18078How did you get yours?
18078How did you get yours?
18078How do the Americans stand dressing their wounds and the suffering in the hospitals?
18078How is that?
18078How many men does it take to keep one pilot in the machine flying out over those waters to guard the transports in?
18078I just saw him there,Clarke replied,"and he looked lonely, and I walked up and said:''How''d you like to have me read a little out of the Book?''
18078I said to myself:''What will the poor kiddie do without his dad?''
18078If you hear them coming you''re all right?
18078Like the old hymns?
18078No wonder, man; who would n''t shake after that?
18078Oh, it''s you, is it, Doc? 18078 Suit me, man?
18078Traveller, hast thou ever seen so great a grief as mine?
18078Traveller, hast thou ever seen so great a grief as mine?
18078Traveller, hast thou ever seen so great a grief as mine?
18078What are those dots on the sun?
18078What are you talking about, man?
18078What did you say his name was?
18078What does it mean?
18078What is it?
18078What makes you feel so keenly about it?
18078What shall we sing, boys?
18078What''s that, Doc, a Boche?
18078When will you quit?
18078Who goes there?
18078Who goes there?
18078Why, major?
18078A friend who knew better said:"But have you not noticed that women are pulling the carts, women are tilling the fields?
18078After several nights one of the men secretaries went up to him and said:"Why do n''t you go over and talk with them?
18078Ai n''t they satisfied?
18078And then who shall forget how somebody else started"Let the Lower Lights Be Burning"?
18078And who shall forget the man along the railing who said,"I never knew before the meaning of that old song,''The Lights Along the Shore''"?
18078Are you afraid?"
18078Can such scenes ever be obliterated from one''s memory?
18078Could Silhouettes of Sacrilege cover a wider gamut of hatred and disgust than these silhouettes picture?
18078Could the case be more complete?
18078Did it make them mad?
18078Did it produce regret?
18078Had they selected that hymn just for me?
18078Have you not noticed that there are no men but old men everywhere?"
18078He had no other place to go, and the boys could n''t leave, so why should he go just because he could leave if he wished?
18078I just gave them guys what they was lookin''for in all its horrible details, did n''t I?
18078I said to Cray:"Why did you sing that particular song?"
18078I said to the other driver:"Well, it''s too beautiful to be true, is n''t it?
18078I said:"So you see that it''s a good thing to be carrying a Bible around in your pocket?"
18078I said:"What was it?"
18078I said:"Where is your camp?"
18078In fact it became contagious, for a kindly old gentleman, thinking that the little lady was afraid of the boat, said:"What''s the matter, dear?
18078Is it any wonder that they asked him for a little prayer service one night before they went into the trenches?
18078Is it any wonder that they brought their last letters to him before they went into the trenches?
18078Is it any wonder that they love him and swear by him?
18078Just before the battle of Château- Thierry,"Doc,"of whom I have spoken in this chapter before, said:"Boys, do you want a communion service?"
18078SILHOUETTES OF SUNSHINE ILLUSTRATIONS"_ Traveller, hast thou ever seen so great a grief as mine?_".
18078Silhouettes of Sunshine?
18078Suffering?
18078The Gang''s All Here"and"Where Do We Go From Here, Boys?"
18078The captain was baffled, but went on:"What did you hit the man for?"
18078The captain, seeing this, turned and said:"Well, what do you want?"
18078Then suddenly it dawned on me that this was France speaking to America:"Traveller, hast thou ever seen so great a grief as mine?"
18078Then who shall forget seeing that first light from shore flash out through the darkness of night?
18078There''d be somethin''doin''at home then, would n''t there?"
18078Thomas Carlyle once said of man:"Stands he not thereby in the centre of Immensities, in the conflux of Eternities?"
18078Was she blue?
18078Was she discouraged?
18078Were her spirits dampened?
18078What was the difference?
18078What were they, friendly craft or enemy ships?
18078When the news got to France that submarines were plying in American waters near New York, did it produce consternation?
18078Who shall forget the crowding to the railings by all on board to scan anxiously through the night for the first sight of land?
18078Who shall forget the red and green and white lights that began to twinkle, and gleam, and flash, and signal, and call?
18078Who shall forget the sense of exhilaration that the news that land was near brought?
18078Worker with the A. E. F. Illustrated by Jessie Gillespie[ Frontispiece:"Traveller, hast thou ever seen so great a grief as mine?"]
18078Would you like for me to have a little prayer with you?"
18078[ Illustration: What was the difference?
18078[ Illustration:"What are those dots on the sun?"
18078_ Frontispiece_"_ What are those dots on the sun?"
12418A couple of days?
12418American newspapers tell stories which are not at all true, do n''t they?
12418And now, Herr Commandant,I began,"can you suggest where I may best begin my atrocity work tomorrow?
12418Did you see that face?
12418Did you see that last_ boche_, Jean?
12418Do you think Austria will grant the American demands?
12418Have the people here planted much of these things I see on that notice?
12418How do you like them?
12418How is that?
12418How on earth did you manage to pass through the iron- clad regulations at the docks of Hoboken( New York) without a permit, and why did you do it?
12418Is this man looking for me? 12418 Might I not see the wounded taken from the train?"
12418Oh, so you get the English papers?
12418Then what are you doing in a Russian uniform?
12418Well,snarled Major Nicolai,"why did n''t you send that to your papers?"
12418Were you here during the fighting?
12418Who are they?
12418Why should we let America interfere with our plan to starve England?
12418Why, it''s only eight hours to the Thames estuary, is n''t it?
12418Will public opinion favour such a move?
12418You are not downhearted about the war?
12418You do not think your Government responsible at all for the war?
12418You have been in England, have n''t you?
12418You know of this, of course?
12418You speak English, then?
12418You''re all right, ai n''t you, Heiny, so long as I give you a bit of sugar now and then?
12418_ Ach, noch''mal_("What, again?")
12418A pretty picture of the appreciation of the blessings of German rule, but was it true?
12418Am I in for serious trouble now?"
12418And would you not be surprised to learn that nearly every newspaper throughout your country had the same headlines that day?
12418Are n''t you, old Heiny?
12418As I did so a Russian came out of the barn and said, in rather bad German,"Going to have your photograph taken?"
12418But the four women inside-- why did they not help the woman?
12418But what of Ballin, Heineken, von Gwinner, Gutmann, Thyssen, Rathenau, and other captains of industry and finance?
12418Could the Oberammergau Passion Play ever exert the old influence again, after this?
12418Did I not have a birth certificate?
12418Did it ever occur to anybody in England to dispute the right of immunity of members of parliament?
12418Do you not see that our diplomats have still one more loop- hole in case they are pressed?
12418Had I not a letter from Count Bernstorff?
12418Have you not noticed the significance of the two dates, March 6, when the torpedo is said to have been fired, and March 16, when it struck?
12418Herr Dittmann continued:--"How much longer will it be before even thoughts become criminal in Germany?
12418His captors had given him a chapel, to be sure, but why was he in Germany at all?
12418How did I get into Strassburg in war- time?
12418How do the editors like being mere clerks for the Government?
12418How is it, then, that they began to hate the United States so intensely?
12418How is the war going on, guv''nor?"
12418How were they to know that these tumbrils contained the bloody story of Contalmaison?
12418How would Fritz be regarded in this country, and how was he regarded according to German standards?
12418I noticed a gentleman carrying his own baggage, and I said to him,''Can I carry your suitcases on board, sir?''"
12418I regret this check upon free criticism in England, but what would have happened in Germany?
12418I visited the cinematograph theatre, and the operator asked,"What would you like to see-- something funny?"
12418If only wounded to the hospitals one train came into Potsdam at Potsdam and other why use furniture vans at cities have proved a great all?
12418If that is really so, why does the_ Deutschland''s_ cargo consist mainly of these three commodities?
12418May I ask what you are doing?"
12418Not only that, but to be so efficient in hate that even inscriptions on tombstones may no longer be written in French?
12418On what fronts had I already seen fighting?
12418On what occasions had I visited Germany during my past life?
12418Or first, would it not be well for me to get a more complete idea of the invasion by seeing on the map just what routes the Russians took coming in?"
12418Or has anybody in England been threatened with arrest if he does not withdraw a declaration against the committee of his party?
12418Some of them have expressed opinions in interviews, but what do they_ really_ think?
12418That is the sort of sight which makes some critics say,"What is the matter with the British Navy?"
12418The question in my mind is: Who lost the 1 from the 16?"
12418The son of the house remarked,"Surely you know the English have taken a great many prisoners?"
12418Their training had led them to think in army corps, and they frankly and sneeringly asked us,"What could you do?"
12418Upon what kinds of history is the German child being brought up?
12418We have had to work fourteen hours a day, and I wonder what my mates at home would think of 3 shillings pay for ten days''work?"
12418What are the factors which enable Germany to call this number or a little more than this number to the Colours?
12418What is the value of a trinket to the life of the dear one that gave it?
12418What languages did I speak, and the degree of proficiency in each?
12418What other people in the world than the Germans would stand that?
12418What state of mind does this produce among the people?
12418What would you think, you who live in London or Hew York, if you woke up some morning to find every newspaper in the city with the same headlines?
12418Where did they live?
12418Whom did I know in Germany?
12418Why did the Government do everything in its power to suppress this article?
12418Why not?
12418Why should not the Empire of William II.?
12418Why, one may naturally ask, do they not cry out against such a pernicious practice?
12418With the Reichstag shut up, and the hold on the newspapers tightening,-what opportunity remains by which independent thought can be disseminated?
12418With the soldier element scientifically broken up and scattered all over the country, who could revolt-- the women and children?
12418Would it be to the best interests of Germany to go the limit with the submarines or not?
12418Would it not seem strange if the Commandant at Wehlau had me sent back after these great men had set their seal of approval upon my investigations?
12418You know that the little old man who was complaining about the restaurants being turned into hospitals has been arrested?"
12418You would conclude that there was wonderful central control somewhere, would you not?
12418wounded proceed to England?
38369Are the Indians to be reclaimed by fire?
38369Thomas,( who slept in the same tent) and asked,"if he did not hear somebody run by the tent?"
34895Have you got any federal greenbacks?
34895Let''s see, Gordon''s old regiment?
34895What regiment?
34895What will you sell me one of those canteens for?
34895What, you do n''t know the man you identified yesterday?
34895And shall all this have been in vain?
34895But where the end may be, this year or twenty hence,_ quien sabe_?
34895Finally he said,"Will you be ready to start before light to- morrow?"
34895Have you got a gold dollar?"
34895How are you?"
34895Shortly before we arrived, at about 1 A.M., an officer came through the car, caught sight of my shoulder- straps, stopped:"You are a captain?"
34895What is happening behind the impenetrable curtain between us and the North?
34895When the tide of war shall turn, as turn it will, what will be done with us?
34895where shall I be,--here or in the Libby?
19693''Were you speaking to me?
19693But have you the legal right to do that?
19693But under Dutch law?
19693But what difference? 19693 But why,"said the German counsellor, sitting by my study fire--- a Prussian of the Prussians--"why do you refuse?
19693Can you sell us a little bread?
19693Were you here in the fighting?
19693Were you here in the fighting?
19693What do you mean by Peace,said the Householder, looking grimly around him;"do you mean all this?"
19693What were these Prussian soldiers doing there? 19693 Why so many soldiers,"I asked,"and where are they all going?"
19693Will the man get well?
19693Will you see an operation?
19693Are we not brothers?
19693But do you think they will arrest me when I get to New York?"
19693But have you any right to arrest me and send me to America?"
19693But how could it be avoided?
19693But how shall I creep in?"
19693But might it not still be used as a make- weight in the scales of negotiation rather than as a weapon of actual offense?
19693But what about things on the French side of the border in that same week of June, 1914?
19693But what do we mean now by peace?
19693But what if it lost its purely mythical quality and became historical, actual, contemporaneous?
19693But when would that be?
19693But would the organization of such a league of nations to defend peace make war henceforward impossible?
19693But-- well, did you ever see a wren resist an eagle?
19693Can there be any Peace in the world if you go loose in it, ready to break and enter and kill when it pleases you?
19693Can there be any forgiveness until you repent?
19693Could Germany have taken this absolutely"committal"position if she had been ignorant of what Austria intended to do?
19693Could it be that Europe of the twentieth century was to be thrust back into the ancient barbarism of a general war?
19693Could it be the big neighbor from across the lake?
19693Could the precarious peace be maintained until measures to enforce and protect it by common consent could be taken?
19693Do n''t you want it?"
19693Do we not both love Peace?
19693Do you accept?"
19693Do you mean to restore the plunder you have grabbed?"
19693Does it mean a constitutional remoulding of the empire?
19693Fight?
19693General scepticism?
19693Had they come to spy out the land and the city in preparation for an invasion?
19693How could it be otherwise in a throng of about a million, scooped up and cast out by an evil chance?
19693How did this gentleman in Munich come to know about the ultimatum, while the gentlemen in Berlin professed ignorance?
19693How long would that lack hold off the storm?
19693If it seemed dreamlike to us, so near at hand, how could the people in America, three thousand miles away, feel its reality or grasp its meaning?
19693Indifference?
19693Is it likely that the predatory Potsdam gang will be willing to accept these three conditions soon?
19693Is it not so?"
19693Is n''t that a fair division?
19693Might he not still be content with showing and shaking the sword, without fleshing it in the body of Europe?
19693Might not the Kaiser still be pleased with his dramatic role of"the war- lord who kept the peace"?
19693Might not the Werwolf get himself disliked?"
19693Mr. Eyschen said to me:"You have heard of the famous''Luxembourger Loch''?
19693N''est- ce pas vrai, cherie?"
19693Now and then an independent German like Maximilian Harden is brave enough to blurt it out:"Of what use are weak excuses?
19693Preoccupation with other designs which made the discussion of peace plans premature and futile?
19693Shall I deny it?"
19693Shall the United States be asked to rewrite this article of international law, in the midst of a great war on sea and land?
19693Tell me, what have you to say about my children and my servants whom you have tortured and murdered?"
19693The first question was: Did Germany approve in advance the Austrian ultimatum to Servia?
19693Then the Queen asked about the Dutch immigrants in America, especially in recent times-- were they good citizens?
19693There were old men so feeble that one''s first thought on seeing them was:"How did you get away from your nurse?"
19693These Kriegs- Herren had better go home at once-- at once, did they understand?"
19693Was it the carrying out of the cold- blooded policy of"frightfulness"as a necessary weapon of war?
19693Was it the drink found in the cellars of the houses that made the German officers and soldiers mad?
19693Was there a stray prince or duke among them who wanted to marry the Grand Duchess?
19693Were Algiers and Tunis and Tripoli"civilized states"when they sent out the Barbary pirates in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
19693What about the damage you have done here?
19693What else could she do?
19693What had the Potsdam High- Sea Fleet to do with this peaceable overland traveller from Belgium?
19693What if a few shots were fired by ignorant and infuriated civilians from the windows of houses?
19693What is it that we are pledged by President Wilson''s statement to insist upon as a precondition of any peace conference with Germany?
19693What was it, then, that forced such a nation into a conflict of arms?
19693What was it?
19693What was the meaning of this?
19693Where was it?
19693Who are WE?"
19693Who feeds you?
19693Who gave you a place?
19693Who shall repair it?"
19693Why do you call attention to it, instead of talking politely and earnestly about the blessings of Peace?"
19693Why not call on the signer of the letter of credit for the money instead of calling on the addressee?
19693Why not make the drafts directly on New York?
19693Why not simply transmit the note to your colleague in Brussels as you did before?
19693Why not?
19693Will you lay down your weapons and come before the Judge?"
19693Will you not?"
19693Would it not change its aspect?
19693Would not people object to it?
19693Yet why would not the killing of a French sister under the Red Cross be just as wicked?
19693You want it to go on?"
22021And where are they now?
22021Could I eat ten thousand b... buns and the baker who baked them?
22021Do you think the Navy could do anything more than they are already doing to help the situation? 22021 What does this letter amount to?
22021( 3) But there is a third eventuality not mentioned by Lord K. How if our attack upon the main strength of the entrenched Germans is beaten off?
22021(?
22021?
22021Am I aware, etc.?
22021Am I sure that I myself have not crabbed my own show a bit in telling the full story of our fight to K. this afternoon?
22021Are the High Gods bringing our new Iliad to grief in a spirit of wanton mischief?
22021At whose door will history leave the blame for the helpless, hopeless fix we are left in-- rotting with disease and told to take it easy?
22021But after all, who am I to judge the Government of the British Empire?
22021But am I?
22021But; if the Turks got there first?
22021Can I say so?
22021Can this be stopped and_ Arno_ sent( to)_ Mercedes_ to water at once?
22021Can you give me any idea when the reinforcements for this division are likely to be despatched and when they may be expected here?
22021Could you not ginger them up?
22021Did the War Council also appoint Munro?
22021Do the men toying with the idea of bringing off our men not see that thereby the Turks will be let loose somewhere; not nowhere?
22021Have the numbers at Base, Alexandria, and men returning from hospital, etc., been taken into account?
22021Have they done so now?
22021Have you any complaints on this score?"
22021Have you arranged practical system for supplying troops in the event of Tekke Tepe ridge being secured?"
22021He replied:"Sir Ian, may I be frank with you about the Division?"
22021How can he feed them?
22021How can we?
22021How far will wise saws cut ice?
22021How long will you require Maxwell''s troops, and where do you intend to send them?
22021How many much better men than myself would not close their eyes to- night with a battle on the balance and 5,000 rounds wherewith to fight it?
22021How much nearer do you get to shooting a snipe by being_ told_ how not to take your aim?
22021How will they do?
22021If I want more ammunition indeed?
22021If so, will you please make arrangements with him accordingly?
22021If you want more ammunition say so....""Could you eat a bun, my boy?"
22021If, as the A.G. says, they have not got the men to send, why in God''s name do they go on telling the people they_ have_ got them?
22021If, on reconsideration, you agree with this view can you spare the LIIIrd Division?"
22021If...?
22021In spite of delay, in spite of lost chances, is it business?
22021Is K. still the demi- God, that is the question?
22021Is it business?
22021Is it in Dawnay''s draft, or is it in my message, or does it lie stillborn in some cable unwritten?
22021Is it the Divisional Generals or Brigadiers or both?
22021Is there any occasion on which I have failed to do so?
22021Now, what was to be done?
22021Now-- will she send us a contingent?
22021Oh, energy, to what distant clime have you flown?
22021Only for a few moments-- last moments for so many?
22021Or have you sufficient supernumerary Officers to fill all casualties?"
22021Or, is there some method in this madness?
22021Sealed my resolution( resignation?)
22021Shade of Napoleon-- say, which would you rather not have, a skeleton Brigade or a Brigade of skeletons?
22021Simple, is it not?
22021Suppose Mr. X, for instance, had said that the landing did not succeed, and had been driven off with immense slaughter?
22021The battalions were thrown at my head when that grand statement was made as to the grand army I commanded; now where are they?
22021The winning post stares us in the face; my old Chief gallops off the course; how can I resist calling out?
22021Then_ why_ did n''t they shell the beaches?
22021These stories about the troops?
22021These"unofficial reports"are"in much the same strain"( perhaps they spring from the same source?).
22021Was Hore Ruthven?
22021Was Williams"out of touch"when he was hit?
22021What arguments-- what pressure-- I wonder can have moved K. to swap horse in mid- Dardanelles?
22021What can I say to that?
22021What do I know of their difficulties, pledges, and enemies-- whether outside or inside the fold?
22021What do they think?
22021What express strategical gain do they expect from pushing back the Germans?
22021What forces would you require to relieve them?
22021What have they done?
22021What is the plain truth?
22021When a man starts going West who can foretell how long it will take him to arrive at the East?
22021When the materials already sent out to Malta and Alexandria have been used up, can the manufacture of grenades at those places cease?
22021Where is it?
22021Where''s the use of M. Millerand''s consulting me over what lies on the far side of a dead wall?
22021Why then does he not act accordingly if he''s in the Almighty know?
22021Would it not be possible to exchange these for some Hindu regiments in France?"
22021[ Illustration: MARSHALL LIMAN VON SANDERS_"Exclusive News"phot._] Easy to preach patience to a nation in agony?
22021here, but politicians are more-- shall we say, mercurial?
37754He turned on them and asked,"Which of you was it who set fire to those bridges yesterday?"
37754Whenever any of us have been at home, among the first inquiries would be,"How is the Third Wisconsin?"
37754Why was it, then, that we had been forced back?
18103''Ow d''you mean, Sam?
18103''_ Ere_, who''s''ad that there tea?
18103Are you quite ready?
18103Comment?
18103D''you know what this is all about, sir?
18103For you, sir?
18103How are you getting on?
18103I should n''t think dead cows were bullet- proof, should you?
18103I wonder what is on our left, here?
18103Is a country,he said to himself,"that will not allow its wounded pneumatic tyres to ride upon, worth fighting for?"
18103Is that you?
18103Look here,he mumbled,"how do you know my heart''s strong enough for this sort of thing?"
18103Me and Sam''s goin''on''Midnight Pass''ter- night, ai n''t we, Sam?
18103Nah then, Bill, wotcher doing to New Street Station?
18103No,said the Captain, as much as to say"How should I?"
18103Oo''s the''ole bloke?
18103Qu''est- ce que c''est, le nom de cette village?
18103Qu''est- ce que c''est, le nom de cette village?
18103Qu''est- ce que c''est, le nom de cette village?
18103Sentry, have you seen a battery of artillery and a platoon of----shires pass here?
18103Straight?
18103The one who dashes about?
18103The one who upset the dinner- trays?
18103Well, young feller, how are you? 18103 What are we stopping here for?"
18103What the deuce are you men doing? 18103 What''s that man doing?
18103What''s the matter?
18103What? 18103 Where''s my bier?
18103Which_ is_ ours?
18103Who were you with last night?
18103Who''s on at the Hipper- drome?
18103You?
181035 Platoon?"
18103A Name?
18103And all this was not to be?
18103And what next?
18103Anglais?
18103As, overpowered with the sorrow of it, you pass by, the thought steals into your mind,"When will my turn come?"
18103But above all, what would he be like?
18103Ca n''t you see I''m a little upset this morning?"
18103Careless?
18103Could it be possible?
18103Could the ammunition supply be depended upon?
18103Have they pushed us out?"
18103Have you ever heard the tinkering, tapping, thudding sounds made by entrenching implements or spades?
18103He had often read of Meaux; was it not the Bishopric of Bossuet, the stately orator of Louis XIV?
18103How would it turn out?
18103How would the men shape?
18103If so, would he be able to hide it?
18103Is a gentleman to be kept waiting all night for his bier?"
18103Is it roused by the little messengers of death that whizz invisibly by?
18103Is there a word to cope with the situation?
18103Me?
18103On the table in the dining- room, green and cool with its view of the sombre pine wood, stood a long cold drink of what?
18103One gazes with a subtle feeling of affection on one''s limbs, and wonders,"Where shall I get it?"
18103Should he burn as many of them as he could, or overturn them, or beat them down?
18103Should the Subaltern stop and try to lend assistance where he was, or hurry back to his own unit?
18103Suddenly, excitedly, a voice, saturated with fear, cried out from the darkness,"Who goes there?"
18103The enemy here, in the western corner of Belgium?
18103Then, as he recognised an old soldier of the regiment,"Atkins, how dare you expose yourself unnecessarily?
18103There had been disturbing cries of"What''s all this abart?"
18103There is at such moments an odd desire to give way to the temptation of saying to oneself,"Where shall I be in an hour''s time?"
18103They were wondering every second of the time,"How far have the Germans got?
18103Was a disgraceful and bloody massacre about to begin?
18103Was a stand going to be made at last?
18103Was he abashed?
18103Was it Villiers?
18103Was it a chance shot, or would the Germans land a direct"hit"next time?
18103Was n''t it funny?
18103What did it mean?
18103What did this mean?
18103What had happened?
18103What time was it then?
18103What was it?
18103What was that?
18103What was this?
18103What would happen?
18103What would he do?
18103What would he have"to follow"?
18103When and Why?
18103Whence comes the love of battle?
18103Where next?
18103Where would the world go to?
18103Where''s my bier?
18103Who d''ju think''s comin''after you?"
18103Whose?
18103Why did n''t I?"
18103Why is it?
18103Why not once again?
18103Why should any one be clean and shaven when his own face was smeared with dirt and stubble?
18103Why should any one have shining boots, when his own were dull and bursting?
18103Would he feel afraid?
18103Would he remember the war as vividly as he then remembered all that?
18103Would his men follow him well?
18103Yet the words kept surging through his brain:"To die... to sleep... in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?...
18103double F.R.E?
18103give a thought to yer ruddy comrades, ca n''t yer?"
18103said he,"tous partis?
15829But, who are the birds for?
15829Can he be removed if I promise to fulfil all these conditions?
15829Chatterbox,said he,"how would you like to ride home with me and stay awhile, until your mother gets better?
15829Did any one else go?
15829Hey, old nigger, what''s in that great bundle? 15829 It is a dipping- stick; do n''t you chaw snuff?"
15829Mornin'', little missy,said she, pleasantly;"is you gwine ter sleep all day?"
15829No? 15829 Sure, what wad a lady be wantin''in a place like this?"
15829THE QUICK OR THE DEAD?
15829Well, did she eat breakfast with you?
15829What is your name, and how did you get here?
15829What the devil is all this fuss about? 15829 Where is Sophy?
15829Who is on the front?
15829Who stole it?
15829Why, Peter,cried I,"you are crazy:_ who_ called me names, and what did they call me?"
15829Why, Winnie,said Mrs. Grey,"what does this mean?
15829Why, comrade,I replied,"I thought you would like to have a lady to nurse you?"
15829Why, father,said I,"whoever heard of paying ten dollars for needles and thread?"
15829Wot you makin''all dis miration''bout? 15829 You is too inquisity;''sides, who you call nigga''?
15829You wo n''t hurt my mamma? 15829 Amazed, I questioned why? 15829 An''how dem dar gwine to do''out ole Winnie?
15829And what of the unfaltering_ followers_, whose valor supported their brave leaders and helped to_ create_ many a splendid record?
15829At once Maum Winnie''s voice was heard inquiring,--"Who dat?"
15829But why is he not fired upon?
15829Can imagination conceive a situation more pitiable?
15829Did one thirst?
15829Did you ever hear of such badness?"
15829Do you wonder, then, that I love to call those comrades of mine"my boys"?
15829Does it seem strange to you that I call these bronzed and bearded men"my_ boys_?"
15829Does it seem to you that this was exceptional, dear reader?
15829Dr. Beatty was worried about the sick, but under the circumstances what could he do?
15829Faith, an''if_ ye''re_ a sinner, where wad the saints be?"
15829He set down the cup, looked at me with queer, half- shut eyes, then remarked,"Yer ga- assin''now, ai n''t ye?"
15829His thought was,"Can that color- bearer have repeated his blow, or am I struck by a ball, which has deadened the sense of feeling?"
15829How can I convey to you the impressions there received?
15829How can ye sing, ye little birds, and I so weary, fu''o''care?"
15829I did not understand, so he explained, with a comic leer at the others,--"Sure, have n''t I always the''_ lone hand_''on thim?"
15829I had but to mention her name to ask,"Do you know Mrs. Caldwell, of the''Refuge?''"
15829I said to him,"Now, what would_ you_ like?"
15829I said,"Doctor, in tent No.---- there is a very sick man; can we look at the books and learn what diagnosis his surgeon has made?"
15829I tould him,''And what have_ you_ to say to what you done to_ our_ poor fellows?''
15829Immediately Maum Winnie would appear, the very picture of dignified astonishment,--"Now, Miss Nelly,_ ai n''t_ you''shame''?
15829In reply to his question,"was he badly hurt?"
15829Instead of taking it out of his vest- pocket, father opened his pocket- book and said,--"Did you say you wanted_ ten dollars_ or ten_ cents_, my boy?"
15829Little girl, where is your mamma?
15829My dear young friends, have you ever heard of a disease called"nostalgia?"
15829Nelly at once began,--"Oh, Maum Winnie, who are those birds for?
15829Oh, lady,_ will_ they do my daddy like this?"
15829Oh, these must be run off and saved,--but how?
15829Oh, was it not hard to believe that"whatever is is right?"
15829Oh,_ whar_ he?
15829One of these fellows then said,"Well, I''m a Kentuckian too, what have you got to say about me?"
15829Or who can listen unmoved to the music of the cannon which so often woke the morning echoes upon the bloodiest battle- field of the war?
15829Shall I describe to you this room-- or my suite of rooms?
15829She had to ride all the way on a wagon drawn by a steer( oh, mothers, can you not imagine the agony which attended that lengthened journey?
15829Suddenly,--"Jim, can this be you?"
15829Their stricken hearts cried out to all the beautiful things of nature,--"How can ye bloom so fresh and fair?
15829There was a great deal of"geeing"and"hawing"and fuss, and then, instead of getting down, the farmer called out,--"Say, are you all asleep?"
15829They asked me,''What have you in that bag?''
15829They seemed to her so precious, so sacred, that they must have sepulchre; but how should she accomplish this end?
15829Upon the sideboard stood a tray which had contained breakfast for somebody; Nelly wondered who, and suddenly asked,--"Is mamma sick?"
15829Wat I want to be free for?
15829Well, what is it?"
15829Whar dat chile cum from dis time o''nite?"
15829What are you in the kitchen cooking for?"
15829What is all this about your feather- bed?"
15829What should I do now?
15829What you got in there, anyhow?"
15829When I would ask,"Are you sorry, Beau?"
15829Where did you get this money, and why do you give it to me?"
15829Where is the cook?
15829Who can wonder that their brave defenders were the idols of a grateful people?
15829Who does not remember the sorrow of a nation at his death?
15829Who gwine keer''bout me?
15829Will you lead me to her?"
15829You ar''n''t going to burn up Maum Winnie''s house?"
15829_ Could_ it be true?
15829better this morning?
15829cried the negro,"did n''t I tole you dat?
15829great God, is this Dave?"
15829were_ these_ the brave men who had made forever glorious the name of Shiloh?
15829what are you going to do with that mustard- plaster?
15829what has happened to her?"
15829why must it be that grief and glory always go hand in hand?
33179Any other name?
33179How far is it to Germania Ford?
33179I should go for his gloves?
33179Was he killed in the battle?
33179Were you there during the fight?
33179What do the people down here say this war is about?
33179What should you go for, Gus?
33179What should you go for, Tom?
33179Where was your husband?
33179Where were you hit?
33179Who lives in that house we have just passed?
33179Will you lend me my Nigger, Colonel?
33179An officer stuck his head out of a nearby tent and shouted,"Why did n''t you bring in the whole regiment while you were about it?"
33179As they were passing his place one time, he said to his wife in the morning as they began to pass,"Wife, shall we do something for these men?
33179But it afforded us some amusement and what did we care for mules''ears or men''s ears, for that matter?
33179But what could one man do with one little revolver, when faced by two or three hundred veterans of many a bloody military and whiskey campaign?
33179Finally, she said in a rather saucy way,"Why do n''t you play it yourself?"
33179He looked at his gloves for an instant, and with an oath demanded"What is that?"
33179How different the aspect two months later as we were about to leave there?
33179My shoes were loaded with Virginia mud; could I jump it?
33179Were n''t we indignant one noon?
33179What a railroad that was?
33179What could we do?
33179What you- all come down here for-- to invade our country and run away with our niggers?
33179When I reached headquarters the colonel came out of his tent and came up to me and said,"What have you been up to, Mad?"
31158But how are we to know where you are?
31158Certainly; what''s the matter with it?
31158In that dress?
31158What is he saying?
31158Where do you propose to go?
31158Where do you think you are going? 31158 Why,"it may be asked,"did not Admiral Sampson fight his way into the harbor, if its defenses were so weak?"
31158( 2) Can I disembark my army in a harbor, or shall I have to land it on an open, unprotected coast, and perhaps through surf?
31158Could I be permitted to ask to see them under flag of truce?
31158The question naturally arises, Why?
31158The questions naturally arise, Was this state of affairs inevitable, or might it have been foreseen as a possibility and averted?
31158The questions then recur, Why did not the army have such food, clothes, and equipment as would have made obedience to the laws of health possible?
31158To church?"
31158Were the difficulties insuperable?
31158What business have you here?
31158What should be done then?
31158Will history write us blameless?
31158Will it not be said of us that we completed the scheme of extermination commenced by Weyler?
31158Will not the world hold us accountable?
31158Would not the men have been forthcoming, and would not the desired information have been obtained?
31158of them fell out of the ranks from exhaustion in a march of five miles?
2616Any chickens?
2616Any eggs?
2616Any flour or grain?
2616Are you a member of the other House?
2616Are you the Governor of a State?
2616Certainly not"Have you ever had a vote of thanks by name?
2616Do you think you could become so interested in my conversation as not to notice the door- keeper?
2616Have you any meat?
2616Is anybody in the house?
2616Is it locked up?
2616Is no one about who can get in?
2616Now, where is the proper place to break it?
2616Well,said he,"what do you want of me?"
2616Well,said he,"why do n''t you go into the gallery?"
2616What do you live on?
2616What is your badge?
2616Why?
26161, but are in the immediate neighborhood, on their plantations?
2616A few days afterward the husband again appealed to his commanding officer( Taylor), who exclaimed:"Have n''t you got a musket?
2616After shaking hands all round, the Governor said,"Coleman, what the devil is the matter here?"
2616At every meal the steward would come to me, and say,"Captain Sherman, will you bring your ladies to the table?"
2616Ca n''t you defend your own family?"
2616Can we whip the South?
2616General Halleck had a map on his table, with a large pencil in his hand, and asked,"where is the rebel line?"
2616Governor of a State?
2616Halleck''s telegram of last night says:"Who sent Smith''s division to Nashville?
2616Has any thing been heard from the troops ordered from Vicksburg?
2616He asked me,"Where?"
2616He dropped out of the retinue with an orderly, and after we had ridden a mile or so he overtook us, and I asked him,"What luck?"
2616He inquired,"Why not both?"
2616He said:"What is the use of your persevering?
2616He then asked in his quizzical way,"Are you a foreign embassador?"
2616He then said,"Have you any impudence?"
2616He turned to me and said,"Ca n''t you take your regiment up there?"
2616I answered, rather shortly,''How the devil do you know there is a masked battery?
2616I answered:"How can you go to New York?
2616I asked Deshler:"What does this mean?
2616I had on my undress uniform indicating my rank, and inquired of the sentinel,"Is General Fremont up?"
2616I said I had come to see him on business; and he added,"You do n''t suppose that he will see such as you?"
2616I touched it and examined one or two of the larger pieces, and asked,"Is it gold?"
2616If you ca n''t get over, how can the rebels get at you?''
2616In that event, would it not be possible for you to become a citizen of our State?
2616Major Childs inquired,"Where is Coacoochee?"
2616Major W. T. Sherman: Will you accept the chief clerkship of the War Department?
2616Mason said to me,"What is that?"
2616Member of Congress?"
2616Mr. Lincoln, who was still standing, said,"Threatened to shoot you?"
2616Of parties claiming foreign protection?
2616Renick said,"What do you want with General Fremont?"
2616Sherman said to me:"Admiral, how could you make such a remark to McClernand?
2616So that among the younger officers the query was very natural,"Who the devil is Governor of California?"
2616The Governor knocked at the door, and on inquiry from inside"Who''s there?"
2616We then returned to Benicia, and Wool''s first question was,"What luck?"
2616What can I do for you?"
2616When ground is owned by parties who have gone south, and have leased the ground to parties now in the city who own the improvements on the ground?
2616When houses are occupied and the owner has gone south, leaving an agent to collect rent for his benefit?
2616When houses are owned by loyal citizens, but are unoccupied?
2616When movable property is found in stores that are closed?
2616When parties owning houses have gone south, and the tenant has given his notes for the rent in advance?
2616When parties who occupy the house are creditors of the owner, who has gone south?
2616When the owner has gone south, and parties here hold liens on the property and are collecting the rents to satisfy their liens?
2616When the owner lives in town, and refuses to take the oath of allegiance?
2616When the tenant has expended several months''rent in repairs on the house?
2616Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command?
2616Wo n''t you speak your mind freely on this question of slavery, that so agitates the land?
2616said Mr. Lincoln,"how are they getting along down there?"
2616where are they to come from?"
31895Do you live in Greenville?
31895Have you got any showance?
31895How is it, then, that this young man wears the Confederate uniform?
31895Howde massa?
31895Is you a Yankee, massa?
31895Uncle, did you ever see a Yankee?
31895Well, who said I was n''t?
31895Well,said I,"then you go past Free Mitchell''s, do n''t you?"
31895Where are you going?
31895Will you ever mind them fellows again?
31895After a while, looking around to assure himself that no Confederate officer was near, he asked in a low tone,"what d''ye ask for it?"
31895Again, thanks to DOCTOR BRETS''generosity(?)
31895And, shall I confess it, in a fit of absent- mindedness(?)
31895As he would call upon us to fall in again for count, some one would say,"well Sergeant what was the matter that time?
31895Dick Hancock the Sergeant, asked, to what command do you belong?
31895Got any new issue to spare?
31895Had they come to relieve those who had thus far been our guards, and with whom we had became somewhat familiar?
31895Had they come to take us to Richmond to be exchanged?
31895Have n''t you heard that Richmond has fallen?
31895He saluted me with,"hello Cooper, you here and sober?
31895He was about handing the gun to me, when the Lieutenant stopped him by saying:"You d-- d fool, do you know what you are carrying that gun for?
31895It made a fellow''s blood boil to witness and suffer such indignities; but what could we do under such circumstances?
31895Or had they been merely sent here, to more securely guard against any attempted outbreak?
31895Soon we were all comfortably(?)
31895The first question they would ask upon meeting an acquaintance would be,"Do you hear anything about exchange?"
31895The question would then be asked,"Do you promise to support the Constitution of the United States?"
31895To the question,"well boy, do you want to be made a Yankee?"
31895Was that what you was looking for Sergeant?
31895Was there too many of us or not enough?
31895What kind of an arithmetic did you study when you went to school?
31895What man in the North could look on complacently and see such a cruel punishment inflicted?
31895When they came along I saluted the Captain and asked,"Whar youans going, Captain?"
31895Where are you going?
31895Who comes there?"
31895You load up Saturday night and shoot all the week, do n''t you?"
31895You''ens Yanks think you are d-- d cute, do n''t you?
31895on the skirmish line, what luck?"
31895why, Frank how much do you think this breakfast cost?"
11011All right?
11011And for Uhlans?
11011And the French?
11011Any one else here speak English?
11011Are all the bridges down?
11011Captain Edwards''s compliments,he said,"and will you be so kind as to explain to me exactly where you think the Uhlans are hidden?"
11011Captain,I asked,"do you think there is any danger in my staying here?"
11011Dear little lady,he said,"I wonder if there is any tea left for me?"
11011Did I live alone?
11011Do you know where it is?
11011Do you think,he replied,"that you could get me a couple of fresh eggs at half- past seven and let me have a cold wash- up?"
11011How far off is it?
11011How much risk am I running by remaining here?
11011Is there anything I can do for you, captain?
11011Live here with your daughter?
11011Live here?
11011Lived here long?
11011Married?
11011May I be very indiscreet?
11011Some of us will get killed, but what of that? 11011 Staying on?"
11011Was I afraid?
11011Was n''t that your daughter I met?
11011Water?
11011Well, Amelie?
11011Well, then,I replied,"do n''t you want to sleep here to- night?"
11011What are you doing here?
11011What are you doing here?
11011What are you doing here?
11011What does that mean?
11011What regiment?
11011What town is that?
11011What town is that?
11011What was that?
11011What''s that thing?
11011When?
11011Where are they?
11011Where are you going?
11011Where did you come from?
11011Who put it there?
11011Wooded all the way?
11011You are not afraid?
11011You do n''t live here alone?
11011You want to come back?
11011--but where was the good?
11011Are you answered?
11011Being caught, he looked up at once and said:"So you are not afraid?"
11011Besides, did you ever know the English bulldog to let go?
11011But did n''t I come near to losing it?
11011But who knows?
11011Did I keep it to myself well?
11011Do you understand?"
11011He looked a little surprised, asked a few questions-- how long they had been there?
11011He looked at me a moment before he asked,"You want to know the truth?"
11011He looked at me for the first time-- and softened his tone a bit-- my white hair and beastly accent, I suppose-- as he asked:"What is it for?"
11011How far are we from Paris?"
11011I am afraid he found it so, because he said at once,"Could you give me a drink before I go?"
11011I asked what that was for?
11011I had not been out there since Saturday night-- was it less than forty- eight hours before?
11011I looked at it-- and for the first time it occurred to me to say,"What is that?"
11011I might have replied literally,"Offer?
11011I wanted to ask,"When will it be the''last minute''--and what does the''last minute''mean?"
11011I went out to the gate where the corporal of the guard was standing, and asked him,"Do I hear cannon?"
11011If that-- why not here?
11011If we screen our hospital behind a building and a shell comes over and blows us up, how can we swear the shell was aimed at us?"
11011In the back of my mind-- pushed back as hard as I could-- stood the question-- what was to become of all this?
11011Is it not a pity, for early association''s sake, that it has not one more?
11011Is n''t that droll?
11011Is n''t the mind a queer thing?
11011It is a compelling idea, is n''t it?
11011Of course I do not deny that I shall miss the inspiration of your contradictions-- or do you call it repartee?
11011Often they disappear from view, not because they have passed a horizon line, but simply because they have passed out of the range of my vision-?
11011So I said,"Amelie, do you want to do me a great service?"
11011That seemed to mean that the heaviest firing was over the hill and not on it,--or did it mean that the battle was receding?
11011The only thing I had the sense to call out was:--"Where''d you come from?"
11011The"Paths of Glory lead but to the grave,"so what matters it, really, out by what door one goes?
11011Things like that make a man feel immune-- but Who knows?"
11011Was it possible that it was only a week ago that I had heard the drum beat for the disarming of the Seine et Marne?
11011Was there really going to come a day when all the beauty around me would not be a mockery?
11011What do you think of that?
11011What was the good?
11011What would they have done if the detachment of Uhlans we are watching for had dashed up that hill-- as they might have?"
11011When I had explained, he simply said,"Rough road?"
11011When I said,"Best girl?"
11011When they can not, what then?
11011Who knows which of us is right?--or if our difference of opinion may not be a difference in our years?
11011Who knows which of us is right?--or if our difference of opinion may not be a difference in our years?
11011Who knows?
11011Who knows?
11011Will you please gather up what you wish to save, and it can be hidden there?"
11011You are not afraid?"
11011You ask me also how it happens that I am living again"near by Quincy?"
11011and if I had seen them?
11011how many?
11011where they were?
33035All right, Kunnel,said the captain;"how much do you want?"
33035But if he had been?
33035But suppose he asks for money or is suspicious?
33035Cab or carriage, gents?
33035Certainly; will you ride or walk?
33035Do you think it possible to do this?
33035Have a cab?
33035How are things up North? 33035 How can I tell?
33035How can I tell?
33035To Camp Ford,replied Armstrong;"will you be kind enough to show us the way?"
33035What brigade?
33035What division?
33035What will you tell him, Swiggett?
33035What would you have said, Swiggett, if he had named a price?
33035When he does or is I will meet him; but, boys, how on earth can you tell what to do or say till you know what you have to overcome? 33035 Ca n''t you see that the man has his hands full? 33035 Ca n''t you stay awhile?
33035Can you not send us under guard to look for them?"
33035Did you ever try to find a place to rest when everything upon which you could possibly sit or lie was soaking wet?
33035Did you ever try to sleep in a standing posture, or to rest in like position for any length of time?
33035Got any mail?
33035Hev us ter kerry thim ter hev''em handy loike?"
33035How can a fellow get across this infernal river?"
33035How did you leave the folks?
33035How is it?"
33035We knew that we were lost and had come a long distance since taking the right(?)
18292Are you with the infantry?
18292Are you wounded?
18292Asleep up there in the barn,said I;"why did n''t you call us?"
18292Aw, what the hell are you getting at? 18292 Billy, do n''t you want to live to get back home?
18292But how did you come to get into a Canadian unit?
18292Cheer up, Billy, cheer up, old pal, how in hell are we going to pull through if you give way like this?
18292Did the cow stop in front of your gun?
18292Did you know him?
18292Did you notice anything peculiar in the farmer''s actions?
18292Did you want to kill yourself?
18292Did you want to see me, sir?
18292Do n''t you know enough to salute your superior officer? 18292 Do n''t you know how to salute?
18292Do you remember that night I was telling you about when I was out observing?
18292Fellows, are you ready?
18292For what, Messieurs? 18292 Hello, matey, what you doing out here?"
18292Here, you soldier, what are you running away for?
18292How about the others?
18292How can I? 18292 How did he come to be down here?"
18292How does it happen,said he, in support of his suspicion,"that he always has a little change when the rest of us are broke?"
18292I can plainly see that, but what makes it that color? 18292 I do n''t know; how should I know?"
18292Is your name Grant?
18292Oh, repairing the wire, were you? 18292 Sergeant, would you kindly help us to a drink of water?"
18292Shell grazed him at Mons? 18292 That so?"
18292Then why are you not with your men?
18292Thinking? 18292 Well, did n''t you hear me say we''d be over there shortly?"
18292Well, if it was n''t the cookhouse, is it that letter that is coming for you tonight?
18292Were you wounded?
18292What are they here for?
18292What are you doing out here wandering around in this fashion?
18292What are you going to shoot at?
18292What did you do that for?
18292What did your dog run at me for?
18292What do you want?
18292What happened?
18292What in hell are you fellows doing around here again?
18292What is it, Billy? 18292 What is it, Billy?
18292What the hell are you hanging around here for? 18292 What''s that?"
18292What''s the matter, Canada?
18292What''s the matter, Corporal, winded?
18292What''s them bloody things?
18292When are you going to fire?
18292Where have you been, Henderson?
18292Where is he now?
18292Where is that damned fool of a Sergeant- Major?
18292Where the hell were you fellows?
18292Where we lost Thompson and the others when the flare went up? 18292 Who are you?"
18292Who in hell broke into those hives?
18292Who owns these?
18292Why did n''t he come at me with his other end?
18292Why did n''t you hit him with the other end?
18292Why did you take the pin out?
18292Why do n''t you go and look them up?
18292Wo n''t you wait a moment, sir, and see the Major? 18292 Wot the bloody''ell will Fritz think of these beauties?
18292You bleedin''idiot,I said,"do n''t you know a mushroom when you see it?
18292You know what happened Lawrence, do n''t you? 18292 Almost desperate, I shouted in his ear,Billy, old pal, think of your mother and father; what would the old man say if he saw you acting like this?
18292And for what?"
18292But how can sympathy obtain for devils in human form?
18292Did n''t I tell you to beat it to the wagon lines before you got hit?
18292Did you hear that, Grant?"
18292Do n''t you know how to stand to attention?"
18292Do n''t you know what it will mean to your mother and your father if anything happens to you?
18292Do you think he really means it?"
18292Do you think your horseshoe luck is going to stay with you forever?
18292Do you want to let someone else gang hungry?
18292Do you want to wish it on yourself?"
18292Have you got a sup of hot tea, Scotty?"
18292He asked permission of my husband, who was a loyal Belgian, to use our house-- for what?
18292He called out,"Grant, I do n''t quite get this safety catch and bolt; would you mind showing it to me again?"
18292His teeth chattered like the keys of a typewriter as he asked me,"What do you think will come o''it, Grant?
18292How many messages did you send them last night, Sergeant?"
18292In a half- humorous, half- scolding voice he would say,"Mon, what do you want to be a hog for?
18292Is that so?"
18292Is that you, Burt?
18292It was blood, but whose?
18292Pete''s answers to the officer, while respectful, were tantalizing to a degree:"What did you do that for?"
18292The cookhouse?
18292Then he saw me standing there and he yelled,"Do you think there''ll be any more?"
18292Thinking of what?
18292Well, what''s the use of tempting fate?
18292Well, you know that big Prussian I told you about, that came so near getting me?
18292What bloody well nonsense is this?
18292What do you mean?"
18292What do you say?"
18292What''s the trouble?"
18292Where is your battery operating?"
18292Where will I meet you?"
18292Which ones you shoot first?
18292Who goes there?"
18292Who goes there?"
18292Who was the guy that got the mushrooms?"
18292Why did n''t you stay in your trenches?"
18292You are going, are n''t you?"
18292You get me, Reg, do n''t you?"
18292You, Grant, who has done this?"
18292he asked me;"I mean, with his white cow?"
33631Do you know Colonel Dent?
33631Halloa, how long have you been ashore?
33631Have I not seen you before?
33631Hello, Mike, where did you come from? 33631 How many have you eaten?"
33631How much in advance?
33631Mike,''ow''s''er''ead?
33631What do you''uns want to come down here and whip we''uns for?
33631Why do you select me to carry letters for a man about whom I know nothing?
33631Why in---- did n''t you tell me to?
33631You want to ship, do n''t you? 33631 -- are these the men?
33631--"For God''s sake, what is that?"
33631----,-- who enticed you from this office?
33631After awhile I asked about the ale-- why they did not bring it?
33631Before I could say a word he gave a terrible yell; then he stuttered out,"Por Dios, que es esta?"
33631Father--"Why, George, do you use tobacco?"
33631Had not the commandant of the Boston navy yard reported the Perry as ready for sea?
33631He was curtly told to"Go to----""Do you fellows know who Billy Shackleford is?"
33631How can I deliver them to him?"
33631How did you know my name?"
33631On the way I was told that a brig bound for the West Indies needed a crew, and would I ship on her?
33631The only question with us was, What kind of fish will the next be?
33631What was the result?
33631When he had got the salt water out of his mouth, he wanted to know"what in---- we were trying to do with him?"
33631Will you take them?"
38167A prominent, burning question of the day and time is that of woman suffrage, and why not give them the right to vote?
38167Can any person now living even speculate?
38167Did she not, by means of her persuasive arguments, induce, through mother Eve, the father of men, Adam, to eat of the forbidden fruit?
38167If things are such in this, the twentieth century of the Christian era, what may the next one show forth to the eyes and imaginations of mortals?
38167Is there anything in my conduct here displeasing to you?
38167Now what is it that a good smart woman can not accomplish?
38167Now who can safely foretell what may happen within the next half century?
38167Or did they shirk their duty to their country so very adroitly that they hate to be reminded of it?
38167Perkins replied, sir, do I perform my duty satisfactorily to your house?
38167Well, then, as I was also born in Accomack, does not that make us cousins?
36778Why, do n''t you see,says the master,"how rough the sea is?
36778A fellow in the shape of an officer asked Colonel Smith,( I think it was,)"Well, what do you think of we Yankees?
36778Besides, if an officer plunders before his men, what may not soldiers be expected to do?
36778But how could the poor Africans learn any thing that is good from those who do not practise good themselves?
36778Did n''t the French beat the troops of every other continental nation?
36778Did n''t you beat the French in the Peninsula?
36778Do n''t you think we could lick any of the troops of the continent easily?"
36778It is true Sir Thomas Graham early cut off their retreat by the great road to France; but what then?
36778What would I not have given for a good drink?
36778Why did he so much weaken his force on the conical hill to support his left?
36778and have n''t we beat you just now?"
36778what is keeping us back?"
36778what were my feelings then?
33426Are you sure you''re not dreaming from the excitement of this terrible day?
33426Is that you, Maister Russell? 33426 ''Where are the rebels?'' 33426 And why not weavers''beams as in the days of Goliath? 33426 But my readers may ask-- What has all this to do with the portrait of the Nânâ Sâhib? 33426 But to what good? 33426 But what was the result? 33426 General Mansfield replied in the affirmative; and Sir Colin, turning to Lee, said,Do you think the breach is wide enough, Dobbin?"
33426Have British soldiers quailed Before the rebel mutineers?-- Has British valour failed?
33426Have we got Robin Hood and Little John back again?
33426He at once apologised to Puller for having struck him, and added,"How will I manage to bite my cartridges the noo?"
33426He then asked me if I knew why Major Neill was murdered?
33426How did it happen?"
33426Jack Brian turned round with a look of disgust, saying:"Wha do ye tak''us for?
33426Need it be told to how many fields of danger and victory the warlike strains of the bagpipes have led?
33426On this I asked him,"Were you in Cawnpore when the Mutiny broke out?"
33426So turning to him I said:"You have served in the army; are you one of the sepoys of 1857?"
33426The next question put was,"Is the road clear to Allahabad?"
33426Then, why attempt to deprive them of it, merely to please a score or so of sentimental faddists?
33426What became of it all?
33426What can a poor_ bâboo_ do with such wild Highlanders?"
33426What was the name of this governess, and, above all, why go for its origin to such an out- of- the- way place as Jersey?
33426Who ever heard of a Highland regiment going into action without their bagpipes and pipers, unless the latter were all"kilt"?
33426With that some one from the ranks called out,"Will we get a medal for this, Sir Colin?"
33426You''ll never send us on fatigue- duty because we captured those guns that the Pandies were carrying off?
33426[ 49] Is it necessary to explain that sixteen annas go to the rupee?
40767Amazed, I exclaimed,"Why, who has sent me anything?"
40767And do you remember how I used to ride about alone on your pet horse?
40767And little Frank has lifted his blue eyes to his mother as if to inquire,''Will that man take away my aunty?''
40767And where had this very heavy, old music book, in his possession, been found?
40767At the end of his visit he came to bid us farewell, and said to me:"Miss Nannie, I have a request to make of you, will you grant it?"
40767Bostick?"
40767He exclaimed,"Why Mrs. De Saussure, what are you doing here?"
40767He sprang from his chair exclaiming,"What do you know about her?"
40767In the meantime, before we could expect any monetary return from this industry, what else could we do to better our condition?
18497And my baggage?
18497And prisoners?
18497And the French?
18497Any attempts to repair their wire at night?
18497Are you going out to be strafed at?
18497But would n''t you take some of Germany if you could?
18497Did you see the charge?
18497Do you see why we love France?
18497Have you seen the tanks?
18497How about the dugouts?
18497How much of it?
18497How?
18497On the lances?
18497What are we stopping here for?
18497What did you most want to do when you got out of the fight?
18497What do you think of our patent barrage, now?
18497What is the best time to go out to the front?
18497What is_ Ã   la mode_?
18497What kind of a''bus would you like?
18497What part of Canada do you come from?
18497What part of the west?
18497When are you going?
18497Who would n''t surrender when a beast of that kind came up to the door? 18497 Why not go up to the mess and make yourself comfortable, and return about three?
18497Why not?
18497Why not?
18497With your numbers so depleted, was n''t it a question whether or not it was wise for you to attempt to carry out the full plan?
18497Wounded?
18497You actually got some?
18497You''re sure, Captain?
18497Again and again in our mess and in all of the messes at the front, and wherever men gathered the world over, the question, Can the line be broken?
18497And guns?"
18497And personal experiences?
18497And that hateful Trônes Wood?
18497And the future?
18497And their staff?
18497Can you imagine Washington keeping a military secret?
18497Could anybody be alive in Beaumont- Hamel?
18497Could there be higher praise?
18497Did n''t he know that the German infantry was only the other side of the knoll and that two or three score German batteries were in range?
18497Did n''t they know that another twenty yards meant death?
18497Did the Germans know that the tanks were building?
18497England was fighting to save her island, France for the sanctity of her soil, but what was Canada fighting for?
18497Had I ever flown before?
18497Had Sir Douglas Haig made an army equal to the task?
18497Had he something new?
18497Had n''t that battery commander mistaken his directions when he emplaced his howitzers behind a bluff in the old No Man''s Land?
18497Had the French or the Germans something new?
18497Had these men who were mechanically slipping shells into the gun- breeches slept last night or the previous night?
18497Had we taken that, too, as a part of the tidal wave of a broad attack instead of trying to take it piecemeal?
18497Have n''t I also looked across No Man''s Land toward the enemy''s parapet?
18497Have we enough of everything?
18497How many dugouts were still intact and secure refuges for the waiting Germans?
18497If the Canadians did not particularly love the Germans, do you see any reason why the Germans should love the Canadians?
18497If the shell had exploded?
18497If two tanks were to meet in a duel, would they try to ram each other after ineffectually rapping each other with their machine guns?
18497Is he a soldier?
18497It''s jolly out here, is n''t it?"
18497Now, what would a Brass Hat say in such an awkward emergency?
18497Of course, when it takes forty years to make a staff how could the Australians have one that could hold its own with the Germans?
18497One night when a company rose up to the charge the company next in line called out,"Where are you going?"
18497Over in London my friends surprised me by exclaiming,"What are you doing here?"
18497Shall I describe that town on the banks of the Meuse which has been described many times?
18497Should they, the Prussians, be beaten by New Army men?
18497Some people might ask why Canada should be pouring out her blood in Europe; what had Flanders to do with her?
18497Temperament?
18497These Germans had to make a quick decision: Would they try a leap for the dugouts or a leap to the rear?
18497Was Delville Wood worse than High Wood?
18497Was General Byng pleased with his Byng Boys?
18497Was his superior, the army commander, pleased with the Canadians?
18497Was it because of the success of the first gas attack at Ypres that they now placed such reliance in gas shells?
18497Was it dream or reality that you were walking about in the first- line German trenches?
18497Was n''t it merely pounding the graves of a garrison?
18497Was n''t it so always?
18497Was n''t it their place to take their share of the pounding, and did n''t they belong to the guns?
18497Was n''t that part of the experience?
18497Was n''t this bombardment threshing straw which had long since yielded its last kernel of grain?
18497Was the feat of conquering those fortifications within the bounds of human courage, skill and resource?
18497Was the tank this revolutionary wonder?
18497Was their methodical phlegm such that they acted entirely by rule?
18497Were n''t they horse artillery?
18497What about their protecting barrage?
18497What could an observer say or do that was not banal in the eyes of men who had been through such experiences?
18497What had Canada to gain by coming to fight in France?
18497What had we to do with war?
18497What is lacking?
18497What was the use of yielding ground when you would have to make another charge in order to regain what had been lost?
18497What would happen to the tanks?
18497What would they do to the Germans?
18497When a Canadian officer was asked if he had organized some trenches that his battalion had taken his reply,"How can you organize pea soup?"
18497Where should"the spirit that quickeneth"dwell if not with the aviators?
18497Why not try?
18497Why not?
18497Why not?
18497Why not?
18497Why not?"
18497Why should we be downhearted?
18497Would I get out to watch it?
18497Would he look wise or unwise when he said it?
18497Yes, but though the British had arrived, as the signals showed, could they remain?
18497Yet, how were they to know the truth?
18497and,"Wo n''t you miss the offensive which is about to begin?"
18497became an inquiry in the mess on the order of"Are you going to take an afternoon off for golf to- day?"
38859How did you come by it?
38859Now may I ask you one and will you be as frank with me as I have with you?
38859The hell you say?
38859Whose tobacco is that?
38859Why did n''t they take it with them?
38859Why did n''t you shoot them as they ran?
38859Would you like to have some coffee for your breakfast?
38859And how about the Gray?
38859Have you any water?"
38859I said,"Why did they not take the horses from you?"
38859I said,"Yes, what''s the matter with you Johnny?"
38859I turned and called Dr. Githens, and then said to Jack,"For heaven''s sake, Jack, where did you come from?"
38859The general said,"I do n''t know, why do you say that?"
19317And where are the Turks?
19317Could you arrange for a weekly consignment of 10,000 to be sent to us regularly?
19317Could you kindly send me a wire on receipt of this? 19317 Do you want any more men landed at''Y''?
19317How do you like your lentil soup?
19317Well, then,I persisted,"tell me, Admiral, what do_ you_ think?"
19317Would you like to get some more men ashore on''Y''beach? 19317 A couple of leader writers, a trio of special correspondents and half a dozen reporters? 19317 After he had told us his story, breathlessly and listened to with breathless interest, I asked him what about our troops atY"?
19317Am I to check the number of rounds in the limbers; on the beaches and in transit during a battle?
19317And the colliers?
19317And the store ships?
19317And why should I not have been?
19317And why would n''t they be?
19317Are the benefits of his organization of our army to be discounted because they had a German origin?
19317Are they also to prove phantoms?
19317Are we to strike before or after daylight?
19317Are we too insistent?
19317At first:--but why be captious in the very embrace of Fortune?
19317At last, he looked up and inquired,"Well?"
19317But is he?
19317But they have not the invincible carelessness or temperamental springiness of the old lot-- and how should they?
19317But what are the facts?
19317But what is the number of these local troops?
19317But why bottle up trumps; trumps worth a King''s ransome, or a Kaiser''s?
19317But why the next relief ship?
19317But would we be out of it?
19317By the British system(?)
19317Did I take this in?
19317Engineer Stores?
19317From what quarter could I attack Constantinople?
19317Has_ any_ action been taken upon them?
19317Have cabled a very elementary question:"Could not the Japanese bombs be copied in England?"
19317He assumed that we had definitely turned down any plan of scrambling ashore forthwith, as best we could?
19317How can economic victory be won?
19317How far had they come?
19317How many guns?
19317How on earth have they managed to pick up the swank and devil- may- care airs of crack regulars?
19317How to help?
19317How to try and help him to pump courage into faint- hearted fellows?
19317How touching the devotion of all these small satellites so anxiously forming escort?
19317How was it going to end?
19317How will he feel now he realizes he is shorn of his direct power to help us through these dark and dreadful Straits?
19317How would I hold it when I had taken it?
19317I turned to Thursby and said,"Admiral, what do you think?"
19317If we can take trenches at our will, why are we still on this side of Achi Baba?
19317Is there any political objection to my cautiously spreading rumour that our true objective is, say, Smyrna?''
19317Is_ that_ the reading of the riddle?
19317Jerusalem-- Constantinople?
19317Le premier but de guerre n''est il pas d''infliger à l''adversaire plus de mal qu''il ne vous en fait?
19317Let him but put his foot down, and who dare say him nay?
19317Might they not, all of them, be sailing back to safe England, but for me?
19317Morally, we are confident but,--materially?
19317My letter goes on to say,"Could you not take a run out here and see us?
19317Now that the French Division has been snuffed out, how about the Grand Duke Nicholas, General Istomine and their Russian Divisions?
19317O death, where is thy sting?
19317O grave, where is thy victory?
19317On the other hand, who but K., at that time, could have run the war at all?
19317Our star burns dim as a corpse light: the huge black chasm of space closes in: if only by blood...?
19317Possibly the matter has been referred to Maxwell for opinion?
19317Probably; but would there not also be berths taken in the Cunarder for a manager trained in the business side of journalism?
19317Rotten luck to have cut myself off from wiring to Winston: still I see no way out of it: with K. jealous as a tiger-- what can I do?
19317So I have asked, who is to be"Boss"?
19317So I said,"You do n''t seem to like the look of that barbed wire, Colonel?"
19317Suppose the Fleet_ could_ get through with the loss of another battleship or two-- how the devil would our troopships be able to follow?
19317TWO CORPS OR AN ALLY?
19317The Admiral asked if I meant to land at Bulair?
19317The General simulated amazement--"You have come all that distance to buy camels without money?
19317The cable is being ciphered: not a very luminous document: how could it be?
19317The fleet can not see itself wiped out by degrees; and yet, without the fleet, how are we soldiers to exist?
19317Then why does he ask?
19317There are one or two in the know who think me"venturesome"but, after all, is not"nothing venture nothing win"an unanswerable retort?
19317These cables are repeated to London and when they get back here what will my own men think me?
19317To- morrow night where shall we be?
19317Very sketchy; how could it be otherwise?
19317Was the firing then an hallucination-- a sort of sequel to the battle in my brain?
19317We might perhaps even think of this-- if we try the other first and ca n''t pull it off?"
19317Well-- and why should n''t he ask?
19317Well; what staff would he send with him?
19317Well; what then; what of the worst?
19317Were we to prolong hesitation, or, were we, now that we had done the best we could with the means under our hands, to go boldly forward?
19317What better pick- me- up could Providence have provided for the badly- shaken Turks?
19317What is it all about?
19317What is the result of my efforts to throw light upon our proceedings?
19317What passages?
19317What would I do?
19317What would not Richard Coeur de Lion or Napoleon have given for the_ Arcadian_ to take them to St. Jean d''Acre and Jerusalem?
19317When I asked the crucial question:--the enemy''s strength?
19317When he stopped, Roger Keyes, the Commodore, inquired,"Is that all?"
19317Where were they going to?
19317Wherever is the use of reconsidering the position now?
19317Who is to be C.R.E.?
19317Who is to see to it that the two halves fit together?
19317Who was in command?
19317Why are these Straits the cockpit of the world?
19317Why not three weeks ago?
19317Why not?
19317Why should we not have our losses quickly replaced-- supposing we do lose men?
19317Why"till"?
19317Will Lord K. meet us half way, I wonder?
19317Will you in your turn assist me in getting the seaplanes arriving here in_ Ganges_?
19317Would it not be wiser, then, as well as more dignified, to let the Dardanelles R.I.P.?
19317Would not Stopford be preferable to Ewart, even though he does not possess the latter''s calm?"
19317margin over establishment?
19317that we have as many men coming in voluntarily as we can use?
19317to cover our last assault!_ CHAPTER VIII TWO CORPS OR AN ALLY?
30812And after that?
30812Are they down- hearted? 30812 But have n''t they money when they arrive from America?"
30812Ca n''t I?
30812Did Kitchener think so?
30812Did his lordship smile?
30812Do n''t they give away your position?
30812Do you allow the men to bring dogs into the trenches?
30812Each?
30812Have you looked,I asked,"in the unlikely places?"
30812How could you do it?
30812How did you detect that?
30812How much?
30812I wonder what''s happening in Buffalo?
30812I? 30812 If Germany wins,"they asked,"what will become of us?
30812If your children are in London,demanded one,"what are you doing in France?"
30812Is it your people who are selling these things?
30812M?
30812Then, why do n''t you go out and fight for your King?
30812There are watchdogs on our side, also?
30812What is your purpose in going to London?
30812What was your joke?
30812What''s your job?
30812What''s your rank?
30812A young, very young Frenchman ran to the bridge and called to the officers:"Gentlemen, will you please tell me what boat it is that I see?"
30812All the time he was looking straight at me and firing questions:"When did you leave Salonika?
30812And who would dispute him?
30812Are You?"
30812Are you a lover of art, and would you become a patron of art?
30812But was he conscious of that?
30812But who can protest it was a life wasted?
30812Did a military prison yawn, and was he to act as my escort?
30812Do you think there are people in America who would like to help those men?"
30812From where did he draw his strength and courage?
30812How many troops have we landed?
30812If you surprise a burglar, his pockets stuffed with the family jewels, would you first attempt to recover the jewels, or to subdue the burglar?
30812Is not that a good bargain?
30812Is there an understanding that after the war she and Germany will together carve slices off of Austria?
30812Is there anything else you would like to know?"
30812It was very beautiful, but was it war?
30812It''s fine, is n''t it?"
30812Later, off Capri, he asked:"When you advised me to let George make a test case of it, to which of our fellow passengers did you refer?"
30812Not only land him there, but for six days feed and lodge him, and give him a present to take away?
30812Of the man on duty behind the log barrier he asked:"How near are they?"
30812One man said to me:"Why ca n''t you keep the Italian- Americans in America?
30812Or was it the sound of a woman''s voice and the touch of a woman''s hand?
30812Our positions are very strong, are n''t they?"
30812The King''s messenger looked up from his solitaire and, also wishing to be amiable, asked:"What''s the difference?"
30812The men on the outskirts of the crowd ask:"What does he offer?"
30812Was he down- hearted?
30812Was it his training as an officer of the Grande Armée?
30812Was it that spirit of the French that is the one thing no German knows, and no German can ever break?
30812Was it the instinct for life that makes a drowning man fight against an ocean?
30812What better could illustrate the spirit of France or better foretell her final victory?
30812What''s it matter how old he is, if all they''re going to do with him is to get him shot?"
30812Who gave you permission to remain inside our lines?"
33278Did you find them, Joe?
33278Do ye mind when ye left me in the nook after bandaging my wounds?
33278Do ye remember Stanley Stenning, an English fellow of C company? 33278 Have you seen a sniper anywhere about here?"
33278How many of them are there?
33278Is it a mistake?
33278Is it a mistyke? 33278 Never mind now,"I said,"what did you see?"
33278Soldiers, would you leave me behind?
33278Well, then, he did n''t eat you up, did he?
33278What are you cursing about?
33278What are you doing here?
33278What do you want?
33278What the h---- was that for, ye muckle galoot?
33278What''s the difference?
33278Where are you going?
33278Where is the adjutant?
33278Will they see the trees across the roadway?
33278Are there nothing but blockheads about here?
33278At first I denied that I knew anything about the letter, but he shouted:''Do you not remember giving the same address upon coming here?''
33278Did ye remember the fags?"
33278Do you know, Reuter, what this old pal did?
33278Happy?
33278Have you ever read Kipling''s"Man Who Came Back"?
33278How was I to get away?
33278I had been thinking that, on reaching my destination, I would be allowed to write home; and now----?
33278On recognizing that we were Scots, he held out his hand and said:"My name''s MacPherson; what''s yours?"
33278Presently a little insignificant- looking German with spectacles on looked at me, and asked in English:''What is the nature of your wounds?''
33278Some would shout:''English swine, why do n''t you cry out?''
33278Taking up his rifle, which had been leaning against the parapet, he added, as an afterthought:"But, whaur are ye bound fur?"
33278The Scot, so rudely aroused, sat up, exclaiming:"Fine, mon; hoo''s yersel''?"
33278Then he asked:"Where''ve they ticketed you to, myte?"
33278We wondered whether they were really unaware of our approach, or, just holding their fire for close range?
33278What could we do?
33278What would you have?
33278When he came to this cot he slowly uncovered the face of the presumed patient and asked:"How are you?"
33278Who goes there?"
33278Who, thought I, is this, calling me by my nickname?
33278Ye''re a better sprinter than Ah thocht";"Hoo''s aw wi''th''fokes at hame?
33278You will, will you?"
33278w''ere the''ell do_ I_ come in?"
42341I heard one say, damn him, can he eat iron?
42341Soon after this there came a boat to the side of the ship, and captain Symonds asked a gentleman in it, in my hearing, what his business was?
42341The captain spoke to me in a great rage, and said:''did I not order you not to come on deck?''
42341Then one of them asked me what my occupation in life had been?
33211Did you see any of our folks?
33211Have you got anything for me? 33211 ( Who would ask for better beverage than this?) 33211 4 P. M. Snyder''s[ Seiders?] 33211 Also a large wagon train with 5th I[ Illinois?] 33211 And could it be possible that such a scene was being enacted in this valley now under the very eye of the power that had abolished it? 33211 Are we never more to have sunshine? 33211 Are we, the privates, held accountable for this disregard for the holy Sabbath day? 33211 Blake and Snyder[ Seiders?] 33211 But what does company have to do? 33211 But, Oh, where is there an officer that is not a similar slave? 33211 Can it be that I am so much more vicious and wicked than then, that I heed not the Sabbath? 33211 Can we expect anything but demoralization? 33211 Charley askedWhat''s the row up there?"
33211Did they see me then walking my beaten path in the still quiet moonlight?
33211Echo answers_ where_?
33211Has the good work begun?
33211How did they spend to- day at home?
33211How long will such things last?
33211How many more times must I go on before I will be relieved from this machine life?
33211How much longer can her frail nature withstand it?
33211I came to judge for myself, is it right or wrong?
33211Is the weather too cold to fight, or is Hood gone?
33211Is this remnant of that band soon to pass through a like ordeal?
33211It was just five months ago to- day, and am I really so much changed?
33211Must she go without welcoming her Jenk''s return?
33211Obliged to lay the box away for two hours before the storm abated so as to open it-- was Job ever tempted so?
33211Snyder[ Seiders?]
33211The topic is, are we included in the late order ordering all detachments belonging with Sherman to report immediately via New York?
33211What and where next?
33211What does it mean?
33211What is to happen?
33211What more does a soldier want?
33211What will be done with him?
33211What would folks at home think?
33211When will such corruption among military men be stopped?
33211Where the deuce have they been?
33211Who will dare doubt that the end is to be glorious?
33211Why should I pine?
33211Why will they not rely upon my own letters?
33211Will be marked considerably, but who cares for that?
33211Will my mind ever be allowed to dictate the movements of the body again?
33211Would it be any consolation to her to know that her son is thinking of her, that he has not forgotten?
33211Would it not be much wiser then, to allow them to have a voice in choosing their officers?
33211[ Sidenote: 1864 Reenlistment?]
16685''Ave yer b''ynet fixed?
16685And how long do you expect them to stay?
16685And you?
16685Are we alone out here? 16685 Bayonet fixed?"
16685Do n''t yer know w''ot listenin''-post is? 16685 Do our boys ever meet any of the Boches?"
16685Do? 16685 Eh?"
16685For Gawd''s syke,he exclaimed,"do n''t yer know as''ow we are goin''hout?
16685Going to make a charge?
16685Have I had any former military experience, Bill?
16685Hit hard or soft?
16685How are you?
16685How did this happen to you, Mademoiselle?
16685How far is it to the German trenches?
16685How will they come out of the test?
16685I am dying,I muttered, and then thought,"Shall I pray?"
16685Late?
16685Me, sir... m- me, sir? 16685 Only visitors?"
16685Stay-- how should I know? 16685 Well?"
16685What do we do?
16685What happens afterward to the man who stays back here?
16685What the... what the blinkety- blank are you shooting at?
16685What''s the place wid the red triangle?
16685Where was your home?
16685Who are your orders from?
16685Who is he?
16685Who is it? 16685 Who is the Mad Major?"
16685Who started the war?
16685Who''s killed, fellows,they yelled,"who''s killed?"
16685Yes, but--"Never''eard of''i m,''ave yer?
16685Yon? 16685 And here I want to ask: What is the pacifist in this country doing for peace? 16685 Any of you boys willing to come up with me?
16685Are there any Germans likely to be out too?"
16685Are we downhearted?
16685Are we downhearted?
16685Ask them how they were treated in the hospital and there is but one reply:"Treated in hospital?
16685But what of the other?
16685But, after all,"cussing"is only a small part of a soldier''s life, and who would not swear under such extraordinary circumstances?
16685CHAPTER IV ARE WE DOWNHEARTED?
16685CHAPTER VII WHO STARTED THE WAR?
16685CONTENTS Chapter I THE CALL-- TO ARMS II IN THE OLD COUNTRY III BACK TO CANADA-- I DON''T THINK IV ARE WE DOWNHEARTED?
16685Can folk deny the fact that this war will make better men?
16685Can folk wonder that the religion which is Christian is making an impression on the soldier?
16685Can folk wonder why the men who used to look on such men as sissy- boys have changed their opinions?
16685Can folk wonder why we love the padres, why we reverence the Y.M.C.A.?
16685Can not the people who hear these stories disprove them for themselves?
16685D''ye mean to say ye dinna know the meaning o''thon?
16685Dear old man Peter, I wonder do you know of my happiness which is the outcome of your journey"West"?
16685Did n''t yer''ear''i m as''e went?
16685Does the padre come to us and sanctimoniously pronounce our eternal doom should he hear us swear?
16685Far from down our column some one yelled:"Are we downhearted?"
16685For myself, the thought flashed across my mind--"What''s the use?
16685For the first time I asked myself,"What in the world are_ you_ out here for?"
16685Had n''t we shown our bravery by creeping up a ruined stairway only three miles from the enemy?
16685He said:"I am going to lead you, boys; will you come?"
16685How did you''carry on''?"
16685I am asked,"How did you live?
16685I did n''t know who might hear me:"How far is it to the German trenches?"
16685I said to Bill,"Is this the regular training ground?"
16685I whispered to Bill,"What''s a non- commissioned officer?"
16685I whispered to him for the last time:"What are we out here for, anyway?"
16685If the generals of the British Army were proud of us in 1915, I wonder how they feel to- day?
16685Is it better sense to keep them near to the food supply, or to send the reserves to France and use valuable tonnage to ship foodstuffs to them?
16685Is there not a war- map sold in America?
16685Kamerad!_"What did we do?
16685Many a time I have said to myself in thinking of the enemy:"Why do n''t they come on-- why do n''t the fools strike now?
16685Often and often I am asked,"Why did n''t you die when you were lying out there on the battle- field?"
16685Or would many of them do what they had threatened?
16685Scene from the Photo- Play_"THEY LOOK BIG ENOUGH, DON''T THEY?"]
16685Scene from the Photo- Play_"WHO''S THE GIRL, PEAT?"]
16685Shall we not be proud to share a title such as this?
16685That vast Far Eastern Empire with her millions of men-- what would India do?
16685The War Machine that had the preparation of half a century, or the peace- loving peoples who, at a day''s notice, took their stand for humanity?
16685They must have wondered and asked themselves,"Will the boys stand it?"
16685Troubles may come and troubles may go, But we keep smiling where''er we go, Are we downhearted?
16685V UNDER FIRE VI THE MAD MAJOR VII WHO STARTED THE WAR?
16685We peeled back the answer raucously enough, and then on with the song: Are we downhearted?
16685Were they scared?
16685Were we not brave?
16685What business is it of yours?
16685What did India do?
16685What if she had been my sister?
16685What is a life here or there to a Hohenzollern?
16685What is it?"
16685What of the German who had ruined this young girl and maimed her body?
16685What was three miles to us?
16685When we went into the trenches at first, the enemy would call across the line to us,"What have you come over here to fight us for?
16685Where was France?
16685Where would it drop?
16685Who goes there?"
16685Who goes there?"
16685Who goes there?"
16685Who started the war?
16685Who started the war?
16685Who will finish the war?
16685Why did n''t I die?
16685Why did you not stay back home in Canada and attend to your own affairs, and not butt into something that does not concern you?
16685Why not go up- stairs?
16685Why not?
16685Why put on any limit?
16685Would abstemiousness be human?
16685Would the Liberal government funk?
16685Would the major speak to me in French?
16685Would the next get me?
16685You think that I am doing something to help?
16685You''ve learnt to use yer b''ynet,''aven''t yer?
16685[ Illustration: Over the top] And the men, what of them?
16685called the private to me,"where''re yer goin''to?"
16685died of wounds-- and the reason?
16685see?"
16685we would say to one another,"who started the war?
42368Why do you not leave the horse in the street and go to the fort then?
42368Why?
42368Captain Hart then asked the Indian, what they intended to do with them?
42368Colonel Proctor then said,"Sir, do you mean to dictate for me?"
42368Is it any wonder that the Kentuckians are brave and chivalric?
42368It may be asked why I record these things?
31192Can you be the man? 31192 Did either of you see any of the troops pass out of the lines during the night?"
31192Eh?
31192Ephraim,we said,"what is the matter?
31192My eye, Jim, but ai n''t that a stunning dress?
31192Well, sir, what will you have?
31192Well,he said,"I am almost starved;_ could_ you give me a little piece?"
31192Well,we said,"that is all right; but why do you say it?"
31192What style is that, Ben?
31192Where are you hit?
31192Who are those men?
31192_ Good!_ anybody else along?
31192Ai n''t it time to shoot?"
31192Among others, this: I heard a familiar voice sing out,"William Dame, my dear boy, what on earth are you doing here?"
31192As he drew near the guns he yelled out,"What on earth is the matter here?"
31192But some one might say,"How about this narrative that you are about to impose on a suffering public, who never did you any harm?
31192But what would they have?
31192Do n''t you''uns love sprouts?"
31192Have I struck you at last?"
31192Have n''t you heard about it?"
31192He said in a sharp tone,"What is the matter, why must n''t I go up this road?
31192He said,"My dear boy, where on earth did you get that meat?"
31192He went in the night, and woke up Sergeant Moncure and said,"Monkey, do n''t you think these works are very thin?"
31192His character has been subjected to that ordeal, and who can point to a spot upon it?
31192I wonder if it could have been the_ men_ behind them?
31192I wonder what could have given them such an exaggerated idea of the strength of those modest little works?
31192I wonder who will have to answer for the_ unnecessary waste of life_ and suffering in the"Army of the Potomac?"
31192It was an unspeakable humiliation for a_ cannoneer_ to be thus fingered by_ a driver_, but what could we do?
31192Ned came tumbling out, all in a heap, perfectly dazed, and wanting to know, in indignant tones,"What in the thunder we were doing that way_ for_?"
31192One day, soon after, the doctor met him and said with much friendly interest,"Well, Jim, how are you?"
31192Sadly we lamented--"What shall we do, in battle, and in camp, and on march, his form and face missing from among us?"
31192The Doctor turned on him and eagerly said,"Did I understand you to say that was a hot place?"
31192The Doctor turned to another, and another, with the same eager question,"Did_ you_ think that was a hot place?"
31192The Southern man said,"What is your name?"
31192The doctor looked at him, and asked him significantly,"Jim, do you feel_ all right_?"
31192The road seems quiet?"
31192The thing was_ bound_ to go right--"Wasn''t Lee there?"
31192Wake them up?
31192We asked what was the matter?
31192We knew we had to fight somewhere else, but where?
31192What could Warren do?
31192What could we do to save them?
31192What could you expect?
31192What do you do it for?"
31192What for?
31192What moved them?
31192What troops are these?"
31192What was in their minds?
31192What_ could_ that mean but, that peace was about to be made, and these cannon useless?"
31192Who can they be?"
31192he warmly said;"did you hear that dirty, ragged infantryman call me an old fellow?
31192is that so?"
31192said Ned, putting his hand up to his ear,"What did you say?"
31192what did you run for?"
31192what''s the danger?
16131Americans?
16131And your own?
16131Are you an Englishman?
16131Been in Africa long?
16131Been''stopping one''?
16131Born in this country?
16131But how the devil do you know they are shooting from the farmhouse?
16131Did n''t they show fight?
16131Did they ill- treat you-- knock you about, and that sort of thing?
16131Do you take us for savages?
16131Do you think him a good fighter?
16131Do you think him as good a man as Lord Kitchener?
16131Do you think him as good as Lord Roberts?
16131Feel any better now, old fellow?
16131Fight?
16131Have the same hatred for the Boers before the war as you have now?
16131Hotel- keeper, perhaps?
16131How long is it since I was knocked over?
16131Is my comrade dead?
16131Like venison?
16131Merchant?
16131Mines?
16131Positive they were Dutchmen?
16131Shoot it yourself, eh?
16131Shopkeeper?
16131Stopped a few, did he? 16131 Think they''d trust us to look after anything so important?"
16131To whom?
16131Well, what if they are? 16131 What are we here fer, Bill?"
16131What do you Britishers and Australians think of Cronje?
16131What do you fellows think of Australians as fighters?
16131What for?
16131What was your calling, or profession, or business, or means of livelihood?
16131Where did you put in most of your time before the war?
16131Where were you when the war broke out?
16131Which one, Karl?
16131Which one?
16131Why did n''t you pick up a rifle and have a hand in the fighting?
16131Why do you hate them so bitterly, then?
16131Why should I; do n''t we pay''Tommy''to do that for us?
16131Why should not the white population of South Africa be ready to live under the protection of Britain? 16131 Why should we live under any flag but our own?"
16131Yes, d-- n you; did you think we were springbok?
16131You, of course, blame all the Colonials, Australians and others, for coming to fight against you?
16131''Who goes there?''
16131Ai n''t plenty of the Cape Volunteers who are fighting under President Kruger''s banner born of Dutch parents?
16131And their women; what of them?
16131And you, who hold the remedy in your own hands, what will you do?
16131And yours be the shame if the Empire''s flag be lowered-- not theirs, but yours; for you-- what do you do?
16131Are they fit to tramp the whole night through to make a forced march to turn a position, and then fight as their fathers fought next day?
16131Are those men fit to storm a kopje?
16131Are we not great enough to look with pride upon a gallant foe?
16131Are we only an English market, Held dear for the sake of trade?
16131Are we only an English market, Held dear for the sake of trade?
16131As I rode from position to position our fellows greeted me with the cry:"Any news, sir?
16131But-- er, have you been in the hands of the Boers since the war started?"
16131Did they rob you?"
16131Do you count us devoid of pride?
16131Do you sneer at the Boers?
16131Do you take me for a d----''Tommy,''sir?"
16131Do you think we are chicken- hearted?
16131Have you ever seen a savage nigger wench pout, my masters?
16131Have you grown tame, have you waxed fat and foolish during these long years of peace?
16131Heard if we are going to have a go at''em with the spoons( bayonets)?"
16131How did we know?
16131How do they charge, these bare- legged sons of Scotia?
16131I muttered,"and he''ll have to rot on the open veldt, I suppose?"
16131I''m a prisoner, ai n''t I?"
16131If our commanders blunder, who is to blame but the criminally negligent officials who have supplied them with false or foolish data to work upon?
16131If two innocent, incompetent(?)
16131Is n''t that enough?"
16131It is pleasant to swagger and brag of"your fellows at the front;"but why do n''t you see that they are fed, if you want them to fight?
16131Just give me a few names and dates and facts, will you?"
16131Or are we a part of the Empire Close welded as hilt and blade?
16131Or are we a part of the Empire, Close welded as hilt and blade?
16131Should we not curse them as a craven crowd, and teach our lisping babes to mock their memory?
16131Staked it for what?
16131The hills of Afghanistan must have re- echoed to his tread, else why the green and crimson ribbon that mingled with the rest?
16131There was a pause in the ranks of the Yeomen, then a voice lisped through the gathering gloom,"Are you fellahs British?"
16131Therefore, I ask, why should these negroes be privileged to do what Australians or Canadians are forbidden to do?
16131They were but twenty men, and we four hundred"A"Tommy"sitting at the speaker''s feet looked up and said:"What are yer makin''sich a song abart it far?
16131Though every man in all that fearless few is England''s foe, yet we, who boast the Vikings''blood in every vein, can we not honour them?
16131Was it a trap?
16131Was it because of poisoned or polluted water, left in their path by the enemy whom they were fighting?
16131Was it because the country through which we marched lent itself climatically to the propagation and dissemination of fever germs?
16131Was it because their hearts failed them in the presence of hardship and danger?
16131Was there some devilish craft behind that apparent peacefulness?
16131We must not pander to them to the injury of the Dutch, or how are we to weld Dutch and British into a national whole?
16131What did it mean?
16131What has become of the rations of rum, of sugar, of tea, of cocoa, of groceries generally?
16131What is a camp liar?
16131What on earth made you do such a fool''s trick as to try and ride from our rifles at that distance?"
16131What was his rank?"
16131What were you chasing the other fellah foah, eh?"
16131Where do these rumours come from?
16131Why did n''t you do the same if you reckoned yourself a better man?"
16131Why did they die, these strong young soldiers of our Queen?
16131Why did they die?
16131Why did they die?
16131Why should we bow our necks to Britain''s yoke, even if it be a yoke of silk?"
16131Would Kitchener, whose dread name strikes terror to the heart of every burgher, would he befoul his foeman''s fame?
16131Would he carry me safely out of that line of fire, or would he fail me?
16131Would you ask one Boer to fight against another Boer simply because he lived on one side of a river and his blood relation lived on the other?
41616What regiment is that?
41616Among them was a young girl some sixteen years old, who was waving a United States flag and taunting us with"Why do n''t you fight under this flag?"
41616Can a more deplorable picture be drawn?
41616Can you do it?"
41616Did they come?
41616He said,"Clowney, where is Kilpatrick?"
41616He said,"What are you doing behind, my little fellow?"
41616On reaching me he said,"Where is your gun, and why are you not shooting?"
41616Still, to make safe, I inquired,"Who is your colonel?"
41616They inquired of us,"What regiment are you?"
41616We had not gone far when we were hailed from the side of the road,"Who''s there?"
41616We knew something was wrong, but what was it?
41616When I got back Jim Hagood said,"What have you got?"
18177And what is there in that large white building, where the windows are alight?
18177Any damage, old fellow?
18177Are there many of them?
18177At what time do you want to get up?
18177Do you know where the Staff of the---- Corps is?
18177Eh,_ mon cher!_ What are you doing here? 18177 It is n''t warm, eh?"
18177Sir, in the third troop, Sergeant Lagaraldi...."Well?
18177Tell me, Sister Gabrielle, you are not going to turn us out of the house now, are you? 18177 Tell me, child, who burnt that château over there?"
18177Was there any infantry?
18177Well, my friend,said I to one of them,"is there anybody left at your place?"
18177Well, what''s the news?
18177What has become of the second squadron? 18177 Where is the officer in charge?"
18177Who sleeps here, then, Sister?
18177_ Eh bien, mon Capitaine!_ Anything new?
18177And the dear, good friends I had left in Paris and in Rouen-- where were they at that moment?
18177As soon as he came near enough we called out:"What is it?"
18177Brother- soldiers!--you who came through those painful hours-- shall you ever forget them?
18177But what did it all mean?
18177But what was that noise resounding through the convent?
18177But would there have been a fight at all?
18177But you see that Staff right over there behind those stacks?...
18177Comment va?_""Ah!...
18177Could they have abandoned this formidable position without any attempt to defend it?
18177Could they have already retired farther off?
18177Could we not have something to eat here, and sleep in a bed?"
18177Could you not take in two weary, famished soldiers for one night?"
18177Did they think our reserves were massed in the wood?
18177Do you know where it is just now?"
18177Enquiries and shouts were heard:"Where is the bread?"
18177Had we not been obliged by our duty to give up the delightful family gathering which reunites us yearly around the symbolic Yule- log?
18177He replied:"Your regiment?
18177How could we get at them and avenge our fellows who had fallen?
18177How did we manage to escape the shells and bullets which were cropping the branches and felling the trees around us?
18177How many friends should I never see again?
18177How many of those good fellows were lying dead on foreign soil?
18177How many were there?
18177How many?
18177How much of it was there left?
18177How was it that none of us were killed?
18177How were we to find our way about the little unknown town of Elverdinghe, near which our regiment had just been quartered?
18177How would it all end?
18177I am to fall back towards L. How is one to understand what all this means?"
18177I reflected:"What effect will it have upon me?
18177I thought I saw a reproach in those glances: they seemed to say to me:"Why have n''t you been able to defend us?
18177I wondered where I was, and suddenly remembered... Elverdinghe... the convent...."Is it you, Sister Gabrielle?"
18177Is that what war is?"
18177Looking for your regiment, are you?
18177Or was it we who had passed on to them the fighting spirit that fired us?
18177Ought I to have those men fired upon who were not quite opposite to us, and whose opponents seemed rather inclined to make a Christmas truce?
18177Ought we to lament or to envy the touching and simple burial rite of soldiers?
18177Our men?
18177Ready?
18177Shall I duck my head when I hear the bullets whistling and the shrapnel bursting around me?
18177Should we be obliged to wait until our sappers had built new ones before we could resume our pursuit?
18177Sister Gabrielle, then that little room and those two little beds where we slept, were yours?"
18177The captain raised his hands to Heaven with a look of despair:"How am I to know where any regiment is now?
18177The stupid bullet which had perhaps found its mark?
18177Then between his groans the wounded man said a thing I shall not easily forget:"_ Mon Capitaine_,... have n''t they taken away their guns yet?"
18177Then why abandon that station?
18177Things are n''t looking very rosy...."I plied him with questions, and he answered in short incoherent sentences:"Charleroi?
18177Was it not Christmas Eve?
18177Was it the enemy?
18177We shall come nearer to you;_ we_ shall withdraw..."?
18177Were they talking about me, sitting together round the fire?
18177Were they thinking of me?
18177Were we at last to meet them and measure our swords with their lances?
18177Were we really at war?
18177What are you looking for?
18177What did anything else matter to him?
18177What did it matter to him?
18177What did it matter to us?
18177What did it matter?
18177What did it matter?
18177What did they care if their horses could hardly carry them further, and if many of them would be incapable of galloping?
18177What had become of the comrades who were in the firing- line?
18177What had happened?
18177What had happened?
18177What had they done to my brave and noble companion- in- arms?
18177What has become of all our dear fellows there on the other side of the wood?"
18177What has become of our Colonel, who had stayed in command?
18177What have you come here for, my poor fellow?
18177What was about to happen?
18177What was happening?
18177What was that knocking and those wailing cries?
18177What was the captain of the company occupying the trench doing?
18177What was their idea?
18177What was to be done?
18177What were they doing?
18177What''s the matter?"
18177Where are we to go now that, by your fault, we have left the homes of our childhood, and of our fathers and our fathers''fathers?
18177Where is the ambulance?"
18177Where now were the oaths to revolt, the solemn denials and the blasphemies pronounced against the Fatherland?
18177Who can believe it?
18177Who could have foreseen that it would be implanted so naturally and so easily in the young souls of our soldiers?
18177Who will say then that our dear France has lost her Faith?
18177Who would have thought that such deep, and also such solemn, notes could come from so small a steeple?
18177Who would have thought we were at war?
18177Why could n''t it be like this every day?
18177Why did not our larger family of to- day join in singing together around lighted fir- trees?
18177Why have you let them come into our country?
18177Why on earth did I come up here?
18177Why should n''t I stay where I am?
18177Why should we desire richer tombs, sepulchral stones, and sculptured monuments?
18177Why should we pity them?
18177Will there be any one to wake us?"
18177With a violent jerk he pulled up his foaming horse for a second:"Where is the Colonel-- the Colonel?"
18177Would n''t it be much better to trust to us, give us the order to fix bayonets and drive those Boches out of their trenches over there?
18177Would the Prussians have ventured to measure themselves against these dare- devils, whom danger excites instead of depressing?
18177Would they dare to come on again?
18177Would they have time to blow up all the bridges behind them?
18177You will pray for me this evening, wo n''t you?
18177a nice business, is n''t it?
18177said B.,"did you smell it?
18177where now were the fine tirades of pothouse orators and public meetings?
33286All? 33286 Why was Lee not successful at Gettysburg?"
33286A private( one of my company) standing near me stood up and pointing toward the battlefield said,"Look at that, will you?"
33286And if they could have seen a picture of their homes and fields as they appeared in 1865, would they have rushed on?
33286Are these the people that we once mobbed as they marched through our streets?
33286But suppose Kilpatrick had suddenly appeared upon the scene and had thrown a few shells into those fields?
33286But what do you think of it today, as the finished product begins to unfold itself to our view?
33286But who has spoken for the boy?
33286Did you ever open the outside casing of one of these large patent beehives and see the bees at work inside?
33286Did you ever read"Black Beauty?"
33286Do you not believe there was a master mind behind it all, a King, and that these boys were but part of His royal subjects, doing His will?
33286Gibson call me?_"I saw the six ride off; Owens did n''t even say good- bye to me.
33286Had these boys any conception of what they were rushing into?
33286He came galloping toward us on his white horse, and with a voice that could be heard above the shots of the guns, he said,"What does this mean?"
33286He carried them loose in his pocket, and as he stepped between and over the men as they lay on the hard beds, he would say,"Who wants a pill?"
33286He turned to me and said,"Was n''t that a close shave?"
33286I said to myself, are these the people we of the South used to hate?
33286Now that Jackson was gone the question was, What will Gen. Lee do?
33286Shall we surrender?"
33286Smith raised his head upon his bosom, almost fearing to see him expiring in his arms, and asked,"General, are you much hurt?"
33286Someone said,"Well, boys, what are we going to do?
33286Suppose the Confederates had been beaten at Bull Run and Richmond had fallen, and the war had ended then?
33286That bloody drama in which there were 3,000,000 players-- a play that cost the country eight billions in money and half a million human lives?
33286The first thought among the private soldiers was,"Has Grant stolen a march on Lee, and is Richmond doomed?"
33286The question is often asked,"Why did Gen. Lee take his army into Pennsylvania?"
33286The question was asked 10,000 times perhaps that day,"What is Marse Robert up to now?
33286The question was( not only on our side of the river, but on the other),"What is Gen. Lee up to now?"
33286Was it a huge volcanic eruption?
33286What could Gen. Lee have done had all his horses balked in unison?
33286What do you suppose those Virginia girls were going to do about it, put on sackcloth and ashes?
33286What do you think of that?
33286What does it all mean?
33286What might we expect when these 500 handsome young men, all well mounted and armed, in whose veins flowed the blood of the heroes of the revolution?
33286What more did a sick soldier need?
33286What were the women doing?
33286What were they doing all this time?
33286What would have been the result?
33286What would you think of a monument some day, somewhere in Virginia, in honor of Lee''s noble horses?
33286Where is he taking us?"
33286Who but a Napoleon could provide so quickly for such an emergency?
33286Who has told of the part the boy played in that great drama that was on the stage for four years without intermission?
33286_ From Gettysburg to the Wilderness._"But who shall break the guards that wait Before the awful face of Fate?
16626A very interesting bit of the line is n''t it, Hale?
16626And even if I ordered you to go, do you think that, with so many troops about, you would be likely to find it still there?
16626Do you want me to go back to---- and search the whole of the twenty odd miles to---- on the off chance of finding it?
16626Do you want to do so yourself?
16626Now what do you want me to do?
16626When did you miss it first?
16626Which would you rather have,I asked a discontented lance- corporal,"a bit of a thirst or a dentist drilling a hole down a pet nerve?"
16626Why did n''t you fire?
16626And how I''ve got a bed, and how happy the horses are?
16626And how we were sent to this very quiet and unwrecked place?
16626And would anyone thank me for it?
16626Anxious?
16626Anyone got a cigarette?
16626Anything of that sort?
16626Are they all Huns, though?
16626Are they going to drop bombs on us?
16626But exactly where are we going to offend?
16626But what do you think?
16626But what matters it how they come?
16626But what of that?
16626But where are these more competent people?
16626But why not?
16626Can I rely on it being sent out in time?
16626Can a single soul live?
16626Can it be in so- and- so quarry, perhaps?
16626Can there be anything left?
16626Can you understand a noise that hits you?
16626Do n''t you find it''s a bit like that?
16626Do n''t you like them?
16626Do you agree?
16626Do you see?
16626Does it worry you to think of crumps bursting and so on?
16626Eleven- thirty p.m. Would you like to hear about night flying?
16626Even a wound, perhaps?
16626Flowers?
16626Has so- and- so trench been repaired, and where is so- and- so German battery that was shelling the---- Brigade yesterday?"
16626Have you got my towel?...
16626How many can the draughtsmen print before to- morrow?
16626I do dislike noise so, do n''t you?
16626I shouted into Corporal Nutley''s car:"Can you hear what I''m saying?"
16626I suppose a thing can go into your lung and not kill you?
16626If, we say, that village or that ridge has to be taken from this or that unexpected position, how shall we do it?
16626In the divisions?
16626Is God quite so complicated and involved as we have supposed?
16626Is it there still?
16626Is n''t that a lovely expression?
16626It does n''t look much as if they were coming in now, does it?
16626Leave it to rot?
16626Leave?
16626Madrid?
16626Mud?
16626Mud?
16626No recent photographs of it?
16626Now where to go?
16626Now, where do you think?
16626Or the dog who has been locked up in an empty house for a long time?
16626Ought I, perhaps, not to talk of these things?
16626Paris?
16626Regret?
16626Repaired?
16626Richard Jefferies?
16626Shall I fire?
16626Shall I tell you?
16626Shall we carry the thing off as splendidly as those squadrons did before Peronne, or shall we bungle the show?
16626Shells a- bursting, guns a- popping?
16626So Fritz would like Peace, would he?
16626So may I have a large- sized cake now and then?
16626Surely, surely, thyme?
16626That poor miserable mess of splinters and gashed soil?
16626That?
16626The corps commander sends for him( he has been doing the job for nine months), and says:"Now, where is our line at the present moment?
16626Well, where has it moved to, then?
16626Wet clothes?
16626What about---- trench and all round---- village, even, perhaps, a lightning five minutes in the village itself?
16626What about?
16626What detail have I forgotten?
16626What does it matter to us?
16626What evidence have you?
16626What has become of him?
16626What is that book he is reading?
16626What order did I give that could be taken two ways?
16626What question can I have asked a week ago to which the answer is a rabbit?
16626What shall I do?
16626What the deuce is the matter?
16626What?
16626What?
16626What?
16626Where are the most covered approaches to the slopes of that hill?
16626Where on earth did they come from?
16626Where the deuce were all those guns hidden?
16626Where the devil are the Huns?
16626Where''s the orderly officer?
16626Which made me laugh to such an extent that I got a sort of fit of laughing( do n''t you know?)
16626Why discuss what we have done?
16626Why not an afternoon off?"
16626Why not?
16626Why, oh why, did n''t I fire?
16626Work depends almost entirely on the actual number of hours per diem, do n''t you think?
16626Would you like to hear about it?
16626Yes, exactly... to whom?
16626Yesterday we were working absolutely solid without any break at all except an hour for lunch and an hour for dinner( tea?
16626You are not sure?
16626You know the dog who has been shut up in a kennel for a long time?
16626You know?
16626You see those little stumps of trees?
16626You see?
16626[ Sidenote: A SCRAP IN THE AIR] A wood?
16626[ Sidenote: PLOEGSTEERT] As I am coming out I turn over the hand of an image, and underneath it what the deuce is this?
16626_ December 15._ Is n''t this fine about Peace?
16626_ December 20._ Have you had any of the letters in which I told you how the place we were to have been sent to was too continuously strafed?
16626_ December 7._ What do you think?
16626_ Fri._ When did I see you last?
16626_ July 20._ Am I telling you about the things you want to hear?
16626_ Mon._ Is n''t it cold?
16626_ Sun._ How is Queen Anne?
16626_ Thurs._ How are you all?
16626_ Tues._ Have you seen mother?
16626_ We d._ Are you happy?
16626do n''t you know that there''s not a man in France but knows that the best- beloved ones at home are having a far worse time than we are having here?
16626in the battalions?
16626what does all this ancient paraphernalia mean to us?
16626where can old Rupert have got to?
28152''Have you passes?'' 28152 ''What are you doing with that gray jacket?''
28152''Where did you get it?'' 28152 ''Why do n''t you wear the Federal uniform?
28152''You have some papers about you, I suppose?'' 28152 A little rough shaking soon roused him up, and, rubbing his eyes, he asked,''What''s wanted?''
28152Are there any white folks there?
28152Do you know, gentlemen,said one who assumed leadership,"that just naturally to shoot these greasers ai n''t the best way?
28152Have you a knife, sir?
28152Have you ever seen a Yankee?
28152Have you friends or relatives here with whom you intend to stay?
28152How far is it to General Wheeler''s headquarters?
28152How far is it, my boy, by this road, to Drainside?
28152How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country''s wishes blest? 28152 How unfortunate may you have been, sir?"
28152How''n de debbil can I tell dat in de dark, marser?
28152I am considerably interested in politics just now,said Mr. Barringer, and then he asked abruptly,"what is your opinion of John Brown?"
28152Now then, Willard,said Mr. Nichols,"I presume you understand the rules of this school?"
28152This is a free country; I_ am_ a Yankee-- all but the d----d-- and now what do you propose to do about it?
28152Was there a touch of irony in this remark which met in advance the grumblings and questionings of the future? 28152 Well,"said Glazier,"do we look like them?"
28152What are you shooting at me for?
28152What army?
28152What boots a weapon in a withered hand?
28152What boots a weapon in a withered hand?
28152What do you propose to do?
28152Who''s thar?
28152Why, Mr.----,said he,"did n''t you say that if I whispered to Myron Sprague again, I should go back and sit between Lizzie and Annie?"
28152Yes, sir, I did, and how dare you disobey me in this way?
28152Your_ opinion_, gentlemen?
28152_ Reporter._--Then which way did you proceed?
28152--"Who comes there?"
28152---"Who comes there?"
28152--Absentees from muster.--Disappointed hopes.--Savage treatment of prisoners.--Was the prison mined?
28152--Absentees from muster.--Disappointed hopes.--Savage treatment of prisoners.--Was the prison mined?
28152--Beyond Washington.--On guard.--Promotion.--Recruiting service.--The deserted home on Arlington Heights.--"How shall I behave in the coming battle?"
28152--Beyond Washington.--On guard.--Promotion.--Recruiting service.--The deserted home on Arlington Heights.--"How shall I behave in the coming battle?"
28152And what may I call your name?''
28152Another joined in with,"Say, Corporal, which of them nags can run fastest?"
28152Are the Yankees ashamed of it?''
28152As if his dignity was seriously offended by this demand, our hero answered this question by asking another:"Do you halt paroled prisoners here?"
28152Can any prisoner confined here ever forget the''Sisters of Charity?''
28152Captain Glazier thus graphically relates the interview:"''Then you are scouting for Confederate generals?''
28152Glazier immediately turned and inquired,"Do you know who I am?"
28152I asked,''Can you give this rebel a supper?''
28152I then asked,''Uncle, what road must_ this rebel_ take for Tinker Creek?''
28152I would have loved to see you all again; God saw best not; why should we mourn?
28152Is it strange that he is mastered in the battle and finally falls beneath the world''s pitiless tread?
28152Is it that"the memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world; nor of_ its_ thoughts and hopes?"
28152Lemon was not slow to answer in a corresponding tone,"I am serving my country, as every loyal man should do: what have_ you_ to say about it?"
28152My good fellow, ca n''t you do something for us?"
28152Of the dashing boys of the''Cavalry Corps,''And their daring deeds of glory?
28152One asked,''Who are you?''
28152Others had done so-- why not he?
28152So our hero replied, interrogatively:"Are you black or white in there?"
28152The man reluctantly opened the door, and the_ soi- disant_ Confederate demanded in an imperious tone,"How long is it since our army passed here?"
28152The sound of heavy cannonading reassured them as to the proximity of Federal troops; but, where was Augusta?
28152They eyed each other for a moment in silence, when presently the planter demanded in a blustering voice,"What are you doing here, in a blue uniform?"
28152They were closely engaged in this search, when"Who comes there?"
28152What could it mean?
28152What though he had only six thousand men with which to hold them in siege?
28152Who will say that a dread Nemesis has not overtaken the metropolis of the Palmetto State?
28152Why is it that such examples of tender feeling and unquestioning faith are seldom found in cities?
28152Will the oncoming generations who con the story of the life of John Stark listen to the preaching of such an example in vain?
28152Would he, or would he not, receive in the morning the certificate he sought?
28152Would the men go, or could they be induced to stay through another term of enlistment before seeking the respite they desired at their homes?
28152You are not going back to Albany to- night?"
28152added:"Whar in hell are you going, Yanks?"
28152said Carter, when he had recovered sufficiently to speak,"so you were going home, were you?"
43470And what for should I give it away when we''ll be wanting it ourselves maybe?
43470Does it pain you?
43470Well, my man; where are you hurt?
43470What regiment?
43470Does it not make one creep to think of it?
43470Dr. W. stopped and said to his companion:"Did you see that?
43470No man has complained, no man has asked"Why?"
43470People began to ask anxiously what next?
43470yes; why not?"
37112''What is the matter?'' 37112 But did you not feel bad at robbing the kind officer who employed you?"
37112But how could Kent prevent Harry''s being wounded or hurt, Martha?
37112Good Heavens, Madam,he replied,"have you been so long out of the Union that you have forgotten Washington''s birthday?"
37112Oh,I said,"he is courting, is he?
37112What of Kent?
37112Where is the man of the house?
37112Who was Tay?
37112Who was Tay?
37112Why, where do you come from?
37112Again she asked,"You got the measles?"
37112And, turning to our mother, he said:"Please, ma''am, I would like a week at home to marry Affy, an''den ca n''t I find Mas''Harry?"
37112As he paused before a guest she would hold a lump suspended in the sugar tongs as she would say,"Green tea and black; dear, which will you have?"
37112At this the provost marshal remarked,"Madam, do you not realize the sanctity of an oath, or do you desire to take all the oaths?"
37112Colonel Rhett replied,"Who the hell are you?"
37112Has anything occurred there?"
37112He kep''us all togedder, an''you tink Kent such a fool as not to know dat, an''be happy''mong strangers?
37112I exclaimed,"are the ladies back already?"
37112I wonder who it will be?"
37112Miss J--, is it you?
37112Now, Sister Martha, which do you think the most to blame?"
37112She called out,"You got smallpox?"
37112The next thing I knew I was being dragged by the feet, and heard some one say,"What are you going to do with that dead man?"
37112What are you doing straggling from your command?
37112What is the matter?
37112What would she have thought of electric lights?
37112Where are our men?"
37112exclaimed our eldest sister;"pick up that chair; do n''t you see mother is faint?"
37112how is your mother?"
41248How do you manage to keep your youth?
41248What is the good of sending off the_ Dundrennon_I asked,"unless she has on board the Corps upon which so much depends?
41248What, look after your horse now?
41248What,said Gye, in a low voice,"not a single word?"
41248Do you want to see it?"
41248Have you been getting into the biscuit- tin?"
41248I said:"Will you?"
41248Just before the last, he said:"Am I dying like a British soldier?"
41248Thinking that he would remember me, I sat down beside him and opened the conversation by saying:"Any chance of a billet with you, General?"
41248What is he but a mere muleteer?"
41248What will be said hereafter if you let the 29th Division die of thirst?"
41248When this had continued for a few minutes, I remarked to the gunner man:"What on earth are the Turks trying to hit?"
41248Who are you anyhow?"
12330''Are there any francs- tireurs( civilian snipers) in this town?'' 12330 ''Are there any soldats français in the town?''
12330''How should I know?'' 12330 ''The Good Old Summer Time''--you know that?
12330''What do you want?'' 12330 ''Why?''
12330All right in there, boys?
12330And Monsieur Petticollot, how is he?
12330And this picture on the right, the jeune fille?
12330And you are not afraid of the shells?
12330Anglais?
12330Any wounded to- day?
12330Are the Boches retreating?
12330Are these American cigarettes?
12330Are they seriously wounded?
12330Are things going well for us?
12330Are we going to break clear through the lines?
12330Are you comfortable?
12330Are you going to get it?
12330As tu trouvé mon livre?
12330But did n''t the munitions traffic boom the machine- tool industry?
12330By the way, how is your brother?
12330Can I see the house?
12330Can you beat that?
12330Did you know a fellow named Petersen?
12330Did you know him?
12330Do you find yourself comfortable here, son?
12330Do you put salt in chocolate?
12330Do you sell much of it?
12330Do you speak English?
12330Do you speak French?
12330Do you want to see something odd, mon vieux?
12330Do you want to see the Boches? 12330 Does anybody live in this house?"
12330Does n''t the bottle say''Johann Maria Farina''? 12330 Going over to enlist?"
12330Have you ever had one? 12330 Have you had a bad time in the trenches this week, Monsieur Levrault?"
12330How did it happen?
12330How did you get wounded?
12330How do you know that the Boches opposite you are old?
12330How do you reconcile your theories of fraternity to what you have to do?
12330How long does it take us to get to the lines, mon lieutenant?
12330How much is this cheese, maman?
12330How on earth is it that everybody is not killed?
12330How so?
12330How, then, did you happen to come here?
12330In the active forces?
12330Is he approaching?
12330Is he still alive?
12330Is this the only room you have? 12330 Just where is the attack located?"
12330Not cold?
12330Oh, no, I meant how did he get killed?
12330See that feller over there?
12330The Boches are not going to get through up there?
12330Then you are getting out something new?
12330This Paris?
12330What are those for?
12330What contest?
12330What do you do en civil?
12330What does he do en civil?
12330What is it?
12330What time is it?
12330What''s the matter with him?
12330What''s the trouble about?
12330What''s your name?
12330When did it begin?
12330Where?
12330Who lived here?
12330Who puts out the fires?
12330Why did you stay?
12330With fresh cream?
12330You are a Frenchman? 12330 You bet,"he replied-- and an instant later--"Are you?"
12330You never see them?
12330You play, do n''t you?
12330You speak French?
12330''Harrigan''--you know that?"
12330( Have you found my book?)
12330( Have you spit blood?)
12330--"Are those dirty cows( the classic sales vaches) going to keep this up all afternoon?"
12330--"Art thou wounded, Jarnac?"
12330--"Somebody wounded?"
12330--"Why do n''t they answer?"
12330An old poilu, with a friendly smile revealing a jagged reef of yellow teeth, whispered to me amiably:--"See them?
12330Are we at the hospital?"
12330But in America everybody is a millionaire and has the best of everything-- isn''t that so?
12330Consider the name of the article,''eau- de- cologne,''is not that French?"
12330Curious, is n''t it-- two thousand years afterward?"
12330Do you see that little village down there on the crest?
12330Everybody in France is saying,"What will happen when the army comes home?"
12330Finally one of them said:--"Are you English, gentlemen?"
12330Has madame any capers?
12330Have a cigarette?"
12330Have n''t you heard them hollerin''for tariff protection?
12330Have you ever seen the villages beyond Ravenna overwhelmed by the bogs?
12330Hippolyte whispered,"You hear them?"
12330How many are still alive?
12330Is Germany slowly, very slowly going under, or are we going to witness complete European exhaustion?
12330Meanwhile, what was the state of the army and navy?
12330Said one to the other,"As- tu- vu Maurice?"
12330The most interesting question of the whole business is,"How do the soldiers stand it?"
12330The radical Frenchman says,"Are the Gospels true?"
12330There came another pause, and the Burgundian said:--"Well, what do you think of this big racket( ce grand fracas)?"
12330Truce in the face of a common danger or a real union?
12330Two French drivers who were putting a tire on their car jumped up with a"Qu''est- ce que c''est que ça?"
12330Voices like echoes traveled the length of the shelter--"Is it thou, Jarnac?"
12330Voices murmured in the obscurity,"Who is wounded?"
12330Was it not a pity that Psichari should have died so young?"
12330Were the Germans aware of the French tunnel?
12330Were they still continuing their labor?
12330What are you boys doing, looking for contracts?"
12330What did you do?"
12330What good should we do in killing each other?
12330What had happened to the Jean, Paul, and Pierre of this dark street since the war began?
12330What has happened to this fine, brave crowd of Frenchmen, gentlemen all, bons camarades?
12330What tragedies of sorrow and loneliness might these silent windows not conceal?
12330Will it last?
12330Would you like to see it?"
12330You remember Carrier at Nantes, do n''t you, my dear sir?
39348Are not you Dutchmen tired of the war?
39348Is there anything I can do for you?
39348Tell me, what was that firing last night?
39348What, and hold my hands up at the same time?
39348What, do n''t you know,said I,"what has occurred this morning?"
39348What, then, am I to do with my men?
39348Will you hand over that revolver?
39348Will you hold your damned hands up?
39348But then, after all, what is the destiny of the War Office unless to meddle and make muddle?
39348But who can tell?
39348Does this sentence contain the secret history of the failure of Commandant Eloff?
39348How comes it that London should be in ignorance of our condition?
39348How could we otherwise have pierced your lines?"
39348Is it even fair to hazard an estimation of the man in his present environment?
39348Is it, for example, quite impossible to supply them with that not uninteresting development of the musical- box-- the megaphone?
39348There is a certain pathos in the question of the aged President asking General Snyman,"Where is Plumer?
39348Was there a man dismayed in the Boer lines?
39348We ask, When will the end be?
39348Where do these rumours come from?
39348Where else do express trains arrive several hours in advance of their scheduled time?
39348Where else do goods trains arrive several days late?
39348Who can tell?
39348was such a thing possible?
41159After we had been talking for some time he asked me of course the celebrated question:"Have you ever brought down a machine?"
41159But of what nationality?
41159His next idea was: What has become of my opponent?
41159His whole thought was: Is he above me or beneath me?
41159I had no idea of fighting him but thought:"What will happen if I now start shooting?"
41159In the previous year my friend Lynker, with whom I was training, had asked me:"What is your object?
41159Is it a signal of the enemy?
41159Loen, who was similarly incapacitated, gave the most intelligent answer:"How many are they?"
41159Perhaps you have shot down two?"
41159So I asked him:"Tell me, how do you manage it?"
41159Suddenly he jumped up and asked:"Good Lord, but where is your chauffeur?"
41159Supposing somebody should jump from its top to the ground, what would be his condition?
41159The impertinent fellow was full of cheek and when we had got down to about 3,000 feet he merrily waved to me as if he would say,"Well, how do you do?"
41159The question now was what should I do in order not to be noticed by the villagers?
41159The question was, what would happen to me?
41159Was it by chance that a prominent man such as he also should die an ordinary soldier''s death?
41159Were they English or were they Germans?
41159What did the rascal do?
41159What is the good of bringing out a squadron against us and then turning tail?
41159What machine?
41159What will you obtain by flying?"
41159When we met at home he asked me proudly,"How many have you shot down?"
41159Who can have shot him down?
41159Who can tell what machine we shall employ a year hence in order to perforate the atmosphere?
41159Why then should I not succeed in hitting the Englishman?
19263And do you share this opinion?
19263And the Mobiles?
19263And was his country to count for nothing?
19263And what, pray, will happen after the capitulation of Paris?
19263And would the majority of the Constituent Assembly go with them?
19263Are we to remain cooped up here until we are starved out?
19263Are you come to congratulate us?
19263But how can you imagine that you and your friends would be able to defeat the Prussians, who are disciplined soldiers?
19263But if none of these prophecies are realised.--what then?
19263But if you have to capitulate, what will happen?
19263Can France accept a mediation which will snatch from her the enemy at the moment when victory is certain?
19263Can any one tell me where Jules Favre has gone?
19263Coquin,says William,"what are you doing with your eagle?"
19263Eating it,replies Badinguet;"what else can I do with it?"
19263Et Clamart?
19263Et le General Trochu?
19263How do you live, then?
19263If you are an Englishman,cried his friend,"why do you not go back to your own country, and fight Russia?"
19263Is it not too bad of him that he will pretend not to understand French?
19263Monsieur is in the Garde Nationale?
19263Pray, sir, may I ask,he said, with bitter scorn,"whether her Majesty is still on the throne in England?"
19263Qui sait?
19263Shall you send off a train to- morrow morning?
19263Then,he went on,"has this Count Bismarck, as they call him, driven the British nobles out of the House of Lords?
19263We are,observed an orator, a few nights ago,"the children of Paris, she has need of us; can we leave her at such a moment?"
19263Well, what does England think of our attitude now?
19263Well,I said,"supposing that the Prussians were to withdraw, and peace were to be concluded on reasonable terms, what do you think would take place?"
19263What do you expect will occur? 19263 What do you think of a man on horseback?"
19263What do you think they are saying of us in England?
19263What is this?
19263What,she continued,"have you not heard of the victory?"
19263What?
19263Why do you complain of me?
19263Why do you not act with energy against the Ultras?
19263Why do you wear these ugly gloves?
19263Why not?
19263Will it ever be taken out?
19263Will the Garde Nationale fight?
19263''What dost thou want?''
19263After all, what is patriotism?
19263And shall our army of 500,000 men remain stationary before this handful of Germans?
19263But how is it all to end?
19263But why should they complain?
19263But will this sacrifice save the ship?
19263Can anything be more absurd than for a provincial town to be forced to wait for such an authorisation until it receives it from Paris?
19263Can better evidence be required?
19263Can it be that, after all, the Parisians, at the mere sound of cannon, are going to cave in, and give up Alsace and Lorraine?
19263Can it possibly be that I am over- credulous?
19263Come now, Citizen Strassnowski, he says, what has the Government done to merit your praise?
19263Did not yesterday a National Guard himself take five Prussian prisoners?
19263Does not every Englishman feel this to be true of his own countrymen?
19263Has Gambetta contracted with a London firm for a loan of 250 millions at 42?
19263Has it tried to utilise us?
19263How can all this end?
19263How can it be otherwise?
19263How can the Parisians expect to force the Prussians to raise the siege?
19263How can the engineers have made such a mistake?
19263I venture to repeat a question which I have already frequently asked-- Where is the gentleman who enjoys an annual salary as British Consul at Paris?
19263In a meeting presided over by Jules Favre, what do you suppose the mayors were asked to do?
19263In vain I ask,"But what if these three armies do not make their appearance?"
19263Is it possible, each man asks, that 500,000 armed Frenchmen will have to surrender to half the number of Germans?
19263Is not King William the instrument of Heaven, and is he not engaged in a holy cause?
19263It has armed us and exercised us; but why?
19263It is a merry farce, is it not?
19263It is difficult to find a tailor who will work, and even if he did I could not send him my one suit to mend, for what should I wear in the meantime?
19263It meant,"Do you really imagine that a functionary-- a postman-- is going to forward your letters in an irregular manner?"
19263Now, I ask, after having endured this sort of thing day after day for three months, can I be expected to admire Geist, Germany, or Mr. Matthew Arnold?
19263Oh, full- of- feeling, loved- of- beauteous- women, German warrior, can you refuse me?"
19263Shall we not in that case have the Gallic cock crowing as lustily as ever?
19263Some of the members of the Government, I hear, suggest an admiral; but what admiral would accept this_ damnosa hæreditas_?
19263Still the old subjects-- How long will it last?
19263The editor of the_ Liberté_--why is this gentleman still alive?
19263The year which is commencing can not bring with it any sorrows that by remaining united we shall not be able to support?''
19263The_ Rappel_ also informs its readers that letters have been discovered( where?)
19263There was a chorus of"Qui sait?"
19263This is a good sign, but will it outlive a single gleam of success?
19263This is all very well, but how is he to get there?
19263To the Legitimists?
19263To the Orleanists?"
19263To whom then must we turn to save the country?
19263To- day a citizen writes as follows:--"Why are not the National Guards installed in the churches?
19263What are they doing now?
19263What do the robbers and the beggars who thus insult us do?
19263What has been the consequence of this act of weakness?
19263What has been the consequence?
19263What has happened here, and what is happening?
19263What is the use of you, sir, if you can not ensure my safe passage to England?
19263What is to be expected of troops when military offences of the grossest kind are treated in this fashion?
19263What puzzles us is, that the Rente is at 53--why then was this new loan issued at 42?
19263What were the men to do whilst they were kept waiting, except drink?
19263What will be the verdict of history on the defence?
19263What would he have said of a Government composed almost exclusively of these objects of his political distrust?
19263What would he say if the Government which succeeds him were to allow his own wife to be insulted in this cowardly manner?
19263What, I asked, is to be expected of a city peopled by such credulous fools?
19263What, however, is to be done for the French?
19263What, then, say his opponents with some truth, was your wonderful plan?
19263When one asks them where?
19263Where are they now?
19263Where were the artillerymen?
19263Why are we to allow them quietly to establish their batteries?
19263Why did you imprison as calumniators those who published news from the provinces, which you now admit is true?
19263Why did you put your name to proclamations which called upon us, if we could not conquer, at least to die?
19263Why do distinguished generals, unless forced by circumstances, declare the mere act of passing four or five cold nights in the trenches heroic?
19263Why does not Gambetta write more clearly?
19263Why is a banker, who has other matters to attend to, discharging his duties?
19263Why is he absent now?
19263Why is so great a publicity given to such contradictory orders of the day?"
19263Why these reports?
19263Why was he absent during the siege?
19263Why, they ask, are we to allow ourselves to be besieged by an army which does not equal in numbers our own?
19263Why?
19263Why?
19263Will the Prussians enter Paris?
19263Will they be entirely in the wrong?
19263_ October 12th._"What is truth?"
19263_ October 25th._ Has General Trochu a plan?--if so, what is it?
19263_ September 26th._ Do the Prussians really mean to starve us out?
19263_ des grises?_''You will, I trust, one of these days learn what is the signification of the term at your own cost.
19263move that the Estimates be reduced by the salary of the Consul, who seems to consider Paris_ in partibus infidelium_?
19263said a dealer to a customer--"is it my fault?
44281Colonel, is there any mark?
44281Pray, sir,said the Engineer,"where might you have learned to lay guns?"
44281What the d-- l does the king pay you for, if you are not to attend to his subjects when they require your assistance?
44281Colonel.--Aye, and pray what have you smuggled?
44281Colonel.--Well, what price do you ask for them?
44281He asked us why we were riding so fast?
44281On page 13,"déscgréments"was replaced with"désagréments?".
44281The Secretary then, turning to Galt, said rather sternly:"Sir, you could not have come fairly by this copy of a private despatch?"
44281The question now arose what was to be done next?
20215Are you aware you are being paid for your services?
20215Are you hurt, Bill?
20215Are you willing to work for the Canadians?
20215Do you mind my looking at you, sir?
20215Do you think you could put in a word for me to----?
20215First,he said,"have you got a car?"
20215Has the offensive started?
20215Have you got a servant?
20215Have you got your car ready?
20215No furniture broken, no damage done to the room, Bill?
20215Really?
20215Second,said he,"have you got any sable brushes?"
20215The day?
20215Then why do you not go to my left as I commanded?
20215Third,said he,"will you lend me some?"
20215To what are you attached now?
20215Well, what do you want here?
20215Well,said he,"the first question I asked was,''Have you got a car?''"
20215What are you doing in Paris?
20215What do you mean by behaving this way?
20215What have you been doing?
20215What noise?
20215What on earth are you here at this hour of the morning for?
20215What photo? 20215 What the devil are you two doing?"
20215What the hell has that got to do with my sable brushes?
20215What way, please, sir?
20215Where is it?
20215Who is your friend?
20215Why?
20215Why?
20215Why?
20215( p.   022)"Do n''t you know you must report to me, and show me what work you have been doing?"
20215( p.   065) Girls, have you been there?
20215--Does anyone realise what those words must have meant to them then?
20215A terrible- looking Tommy stopped Brooks in the Street of the Three Pebbles and said:"Say, guv''ner, when are you going to give me me photo?"
20215About the same time I received a telegram from Sir Philip Sassoon:"Where the devil are you?
20215Afraid?
20215After all, why should they fuss themselves?
20215An hour and a half each day, for four or five days?
20215And where was one?
20215Anyway, for an hour or so they were out of the rain and mud, but afterwards?
20215But what must it have looked like when the Somme was covered with snow, and the white- garmented Tommies used to raid it at night?
20215But why did you come out here?"
20215Could one doubt that those at home would not reward them?
20215Did it mean defeat?
20215Did they think of that, and all the joys it seemed to promise them?
20215Every hour he used to come in and tap me on the shoulder, point to the red tab, and say:"What about it?
20215Had he power?
20215Have you a ping- pong table here?"
20215Have you lived in Ireland?"
20215He did not speak to us, but after breakfast he said:"Is your name Orpen?"
20215He looked all round the room and said in a deep voice:"Is Sir William Orpen here?"
20215He replied:"Do n''t you remember I asked you three questions?"
20215He roared at me,"Are you an S.S.O.?"
20215He said:"Back from where?"
20215He said:"Have you any business you want to go to France for?"
20215He said:"Refused?"
20215He stopped me and said:"Have you come to paint the Governor''s portrait, sir?"
20215He walked up to me and, towering over me, looked down and said in grave doubt:"Are_ you_ Sir William Orpen?"
20215He was telling me about this, and said,"Do you mind my asking you three questions?"
20215How are you, old bean?
20215How long did I want him for?
20215I explained to him that there was no smell, and he said,"But did n''t you see one has an eye still?"
20215I had n''t seen him since he sent the telegram,"When do you return?"
20215I remember an officer saying to me,"Paint the Somme?
20215I remember one afternoon they came to my room and Mrs. Botha said:"Well, Louis, what kind of a morning had you?"
20215I said,"whom did he kill?"
20215I said:"Can you understand any( p.   112) English?"
20215I said:"Do you realise you have killed four men this morning?"
20215I said:"How did you get back so soon, sir?"
20215I said:"Sir, do n''t you want an extra batman with you?"
20215I wonder who she was and where she is now?
20215Is n''t it magnificent?"
20215It was uncanny, these great birds starting off into the blackness-- to what?
20215Lovely morning, is n''t it?"
20215Master?
20215Might he smoke while he sat?
20215Of what?
20215One morning the boy who washed me said:"I beg your pardon, sir, but what are you being treated for?"
20215Presently he called me in, and Sassoon said I was to paint the Chief, and would I come to lunch the next day at Advanced H.Q., G.H.Q.?
20215Rasputin, for instance, what was he?
20215Said I:"What has happened to poor Marthe?
20215Said I:''Can you please direct me to the Gare du Nord?''
20215Said he:"Are you Orpen?"
20215Singie well?
20215Suddenly( p.   052) Maurice stopped, and said:"What''s that noise?"
20215That great human Field- Marshal, Lord Haig, the man who knows, works for them still, and asks-- but who answers?
20215The Colonel rang up the same afternoon and said,"Certainly,"would I name my day and hour?
20215The General was told that I wanted to see the aerodromes, and Maurice shyly said:"May I take Orpen round, sir?
20215The day after I reached Dieppe I received a telegram from the"Colonel":"When do you return?"
20215The following was the conversation as far as I remember:--"Is that Orpen?"
20215The king turned, and said to him:"Are you the only man in my State who does not obey his wife?"
20215The next day?
20215The one thing these wonderful super- men gave me to think that evening was:"What shall we do?
20215Was the prophecy true of the Virgin falling from her tower?
20215Was there ever a more ghastly place?
20215Were the Allies beaten?
20215What am I to do?
20215What colour is that reflected light under the horse''s belly?"
20215What colour is the reflection now?"
20215What colour is the reflection on the horse''s belly now?"
20215What day would you like him to come to sit?"
20215What do you make of it all, Bill?"
20215What is the matter?"
20215What more comfort could one wish?
20215What must the little man have felt?
20215What must they have felt?
20215What would Her Ladyship say if I let you be painted that way?"
20215What would I have been like had I been one of them?
20215When I got on the boat I met General Seely, who introduced me to General Sir Arthur Currie, who said:"You used to billet at St. Pol, usedn''t you?"
20215When I got the General the way I wanted him, the batman leant over my shoulder, and said:"Is the Governor right now?"
20215When I started painting him he said,"Why waste your time painting me?
20215When I was leaving I said to Munnings,"What about those sable brushes, Munnings?"
20215When did I wish to start?
20215When he came to me he said the usual,"Everything all right with you?"
20215Where had the Huns got to?
20215Who are you?"
20215Why did n''t you ask her to leave?"
20215Why leave France when wonder after wonder was happening?
20215Why should they trouble about these men?
20215Why worry now to honour the representatives of the dead, or the maimed, or the blind, or the living that remained?
20215Will they do as they promised for us?
20215Would I go and look out what room would suit me to work in?
20215Would I have some lunch and follow him there?
20215Would we come back at 5 p.m.?
20215Would we come back at 7 p.m.?
20215You''re feeling a bit cheap, ai n''t you?
20215[ Illustration: V._ Warwickshires entering Péronne._] How did they do it?
20215_ I_ did n''t think so, but to make conversation I said:"How long is it since you were home?"
20215_ The Official Entry of the Kaiser._] Could anyone forecast the tragedy that has happened to so many of these men since?
20215_ Why?_ In Heaven''s name,_ why not_?
20215_ Why?_ In Heaven''s name,_ why not_?
20215is that you?
20215of the C.-in- C. at once?"
20215to obtain Luxury Tax Tickets and return?
20215to which I replied:"Return where, please?"
20215what did I tell you?"
40477And who are you?
40477And why in the Confederate army?
40477I suppose you will want to get home as quickly as possible, wo n''t you?
40477Shall I run over there too?
40477Who did this outrage?
40477Why do you want to see that old Ape?
40477You shared my friendship, shared my bread, even, did n''t you?
40477And where was Braggs''army?
40477As he fell from his horse the adjutant sprang to the ground and cried,"Who shot the officer of the day?"
40477At the crucial moment our leader_ had lost his nerve_ and_ become a coward_; or had he betrayed us?
40477But what availed it to collect his soldiers there?
40477But what could he do?
40477I had been in the Union army three years; was it not a good time to give the Rebels a trial?
40477In the car where I was, one of the astonished guards, finding himself without a gun, coolly said:"And what are you''uns going to do with we''uns?"
40477Is it any wonder that now, after the long and perilous years, it is preserved by me as a souvenir of honor?
40477The sentinel who did the killing declared that Rebels had been slipping up to his post all night, and when he would hail with"Who goes there?"
40477Then he went and leaned against a column, and, turning to the Southerner, said,"Yes, we were long together, were n''t we?"
40477Was the leader simply a coward, or was he paid for betraying us?
40477We had strange feelings, the chief of which was probably the thought: Would the enemy on the opposite bank fire into us and drown us all?
40477Were we discovered?
40477What could be done?
40477What had happened?
40477What had they left to live for?
40477What on earth were they looking at?
40477What was going to happen?
40477What was our chance?
40477What you doing away over here?"
40477Where then would have been Vicksburg, Spotsylvania, Richmond, Appomattox?
40477Where was that escaped picket?
40477Where''s your regiment?
40477Who knew how soon all of Braggs''army might be alarmed and upon us?
40477Why not move in?"
40477Why not?
40477he inquired,"or would you rather remain here awhile and look about the army?"
40477what shall I do?"
40477which way?
40890All right,said he,"what will you have?"
408901, where the guard calls out,"Who comes there?"
40890Besides, what would I have had to put in my diary?
40890But what shall I say to father about it?
40890Can I ever repay them?
40890Can any one imagine our surprise and our great delight at finding the 150th N. Y. in camp right across the road from our camp?
40890Cross and crabbed, sore in every joint, and mad at everything and everybody, we crawled out of our beds(?)
40890Dear me, what will father and mother do now?
40890Do they tell us this to keep up our courage, or has the beginning of the end really come?
40890Have I ever described a hard- tack to you?
40890He was not hurt, and after his staff had caught up and helped him on his horse, he came up and said,"To what regiment do you men belong?"
40890How do you do, and have you a leave of absence for me on or about you?
40890I suppose each one, like myself, has crowded the time full of visiting, for who knows when we will have another chance?
40890I wonder if my letters give them as much pleasure?
40890If the whole 19th Army Corps together ca n''t get in, how can a thousand men expect to do it?
40890If they blame us for the condition we are in, who brought these conditions about?
40890One fellow, after filling up on it, said"What''s the use of women anyway?
40890Shall I ever get over longing for that home?
40890Was ever anything more tantalizing than that?
40890We cook our own victuals, wash and mend our own clothes, make up our own beds-- and what more could women do?"
40890We have a good team, a beautiful day, and have been stopped at nearly every house long enough to say"how are you?"
40890What are our folks at to- day?
40890What if my leave of absence should come before pay day?
40890What would we do if our old friend, the Mississippi, should dry up?
40890What would we do without the brook running past us?
40890What''s the matter up there?
40890When will I get clear from the hospital?
40890Where is that storming party?
40890Why could n''t they wait until we got there?
40890Will they ever get strong again?
44124If any earthly pride be justifiable, are not the sons of Guilford entitled to entertain it? 44124 What can we not endure, When pains are lessened by the hope of cure?"
44124And who could more appropriately present this banner than your majesty and her fair subjects?
44124As the cars moved off, Jim gave him a quizzical lookout of his left eye, smiled, and faintly whispered"stationed?"
44124Being of an inquisitive nature, and seeking information, he had the rashness to address Jim Pearce, and inquire of him:"_ Whose command?
44124On the 4th day of July, 1776, the National Declaration, adopting(?)
44124Shall the living have less?
44124Should we thus prostrate ourselves to invite the scorn and contempt which even our enemies would have the right to bestow upon us?
44124TATE, ROBERT B.--Enlisted June 11, 1861; wounded at Wilderness May 5, 1864; died of wounds June(?
44124We did our best to make ourselves perfect in the drill and manual-- for would not all eyes be upon us?
44124_ Shall we now recant?_ Shall we now solemnly declare that we did not believe what we professed to fight for?
44124_ Shall we now recant?_ Shall we now solemnly declare that we did not believe what we professed to fight for?
4367Well,said he,"did n''t you think it was the biggest shuck and the littlest ear that ever you did see?"
4367Well,said he,"did you see him take it off?"
4367What appointment?
4367Where?
4367Can Grant supply himself from the Mississippi?
4367Halleck was present and spoke up, saying:"How would Sheridan do?"
4367MAJOR- GENERAL THOMAS, Nashville, Tenn. Is there not danger of Forrest moving down the Cumberland to where he can cross it?
4367Often"Johnny"would call:"Well, Yank, when are you coming into town?"
4367Should his request be granted, who would you like as his successor?
4367The next was,"What are WE to do?"
4367When he did speak it was to ask:"Grant, how many wolves do you think there are in that pack?"
4367Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command?
4367Why not attack at once?
4367will you work?
43629:45 p.m."LIEUTENANT- GENERAL GRANT:"Would it not be well for Warren to go down with his whole corps and smash up the force in front of Sheridan?
4362As I drew up by the party, Bismarck accosted me with,"Well, General, are n''t you hungry?
4362At this General Grant remarked:"Did he say so?
4362Could not your cavalry go back by the way of Stony Creek depot and destroy or capture the store of supplies there?
4362Have any more troops arrived from Richmond, or are any more coming, or reported to be coming?
4362He remaining mounted, spoke first to me, saying simply,"How are you, Sheridan?"
4362I assured him with thanks that I was"first- rate,"when, pointing toward the village, he asked,"Is General Lee up there?"
4362I presume that some one said to the Governor about this time,"Why do n''t you get Sheridan?"
4362Offering the flask to his uncle, he said:"You''ve had a hard day of it; wo n''t you refresh yourself?"
4362This feature was more than acceptable to the parents at times, for how else could they so thoroughly learn all the neighborhood gossip?
4362Where are you?"
45436How many do you think there are?
45436Did he think one regiment could drive Stonewall Jackson away?
45436Do you know where he is and what he is doing?
45436It would be a natural question to ask-- what was Pope doing with his cavalry?
45436The inquiry is now naturally suggested,_ What did he communicate_?
45436Then, too, there had been artillery firing; what could possibly have been the reason for that?
45436Where were they going?
45436to reinforce Pope or McClellan?
16463Do you know these fellows?
16463For how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?
16463Has our attempt been a complete failure? 16463 Have you permission to leave your farm?"
16463Well, and where do you want to put them on?
16463What is that hard thing in your pocket?
16463Why,asked Fouchà ©,"do n''t you capture this fellow with his raiding bands?
16463''I wish politicians could see their handiwork,''''What can God in Heaven think of this sight?''"
16463''What o''clock is it?''
16463After my acquittal I was advanced to the honour(?)
16463And his broad chin, does it not reveal the man of tenacity and endurance?
16463And how did General De Wet fare when he crossed the Orange River on the 11th of February, 1901?
16463And how did the officers who had to subscribe to these terms of peace feel?
16463And the Boer women, who are the very embodiment of liberty itself, were they less enthusiastic and determined to be free than their husbands and sons?
16463And these pioneers, whence came they, and what is their origin?
16463And your conscience, is that not tarnished with the blood of men, women and children, who fell in Freedom''s holy war?
16463Anxiously we asked ourselves, Whither now?
16463Are these not qualities which recommend themselves as worthy of admiration?
16463Are they not indications of much that is noble and good, even though the foe be vanquished?
16463Are you not ashamed to slander your own people in this way?
16463Are your hands not stained with the blood of your countrymen?
16463But are they not found among all nations?
16463But asked at the same time,"Do tell me, are you really an Englishman?
16463But what about the women- folk, if the country is to be cleared?
16463Can the mountain torrent rushing down the valley be stemmed in its onward course?
16463Can we surprise the enemy?
16463Could the English have given the Boers a better testimonial of gallant behaviour than these?
16463Did Lord Roberts think that the occupation of Pretoria would terminate hostilities?
16463Did they merit such treatment?
16463Did they not hit upon the right photo?
16463Do not such engagements prove that the Boers could hold their own not only behind stones and in trenches but also on the plain?
16463Do not the English pride themselves in possessing these very qualities, qualities which, they say, have made them a great and mighty nation?
16463Does not his broad forehead indicate thoughtfulness?
16463Does this often happen in the history of wars-- a foe lashed by its own weapons?
16463For were we not encouraged by our recent success, and was there not every chance of achieving another?
16463Had the Colonists no claim to protection?
16463Had the prosecutor not sounded them beforehand by asking them to point out the prisoner''s photo among a number of other photos?
16463Has this not been done in certain cases?
16463Hast thou verily extinguished by force the highest and holiest ambitions of a free- born people?
16463Have not sentences of death, confiscation of property, and imprisonment been passed on the evidences of such witnesses?
16463Have not the British forces sustained some of their greatest losses when these untrained peasants led the charge?
16463He was asked,''Is that Kritzinger?''
16463How can he then be responsible for the shooting of these natives when he was not at the farm?
16463How couldst thou have torn so mercilessly the noble passions and aspirations of being free and independent from the Boer hearts?
16463How did Jan Louw identify Kritzinger?
16463How enthusiastically(?)
16463How has this to be accounted for?
16463How?
16463I am glad it has been brought out, for it goes to show nothing against the character of the accused, but it tells in his favour, for, what do we find?
16463If 300 Britishers were to have entered the two republics, would they have proceeded very far?
16463If the British had the right to stay in the Republics, why should we not tarry awhile in the Colony?
16463If wounded officers, entrusted to your care, are treated thus, what must the private expect?"
16463In short, this kind(?)
16463In so doing have they committed the unpardonable sin?
16463Is a man who bears such a character likely to have committed the crimes charged against him?
16463Is it because the colonists enjoy such great liberty(?)
16463Is it too much to plead for a general amnesty?
16463Is this not conclusive evidence that they must have seen and known the prisoner?
16463It seems a barbarous process, but is not war, at its very best, barbarous, brutal, and unbefitting civilized nations?
16463Kritzinger is supposed to have said to the boy:''Did you see those boys?
16463Must he then be condemned without it?
16463My secretary, who had never before been in such a circle, asked me:"Now, General, what now?
16463Now what is the truth in regard to them?
16463Now when any one is hungry, and people will neither give nor sell, what else can he do than help himself?
16463Now, sir, what proof have we of that being so in this case?
16463O, if to fight for... commonweal Were piety in thine, it is in these.... Wilt thou draw near the nature of the Gods?
16463One English writer says:"What glory shall a mighty empire win from a victory over 15,000 farmers?
16463Or will there be mercy even for these?
16463Peeping out at the door, he asked with tremulous voice,"What do you want?"
16463Pretorius, who posed as an English officer, asked Mr. B.,"Where are the Boers?"
16463Rest?
16463Retreat?
16463Shall we succeed or not?
16463Shall we succeed?
16463Surely the odds were already great enough-- why then adopt blacks?
16463Surrender?
16463Surrender?
16463The horses, saddles, bridles, rifles and bandoliers, where were they?
16463The latter, pointing to certain ridges in the distance, said in rather broken English,"Do you see those kopjes yonder?
16463The two men we had sent ahead-- what became of them?
16463Then, indeed, the darkness seemed tangible Who shall number the tears shed on that day-- tears of men, women, and even children?
16463Those that came back, what did they find?
16463To the question,"Guilty or not?"
16463Van der Walt said to me,"Do you see that man in front, riding on the large blue horse?
16463Was it fear that kept me awake?
16463Was it quite prudent on the part of the British to tempt them to rear their children in bitter hatred of the English race?
16463Was it red earth, or was it the blood of friend or foe that coloured the water?
16463Was it the fault of the Colonists that they were placed in such an awkward position?
16463Was it their fault?
16463Was it then arrogance and vainglory which prompted them to offer battle to one of the great Powers of the world?
16463We do not marvel at this, for are they not formed of that stuff of which martyrs have been made in bygone years?
16463Were they not prosecuted after our departure for welcoming and receiving their kith and kin?
16463What about the faults and defects of the Boer?
16463What are their main characteristics?
16463What if a prisoner does not possess the means to secure legal defence?
16463What if they refuse to surrender?
16463What is our next move?"
16463What is that deep rumbling in the distance?
16463What is their significance?
16463What must be done?
16463What then were their reasons for risking their very lives in a cause which might perhaps fail?
16463What was it?
16463What was the stimulus and inspiration of the British forces?
16463What will be the issue?
16463What would one expect?
16463What would the English have done if subjected to such treatment?
16463When they reached the Boer scouts the two burghers had already captured(?)
16463Whither?
16463Who goes there?''
16463Who shall describe the anxiety of such moments?
16463Who then shall adequately depict the misery and woe which has entered so many homes since the first shot was fired in South Africa?
16463Who, then, are these men and women who so stubbornly resisted British power and supremacy for such a long period under such great disadvantages?
16463Why could I not sleep?
16463Why not engage them?
16463Why trek again in the bitter cold at midnight?"
16463Will that happy day ever dawn, or is South Africa doomed to be a land of discord?
16463Will that not lessen the intense race- hatred between two peoples destined to live in the same land?
16463and share in so many privileges?
16463brother, national scout, who may be reading this, do you not regret and lament the unhappy part of traitor?
16463so much-- their homes, their beloved families, their possessions and their lives?
16463something in the darkness-- what may that be?
46131How do you like the blanket merchants now?"
39346''How does late election sit with you? 39346 _ Commissioner Davis._ Would you fire into the city of Baltimore?
39346Another question is, What shall be done with the national territory?
39346Are there not wisdom and patriotism enough in the land to settle these questions?
39346Are we to have a war of sections?
39346Can the Queen of England do so much?"
39346Do n''t you know him?''
39346Do you approve?
39346If so, how were they to come, by land or water?
39346In what part of the Constitution could such a power be found?
39346Or was she temporarily to isolate herself and wait until the frenzy had in some measure spent its force and reason had begun to resume its sway?
39346Shall it belong exclusively to the North or the South, or shall it be shared by both, as it was gained by the blood and treasure of both?
39346Shall one be taken and another left?
39346Standing with the principles of''76 behind us, who can deny them the right?
39346Was Baltimore to be compelled at once to determine whether she would side with the North or with the South?
39346Was it true that a citizen held his liberty subject to the arbitrary will of any man?
39346Was there indeed to be war between the sections, or could it yet, by some unlooked- for interposition, be averted?
39346Were more troops to be forced through the city at any cost?
39346Were the guns of Fort McHenry to be turned upon the inhabitants?
39346What but the right of self- defense?
39346What course, then, was left to the South if it was determined to maintain its rights under the Constitution?
39346What did it mean in 1861?
39346What is a matter of a few millions of dollars or a few forts?
39346What is it, if it is proper that I should know?''
39346What is your judgment in the matter?''
39346What precedent existed for such an act?
39346When are these scenes to cease?
39346Where did the President of the United States acquire such a power?
39346Who denies them the right?
39346Who should accompany the President on his perilous ride?
39346Why had it never been discovered before?
39346Will they be good men to send out to kill Lincoln and his men?
39346Would the Border States interfere and demand peace?
39346_ Chief Justice._--The commanding officer, then, declines to obey the writ?
33121Did not Old Greece, or some tribe from about the sources of the Nile win it?
33121Here, what are these men falling back for?
33121How is it going?
33121Shall we attack the Rebel?
33121Then why tell me what I do not ask or care to know?
33121Will he attack us?
33121Will there be a battle to- day?
33121Will you see your color storm the wall alone?
33121And how look these fields?
33121And my horse can hardly move-- the spur will not start him-- what can be the reason?
33121And what if that invasion should be successful, and in the coming battle, the Army of the Potomac should be overpowered?
33121As he arrived near me, coming up the hill, he asked, in a sharp, eager voice:"How is it going here?"
33121At four o''clock on the morning of the Third, I was awakened by Gen. Gibbon''s pulling me by the foot and saying:"Come, do n''t you hear that?"
33121But where is the infantry?
33121Can you assist him?"
33121Did they not charge him personally, with the defeat at Chancellorsville?
33121Do these thick mounds cover the fiery hearts that in the battle rage swept the crest and stormed the wall?
33121Do you not think that by this time we began to feel a personal interest in this fight?
33121Does the country know any better than the President that Meade, Hancock and Gibbon were entitled to some little share of such credit?
33121Has it vanished in smoke?
33121How?
33121I would ask of a man I met,"Do you know, sir, where the 2d corps hospitals are?"
33121Is it strange?
33121Is the assault already repulsed?_"his voice quicker and more eager than before.
33121Is this a nightmare or a juggler''s devilish trick?
33121Might not the enemy fall upon and destroy the First Corps before succor could arrive?
33121Oh, where is Gibbon?
33121That Corps gone, what is there between the Second Corps, and these yelling masses of the enemy?
33121The artillery fight over, men began to breathe more freely, and to ask, What next, I wonder?
33121Then I would ask sharply,"Did you understand me to ask for the 12th corps hospital?"
33121Thought we, what could this mean?
33121To the question asked the men,"What do you think of this?"
33121Was ever a more absurd supposition?
33121Was ever claim so absurd?
33121Was ever princely couch or softest down so soft as those rough blankets, there upon the unroofed sod?
33121Was ever such a chorus of sound before?
33121Was not that a fit occasion, and these fugitives the men on whom to try the temper of the Solinzen steel?
33121Was there ever anything so fine before?
33121Were they not still burning with indignation against him for that disgrace?
33121What other expression had we that was not mean, for such an awful universe of battle?
33121What sound was that?
33121What was it ever put there for?
33121What would be the result?
33121Where was I?
33121Who can describe such a conflict as is raging around us?
33121Who could sketch the changes, the constant shifting of the bloody panorama?
33121Who of us could tell but that he would be the first to need them?
33121Why does the Western Army suppose that the Army of the Potomac does not fight?
33121Why not go to your regiment and be a man?"
33121Will the country remember them?
33121With his not greatly superior numbers, under such circumstances had Gen. Meade attacked, would he have been victorious?
33121Would it not be?
33121or if stately history fill as she list her arbitrary tablet, the sounding record of this fight?
33121were my senses mad?
33121where is Hancock?--some general-- anybody with the power and the will to support that wasting, melting line?
11414American, are n''t you?
11414And who is he?
11414And you are not an Englishman, eh?
11414Any around here now?
11414Are there any around here?
11414Are they getting me ready for the torturing?
11414Are they making me well in order that I may suffer all the more?
11414Been in any battles?
11414But the men who do the ordering, the officers and the military caste, the whole Prussian outfit?
11414But what pretexts could they find for such action?
11414But what''s the use? 11414 Ca n''t you do something for me?"
11414Ca n''t you tell the difference between right and left? 11414 Did you enjoy it?"
11414Do you really mean what you just said?
11414Have n''t I?
11414How can you tell an Uhlan?
11414How can you turn us out into that darkness filled with Zeppelins?
11414How does it feel to be blindfolded and stood up against a wall by a firing squad?
11414If one man can be liberated,we argued,"why not another?
11414If you are not German, or Belgian, or French, or English, what are you then?
11414Is this the way to Vise?
11414Kill any Germans?
11414No matter if he had announced his coming, you would shoot him, would n''t you?
11414Nothing to eat your stew with? 11414 Now what are you going to do?"
11414Perhaps it is,he replied,"but what do you want in Vise?"
11414Robert?
11414Those nasty papers?
11414Was I going to be railroaded off to jail, or even worse?
11414Was it dangerous?
11414Was it possible?
11414Washout, bombs or Uhlans?
11414Well, then, all ready for the expedition?
11414Well, then, do you paddle a canoe?
11414Well, what am I to do?
11414Were the Germans going to make a summary example of me to warn outsiders to cease prowling around the war zone?
11414What are you doing down here-- fighting?
11414What are you doing?
11414What are you talking about? 11414 What can I do with Robert gone and all his friends in the army too?"
11414What do you do with them-- bury them?
11414What do you know about the war?
11414What explanation is there for his possession of that paper?
11414What features are you looking for?
11414What for?
11414What the hell you think I''m doing?
11414What would you do if a thief or a murderer entered your house?
11414What''s the trouble?
11414Where are they?
11414Where was this road, anyhow?
11414Which one?
11414Who has any better right? 11414 Why are they tending me so carefully during these last seven days?"
11414Why do n''t you take these too?
11414Why do you deny it?
11414Why is it, Gremberg,I asked,"you never rage against the Boches?
11414Why should I lose a day? 11414 Why?"
11414Why?
11414Why?
11414Will you give me some idea of what you expect to do with me?
11414Yes, but what has that to do with the question?
11414You mean Melun?
11414( Where are you going?)
11414( Who goes there?)
11414A great, big hulking American, treated tenderly by this little Belgian, how could I keep the tears from my eyes?
11414A huge fellow almost wild from his wounds bellowed out:"Why do n''t you stick your bayonet into the cursed Englishmen?"
11414A little bit of all right, eh?"
11414All I heard were the words of the officer:"You speak German, eh?"
11414And those demolished shops, were they once filled with the babble of the traders?
11414And what did this day hold in store for me?
11414And who would begrudge them the securing of a few pictures with comparative ease?
11414Are n''t you going to do anything about my case?"
11414Are psychic forces subject to ordinary physical laws, and do they act most powerfully along unobstructed ways?
11414Are you?"
11414At any rate he looked up and exclaimed,"What''s the matter?
11414At the entrance the familiar"Qui va la?"
11414But how was I going to take the sting out of the adverse comments?
11414But the tears in his eyes?
11414But to what avail?
11414But what else can one do?"
11414But what else can one expect from a conscript army, which, as it puts every man on its roster, must necessarily contain the worst as well as the best?
11414But what is it that really constitutes an atrocity?
11414Can it be that these courtyards, now held in the thrall of death- like silence, once rang to the laughter of the little children?"
11414Can you produce any better?"
11414Do you hear them?"
11414Do you think you might keep back from your eyes sparks from that blazing rebellion in your soul?
11414Get that?
11414Had some evil spirit whisked them away?
11414His aroused curiosity took the sting out of his words as he exclaimed,"Who the devil is Robert?"
11414His last one was,"Where is your home?"
11414How could he escape from the toils in which he was held?
11414I made so bold as to approach a sentry and ask:"What has he been doing?"
11414I proceeded vehemently to point out my innocence, when he interrupted my story by asking,"But why did you make that Schreibfehler on your paper?"
11414I put my question of the morning to him:"Is it dangerous traveling along here so late?"
11414I rallied under the shock sufficiently to say,"Will you take a chair?"
11414I took the initiative with the bland inquiry,"What are you hunting for, corpses?"
11414I turned toward Javert and asked, somewhat frantically, I fear:"What is all this for?
11414In how many such hearts is there this sullen revolt against the military system, and how much of a factor will it be to reckon with in the future?
11414In the last place, may I suggest that the theory of an unintentional mistake throws the best light upon the case?
11414Jumping to our feet, we faced a squad of German soldiers and an officer who said:"What are you doing here?"
11414May I now offer a few observations upon this charge, the nature of which just begins to become clear to me?
11414One of them answered somewhat stiffly, adding,"And where did you learn your German?"
11414Or there would come a sudden challenge on the street,"Wohin gehen Sie?"
11414Our question to them was always the same,"Where are the Germans?"
11414Over yonder in that structure, which looks so much like a church, did the faithful once come to pray and to worship God?
11414Rather than wait to be challenged, I thought it best to turn aside and ask them my usual question,"How does one get to Liege?"
11414Reader, have you ever been warden of the theater tickets?
11414Remember the black looks insinuating you were an idiot and the growing conviction on your part that they were not far wrong?
11414So I queried,"You''re an American, are you?"
11414The frog chorus in that Pennsylvania swamp, why had it not been less demonstrative?
11414They are driving back the Boches, eh?
11414To know the worst I ventured:"Well, how are we going to get to Paris?"
11414Was he surrendering?
11414Was that a bluff or the truth?
11414Was this some torturing hallucination?
11414Were Brussels boys made of flabbier stuff?
11414What is it you want the most?"
11414What more could the most ardent German patriot ask for?
11414When my captor bade me follow him I asked:"Can I leave word with my friends?"
11414Where can we find that?"
11414Where had he laid hold of that choice bit of our vernacular?
11414While a thousand hug the quiet haven, what was it that impelled the one to cut moorings and range the deep?
11414Who was to organize discipline and victory out of such a turmoil?
11414Why, oh, why would n''t somebody say something?
11414Wo n''t you look into my case at once?
11414You''fraid?"
11414a minute ago?"
11414he shouted;"are you an American?"
37372Against Russia, you mean?
37372Are you French?
37372Are you joking? 37372 But is war declared?
37372But why? 37372 Do n''t you know that foreigners are not permitted to fight in the Russian Army?"
37372Have you any defence to make?
37372Have you any evidence that you were regularly enlisted in the Russian ranks, which we know to be impossible?
37372How did people do when there was no sugar?
37372How was I to get a horse?
37372Is it usual for you to embody your reserves for the manoeuvres?
37372Then there is war between England and Germany?
37372What are you then?
37372When was it declared?
37372When was that?
37372Whom are you going to fight?
37372Why am I detained?
37372You saw those two fellows shot this morning? 37372 Already?
37372Are you strong enough to do that?"
37372Do they get into trouble for such playful pranks?
37372For a dish of bacon, or a cup of wine, being placed in front of one, what is one to do but relieve the craving of nature?
37372Has the matter been discussed in the Press?"
37372He begged piteously to be first attended to; but what could be done for such a case?
37372How are the men to be got without conscription?
37372How could I utilize these?
37372If I''m killed who will look after them?"
37372Is not what you say absurd?"
37372Is there to be a retribution for this cruelty and wickedness?
37372It was ascertained that they were brothers, and,"What will mother do?
37372Now, eight months later, are they retreating at any point?
37372On the other hand, the Russians retaliated; and I say, what wonder that they did so?
37372The starving(?)
37372Was there ever a more horrible way of conducting war?
37372What are the charges against a bandit''s victims?
37372What do I term luxuries?
37372What do you wish?"
37372What had become of the inhabitants of this collection of wrecked homes?
37372What if a misunderstanding occurred?
37372What makes a military nation?
37372What story had the astute Bill preached to her and her husband to occasion this change of behaviour?
37372When the day of Peace comes, will the Great British Nation treat as a man the author of all this cruelty and wickedness?
37372Will he do it?
15224And what did you reply?
15224And what is the situation now?
15224Are those Boers or English, outa?
15224Build a line without material? 15224 But do n''t you think it would be better to join a commando and help in making an organised resistance?
15224But honestly, what is your real opinion of those who desert their country in her hour of need?
15224But suppose the animal dies?
15224Can you give me anything to eat?
15224Can you remain there for a while?
15224Could you see when your bullet went home?
15224Did your commando lose many men?
15224Do you advise me to try?
15224Do you know what that is?
15224Do you mean to disobey the orders of the Government?
15224Do you think they catch children like him?
15224Father, can I go too?
15224Go away,said one of the Boers,"what do you mean by staring at the man like that?
15224Good evening,I said in English,"are there any Boers about?"
15224Good morning,I said;"rather early, is n''t it?"
15224Had I not better remain and watch their movements?
15224Have you money enough? 15224 Hello, is that you?
15224How dare you be guilty of such sacrilege?
15224How did you feel during the fight?
15224How now, Harry?
15224How was that possible?
15224Is this the road to Vrede?
15224Oh, you''re the Kafir chief, are you?
15224Something happened up there last night?
15224Sure?
15224The unexpected, I suppose?
15224They have not been here yet?
15224This is a bit different from old Tyneside, ai n''t it?
15224Well, ca n''t you answer?
15224Well,he said, calling me by name,"where do you come from?"
15224What ails him?
15224What do we owe you for the forage?
15224What do you think the confounded English have had the cheek to do?
15224What for, uncle?
15224What is it? 15224 What news?"
15224What''s the matter, my son,asked the astonished father,"does n''t he like his khakis?"
15224Where are your sentries?
15224Where''s the Standerton laager?
15224Which is the road to Colenso?
15224Whither would you flee?
15224Who is in charge?
15224Who struck that match?
15224Who will take in ammunition?
15224Whose are those you are using now?
15224Why do n''t you ask the President''s party for food? 15224 Why not, my lad?"
15224Why?
15224Will I? 15224 You mean us to act like the dervishes at Omdurman?
15224You noticed that soldier lying behind the antheap, a hole in his forehead? 15224 Your husband is not back yet?"
15224), the Jansen transformed into Johnson, and the Volschenk merged into Foolskunk?
15224A burgher woke up one night to find himself being roughly shaken and someone shouting in his ear--"What are you doing?
15224And all for what?
15224And cousins?"
15224And mine, I say, and mine; three they are, boys yet-- what, no more?
15224And perhaps, after all, if we ride steadily, who knows?
15224And where are your arms?
15224And where the devil are you running away to in such a hurry?"
15224Are we, who have lost sons, brothers, friends-- are we, I say, to think of our property now?
15224Are you Winburg?"
15224But honestly, why do n''t you come in and surrender?"
15224But how?
15224But what can one say of those"oprechte[A] Afrikaners"who followed the same procedure?
15224But what-- how comes he here?
15224Ca n''t you load it up for me as far as Lindley?"
15224Can you sell us a few bundles of forage?"
15224Can you supply me with a horse?"
15224Coming along?"
15224Deserted the town?
15224Devons?
15224Do n''t you hear the alarm?"
15224Do n''t you know any better than to insult a helpless prisoner?"
15224Do you mind remaining three or four days longer?"
15224Does not one old lady still bear the scars of the nineteen stabs she received on that day?
15224First came the question_ in English_--"Where are they?"
15224For what did these poor Lancashire lads know or care about the merits of the war?
15224Got a blanket?"
15224Have you ever steered an extremely willing young thing through her first waltz?
15224His gun stands in the bucket; we can shoot him, but then, the others?
15224How could I argue?
15224How did you like the hell fire from the Nordenfeldt?"
15224How did you like the little bits o''lyddite yesterday?"
15224How much?
15224Is it any man''s duty to kill and be killed without knowing why?
15224It was plainly my duty to protest, but what could I do, a stranger, a mere youth?
15224My sons, do they live?
15224Of course we made a very poor show; what can you expect?
15224Of what people may cousin be?"
15224On seeing me, the leader reined in and shouted--"What the devil is this?
15224Responsible?
15224Sha n''t I go and try to tap it?"
15224Speaking to an old campaigner on the subject, he said--"Tell me candidly, how do you feel?"
15224The Smits who became Smith, the Louw that suddenly shrank into Lowe( could he sink lower?
15224The gun found buried in your yard; your father''s work?
15224The men''s hearts grow light as they polish their rifles, for are not they going to behold their dear ones soon?
15224Then what are they fighting for?
15224Then,"Where is Piet De Wet?"
15224Thoroughly roused by his bullying tone, I retorted--"And who the devil are you?
15224Trying to fool us, are you?"
15224Was it you, Jantje?"
15224We do not take the_ spoor_, we slip across the veld; my mount treads gingerly, but what odds?
15224What are you doing here?"
15224What can have happened?
15224What commando is this?"
15224What did John Bull think of all these precious acquisitions to his family?
15224What do you think happened?"
15224What else can you be but cursed spies, riding about the country like this?"
15224What is one horse more or less?"
15224What is the secret of his success?
15224What means all this commotion?
15224What were those lines of Bret Harte''s about the humming of the battle bees?...
15224What''s the news?"
15224What''s up?"
15224What, the others gone already?
15224Whatever will become of us?"
15224Where are those ten guns?"
15224Where is our commando?
15224Where''s the enemy?
15224Where''s the foe, quick?
15224Who are you?"
15224Who can describe it all?
15224Who can tell what regrets for the past were felt by the aged couple?--what hopes for the future by the helpless lasses?
15224Who has arrived?"
15224Why are you leaving already?
15224Why was the burgher guard absent?
15224Why?
15224Why?"
15224Wo n''t you join us at supper?"
15224Would he exchange it for ours, and take something to boot?
15224Yes?
15224You may kill a few of the enemy by hanging about in twos and threes, but what difference will that make in the end?"
15224Your brother, is he well?
32246And the rennet for the cheese, and the salt- pork?
32246And the salt?
32246Damn it,said he,"will you never let up?
32246Do n''t want nothin'', dew yer,coming over and picking out the smallest pole in the pile;"Pooty durned small, been''t they?
32246Gor- rammed little fool; did n''t you know better than that?
32246Gosh, that pie was good, was n''t it,''Pod''?
32246Heow be yer?
32246How dare you?
32246How many have you got left?
32246It is, eh?
32246Midget,said Col. McArthur,"if you had supreme command of our army, what would you do?"
32246No? 32246 Oh, plenty,"he replied;"how many, do you want?"
32246Oh, yes,he said, and pointing to a little group of men, who were round a wee bit of a fire;"there he is, do n''t you know him?"
32246Say, got time ter get on''ter the waggin an go over to my farm and see him, take dinner with me? 32246 Too small?"
32246Well, how did you get it, anyway?
32246What are you doing with my chickens, you good- for- nothing Yankee thief?
32246What dew yer want for''em?
32246What kind of a horse?
32246What the h-- l should I be afraid of?
32246What time is it, Pod?
32246What''s that firin I hear? 32246 What?"
32246Why, ai n''t the watch going?
32246Why, thar been''t more''n a thousan''thar, be thar?
32246You do, eh?
32246You want a harness and waggin too, do n''t yer?
32246You''gorramed''little cuss, why do n''t you salute me?
32246Ai n''t no rebs''round yere, be thar?"
32246And then divining the truth, he exclaimed:"Gor- ram it, did you sell the watch for that pie?"
32246As I went in, the lieutenant turned to me with a quizzical smile on his face:"Young man, you told me you were a printer?"
32246Blue?
32246Ca n''t you steal one?"
32246Did you bring the merlasses, and candles, and the broom?"
32246Do you think I will?"
32246Figured up what the whole thing cost me: The horse stood me$ 33.50, the"gig"$ 7.50, and the harness,(?)
32246He asked, what I was?
32246I asked him if he knew where my brother was-- Charley Ulmer?
32246I asked the first man I came to where the Eighth Maine was?
32246I could n''t speak, I could n''t move, till one of them said,"Good evening, sar; got anything to eat?"
32246I had just nicely covered it up when my friend returned and asked:"What YOU been diggin''for thar-- them durned things too?
32246I sang out:"It was n''t their fault; what are you blaming them for?"
32246I say, Mister, whar''s your Comp''ny?"
32246In a moment a little, bright, bustling old woman came to the door and shading her eyes with her apron, called back:"What is it, Dan''l?
32246Is it correct?"
32246K.''this job?"
32246Oh George, George, why did you come here?"
32246The colonel said,"Is that all you want?
32246Wall, I''d like purty well ter have them poles, but--,"as if a sudden idea had struck him,--"Don''t want ter trade fur a horse, dew yer?"
32246What do you mean?"
32246What if I had, in my bewilderment, run into the rebel lines?
32246What in h-- l is the good of a man without hands?"
32246What will my poor mother say?
32246What will my poor mother say?
32246What would I do?
32246What you been doin'', playing with one of those d-- d shells, too?"
32246What you laughing at?
32246What''ll yer take fur the hull lot?"
32246What''s your cargo?"
32246Where?
32246Why did n''t you try and get two?"
32246Why do n''t you salute me?
32246Why, do you know he''s trotted in two minutes?
32246You been''t Phil''s son, be yer?"
32246You do n''t think thar''s any danger of them grey- coats disturbing me, do you?
32246at the same time hitting the oxen over their noses with his goad- stick, and resting on the yoke, he asked,"What yer goin''ter dew with them poles?"
32246he said,"ai n''t there some way?
32246how do you spell business?"
32246sticking his hands in either breeches pocket and taking me in from head to foot with a comprehensive glance,"What might yer name be?"
32246what yer givin''me?
46823Missing so many officers, he added:"Where are your officers-- all wounded or dead?"
31332I say, may I come and call on you when we get back to England?
31332No wounded? 31332 What are you doing with Miss----?
31332_ Je veux continuer._ Do you by any chance imagine we''re_ afraid_?
31332''Pretty warm, ai n''t it?''
31332("Stood fire, have they?
31332About midnight[?]
31332All night there has been a sound of the firing of machine guns[?].
31332Among the refugees?
31332And at last you turn in a righteous indignation and say:"Where is the bombardment?"
31332And if it comes to a toss- up between his women and his wounded?
31332And if it comes to that-- how about Alost?
31332And if_ I_ feel it, what must Mrs. Torrence and Janet feel?
31332And in the end I asked him whether it would bore the wounded frightfully if I took them some cigarettes?
31332And over and over again he asks me,"Do you mind?"
31332And somebody standing beside you says:"_ C''est triste, n''est- ce pas?_"You can not look any more.
31332And the faces of the soldiers, of the men who know?
31332And where are the forts, then?
31332As I come and go they smile at me with the patient Belgian smile that says,"_ C''est triste, n''est- ce pas?_"and no more.
31332But did he?
31332But why is there no Victoria Cross for moral courage?
31332But why little Janet McNeil?
31332C''est triste, n''est- ce pas, Mademoiselle?_"And you say,"_ Oui, Mademoiselle.
31332Call yourself a field ambulance?
31332Can I find a place for her on one of our ambulance cars?
31332Can it be that I was jealous of Ursula Dearmer, that innocent girl, because she saw a shell burst and I did n''t?
31332Do you want any more of them to die?
31332Does M.---- really believe in the advance of the ten thousand?
31332Five out of these fourteen are women, and what the devil are they doing in a field ambulance?"
31332For one thrilling moment I imagined that the Germans were about to leap out of their trenches and rush the village, and that the Belgians[?
31332How_ can_ there be in an ambulance packed with wounded men?
31332I say:"You see, Tom, it would n''t do to leave that lady and three British wounded behind, would it?"
31332I wonder how much of all this will be left by next month, or even by next week?
31332Is it dreamy innocence?
31332Is it obstinacy?
31332Is it possible that I am enjoying myself?
31332Is it possible that he knew me better than I knew myself?
31332Is it the New Chivalry, that refuses to keep women back, even from the firing- line?
31332Is it uncanniness?
31332It is all over as if it had never been, but how can I tell that it wo n''t come back again?
31332It is as if he said,"Of course, if you''re_ afraid_"--(haven''t I told him that I_ am_ afraid?).
31332Just outside the bombarded hamlet ahead of us we were stopped by some Belgian[?
31332Mrs. Torrence asked them,"What will you do for us if we are taken prisoner?"
31332Namur and Liége and Brussels, if you like, and Malines, and Louvain, and Termonde and Antwerp( perhaps); but Ghent-- why should they?
31332Once, when I thought he had gone to sleep, I heard him begin again:"Where did you say you lived?"
31332Or is it some gorgeous streak of Feminism?
31332The Belgian[?
31332The British wounded from two[?]
31332The New Romance, that gives them their share of divine danger?
31332The men and the women crawled on their hands and knees in the trenches[?
31332The outer forts?
31332The sound came from somewhere over there and from two quarters; German guns booming away on the south, Belgian[?
31332The trenches[?]
31332Then will I take her to Bruges?
31332They had not that terrible look that Mr. Davidson told me he saw on the faces of Belgians in retreat from[?]
31332They have turned their left[?]
31332They said we were only a hundred[?]
31332They say that Miss Ashley- Smith and her British wounded shall be ready before[?]
31332Tom''s nerves are racked with problems: How the dickens is he to steer his car and protect his women at the same time?
31332What can the Military Power be thinking of?
31332Where the houses ended, a stretch of white road ran up for about[?]
31332Which of us can say that when our turn comes the thought of danger will not spoil our breakfast?
31332Will I take her back to England?
31332Work?
31332You might wonder how, for all social purposes, we are to sort ourselves?
31332You''re not going to carry her off?"
31332[?]
31332_ Why_ did he try to scare us so?
38418MAJOR- GENERAL GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN:When may we expect General Reynolds here?
38418[ 25] Before General McLaws found me, I wrote General Smith,--Can you reinforce me?
38418After a time we were challenged by an outlying guard,"Who comes there?"
38418As we passed these officers, the one with the peculiar hat called out in a loud voice,--"''What troops are those?''
38418But that is not the question, colonel; the question is,"Is it right to surrender this army?"
38418Ca n''t you apply this idea to advantage on your side on the roads that General Grant will be obliged to travel if he goes to Burkeville?
38418Can we do anything to aid your movements?
38418Can you not occupy your leisure time in preparing your memoirs of the war?
38418Can you row the boat ashore, Without paddle or an oar, Billy boy?"
38418Davis(?
38418Do you know any reliable people, living near and east of Knoxville, from whom I might get information of the condition, strength, etc., of the enemy?
38418During my last visit he seemed more concerned for me than usual, and on one of his calls asked,--"Marse Jim, do you belong to any church?"
38418Ernst Poth(?
38418General Field inquired of a passing officer,"What''s up?"
38418General Lee exclaimed,''Where is Anderson?
38418Has there been any movement in that direction by our troops?
38418Have you any maps that you can give or lend me?
38418I inquired,"Did General Johnston send you to communicate that order?"
38418If the enemy has been beaten at Chattanooga, do we not gain by delay at this point?
38418If we have been defeated at Chattanooga, do we not risk our entire force by an assault here?
38418In preparing to take the field, in view of the abandonment of Richmond, is it your desire to keep our wagons about our camps that we may move at once?
38418Pickett said,"General, shall I advance?"
38418Said one,''Oh, general, what will history say of the surrender of the army in the field?''
38418Shall we continue to send them or keep them with us?...
38418Should we hesitate, then, about putting a few who have made immense fortunes at our expense to a little inconvenience by impressing their gold?
38418The commander asked,"What troops are these?"
38418Then turning to me, he said,''General Mahone, I have no other troops, will you take your division to Sailor''s Creek?''
38418Where is Ewell?
38418Will you please keep those people back?''
38418Will you send my letter to General Grant, and arrange with General Ord for the interview?
38418has the army dissolved?''
38418said one of my companions,"have n''t the keows come up?"
38418why did you do so?"
36292Are them your mules? 36292 Do you remember how Lieutenant Baxter and Sergeant Dobbs got those seventy- sevens by outflanking and surprising them?"
36292Exercise, is it, sir? 36292 Get back in time all right?"
36292My lord, Major, why are n''t you the Seventh Field Artillery?
36292Qui est la?
36292See your family?
36292Sergeant Murphy?
36292Sir,asked Johnson,"when do we hit''em?"
36292Sor- r?
36292What are you doing here? 36292 What is it, Bill?"
36292What is it, sergeant, are n''t you getting enough exercise?
36292What was it you said?
36292When, sir?
36292Why not try Roosevelt?
36292Why should you go rather than me?
36292After Donovan had gone, the Frenchman remarked to me,"Buffalo is very wild, is it not?"
36292After talking for a half an hour he would ask confidentially,"Major, what is a switch line?"
36292An officer who talked with these men on their return said that conversations ran much like this:"Cipiloni, have a fine time on your leave?"
36292And what did ye look, they should compass?
36292Can you get the food forward to them?
36292Can you get the food to them hot?
36292Did n''t I tell you to stay with the kitchens?"
36292Hannibal is not there?
36292He challenged,"Who is there?"
36292He described to me on his return how on the way down all the men would talk about was:"Do you remember how we got that machine- gun nest?
36292He explained,"But it is the place where you hunt that great animal, is it not?"
36292How did they impress each other?
36292How heavy is the gassing to be?
36292How quickly will the wind carry it away?
36292I bowed to the girdle and said,"Will they come in?"
36292I knew him to be a good sort and said to him,"What is the matter, how did this come about?"
36292I said to him,"Captain, where is your company?"
36292I said,"Had n''t you better go to the first aid, sergeant?"
36292Lieutenant Van, my supply officer, would reply from the other side,"Hello, hello, is this the King of Essex talking?"
36292Now that the work of fighting was over, uppermost in everyone''s mind was the thought,"When do we get home?"
36292One lieutenant called out to me,"How far have you gone?"
36292One man asked in all solemnity once,"Does blood rust steel more than water?"
36292The Yankee in the British Zone By Captain Ewen C. MacVeagh and Lieutenant Lee D. Brown How did Tommy Atkins and the Yank get on?
36292The conversation would be something like this:"What is light artillery?"
36292The men got so they thought a good deal of it, and frequently when marching through towns the troops would call out,"How about that band?"
36292The question now is, what''s up?
36292The question was so intelligent and so well thought out that the lieutenant said to him:"What were you before the war?"
36292Warcraft learned in a breath, Knowledge unto occasion At the first far view of death?"
36292Well, what do you mean by leaving them loose by the road?
36292What did they learn about each other?
36292What has happened?
36292What is it?
36292Where are you going with those mules?"
35403''Sale bête''? 35403 ''When will the war end?''
35403And when do they think that will come?
35403Anything I can do to help you?
35403Are n''t you frightened?
35403Are you not afraid of being called barbarians for ever?
35403Big fellows?
35403Do n''t your gunners get worn out?
35403Do you mean up to the neck?
35403Do you speak English?
35403How about the children?
35403How shall I get in?
35403How''s it going?
35403Neither side will win,said one of them,"but who will stop it?
35403The Germans asked constantly,''When do you think the war will end?'' 35403 They are frightened-- the little ones?"
35403What about America?
35403What are we going to do about that?
35403What are you doing with that poor brute?
35403What are you doing with those men?
35403What can one do? 35403 What do you think of it all?"
35403What do you think of our men?
35403What''s that?
35403When are they coming?
35403When do you think the war will end?
35403Where is your revolver?
35403Why do you go?
35403Why do you stay here?
35403Why do you stay in such a place?
35403Why is n''t there a proper escort?
35403Will there ever be peace?
35403Wounded?
35403("How are you getting on?")
35403A friendly voice spoke to him and said,"Wie gehts mit Ihnen?"
35403After many pleadings he came to his squadron commander at night in his pyjamas and said,"Look here, sir, ca n''t I go?"
35403Bill?"
35403But if those were not his men, where were they?
35403Do you look for anything?"
35403Does the enemy know that he must win or lose all?
35403How can one explain?
35403How can one write of these things?
35403How can they escape?"
35403How could our airmen see?
35403How did we have any success to- day when even the most optimistic men were preyed upon last night by horrid doubts?
35403How did you get here so quickly?"
35403How was this thing done?
35403I spoke to them sometimes and said,''Is that you, Alf?''
35403Is it the last phase of the war?
35403My mamma keeps living here, so how can I go away?
35403One of my companions in a shell- hole looked up and said:"Is the''good old German God''at work again?"
35403She repeated the words, and called him a monster, and at last the man spoke in a shamed way and said:"Que voulez- vous?
35403Some hole, what?"
35403Supposing the enemy were to come back in force?
35403The German doctors said,"Have you any wounded we can help?
35403What did she think of that?
35403What is Passchendaele?
35403Who knows what to make of them?
35403Why has he abandoned such formidable strongholds?
35403William offers peace, you say?
46757A lady said to me recently:"Why, the engineers are in no danger, they do n''t go into the trenches, do they?"
46757For is not_ every one_ called upon to do_ his_ share for humanity and freedom?
46757What real man could fail to feel the grip of this war?
46757Who would hesitate to show in a practical way the thoughts and ideals for which America stands?
43649But when will the advance begin?
43649I can only barely see their trench over the top of your first- line trench, so how could they possibly see me from there?
43649That''s the German front line, I suppose?
43649The Captain says,''Are you all ready?''
43649What was it-- a 75?
43649What''s that?
43649Why did not Von Kluck march on Paris when he had the chance?
43649You''ve got a whole battery shooting, have n''t you?
43649And yet the question will not be smothered: Is she doing all that is called for by a strong, far- seeing nation''s duty to itself?
43649Can England, in fine, afford to preserve Personal Liberty at the slightest risk of imperilling National Liberty?
43649Can a really proud nation afford to base its career at such a time upon the charity of its citizens?
43649I suppose there will be no opportunity to see them?"
43649It does not waste time in firing, does it?"
43649Well, then, could we not return early to- morrow morning to get the flight?
43649Would I?
11947And have they gone, Amélie?
11947And why does madame laugh?
11947And you do n''t do anything to prevent them?
11947But what do they do, Joseph?
11947But what do you do up there?
11947But why?
11947But why?
11947But,I said,"you are a French Canadian?"
11947Did n''t you hear my whistle?
11947Do n''t you know enough to uncover before the flag for which your fellow citizens are dying every day?
11947Have n''t you any home in America?
11947How does one get in, since you keep your door locked?
11947How long are you going to stay there?
11947How long have you lived here?
11947Journaliste?
11947Live here?
11947Peace?
11947Regular army?
11947The what?
11947Vous êtes une femme de lettres?
11947Well, Joseph,I asked,"have you seen a Boche yet?"
11947Well,I replied,"I am only wondering if that is your battle array?"
11947Well,I said,"if you are an American citizen, what are you doing here, in a French uniform?
11947What can we do, madame?
11947What''s the matter?
11947What''s the matter?
11947Where is she?
11947Where is that?
11947Where? 11947 Why could n''t you?"
11947Why did n''t you drive into the stable as usual?
11947Why do n''t you go home?
11947Why do you remain here in war- time?
11947Why does it surprise you?
11947You have no domestic?
11947And with three big bridges to build?
11947Are n''t you more and more surprised at them?"
11947As for Huiry?
11947But what of that?
11947But what of that?
11947But what?
11947Can you wonder we are anxious?
11947Could n''t you go on a lark without telling the Captain about it, and getting us all into trouble?"
11947Did n''t you always think a cat hated water?
11947Did you ever burn green wood?
11947Did you ever drink cider like that?
11947Do you ever wonder what the poets of the future will do with this war?
11947Do you know that it is not until now that I have had a passport from my own country?
11947Do you know what struck me most forcibly?
11947Do you know,--it is absurd-- I have not had a cold this winter, either?
11947Do you realize that these are the soldiers in the ranks of the French defence?
11947Do you remember how amused I was when I saw the Aspirant equipped for his march in January?
11947Do you remember how glibly we talked of the"Russian steam- roller,"in September, 1914?
11947Do you remember that I told you some time ago about Louise''s brother, Joseph, in the heavy artillery, who had never seen a Boche?
11947Do you wonder that I want to hibernate?
11947Does it never occur to you that France held her head up wonderfully after the terrible humiliation of 1870?
11947Does n''t it all make your blood flow fast?
11947Does n''t it seem to prove that had Germany fought an honest war she could never have invaded France?
11947Ever since I began to see so much of the army, I have asked myself more than once,"Where are the fils de famille"?
11947Finally I said:"What does he want, Amélie?
11947For example-- wouldn''t it seem logical that such a warfare would brutalize the men who are actually in it?
11947Forbidden subject?
11947Forget it, and we''ll talk of other things, and, to take a big jump-- Did you ever keep cats?
11947He comes down the stairs as stiff as a ramrod, lifts his gloved hand to his kepi, as he says,"Bon jour, madame, vous allez bien ce matin?"
11947He ran into the road and hailed it, and as the chauffeur put on his brakes, he called:"Et Verdun?"
11947He struck a blow on his forehead with his fist, and cried:"My God, lady, did I understand that you have been here ever since the war began?
11947He turned his big brown eyes, on me, and replied:"I, madame?
11947How does that sound to you?
11947I asked her what they would do then-- lie down and let the Germans ride over them?
11947I asked the chauffeur:"What village is that over there?"
11947I asked, of course,"What regiment?"
11947I could not help laughing, but I ventured to ask:"Well, my lad, what would you have done if it had been France and the States?"
11947I happened to be standing where I could see over the hedge, but before I could get out the stupid question,"What was that?"
11947I have not always had an orchestra stall, but what of that?
11947I said to him:"Well, Joseph, where did you come from this time?"
11947I said:"Why, good morning, Khaki, did mother make him stay out all night?
11947I waited where I was until she came back, crying breathlessly, long before she reached me:"Oh, madame, what do you think?
11947I was heart- broken, but Père only shrugged his shoulders and remarked:"If one will live on the top of a hill facing the north what can one expect?"
11947I wonder if that was not the sort of thing which, if told in the confessional in ancient times, got one convicted of being"possessed of the devil"?
11947I wonder if the German books on military tactics use that escape as a model in their military schools?
11947I wonder if the Kaiser has yet waked up to a realization of his one very great achievement-- the reawakening of Greater Britain?
11947I wonder if you take it in?
11947I wonder what the Germans will do with him if they catch him again?
11947In the course of the conversation she said, what was self- evident,"You are not French?"
11947Is n''t it a sort of poetic justice to think that it is even possible that had Germany fought an honorable war she might have got to Paris?
11947Is n''t it wonderful?
11947Is n''t that Shakesperian?
11947Is n''t that a calm way to state such a trying experience as that retreat?
11947Is n''t that nice?
11947Is n''t that pretty quick work?
11947Is n''t the naturalization question delicate?
11947It does seem a far cry from this to war, does n''t it?
11947It is also a serious question--?
11947It is not the first time I have had to ask myself, seriously,"Why this mania for possession?"
11947My God, lady, you do n''t think I''d see France attacked by Germany and not take a hand in the fight, do you?
11947Now did you know that there were such things today as"Children of the Regiment"?
11947Now if I lose that one, what have I to live for?
11947Perhaps I did not tell you that I was up there for a few days the first of the month?
11947So I smiled back and asked him, in that case, if it were not too indiscreet-- what he did to kill time?
11947So what can I do?
11947So why should I try to write to you of things which I do not see, and of which only the last, faint, dying ripples reach us here?
11947That seemed to strike him as a very suspicious date, and he stared at me hard for a moment before he went on:"What for?"
11947Then he pointed to the flag, and, clearing his throat, said:"You aire an Américaine?"
11947Then you were here during the battle out there?
11947They waited until I shut the case, and replaced it in my bag-- and then:"You live alone?"
11947To that his only reply was:"Your name?"
11947Wait for the commissary department to find us?
11947Was n''t I well enough off where I was, toasting myself before your nice fire, and drinking my tea comfortably every afternoon?
11947Well, how do you do, anyway?"
11947Were we after all going to be turned back?
11947What do cats, who will not eat soup, eat?"
11947What do you suppose that Peppino and I are going to do after a battle?
11947What would we do otherwise?
11947When they saw me, one of them said sharply, without the slightest salute:"There is no bell?"
11947Where is the good of wishing a bad harvest on Germany, when we get it ourselves at the same time?
11947Who told you that?"
11947Who will sing the destruction of the Royal Scots, two weeks later, in the battle of Ypres?
11947Who will sing the great chant in honor of the 100,000 who held Ypres against half a million, and locked the door to the Channel?
11947Why are n''t the middle- aged sent first-- the men who have partly lived their lives, who leave children to continue the race?"
11947Would you ever have believed that I could keep out of the theatre such a long time as that?
11947X March 23, 1915 Can it be possible that it is two months since I wrote to you?
11947XXXV February 26, 1917 What do you suppose I have done since I last wrote to you?
11947Yet is n''t it lucky to know and to see that these boys can come out of such a battle as Verdun in this condition?
11947You remember the tea- party I had for the boys in our ambulance in June?
11947You remember the young English officer who had marched around me in September of last year, during the days preceding the battle of the Marne?
11947and"What are they coming for?"
16355''E''s a sure Blighty, ai n''t''e?
16355''Ere, what yer doin''of?
16355''They''re not going to shoot me?'' 16355 Any Huns amongst them?"
16355Any news?
16355Anybody else hit?
16355Are we still receiving?
16355But that was jolly sporting of him, was n''t it?
16355Chatty[ lousy] are yer?
16355D''yer think''e would n''t bomb a C.C.S.?
16355D''you refuse to obey the order? 16355 D''you see what you''ve done?"
16355Did you ever see him?
16355Did you see anything of the Russians in 1914?
16355Do n''t talk bloody sentimental rot-- call yourself a soldier? 16355 Got a Blighty?"
16355How much do you bet?
16355I wonder how much longer this is going to last?
16355Is it a task job?
16355Is it serious?
16355Is that what they took out o''yer arm?
16355Is this a Hun or a gentleman?
16355Such a delightful tummy, is n''t it?
16355They''ve got the day off, have they? 16355 Time yet, Sergeant?"
16355Was für''n Zweck hat es-- What''s the good of shooting each other like this? 16355 Wha'', ai n''t it''ah''-past five?"
16355Wha''if I did?
16355What are you grumbling about? 16355 What did they make us bring our shovels for?"
16355What sort of a day did you have?
16355What sort of a time have you had?
16355What yer doin''there? 16355 What''s it got ter do wi''you?"
16355What''s the matter with you, are you deaf? 16355 Where were you wounded?"
16355Who gave you permission?
16355Who says so? 16355 Who''s Hartley?
16355Why d''yer let''em swing it on yer? 16355 Why didn''yer tell us it was a task job?
16355Why do n''t yer mind yer own bleed''n''business? 16355 Why do n''t you complain to the Town Major?"
16355Yer not goin''ter take orf me arm, are yer, sir?
16355Yer wo n''t''urt me, sir, will yer?
16355''E never washes and never changes''is clothes, so what can yer expect?"
16355''Oo told you to interfere?
16355''s away from dumps an''railways?
16355A deadlock ensued and then a Sergeant came up with"What''s the matter now?
16355A good job, too, for that''s one thing I absolutely can not stick, the way all our letters are read...."I hear you''ve had some excitement?
16355A sudden fear seized me-- could last night''s celebrations have been the result of a false alarm?
16355A voice, mocking such a naïve questioner, answered:"Do n''t yer know the army be now?"
16355An''if we''re bloody fools an''leave the lights on at night,''ow can''e tell what''s what when everything''s mixed up together?
16355An''what''s it all for?
16355An''what_ d''you_ know about it?
16355And after all, why should they care?
16355And at the end of the fortnight?
16355And the civvies-- gorblimy-- when I was''ome on leave they kep''on arstin''me,''Ai n''t yer wounded yet?''
16355And then, what would we do then?
16355And would the little village be the same as when I saw it last?
16355And yet what else could we think about?
16355But d''you think the civvies or the papers admit it?
16355But why not desert?
16355Ca n''t yer understand English, damn yer?"
16355Call yerselves sportsmen, do yer?
16355Course''e makes mistakes sometimes like anybody else--''ow do''e know it''s a C.C.S.--''e ca n''t see no Red Crorss at night?"
16355D''yer think I''m goin''ter stand over yer all day?
16355D''you want to sleep all day?"
16355Did n''t yer see it in the papers?
16355Did you see it in print?"
16355Do n''t yer know there''s a war on?
16355For the one who was killed?...
16355Had I heard the news?
16355Had the Germans assembled all their strength for one supreme attempt at breaking through the Western Front?
16355Have many been dropping in the town recently?"
16355He was inspecting us and when he came to Peter he shouted,''Why have n''t you cleaned your boottons?''
16355Here, Marie, bring us another two cups-- der coop der caffay-- that''s right, is n''t it?"
16355How can it weigh more heavily on any man or set of men than those on this bench?"
16355How could I answer that question?
16355How could it be otherwise?
16355How many hours were there in a fortnight?
16355How many more days of drill would we have to endure?
16355How would our feelings find an outlet?
16355Hyndman could still hear him, so he walked up to him and shouted,''What the bloody''ell''s the matter wi''yer?''
16355Hyndman got his rag out and yelled,''Stop talkin''there, will yer?''
16355IV THE CASUALTY CLEARING STATION"For who feels the horrors of war more than those who are responsible for its conduct?
16355I_ would_ enjoy the immediate present-- was I not losing hours of sheer pleasure by harbouring these thoughts and ignoring the beauty of the day?
16355If he were to rise from his grave, would he think the loss''insignificant''?
16355Is he God Almighty?
16355It would be interesting to know for whom these losses are insignificant?
16355It would come to an end some day, and I would leave the army, but would not the war obsess me until the end of my life?
16355Most of them were asleep, but one was tossing about and crying in piteous tones:"Hab''ich noch''n Arm, oder hab''ich keinen?"
16355On whom does the burden of blood and treasure weigh most heavily?
16355One of the officers asked:"What about our coffee?"
16355Or was it only the beginning of a whole series of operations?
16355Shouting, singing, dancing, would they give us relief?
16355Sometimes I asked myself in a puzzled manner:"Have I really been home on leave?"
16355Suddenly he asked:"Do n''t yer want it, mate?"
16355Suddenly he perceived me and asked:"What are you doing here?"
16355Swingin''it on yer mates, are yer?
16355Swingin''the lead?"
16355That''s got yer, ai n''t it?"
16355The Sergeant asked:"Where''s Private Hartley?"
16355The Sergeant swung round and bellowed-- he was really angry this time:"What''s the matter wi''yer?
16355The Sergeant- Major suddenly observed them, blew his whistle and shouted angrily:"Stand still there-------- d''you hear?
16355The booing changed into loud, ironical cheers:"What yer bin doin''all day?
16355Then I would knock at the door and I would be welcomed by an old peasant woman, and she would ask:"Tu viens en perme?"
16355Then one of us said:"What''s that funny noise?"
16355Then suddenly he wailed:"Kamerad, sag mir doch-- Comrade, tell me-- is my arm still there, or is it gone?"
16355Then there''s the''eads what''as servants to wait on''em-- d''yer think French or Duggie''Aig ever''as shells burstin''round''em?
16355There was an embarrassing pause, and then he thundered:"Bloody lot o''fools-- gorne to sleep''ave yer?
16355They were not human at all-- or was it I who was not human?
16355They were tortured by anxiety:"Les Allemands vont venir ici-- de Shermans come heer?"
16355Throughout the winter one question above all others was discussed by the few who took an interest in the war:"What were the Germans going to do?"
16355Vat''s de use fighting?
16355Vat''s de use punish zem if ve get nussing?
16355We call ourselves sportsmen, but have we ever recognized that we got a brave enemy?
16355What d''they want ter drag_ us_ out''ere for ter do their dirty work for''em?
16355What d''you think you''re here for?"
16355What has the Armistice got to do with us?
16355What would actual warfare be like?
16355What''s the matter?"
16355What''s the use o''lettin''good stuff go west?
16355Who''s in charge of the party?"
16355Why are n''t you on parade in time?
16355Why did not every object fill me with delight?
16355Why do n''t the''eads come an''bloody well fight it out amongst theirselves-- why do n''t King George''ave a go wi''Kaiser Bill?
16355Why do n''t they stick''em right in the fields somewhere?
16355Why do n''t you leave them alone?"
16355Why not enjoy a week, a fortnight, a month of freedom?
16355Why not escape to the south of France?
16355Why was I not full of rapture?
16355Why were British soldiers allowed to steal the buttons, caps, rings, and watches belonging to their prisoners?
16355Would I ever be myself again?
16355Would I ever escape from the war?
16355Would the Germans reach the coast?
16355Would the fine weather never end?
16355Would they be numerically equal or superior to the Allies on the Western Front?
16355Would we be involved in the advance?
16355You know Deacon?
16355an''''When are yer goin''back?''
16355said to our Sergeant:"Where''ve these men come from?"
16355spotted him, and shouted,''What are you grinning at-- anything foonny?''
29313''How many have you got?'' 29313 ''What regiment do you belong to?''
29313''You''ve heard about the orders against marauding, eh?'' 29313 How are you, mud?"
29313How d''ye like Virginny woods, Yank?
29313How far, General?
29313How many men have you?
29313Say, Yank, if I send you over a boat- load of''backy,''will ye send her back filled with coffee?
29313What will you do that for? 29313 Where is your letter, sir?"
29313Why do n''t you''uns come over?
29313Young man,said he, with a supercilious air,"what might your business be?"
29313Your knowledge of the duties of officer of the day is somewhat limited?
29313After forty years, what would I take for that association with all its dangers and hardships?
29313Amidst all these joyous reunions, were there no shadows?
29313And the others?
29313And then they sang to us:"Ai n''t ye mighty glad to get out the wilderness?"
29313Being apparently reassured by my reply, he continued in a less peremptory tone,"Who ordered that line?
29313But did it stir their blood?
29313Can we who know of it only as we read appreciate such a home- coming?
29313Could order ever be gotten out of it?
29313Could we do it and keep up our end?
29313Did our"Ma''s know we were out?"
29313Did that require nerve?
29313Do n''t you see yonder line of rebels is flanking you?"
29313Does Providence graciously look out for the tenderfoot?
29313Eggs, gelatin, or other notions of civilization, for settling, were studiously(?)
29313Had the left grand division vigorously performed its part in the earlier movement, can any one doubt the result?
29313Have n''t you had enough of the reveille here?"
29313Here is Colonel Wilson''s account of the colloquy that ensued:"Who are you, sir?
29313How can words describe the scene?
29313How did I know so much about them?
29313How did we ordinarily get our laundrying done?
29313How does one feel under such conditions?
29313How far out is it?"
29313How shall I describe the experiences of that night''s tramp?
29313How was our coffee made?
29313How, then, did I come in possession of its main features, so as to note them in my diary at the time?
29313I asked,"How was that?"
29313If I was"hot,"what shall be said of him?
29313If a reply was not forthcoming, a nagging ejaculation, calculated to provoke, would follow, such as,"What''s the matter, Yank, are ye deaf?"
29313Is the theory of a misunderstanding of orders tenable?
29313Need I say that, joyous as was our home- going, there was more than a pang at the bottom of our hearts as we severed those heroic associations?
29313Now how was the plan carried out?
29313Now, as I close this narrative, shall I speak of the gala day of our home- coming?
29313Now, why did the left grand division fail to make the attack as ordered?
29313Now, why this period of inactivity whilst Sedgwick was being punished?
29313Only a fifth of them left?
29313Otherwise, why did he attack at all?
29313Personal fear?
29313Pretty expensive fuel?
29313Ran up against man, who grabbed me by the collar, and demanded''what are you doing here?''
29313See him behind that bush?"
29313Seeing me, he stopped his horse and exclaimed,"Adjutant, where is my division?
29313Should we continue the advance or retire and get further orders?
29313The carol of birds in the midst of the blackest thunder- storm?
29313The colonel called out,"What''s the matter with the bass drum?"
29313The officer had by that time recovered himself sufficiently to ejaculate,"Who the h----l is that-- general?"
29313The rebels were evidently interested observers of this mud march, for their pickets taunted ours with such questions as"How d''ye like Virginia mud?"
29313To what may it be likened?
29313Was it ever so dark, and did it ever rain harder?
29313Was the new movement, then, to be in that direction?
29313Was this little race, so short and gloriously won, prophetic of his life''s brief course?
29313We marched very leisurely, making during the first four days only about twenty- five miles, to a village bearing the serious(?)
29313Were these home treasures lost?
29313Were you getting it ready to send to the hospital?
29313What are you doing here?"
29313What could I do?
29313What did you come down here for?
29313What for these pictures and memories?
29313What in h----l do you want?"
29313What is your business?
29313What should I do?
29313What were my sensations when hit?
29313What were we going to do?
29313What''s wanted?"
29313Where do you belong?
29313Where was our David?
29313Where were we going?
29313Who comes there?"
29313Who''s there?
29313Why do n''t we go forward?"
29313Why fence rails or timbers were not placed under them as is usual?
29313Why have n''t you sent us orders?
29313Why this interregnum in the command?
29313Will the time ever come when"the bitter shall not be mingled with the sweet"and tears of sorrow shall not drown the cup of gladness?
29313You did n''t think you could whip us men of the South, did you?"
29313a picnic?
29313etc., etc., at the same time accepting(?)
29313or a similar ejaculation, and then,"General Couch, why do you not assume command and order us forward?
29313xxi., page 275:"I would also state that some cowardly members of a regiment unknown(?)
27765And their men?
27765Art thou weary, art thou langwidge?
27765But to- day I leave the Army, shall I curse its service then? 27765 Er-- have you any-- er-- Keating''s powder?"
27765Far flashed the red artillery,aye?
27765Had he ever been to England?
27765Hang it, have some more jam, old chap?
27765Heah, give me the hammah,"Is n''t it awful?
27765How far off is Pretoria?
27765How far off is Pretoria?
27765How far off is Pretoria?
27765See that fellow?
27765That''s a hymn, ai n''t it?
27765Well, after all these long travels what are you going to do now?
27765What Yeomanry?
27765What am I going to do?
27765What''s this chummy?
27765Where did he hail from?
27765Where''s my rifle an''hat? 27765 Where''s that beastly peg?"
27765Who gave you permission to shoot this horse?
27765Who said''C.I.V.s''?
27765Wot''s it all about?
27765( Sussex Yeoman_ loq._) Did I ever use the bay''nit, sir?
27765( With apologies to the talented painter of"Who said''Rah''?")]
27765A Fife friend tells me he now and again gets a large medicine bottle of-- well, what would it be for a Scotchman?
27765After the day''s march, when the Infantry not on picket are in camp, a dark figure often slouches up our lines, and a voice inquires,"Is Pem''ere?"
27765After tramping another two miles:"How far off is Pretoria?"
27765And if we had n''t, what would we have done?
27765And where, most of all, queries your enforced member of a Blue Ribbon Army-- where is the Wassail Bowl?
27765And why?
27765And, after all, what do you think the wily Boer bagged as the result of such a lovely death trap?
27765Anyhow, what do they want with gwub?
27765As I write this evening by candlelight, in our rude substitute for a tent, I can hear the chorus of"The miner''s( why not a yeoman''s?)
27765As she ships it green on the old trail, our own trail, the home trail, As she lifts and''scends on the long trail-- the trail that is always new?"
27765Bread was given away, cigars and cigarettes forced(?)
27765But I was born to suffer, and was I not in hospital?
27765But did I draw it in action?
27765But now, what does the fully- fledged Imperial Yeoman do?
27765But where were the tents, the men and horses that used to be?
27765But, oh, where was my pipe, should I ever see it again?
27765Chorus:"!!!???
27765Chorus:"!!!???
27765Chorus:"!!!???
27765Do n''t you salute an officer when you see one?"
27765Does khaki fail, or martial bands?
27765Does this sound Utopian?
27765Field Hospital from our boots, but let not an abusive word be levelled at them, for are they not all honourable men?
27765Good, is n''t it?
27765Had they had any mails?
27765Has it e''er drawn human blood?
27765Have you used Pears''soap?"
27765Having paraded and answered to our names, a doctor strolled down the ranks questioning us,"Are you all right?"
27765His reply, as he told me, struck me as quaint and natural,"''Ow can I''old my''ands up?"
27765How would you like to be awakened out of a comfortable sleep at 3 a.m. in the above manner?
27765I wonder how the veterans of the Natal campaign, the gallant Irish Brigade, and others, will be received when they return?
27765If you ask a British soldier,"How goes it?"
27765If you could n''t stand discipline, what did you come out here for?"
27765Imperial Bugs, The time grows heavy on our hands; Are the recruiting sergeants dead?
27765It''s a hard Christmas Box for his poor people, is it not?
27765Let''em''ave four biscuits a man; save the best for us-- don''t forget--"Kindred Spirit:"And the rum?"
27765Men just in from patrol._ Man with bullet hole in hat:"Is tea up?"
27765Near me, from under a rain- soaked blanket a sun- bronzed face appeared and a sleepy voice inquired"are the_ burchers_( burghers) shelling us?"
27765Now I know for a fact that these persons will, on first meeting me, demand at once,"Have you brought any sets of surcharged Transvaal stamps back?"
27765Oh, how did the point get blunted, sir?
27765Only a few days ago I received amongst my mails a letter from my sister, who inquired,"How is your horse?"
27765Presently the inevitable question"What''s the date?"
27765So on I pushed, inquiring of everybody,"Where is the Farrier- Sergeant?"
27765Sometimes a generous friend would confidentially ask,"Do you think they''ll let you start?"
27765The next burning questions were"What boat will it be and when does she sail?"
27765The rain ceasing after a while, the other fellows emerged like so many slugs, and soon under my supervision( was I not articled to an architect once?)
27765Then that little tin soldier he sobbed and sighed, So I patted his little tin head,"What vexes your little tin soul?"
27765Then, after another remark or so,"Seen much fighting?"
27765Then, further on,"Have n''t the oats come on in that field?"
27765Then, with cries of"Close the water- tight compartments,""Man the pumps,""Launch the lifeboat,""Where''s the rocket apparatus?"
27765Then,"I wonder if they''ve got any fowls left in that shanty over there?"
27765This order was obeyed reluctantly, then"Who are you?"
27765To which my neighbour replied,"Do n''t you remember coming this way when we were leading those Argentine remounts?"
27765Upon us, one by one, he pounced, this"brave, silent(?)
27765We have all been like so many children at Christmas- time, asking one another"How many did you get?"
27765We were dirty and unshaven, but it mattered not, we were monarchs(_ VÃ ¦ Victis!_) and was it not my birthday?
27765What War?"
27765When I do, I sez''I''m all right;''ow''s yerself?''
27765When you meet a man out here, usually the first question is"What sort of grub are you having?"
27765Where is the prickly, red- berried holly?
27765Where was it?
27765Where was my pipe, should I get it all right?
27765Where, too, the mistletoe with its pearly berries?
27765Which one?
27765Who will ever forget them?
27765Why was n''t I wearing this article?
27765You ask if it e''er took a life, sir?
27765_ Apropos_:_ First Yeoman_:"I say, is this bully beef American?"
27765_ Friday, June 15th,(?)
27765_ Officer_( stopping New Zealander):"Do you know who I am?"
27765_ Sunday, October 21st, 1900._ Can it be the Sabbath?
27765_ Wednesday, July 11th, 1900._( More_ kopje?_) Here I am again on the outlying picket racket, and renewing my studies of kopjes.
27765and if I answer"Nay,"what will they think of me?
27765in K._:"Have many Boers been past here?"
27765in K._:"Is he on those kopjes, potting at us?"
27765in K._:"Where is your brother?"
27765in K._:"Where is your husband?"
4097363rd Ga."What are you doing here?
40973Do you know where I saw you last?
40973How far is the next house?
40973Now shall I read?
40973Well, General, what do you propose to do when you get home?
40973What''s his full name?
40973A messmate some distance away shouted back,"Ca n''t you wait till I finish washing my feet in it?"
40973And now what has all this to do with the item I read in a Sunday school paper?
40973And now what were my own sensations in this, my first baptism of fire?
40973And what of the Oglethorpes?
40973Are you going to keep a man standing out here in the cold all night?"
40973As he sat by his battery one day in May,''64, reading a newspaper, a stranger approached him and said,"Major, where are the Yankees?"
40973Battalion?"
40973Frank hears it and turns to me quickly,"Are you hurt?"
40973Gen. Bate rode up to our line and asked,"What command is this?"
40973He kneeled beside a stricken foe, Whose life was ebbing fast away, And then in gentle words and low, He asked if he might read and pray?
40973If I can get two others, will you go with us to find the body and bring it in?"
40973John Carroll, ten feet to my left, kept firing when I could see no game, and I said to him,"John, what are you shooting at?"
40973Just then Gen. Featherston rides up,"What regiment is this?"
40973One of the cooking utensils was missing and he sang out,"Where is the oven?"
40973Shall the breezes, which blow from the''cowpens''where the infant days of Jackson were spent, now fan the brows of a nation of slaves?
40973The noise awakened Gen. Walker, who was sleeping in a tent near by, and rushing out en deshabille, he shouted,"What the d-- l is the matter out here?"
40973This inquiry, while not invested with the same degree of mystery, nor enjoying as large a measure of notoriety as"Who struck Billy Patterson?"
40973To the question,"Is Lincoln dead?"
40973WHERE IS THE OVEN?
40973Was it mutton or was it dog?
40973Was the war on the part of the South only a wicked rebellion, as our Northern friends have been pleased to term it?
40973Were these four wasted years?
40973Where is he?"
40973While chatting with the visitors one of them said to him,"Well, Bud, have n''t they got you in the army yet?"
40973_ Nashville Campaign._ A Christmas Day With Forrest 155 Gen. Bate as a Poet and Wit 166 Pat Cleburne as an Orator 168"Who Ate the Dog?"
48703Whence came this water?
44965Did he?
44965My dear sir,he replied,"I know it is not my bird, but do you suppose that I would allow a fellow like that to think that he had killed a bird?
44965Quelques parcelles de tant de gloire parviendront- elles aux siècles à venir, ou, le mensonge, la calomnie, le crime, prévaudront- ils?
44965I hope you are not badly hit?"
44965The chief of the 1st German hussars meeting our commandant one morning,"Well, Colonel,"says the gallant German in broken English,"how you do?"
44965The explanation over, a long silence ensued-- each afraid to pop the question, which must be popp''d, of whose wife was Nancy?
44965The poor creatures looked us piteously in the face, as much as to say,"Are you not ashamed to call yourselves human beings?"
44965Who has not passed down Blackfriars- road of an evening?
44965my dear fellow, how do you do?
44492Do n''t ye? 44492 Ike, did you ever run that horse?"
44492Inoffensive,_ which_? 44492 Pray how did you know that I am from America?"
44492Which? 44492 As Gluckmansklegge rode up, he said,Well, Col- o- nel, how you like?
44492At last he said,"Well now, Colonel, I do n''t reckon you bought that hoss to look at him on the picket- line, did ye?"
44492Can you direct me to a hotel where I can get a bite before I go on?"
44492Confound these Englishmen, thought I, where is their traditional coldness and reserve?
44492Did I remember his horse,--his"Fuchs"?
44492He had bought him in St. Louis from the quartermaster, and would I oblige him by trying him?
44492He replied,"O, who can tell?
44492I did find the Angel comfortable,( as what English inn is not?)
44492Nice pretty strong horse, what?"
44492One evening Gluckmansklegge came to my tent door:"Escoose, Col- o- nel, may I come?"
44492Who is at the head of this house?
44492Would I get him enlisted?
44492Yet, how to subsist a horse after buying one, and how to buy?
44492_ hoss?_ Well,''t ai n''t much of a nag, but theys more on''em roun'', an''if this''un tuckers out I''ll git somethin''to ride.
44492who are you hitting?"
44492who shall tell all the secret emotions this implies?
47814He jumped off, and said he would show me the way, and congratulated me on getting out of Lucknow, and asked if he could do anything for me?
47814How were we to go, and what could we take with us?
47814However, I wrote off to Captain W----, asking if he thought they might be trusted?
47814I spoke to one of the sailors on a 24-pounder, and asked if there were any place appropriated to the ladies?
47814Several of the 32nd officers joined us while we were sitting in the garden, and the discussion was, why the hanging should be stopped?
47814Where shall we spend our own?
47814Where will the 1st of December find us?
4550Do you want to look down?
4550There_ is_ a tone--the tingling sense of it was in the air from the first days, the first hours--"but what does it consist in?
4550Who goes there? 4550 A general exclamation of assent from the other officers, and a protest from the hero:Me?
4550And just how is one aware of it?"
4550And what conditions and qualities seem to minister to it?
4550At a moment when real wants are reduced to a minimum, how else account for the congestion of the department store?
4550But in which?
4550In a day or two you''ll be thinking about going back to the trenches, eh?"
4550Man or woman?
4550Suddenly an officer, pointing to the west of the trenched hill said:"Do you see that farm?"
4550The Colonel stopped to ask a few questions, and then, turning to him, said:"Feeling rather better now?"
4550The second question: What are the conditions and qualities that have produced such results?
4550Then, what--?
4550War?
4550What was that incredible unimagined sound?
4550What, one may be asked, are the proofs of this national tone?
4550Which( one must ask) of all their multiple gifts most help the French today to be what they are in just the way they are?
44451Do you see my hand? 44451 How long will it take to get to the starting- point?"
44451What will happen to your tanks if I put back zero another hour and we attack in daylight?
44451And my old Company?
44451Guns?
44451Had tanks achieved the successes which we had prophesied?
44451How can they know that Cateau Cambrésis was stormed at least ten times during the fifteenth century?
44451How could I possibly go back to the Colonel and tell him that I did not know whether my tanks could fight on the morrow or not?
44451How do I know he is still alive?
44451I found myself walking up and down the village street, stopping everybody I met and saying--"Do you realise that in one hour the war will be over?"
44451I wonder if they took with them the photograph of the Prince of Wales?
44451Is it time for the reserve to be thrown into the battle?
44451Machine- guns or armour- piercing bullets?
44451The trenches?
44451The wire?
44451They might not go out to France this year?
44451Three thousand yards is a trifle near.... For the next five days we had only one thought-- would the Boche"catch on"?
44451Two skeleton battalions were just being formed?
44451What could stop us?
44451What did it matter if one man was singing and another brooding over the battle to come?
44451What had happened to them?
44451Who could ever forget our"Beauty Chorus,"with B. as"prima ballerina,"or Happy Fanny singing a song in his more cheerful mood?
44451Who, then, was to blame for these tortured children with their ghastly green faces, and the still bodies covered with carefully- mended sheets?
44451Why had tanks ever been sent to destruction at Ypres?
44451Why not wait until he stops?
44451Why should the newspapers doubt, when we had never doubted,... but it was impossible that our line should ever be broken?
44451Would I go to the Depot at Wareham?
44451Would the Boche"catch on"?...
44451Would we not soon all be back in Blighty?
46651Pourquoi?
46651Then what did you do?
46651Who are you?
46651Why this unseemly haste?
46651Am I going to die stretched out in a hole like this?
46651Before the war or through Holland?
46651How could this pump have got so far from home?
46651How, I wonder, did the Boche get this pump?
46651Was it a counter- attack?
46651What were we waiting for?
46651Why should we precede them in attack?
46651| ARE WE READY?
46651| IS WAR DIMINISHING?
48586Come down out of that hat,"Jump off and grab a root,"Are you a married man or an Irishman?
48586Was any advantage of position that might have been taken overlooked, not seen, or seen and lost by either side?
48586Was this done?
48586Well knowing such orders, but not admitting the same, the Federals adroitly inquired,"What orders?"
48822How was it with the rebels?
48822What was it that made it so still?
48822Who ever heard of a General skirmishing with a wagon train?
48822You may ask, where was Murphy all this time?
47856And I said:"Lieutenant, do you think I will ever see the Statue of Liberty again?"
47856Arriving at Poperinghe we met a lieutenant who asked the sergeant:"Are you for the''Pats''?"
47856At first I said,"I do n''t know, sir,"and he said:"Well, what are you doing here if you do n''t know?
47856Fifteen hundred men had already fallen, and what could the remaining 500 of us do against the German hordes?
47856I looked at him and then at the tanks and said:"Shall I take them all up at once, or one at a time?"
47856Looking at me he said:"Can you imagine those Dutchmen sniping at me with an eight- inch gun?"
47856One of the Saxons called out,"Hello, Canuck, how''s Quebec, Winnipeg and Vancouver?"
47856The doctor came up to me and said:"What''s your trouble?"
47856The first thing she asked me was,"Can I write a letter home for you?"
47856Where do you feel sick?"
47856You ask why a boy wants to stand up and be shot down by those dogs?
29333What is the final cause of the Universe?
29333Who art thou that judgest thy fellow?
29333After reminding his readers of pre- War denunciations of"the curse of athletics,"he asks,"What of athletics now?"
29333Amazing coincidences, what?
29333And did not Leonardo da Vinci become a student of anatomy in order to learn how to depict the human body properly on his canvas?"
29333And do you remember the Six Acts?
29333And why stop at the kangaroo- rat-- the first mammal to bring forth its young alive?
29333Anyhow, was there ever a man who was absolutely perfect?
29333Are we doing so?
29333Are you reading Conan Doyle''s review in the_ Strand_ of the early stages of the war?
29333As we spun along a voice from the darkness hailed us:"Have you room for an officer?"
29333Ask where''s the North?
29333B. Jones[7] of Dulwich?
29333But has the genus Man always borne the same sort of characteristics as those that distinguish him to- day?
29333But what of our innings as a whole?
29333But what of the scrum itself?
29333But what use to raise up the vanished ghosts of the past?
29333Can you wonder that in such conditions civilised human nature out here swiftly changes and is replaced by elemental savagery?
29333Can you wonder, with the example of such a man before me, that I should be longing to get into the Infantry?
29333Could you send me out the programme of the coming Promenade Concert season?
29333Did not Oliver himself-- a superman if ever there was one-- fail in his efforts to make better those whom he ruled?
29333Did we?
29333Did you read the Russian Socialists''manifesto on the War?
29333Did you see that my old colleague, E. C. Cartwright, has got the M.C.?
29333Did you see that splendid joke in_ Punch_--an old man talking to a very badly wounded Irish soldier swathed in bandages from head to foot?
29333Did you see that the Brakenbury Scholarship in History for 1916 was taken by a chap from Gresham School, Holt?
29333Do I stand and stare?
29333Do I stoop?
29333Do you realise what a fine part amateur sportsmen are playing in this war?
29333Do you remember how well he sang at the school concert in December, 1914?
29333For example, you work hard for a scholarship at Oxford or Cambridge-- why?
29333From Mrs. Denbigh Jones, Llanelly:"Wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?"
29333Funny, is n''t it, how all Europe is falling into the whirlpool of war?
29333Goethe''s lines leap to the mind:"How, when and where?
29333Have you noticed how each month of the war is marked by some new phase of public opinion?
29333Have you seen the obituary notices of Captain Osmond Williams,[4] of the Welsh Guards?
29333How could any one man fulfil both of these rôles?
29333How is it that the mass of the world is always inartistic?
29333I have such an accursedly active imagination that I find it impossible to banish from my head the thought,"What if I fail?"
29333I pick up my newspaper to- day, and what do I see?
29333I say what matter what a man believes if he does his duty?
29333If Louis XVI had been wiser and more capable, would he have averted the French Revolution?
29333If everyone thinks only of his own indulgence, how can the wherewithal for that indulgence be forthcoming?
29333If there is no dramatic idea kept as end to work to, then what is the use of writing opera at all?
29333If you do not place faith in humanity, what really is the use of any philosophy of life?
29333In any case, are we not the world''s greatest political people and the best colonisers?
29333Is it not clear that the Germans have developed to the full a system of organisation in harmony with their national character?
29333Is it not extraordinary to encounter this sort of thing right up in the battle zone?
29333Is it not splendid?
29333Is it too much to hope that those great principles for which he fought so nobly will at last become the heritage of the whole world?
29333Is n''t it fine that my desire to be really close to the thick of things should be so fully gratified?
29333Is the October number of_ The Alleynian_ out yet?
29333It is just the case of Kittermaster, Nightingale, or Scottie, is n''t it?
29333No excuse?
29333Of what use are our Allies?
29333Or do they exist unaltered till they become unfit, when they just vanish from this sublunary scene?
29333Or, on the other hand, is he descended from a kangaroo- rat through the long lineage of the pithecanthropus, the ape- man, the man- ape, and so forth?
29333SIWARD: Had he his hurts before?
29333Shall we ever hear the"Ring"again, I wonder?
29333Sounds just like a German talking, does n''t it?
29333Talking of science, do you see that some modern scientists are throwing doubt on the original theory of Evolution?
29333The following passages are again underlined: They did not complain, and why should we complain for them?...
29333The former says,"This is a terrible war, is n''t it, my man?"
29333The only point in dispute is, therefore: do genera become altered by environment, etc.?
29333Very interesting to meet one of the"dim millions"from one''s own neighbourhood in this fashion,_ n''est ce pas_?
29333Was that a failure?
29333What is the cause of this decadence?
29333What is the use of man having all his glorious gifts of character and intellect if he does not use them?
29333What is"to do good"?
29333What more could a man want?
29333What think you of our new war machines?
29333What was that reform in its essentials?
29333What would n''t I give to be starting my school career again?
29333What''s the cause for sorrow?
29333What, in brief, was the scope of Wagner''s reforms?
29333When the Second Empire was overthrown and the Third Republic set up in its place, did the Republicans seek peace?
29333Where on earth did they find men for their Rumanian campaign?
29333Which would you rather have been, tiny Greece or vast Persia?"
29333Who could have dreamt then that war was only three months distant?
29333Who, at the start of the war, would have thought that we would have been able to land a military force in the Balkan Peninsula?
29333Whom do you think I met on the main road up to- day?
29333Whom do you think I met this morning to my great delight?
29333Why is man made so different from the animals if he is to be the mere slave of his passions?
29333Why not be content with song- cycles or ballads, or lieder like Brahms''s and Schumann''s?
29333Why not continue his lineage right back to the original bi- cellular organism-- protoplasm?
29333Why should England allow any rival to stand in her way?
29333Why should they not be investigated?
29333Why should we always play the philanthropic idiot towards all these wretched little nations?
29333Why?
29333Will you please get them repaired?
29333You have n''t hit on a book on some musical subject for me, have you?
29333_ July 9th, 1916._ Things have been moving"a few"( as the Yanks say) on this front, have n''t they?
29333_ October 20th, 1915._ Whom do you think I met the other day leading a column of motor lorries up to our brigade H.Q.?
29333_ P.S._--Have you ever reflected on the fact that, despite the horrors of the war, it is at least a big thing?
29333and the M.C.?
29333did n''t we do it in the first innings?
29333in as my own if you had helped me to do it?"
29333once more who would not be a boy?
29333to a Welsh brigadier?
44974whom have I in heaven but thee that can thy creature bless? 44974 why(_ said he_) do n''t you know me?"
44974Coming near to her, she said,"I know my friends that you are deserters from prison?
44974Dear reader, art thou a blasphemer, or a despiser of the words of GOD?
44974I never had any relation of that name:"why do n''t you remember you lived in_ France_ with me?"
44974I replied:"why do n''t you know your Uncle S?"
44974In the mean time she said to me;"your Father- in- law is an honest man?
44974My comrade said,"you pray too much, do you think that GOD takes notice of what you say?"
44974[ 22] I have sinned: what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men?
44974a receipt I said, Madam?
44974had not GOD shown his mercy to me, where should I have been?
44974if thou art, delay no longer, but go to JESUS CHRIST, who is the fountain of durable riches, and take with thee the words of the_ Poët_?
44974miserable wretch, art thou going to plunge thyself into eternal misery?
44974my Son is it you?
44974my dear H.---- is still existing?"
44974reader consider and meditate?
44974reader, art thou of that unhappy number?
44974what were all the Earth to me, if a stranger to thy peace?
44974who will say unto him, what doest thou?
49089Where is he?
49089Another man said,"If you will go in I will go with you?"
49089Finally I said,"Well, what about it?"
49089He asked,"Who are you?"
49089He said,"Who are you?"
49089He stooped to feel for it and Brother Isaac asked,"Billy was that you shot?"
49089He then said,"Why in the hell do n''t you boys climb a tree?"
49089I said,"Have you?
49089My first thought was to wake the boys so I called out at the top of my voice,"Who are you?"
49089Nothing could be done but move on, but what was to be done with Robert''s body?
49089Smith saw them first and said to me,"Who is that?"
49089When I had got about ten steps away Fish said to Phelps,"Why do n''t you shoot him?"
49089Who are you?"
35119''Aven''t you''eard?
35119Am I going to heaven, or have I joined the Flying Corps?
35119And what is this?
35119And what is this?
35119Are we downhearted? 35119 Are you Newfoundlanders, Corporal?"
35119Are you from the Fifteenth Battalion?
35119By the way,I said, as I was leaving him,"why do they call you White George?
35119Did you see that last rocket?
35119Do n''t you know a man from your own company?
35119Do n''t you wish now you had n''t tried the experiment?
35119Do n''t you wish you were in London now, Gal?
35119Do you know a chap in that battalion,I said,"that they call White George?"
35119Do you know where you are?
35119Do you want to go on bomb throwing detail this afternoon?
35119Doctor,I asked,"how long will it be before this wound gets better?"
35119Does n''t he look like the sort of man it would be wise to confide in?
35119Feeling all right, old man?
35119Frozen feet,I said,"in Gallipoli?
35119Gallishaw,he said,"do you want to come to work here?"
35119Glory be to God,he said,"what does that make you think of?"
35119Hey,he said,"you come from the United States, do n''t you?"
35119How are you feeling now?
35119How did it happen?
35119How do you feel now?
35119How is it,I asked,"we do n''t see them in the daytime?"
35119I''ve got salt and pepper,I said,"but how are you going to cook it?"
35119Is anybody hit?
35119Is it tea or cocoa?
35119Is there any message I can take back to Art?
35119Ordered by whom?
35119Sure,he answered;"does a swim want to duck?"
35119Tell me,I said,"shall I get into a real bed on the ship?"
35119Well,he said,"what do you want?"
35119What do you think of the news from the Western front?
35119What hit me?
35119What is all the excitement?
35119What is it?
35119What is it?
35119What part?
35119What the hell is the matter?
35119What train is that, sir?
35119What was I doing here in mid- air?
35119What was the excitement?
35119What will you answer when your children say,''Daddy, what part did you play in the great war?''
35119What''s Queen Mary''s ration?
35119What''s an inspiration?
35119What''s that for?
35119What''s that?
35119What''s the excitement?
35119What''s the latest news about the regiment?
35119What''s the matter?
35119Where did you get it?
35119Where do you come from?
35119Where had he got them, and how?
35119Where shall I go?
35119Where''s your rifle?
35119Who goes there?
35119Who have you on board?
35119Who is it?
35119Why did n''t you tell me?
35119Why do n''t you come with me,he said,"instead of digging another place?"
35119Why,I asked him in astonishment,"you do n''t want to get hit, do you?"
35119Wonder who the new lot is?
35119Yes,I said;"what do you want to know that for?"
35119All they have to do is say''What ho,''or,''Where''s the Dublin''s section of trench?''
35119Before I had a chance to reply Art Pratt relieved the situation by shouting,"Did you say stand by you?
35119Ca n''t I be moved outside?"
35119Ca n''t you see the Corporal''s struck?"
35119Do n''t you want to join us in a party to go up to London?"
35119Do n''t you wish you had some of this?"
35119Every few yards I would ask Hoddinott,"Is it very much farther?"
35119I was passing one of the stairways when I heard some one yell,"Is that you, Corporal Gallishaw?"
35119I''d give you the stuff if I got it to cook, but I do n''t get it, do I, Corporal?"
35119Manson stirred sleepily and murmured,"What do you want?"
35119The worst of it is, they''ll come along to me and say,''What''s your name and number?''
35119Where did you get it?"
35119Will you stand by me?"
35119[ Illustration: Washing day in war- time]"Is there anybody here?"
45949Did n''t I tell y''es the roight fut''s not the roight fut?
45949Why did I make you a corporal?
45949Why do n''t you blow on it, if it is too hot?
45949Why does n''t the army move?
45949Although I knew them both, I went to the side of the carriage, saluted and said,"Passes, gentlemen?"
45949And what of the chief medical officer?
45949I had not gone far when I was jeered at by boys and larger hoodlums and saluted with such questions as"Soger will ye work?"
45949I put my hand on her waist and gave the skirt a shake which caused an audible jingle of bottles, and asked her,"What''s that, Mama?"
45949I sometimes ask myself the questions-- Was my army service a benefit or a detriment to me in after life?
45949One day while on guard an elderly captain, who unquestionably hailed from one of the New England states, said to me,"Where be you men from?
45949What am I now?
45949What do you clean yours with?"
45949What must have been the thoughts and feeling of the unfortunate sufferers?
45949What should be said of the commander of the post, an officer of high rank?
45949What will you take now?"
45949Why did n''t you go there and arrest them?"
45949Would I have attained a better condition and standing, if I had not been in the military service?
45949the president said,"Then what are you standing there for?"
49976Do you intend to escape, Lieutenant?
49976After looking at me closely from head to foot, she exclaimed,"Is you a Yankee?"
49976Did you come through underground?"
49976How in the world did you get through?
49976Looking the very picture of fright and astonishment, she threw up her hands and exclaimed:"Fo''de Lo''d, massa, wha''you come from?"
49976The same question was put to me:"Wha''you all gwine?"
49976They walked rapidly towards my guides and called out:"Wha''ye all gwine?"
49976This was done by placing a man with his back to the pieces of bread, and the sergeant pointing to one piece at a time and asking,"Whose is this?"
49976Was that sentinel a Yankee was the first thing to be settled satisfactorily?
42892But are you never afraid?
42892Did they shoot at you?
42892Did you give that Jew back his money?
42892Do n''t you hear the cannon over there?
42892General,I said,"did you ask the Secretary to let me go back with you?"
42892I understand, of course,said he,"that you are not saying this on your own authority?"
42892Mr. Dana,asked Colonel Wilder,"what is the situation?"
42892There is James E. English, of Connecticut; I think he is sure, is n''t he?
42892Well, as the President is not here, will you sign the warrant?
42892Well, sir,said I,"what shall I say to these gentlemen?"
42892Well, what says he?
42892What does Stanton say?
42892What in the world is that?
42892What is it? 42892 What shall I do?"
42892What will they be likely to want?
42892Will you give me any orders?
42892Will you go?
42892A little girl of mine said,"Papa, could n''t you take me over to see that?"
42892Ca n''t you send to Indianapolis and catch that fool and have him sent to me to work on the forts?
42892Can any one contend that it ought to be restored to its claimants without charge for the new ties and iron?
42892DEAREST HUSBAND: Why do you not come home?
42892Do you know whether the President will be back before morning?"
42892General Rosecrans, to the proposition to strengthen the left, made always the same reply,"Where are we going to take it from?"
42892Have you forgotten your wife and child?
42892How is he?"
42892How soon can you start?"
42892I asked;"what are the orders?"
42892If we look through the record of great men, where is there one to be placed beside him?
42892Nasby?"
42892Now who would stand in the way of one so kindly and charitably disposed?
42892President?"
42892So it would have been at Cold Harbor if Grant had won, and who would have thought of the losses?
42892Tell me what is the reason?"
42892That morning he said to me at breakfast:"Mr. Dana, I am going to Satartia to- day; would you like to go along?"
42892The first time I saw Sheridan after the battle I said to him,"Why did you go up there?"
42892This letter was followed the next day by a telegram, saying:"Will you come here?
42892What are your orders?"
42892What has come over you?
42892What''s up?"
42892When I went to see him in his office, the first thing he said was:"Will you have a drink?"
42892When the congressman stated the case, I asked him,"Do you want that?"
42892Who can combine the elements of success on the battlefield?
42892Who can combine the elements of success on the battlefield?
42892Who can organize victory?
42892Who can organize victory?
42892Who ever thinks of or reads Everett''s Gettysburg speech now?
42892Why, then, should we give them up for nothing?
42892Will some one kill me?
44889Is it running, too?
44889Why, Mister,said the soldier,"do n''t you know that hell has busted?"
44889A Sergeant demanded our surrender, the Confederate nearest him threw down his gun; the one next to me turned and said,"What shall we do?"
44889Can anyone wonder that we eighteen were drawn together that day by a bond of suffering and blighted hope, closer than ever before?
44889Can we get away and how far?
44889During the evening two ladies came in where we were, one of whom inquired:"Where are you from?"
44889Great soldiers were Lee, Johnston, Jackson, Longstreet, Hills, Pickett, Stuart and others, but who made them great?
44889Have you another man over there three feet across the back and who wears a number two shoe-- two hides to the shoe?"
44889I turn to ask, who were these Confederate soldiers?
44889In the hospital at Chester, when Dr. Schafer already referred to examined me, he said:"Young man, do you know you are nearly dead?"
44889Is it their intention to subjugate the states, and overthrow the citadel of liberty itself?
44889It must not be supposed that men were not alarmed, for doubtless many a poor fellow thought his time had come-- and pray?
44889It was from the 53d chapter of Isaiah, verse i:"Who hath believed our report?
44889Maybe these after all were the lucky men-- who knows?
44889Naturally the query was often made, how long will the war last?
44889Seeing the mighty host gathered and gathering to envelop the few rebels left, this Confederate cried out,"Do we have to whip the world?"
44889Sumner responded,"Do n''t you know that Abe Lincoln is re- elected and has called for a million men, and that Jeff Davis says war to the knife?
44889The captain inquired,"What?"
44889Then the query,"To what command do you belong?"
44889They call us rebels-- can a sovereign be a rebel?
44889What are our prospects for success?
44889What do the Northern people mean?
44889What shall we do?"
44889What should I do?
44889When will it end?
44889Where are you going?"
44889Who else could they be?
44889Who would have ever heard of them, or of General Grant, but for the Confederate soldier?
44889Why the bridge?
44889Will it continue until the last man falls?
44889and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?"
16521A quiet drive round the park, I suppose, Miss?
16521Am I to leave the_ blessà © s_, then?
16521Believe you that she can understand what we say?
16521Bin drivin''the boys,''as she? 16521 Call those''ands?"
16521Cockles?
16521Complètement coupà © e,I heard one say, and quick as a shot, I asked,"Où est- ce que c''est qu''est coupà ©?"
16521D''you come from Sussex?
16521Dead?
16521Dear me, however did_ that_ happen?
16521Did he die in this bed?
16521Did it bleed?
16521Do I mind the air rides, Miss? 16521 Does he mean it is n''t his own Christian name?"
16521Fine chaps,said the one sitting on the box to me,"they''re a good emetic of their country, are n''t they?"
16521Got your knee, Miss?
16521Ha ye no men to do yon dirty worrk for ye?
16521Have you cleaned them?
16521He''s not a---- dog,I protested, and then up came a Padre who asked gravely,"What are you, my child?"
16521Hoots, mon,they called to the now thoroughly embarrassed D., as we mounted,"are ye no going to lift the lassie oop?"
16521How did you get in?
16521How have_ you_ got here?
16521How high?
16521How now, you know not how to cook a thing simple as that? 16521 How,"asked the Colonel, who was conducting the Enquiry,"can you declare with so much certainty the space was 3 feet 8 inches?"
16521Humph, I suppose you know they grow on sewers and people who eat them die of ptomaine poisoning?
16521I guess y''aint chopped many sticks,''ave yer?
16521I suppose, Miss, you would n''t care to join us?
16521I''m for home this time,he said sadly,"but wo n''t the old missus be pleased?"
16521I''ve broken both legs,I announced,"will I be able to ride again?"
16521If it were not permitted that I return? 16521 Is it necessary?"
16521Is n''t it the limit? 16521 It''s good to see you back, Miss,"he said,"the driver they put on the lorry was very slow and cautious-- you know the''en we always try to catch?
16521Mademoiselle knows_ la boxe_?
16521Mademoiselle knows_ ze- k_-nock- oot?
16521May I ask what you_ did_?
16521May I ask with what?
16521Miske,he asked,"think you that I shall see my wife and five children again?"
16521No?
16521Not going?
16521Red Cross then?
16521See you her strong boots?
16521Sister,another one called,"will you drive us when we leave for Blighty?"
16521Sorry, miss, did it ketch you?
16521Sure?
16521That''s funny,I thought,"where can it have come from?"
16521They work like men, these English young girls, is it not so?
16521Was it?
16521Well,said Sergeant Wicks cheerfully,"what do you think of the typhoid Wards?
16521What about keeping some gold fish?
16521What could it be?
16521What on earth shall I do,said she,"I''ve finished all the ice, and there''s not a bit left to make the tea for breakfast?
16521What price,_ Kiwi_?
16521What were we doing?
16521What would it have been like without morphia?
16521What''s happened,I asked my friend,"are we supposed to stop?"
16521What, Pierre,said I,"you do n''t mean to say you are leaving us?"
16521Where can I join it?
16521Where-- What?
16521Which one is it?
16521Whom have you got in behind?
16521Why do we do it?
16521Why have you taken me off the Blighty ship, Sister?
16521Why must they go through so much suffering?
16521Why? 16521 Why?"
16521Will I be able to ride again?
16521Will I see me old mother again, Sister?
16521Will you tell me,said Mrs. F. confidentially,"if that young man is engaged to Miss B.?"
16521Wot was that you''anded out to them, Miss?
16521Wot_ would_ Liza say?
16521You do n''t say, sir? 16521 You would, would you?"
16521You''re telling me the truth, Sister? 16521 _ Do chocolat, si voos play_,"they would ask, and were speechless with surprise when we replied sweetly:"Certainly, which kind will you have?"
16521_ Que voulez- vous, Mademoiselle_,the old man continued, shrugging his shoulders,"_ Jolie Annette ne chante pas mal, hein?_"and I agreed with him.
16521( One in the eye for Fritz what?)
16521A priceless article appeared in one of the leading dailies entitled,"Women Motor Drivers.--Is it a suitable occupation?"
16521A sigh of relief( or was it disappointment?)
16521Are you an orderly or are n''t you?"
16521As I stepped out of the taxi at Charing Cross and handed my kit to the porter, he asked:"Boat train, Miss?"
16521As if it was_ my_ fault I was n''t?
16521Bad luck on the"bloke,"what?
16521Bridget entered just then and, determined not to appear flustered, in as cool a voice as possible I said:"Is that all right, old thing?"
16521Ca n''t you imagine the outraged feelings of the good burghers?
16521Could I urge Little Willie on?
16521Could any of us be spared?
16521Do you think I am going to die, Miske?"
16521Had I really been away two years or was it only a sort of lengthy nightmare?
16521Hardly what one might call tactful, what?
16521Have you a scent spray?
16521He has kindly given me permission to reproduce them: Was there love once?
16521He saw my hesitation, and in the most natural manner in the world said with a bow,"Mademoiselle has probably come for_ un bon_?"
16521He scanned my pink pass for some time and then asked,"Where are you going?"
16521He seemed to regain consciousness to a certain extent and asked me from time to time,"Sister, am I dying?"
16521He stopped and chuckled,"You do fatigues just the same as we do?"
16521Host to Logan:"I suppose, being in a Convoy Camp, you hear nothing but motor shop the whole time, and get to know quite a lot about them?"
16521How could I make Jan salute, I wondered?
16521How on earth did you get it?"
16521How to cope, that was the question?
16521How to cope?
16521I found her wringing out some blankets and was greeted with the cheery"Hello, had a good leave?
16521I remember once on getting to the Casino I called out,"I hope you were n''t bumped too much in there?"
16521I say, old bird, you wo n''t mind going into the cook- house for a bit, will you, till the real cook comes?
16521I wondered, and then in a flash the scenes of that morning( or was it a week ago?)
16521I''m afraid I knew nothing much about either and shamelessly countered it by asking,"Which are you?"
16521If they_ are_ to die, why ca n''t it happen at once?"
16521In the morning when I awoke after a sound night''s sleep, I would exclaim triumphantly:"There you are,''Squig,''what price the tent blowing down?
16521Is it not so, Henri?"
16521It is_ chic_ that, hein?"
16521It was comforting to overhear them say to each other on the journey:"This is fine, mate, ai n''t it?"
16521It was pathetic when a voice from the interior could be heard asking,"Is it much farther, Sister?"
16521Makes you rather sick to talk of it?
16521No?
16521One day she called him to account, and, in an exasperated voice said,"What are you supposed to be doing here, Louis, anyway?
16521One enthusiast asked me breathlessly( it was Cole- Hamilton)"Which side are you on?"
16521Splendid are n''t they?
16521Surely not Madame your mother when there are young girls such as you in the house?"
16521Surely of all the lonely places of the earth this was by far the worst?
16521Terribly cheerful, are n''t you?
16521That surprising sportsman replied:"Is n''t it?
16521The explanation being that one day a certain general visited the camp, and on leaving said:"Oh, by the way, are you people''army''?"
16521The type who says"Whatever was that?
16521Then a fifth murmured,"What about fishing?
16521To bob or not to bob, that was the question?
16521Was the war worth even one boy''s eyesight?
16521Was there grief once?
16521Was there grief once?
16521Was there love once?
16521We had a cheery breakfast, and when it was over I called out,"I hope you all feel very much better and otherwise radiating?
16521Well I never, wot''s the crime, I wonder?
16521What could it be?
16521What was I to do?
16521What was the poor man to do?
16521What were the sentinels doing, I wondered?
16521What, I wondered, happened to his wife and five children?
16521What?
16521Whatever was that?
16521When he had recovered, he said,"No, you mistake me, what religion I mean?"
16521Who then makes the''cuisine''for you at home?
16521Who up and joined the Irish guards as Kitchener''s pride and joy; When on the march you''ll hear them shout,''Who''s going to win the war?''
16521Who was it, when she doubted him, got on his knees and swore He''d love her for three years or the duration of the War?"
16521Would the ambulance never arrive?
16521Would you kindly ring for the lift?
16521You know the kind of thing, trying to pick up ten needles with a pin( or is it two?)
16521You see, Sir, do n''t you?"
16521You''re so good- natured(?)
16521Young man,"and she fixed Eric with her lorgnettes,"have_ you_ been wounded-- I see_ no_ stripe on your arm?"
16521_ Last Verse_"Who was it met a dainty little Belgian refugee And right behind the firing line, would take her on his knee?
16521_ Ã � propos_ I remember asking one night when an ambulance train came in in the dark,"Are you liers or sitters in here?"
16521_"Qu''est ce qu''il y''a?
16521was all I could feebly ask--"Why, yes, did n''t they tell you?"
16521would come?
35700Doctor, may I try to save my boy my own way?
35700From whom?
35700I wonder, Lord, will I ever get to heaven-- to the New Jerusalem?
35700If I can write to your mother before you are free, what shall I say?
35700Is he wounded?
35700Miss M----,said one of the more timid servants,"do they want to kill us all dead?
35700We camp near, do we?
35700What can be the matter?
35700Where are you going?
35700Where can we go? 35700 Who shall we look to now for protection?"
35700You are very sick, and God may not spare your life; will you say one little prayer after me?
35700And what will the morrow bring forth?
35700At breakfast, on the morning of the 17th, we heard discussed the question, Whether there was a masked battery on the opposite shore or not?
35700But why does he cripple so efficient an officer as General P---- certainly is, so as almost to render him inefficient?
35700Can no appeal be made by which peace may come to us?"
35700Can the farmer, to whom it offers the latest results of agricultural research and experiment?
35700Can the intelligent mechanic, who wishes to understand what he reads in his daily paper?
35700Can the teacher, who is enabled, by the outside information it affords, to make his instructions doubly interesting and profitable?
35700Can the young man, to whom it affords the means of storing his mind with useful knowledge bearing no any vocation he may have selected?
35700Can there be nothing done to assuage the fierce passions of men?
35700Can you credit it, dear J----, General Beauregard has evacuated Corinth?
35700Did this smooth, deceitful current of the glowing waters glide over forms loved and lost to the faithful ones at home?
35700Do you not already repent the remark?
35700Had this night made them orphans?
35700Have I ever told you his history?
35700How could we sing and laugh amid our suffering fellow beings-- amid the shriek of death itself?
35700I had been sleeping some time, for the moon was shining brightly, when I was awakened by loud cries and screams:"Where shall we go?
35700I thought him an ordinary man, did not you?
35700I thought, as I leaned from the balcony of my room; will these streets echo to the tread of the victorious army?
35700I turned to the doctor, questioning:"Are they coming over the hill?"
35700I was reminded of the poor man in an infected district who was met by a traveller and asked,"How do you live here?"
35700In the midst of all the falling shells, can not one reach him, giving him peace and death?
35700Madam, do n''t you think your house stands in need of you?"
35700Must we again go through the fright and anxiety of yesterday?"
35700My friend, do you dread death?
35700O boys, where are you?
35700Our whole little household had been drawn out to witness the departure of the brilliant(?)
35700Really, was there to be no mental rest for the women of Vicksburg?
35700Shot, gasping, wild, he staggered around, crying piteously,"Where are you, boys?
35700So I said:"Soldier, would you like a tent fly?"
35700So, in answer to the little man''s query,"Do n''t you think we''d better whip up and try to make O---- by night?"
35700Standing between us, he said:"Where are you gwin'', old man?"
35700Suppose the gunboats should make an attack?
35700Was M---- in earnest?
35700Was it a dream?
35700What could it mean?
35700What soul in the land but has felt and witnessed this grief-- this unavailing sorrow for the brave and untimely dead?
35700What was the poor mother doing now, of whom he whispered to me?
35700Why do n''t you stand your ground?"
35700Why should a woman of sense care to talk about anything but dress and her servants?
35700Will they keep doing this until we all die?"
35700Would you like to see those you love complimented in this way?
35700Yet I thought, may I not be in danger in Vicksburg?
35700Yet, is there any place where one is perfectly safe in these terrible times?
35700You do not wonder at my quotation in favor of a retrograde movement in this frame of mind, do you?
35700You''ll stand by us, and protect us, wo n''t you?
35700cried I,"have we no rest for the sole of our foot?
35700mamma, was it a mortar tell?"
35700of opportunities for good to our fellow men lost?
35700of prayers hastily said over?
35700said I to a friend,"how is it possible you live here?"
35700where shall we go?"
44599But,I asked,"what makes you think we are in danger here?"
44599But,asks a woman,"is n''t there any way of stopping them?"
44599Then,said he,"what happened to the patrol that was ordered to go this way this morning?"
44599They evacuated Penchard yesterday, did n''t they?
44599Where are you going?
44599Yes, but who can tell? 44599 And besides, Captain, if danger threatened, would n''t these troops insure the escape of the civilians who are left?
44599And by whom?
44599And yet, did not His messenger on earth say:"Love one another"?
44599Are we alone to remain behind?
44599As long as time endures, in order that ideals may live, must the earth be drenched with blood and tears?
44599But how are we to get to the other side of the river?
44599But where do you live?"
44599Can it be possible that in this marvellous setting, in this peaceful countryside and radiant sunshine, men are killing each other?
44599Can it be that the horses we have been hearing for several nights back belong to these patrols?
44599Can we do nothing but stand waiting here-- useless-- helpless?
44599Could anything be more beautiful to their eyes than their humble dwelling-- their little white house?
44599Did they hear us?
44599Do you think, Captain, that there is still danger?
44599How could they have gone away from it?
44599How many among those men who are marching by will see their own again?
44599Is such a thing still possible in this century?
44599On our asking:"Where are the Germans?"
44599One of them went on with a sneer:"Ha, so you''re scared of the Boches, are you?
44599Shall we ever attain to the ideal of peace?
44599The Germans are falling back, are n''t they?"
44599To whom can I report this discovery?
44599Was the auto to reach Meaux by going through Mareuil in case the State road was cut off?
44599Were there several patrols?
44599What harvest will be garnered from all this mowing down of tender youth, cut off here before our eyes?
44599What have the sons of men done with Christ''s doctrines of love-- charity-- peace?
44599What is happening?
44599What shall we do with it?
44599Why did n''t you answer?
44599Will he start off again?
44599Will the baker make more to- morrow?
44599Will they ever see again those little ones of whom our children remind them?
20460All Union people, I suppose?
20460Are you quite sure Mrs. Hobart said''egad,''Colonel?
20460Beg pardon, madam, is this the direct road to Shallow Ford?
20460Black square? 20460 Bless your sowl, Captain, and do you think I had nothing to do but to watch the boys?
20460But, Corporal,inquired Captain Hunter,"what were the other soldiers of your company doing all this time?"
20460Do they miss me at home; do they miss me?
20460Do you recollect a stroll down to the bay shore one moonlight night?
20460Goin''home on furlough, eh?
20460Hell,shouted Buckner,"does de Capin''spose I''m guiane to eat wid a d-- n common nigger?
20460How do you form an oblique square, sir?
20460How is that, Parson,said Davis, affecting to misunderstand him;"not worth a damn there?"
20460Indeed,said the Captain;"what about Chattanooga?"
20460Is he a loyal man?
20460Is he secesh?
20460Mary Patterson?
20460Never pay the Lord?
20460Thou, thou reignest in this bosom, There, there hast thou thy throne; Thou, thou knowest that I love thee; Am I not fondly thine own? 20460 Tom, you scoundrel, how dare you slander the white man in that way?"
20460Well,he continued,"you are a general now, are you?"
20460What are a th- thousand men,said he,"when( hic) principle is at stake?
20460What can you do? 20460 What do you say, gentlemen, to a second lieutenancy for General Beatty''s friend?"
20460What do you want to go church for, CÃ ¦ sar?
20460What is your master''s name?
20460What kind of light,he will ask,"is that kind which is the opposite of heavy?"
20460What time?
20460Where did you learn to cook?
20460Where do you all come from?
20460Where is the officer of the day?
20460Who comes there?
20460Why so, CÃ ¦ sar?
20460Why you are a fool, John; did you suppose I wanted you to make me tea out of tobacco?
20460Why, how is that?
20460You have not heard that Longstreet was defeated at Knoxville, and compelled to fall back with heavy loss?
20460You have not heard, then, that Bragg was whipped; lost sixty pieces of artillery and many thousand men?
20460You knew General Patterson?
20460A room?
20460A voice came out of the darkness, asking,"who are you?"
20460Am I not fondly thine own?
20460Are they friends or foes?
20460Are you a inviten''me to pound you over the head with a saw- log?
20460As the column approached, said one of the women to a soldier:"Is these uns Yankees?"
20460As they passed, our men made many good- natured remarks, as,"Well, boys, you''re tired of soldiering, ar''n''t you?"
20460At another time he gave an order to a soldier which was not obeyed with sufficient alacrity, when he yelled:"What regiment do you belong to?"
20460Black square?"
20460Buckner, astonished at this unceremonious intrusion, exclaimed:"What you doin''har, sah?"
20460Can you cook?"
20460Captain Mitchell called, and the boys said:"Sergeant, do n''t you know him?"
20460Colonel Marrow sought to question this same fellow in regard to the strength of the enemy, when the boy said:"Are you a commissioned officer?"
20460CÃ ¦ sar said to the Adjutant,"Massa Wilson, may I go to church?"
20460Did the new moon, which I saw so squarely over my left shoulder when riding him over Waldron''s ridge, augur this?
20460Did you ebber know a man ter get black when he''s scard, sah?
20460Do a man''s har git black when he scared, sah?
20460For sacrifice of children, wife, and friends?
20460For sacrifice of firesides-- genial homes?
20460Governor(?)
20460Had you not better cease this sort of warfare?
20460Hailing a little knot, I said:"Boys where do you live?"
20460Has he wife and children in that mountain nest?
20460Has the great experiment failed?
20460He thanks God that he is not an American; and should not we, in a spirit of conciliation, meet him half way, and feel thankful that he is not?
20460He thought the straws in his bunk were thorns, and would pluck at them with his fingers and exclaim:"My God, ai n''t they sharp?"
20460Hostler, you d-- d scoundrel, why do n''t you wipe Jerome''s nose?"
20460How comfort mother for the loss of son?
20460How do ye do?"
20460How was he dressed?
20460How were their days spent, and amongst what surroundings?
20460I approached the door and rapped, and a woman''s voice from within asked,"who was there?"
20460I asked:"Do you call this money?"
20460I asked:"Where have you been, Lieutenant?"
20460I introduced my friends to Lieutenant Van Pelt, of Loomis''battery, and Mr. House asked:"Lieutenant, will these guns shoot with any kind of decision?"
20460I said to him,"Are those our troops?"
20460I said to one,"what is your name?"
20460I told him I was not sure yet, and he said:"Is it uncertainty or modesty that makes you doubt?"
20460If the enemy is too strong for us to attack, what must be the fate of Rosecrans''four regiments, cut off from us, and struggling against such odds?
20460If the husbands, brothers, and fathers of these people, their natural leaders and guardians, do not care for them, why should we?
20460Is country naught to thee?
20460Is freedom nothing?
20460Is he a man of dogs and guns, who spends his years in the mountains and glens hunting for bear and deer?
20460Is it a pleasant home?
20460Is it not ancient Pistol come again to astonish the world by deeds of reckless daring?
20460Is it the desire for freedom, or the dislike for his overseer, that prompts him to run five miles of a Sunday to give this information?
20460Is not that rather more than a farm hand who gets but twelve dollars a month can afford to pay for boots?"
20460Keep quiet; what the h-- ll yer''bout there, now?
20460Lord, when will this war end?
20460May it not be the baronial castle of"old Leather Breeches"himself?
20460May we not hope that their darkened minds caught glimpses of the sun of a better life, now rising for them?
20460McCook is, doubtless, to blame for being hasty; but may not Buell be censurable for being slow?
20460Meeting Captain Loomis yesterday, he said:"Do you know you captured a regiment at Chaplin Hills?"
20460Naught an honored name?
20460Now we hear the yell which betokens encouraged hearts; but whose yell?
20460On last Sunday Captain Wells found him dressed very elaborately, in white vest and clean linen, and said to him:"What''s in the wind, Buckner?"
20460One day CÃ ¦ sar said to me,"Co''nel, you belongs to de meetin do n''t you?"
20460One of my companions asked,"are you Union soldiers?"
20460Poking his head into my tent, and, taking off his hat, he said:"Is de Co''nel in?"
20460Riding on a little further, a private passed without touching his cap:"Hold on, here,"said the General,"do n''t you know how to salute a superior?"
20460Said the Parson to an old man:"My friend, are you religious?"
20460Saw a man, did you?
20460Says he, Dick says he, how did they hit you so many times?
20460Shall CÃ ¦ sar be stuffed or not?
20460Shall we continue to protect the property of our enemies, and lose the lives of our friends?
20460That was a pleasant conceit of Holmes,"What did poor Katy do?"
20460The Captain said:"Sergeant, do n''t you know where you are?"
20460The General hallooed after me,"How d''ye do?"
20460The boys laughed and said:"If this is called an academy, what sort of things must their common school- houses be?"
20460The former checked up, shook hands, and said:"How d''ye do?"
20460The other day Davy had him out for exercise, and when he came rearing and charging back, I said:"How does he behave to- day, Davy?"
20460These days of marchings, nights of lonely guard?
20460They say:"You would not disturb peaceable citizens by levying contributions from them?"
20460This terrible expenditure of health and life?
20460To- night I received a bundle of Northern papers, and among others the Union(?)
20460Was he large or small?
20460What are his thoughts about the war, and its probable effects on his own fortunes, as he trudges along over the hills?
20460What balm to soothe a widow''s aching heart?
20460What balm to which her heaviest grief must yield?
20460What could I do?
20460What did you see when you came up street?
20460What hour, what gift, will ever make amends For broken health, for bruised flesh and bones, For lives cut short by bullet, blade, disease?
20460What is a room?
20460What were their thoughts, fears, hopes, acts?
20460What''s home, if in craven shame We seek its hearthstone?
20460Where balm to heal the widow''s heart, or what Shall soothe a mother''s grief for woes like these?
20460Where is the glory?
20460Where is the glory?
20460Where is the reward, For sacrifice of comfort, quiet, peace?
20460Where is the reward?
20460Where, and under what circumstances, have I heard other bands?
20460Which end of it should I take?
20460While there, a good- looking non- commissioned officer of the battery came up to me, and, extending his hand, said:"How do you do, General?"
20460Who can really know what an army is unless he mingles with the individuals who compose it, and learns how they live, think, talk, and act?
20460Who comes there?"
20460Who lived in the town of Athlone, Alone?
20460Who lives in that house?
20460Who were their associates, and on which side of the great questions of the day did they stand?
20460Who were they?
20460Why not?
20460Why should they not be as contented as himself?
20460Why, at any rate, did he not notify me of the order which he had received from the division commander?
20460Why, my lads, dinna ye march forward in order?
20460Why, when the battle was progressing so advantageously for our side, did they not go on?
20460Will the man ever come to consolidate these innumerable detachments of the National army, and then sweep through the Confederacy like a tornado?
20460Wo n''t you take a seat?"
20460Would it be regarded as an act of presumption and treated with ridicule and contempt?
20460broke in the boys;"never pay the Lord?
20460do you want me to hit you a lick over the snoot, now-- do you?
20460his wings are shorter than they were, and of what use is his head without wings?
20460who comes there?"
20460who comes there?"
20460who comes there?"
51063And what if some contagion should break out among them, like smouldering fire in a haystack?
51063But how to do this with troops confined within the narrow quarters of a ship?
51063But what if the sea should grow yet fiercer and heavier, and buffet her with redoubled energy till she is maimed or exhausted?
51063But where was the fleet?
51063Or were the railroad officials in sympathy with secession, and purposely hampering our movements by pretended friendship and false excuses?
51063Was our own march to be obstructed at the outset by a rebellious city, standing like a fortress across the route?
51063Were the batteries silenced, and the game played out and lost?
51063Were these old sea- dogs, after coming six hundred miles on purpose, to be delayed in their work by a little rough water?
51063What could be the cause of such delay, when everything demanded promptitude and celerity?
51063What did it mean?
51063Who could tell what might be happening even then at the national capital?
37628''Ow can I keep me''orses fit,he used to say,"if a bloomin''bank clerk goes drivin''''em at a stretched gallop the''ole o''Saturday?
37628''Ow should I know?
37628Anything happen after I left?
37628Are you certain,I repeated,"that you''ve only got your own telescope and sight clinometer?"
37628Did you pass any of our infantry on your way?
37628Do you know what to- day is?
37628Fuze two-- more_ right_ I said-- damn them, they''re still advancing-- what price the old----th now?...
37628How do you mean, sir?
37628Jolly, is n''t it?
37628Never mind,I replied,"but would it be disturbing your arrangements at all if I watered my horses and gave my men some food here?
37628Nice box- up here, is n''t it? 37628 Steady now-- get back, will yer?"
37628Well,said some one else,"he''s been posted to B sub; why not call him Bilfred?"
37628What do you mean? 37628 What is it, Tony?"
37628What price the news?
37628What the devil have you got there, Tebbut?
37628What the hell shall I do now?
37628What will these keep out?
37628What''s happened here, and where the devil have you been all day?
37628Where have you come from?
37628Who are_ you_?
37628Will I take his place?
37628Wot about yer''orses, Snatty?
37628Yes, sir: but have you seen our oven?
37628You are an officer, are n''t you?
37628You shut yer mouth and get on with yer work,was the rejoinder,"Wot do you know about guns, I''d like to know?"
37628And he made it unmistakably plain that what he meant was:"Do you think I''m such a fool as to let you go?
37628Any letters for me?"
37628At intervals, every half- hour or so, a mighty shout would go up,"Are we downhearted?"
37628But did we"take over"this position?
37628But how soon?
37628But what will happen now?
37628Can you do anything?
37628Could tact have gone further?
37628D''you reckon''e''ll get orl right, sir?"
37628Did you get''em?"
37628Does our escort( twenty armed men under a sergeant) fear a combined revolt, I wonder, or is this done merely to annoy us?
37628Get an orderly, will you, Tony?"
37628He would growl at each one as he groomed him, or scold him as one does a naughty child, and his"Naow_ then_, stand still, will yer, Dawn?"
37628However, the patriotism of the canteen contractor( who, need I say?
37628Is it worth all the trouble, the science, the skill, the organisation?
37628Is n''t that so?"
37628Is there not a derelict railway station less than a mile away, and are not piles of rubble placed along the roadsides for mending purposes?
37628It is as if they said, in so many words,"Who the deuce are you?
37628It was his right, he had earned it by nine months of drudgery-- and who the devil, anyway, he felt, was this old fool to thwart him?
37628Now?"
37628Oats were plentiful-- what else mattered?
37628Our pit could n''t keep the rain out last night-- what''ll it do if a shell comes along?"
37628PART II"AND THE OLD"BILFRED... Fellow- creature I am, fellow- servant Of God: can man fathom God''s dealings with us?
37628See?"
37628Should he hide all the colonel''s clothes and only reveal their whereabouts when the application had been forwarded?
37628Supposing he were to lose half a dozen wagons or thousands of rounds of howitzer ammunition, would his colonel get sent home?
37628The sergeant- major, for instance, who is the personification of respectful efficiency-- what does he think of this infant unit?
37628Then he said slowly:"Are you English?"
37628Then''e suddenly calls out:''Is that there telephone workin''yet?''
37628Then, after a pause, he added recklessly,"Would you have come back, sir, if you''d been me?"
37628They are happy now because they''re thinking only of to- morrow, but what of the day after?
37628Understand that?"
37628Well, do not the winds that shriek across this flat country blow down trees sometimes?
37628What about them fags, Tom?
37628What of the future of these maimed and broken men?
37628What say to going down the road?"
37628What''s going to happen to- morrow?"
37628When can I join?
37628Which one had they in your brigade when you went over there last night-- the right one or the wrong one?"
37628Why did n''t you tell me that before?"
37628Why not have left the poor devil in his hospital?
37628Will they be remembered or forgotten?
37628Would he stamp his feet and toss his head proudly when he heard of the Greys at Waterloo or the Light Brigade at Balaclava?
37628a husky voice exclaimed,"stand still, will yer, Dawn?"
37628and who knoweth more?
37628did yer?
37628she exclaimed to me in the tones of an anxious mother-- and then added in an excited whisper,"A- t- il vu les Boches, ce petit sous- lieutenant?"
37628some one asked him;"who''s going to''ave them when you''re gorn?"
37628what of the thousands of days after?
11211''Are ye Tamson, the baker?'' 11211 ''What''s the trouble?''
11211A fair hit, I mean?
11211A thing like yon''s hard to be getting, I''m thinking?
11211And what sort of music does it best of all?
11211Back again, are you? 11211 Do n''t your poor knees get cold-- with no coverings, exposed to this bitter cold?"
11211Do you remember all the lads you met at the billet where you came to sing for us the first time I met you, Harry?
11211Eh, Harry, man,he said,"will ye be doin''me a favor?"
11211Fluently?
11211From what province?
11211Ha''ye seen a''the men frae the braes and the glen, Ha''ye seen them a''marchin''awa''? 11211 How are you getting on, Jock?"
11211How came it like this?
11211How came you to be hurt, lad?
11211How came you to get this?
11211How can I tak up again with that old mummery? 11211 How did you rest, son?"
11211How do you like being a prisoner?
11211How is the spirit of your men?
11211How often do you get a shell right inside the pit here?
11211How will you answer that bairn''s question?
11211How would you like a pot shot, lads?
11211I say, man,he asked, at last,"are ye not Tamson, the baker?"
11211I wonder if General Haig has arrived, by any chance?
11211If there is a God,they whisper to themselves,"why does he permit a thing so wicked to go on?"
11211Is n''t it near time for me to be finishing my concert, sir?
11211It was n''t Sir Douglas Haig who arrived, was it, Harry?
11211Man, if ye''ve been to the war do ye not know it for sure and certain?
11211May I join you in a smoke?
11211Mother,she asked,"what is a soldier for?"
11211Still,I said,"you must be fighting for something else, too?"
11211Their spirit?
11211We''ve been thinking, Tam and I, what would become of England, should Scotland make a separate peace?
11211Weel, Tamson, man, what''s the matter wi''ye?
11211Well,the father will ask,"how are you getting along, lad?"
11211What are the Germans fighting for? 11211 What do they do there?"
11211What do you need most, son?
11211What do you think, Dad?
11211What do you think, son?
11211What have you done to your knee, Lauder?
11211What is it would be such a bad business?
11211What stirs a man''s fighting spirit quicker or better than the right sort of music?
11211What would you do? 11211 What''s the matter here?"
11211What''s the next stop?
11211What? 11211 When did you hear from the boy?
11211Where do you go next, Harry?
11211Where?
11211Would the boys like to hear a concert?
11211Would you like to try a shot, Harry?
11211Would your men like to hear a few songs, lieutenant?
11211Ye think so?
11211Yon?
11211You know that hole you were singing in just now?
11211You speak English?
11211Ze Hun? 11211 ''Is n''t that hard lines, sir?'' 11211 A foreigner was murdered-- what if he was a prince, the Archduke of Austria? 11211 And just before the bugles sounded all ashore I heard a few of them crooning an old Scots song:Will ye no come back again?"
11211And what do you think?
11211And yet I knew there were Scots folk there-- where in the world are there not?
11211Any complaints?"
11211Are you and Mrs. Lauder well?"
11211Ask Captain Lauder to come here?''
11211Aweel, I was not so young as I had been, and Mrs. Lauder-- you ken that she was travelling with me?
11211But how are you going to get it again?"
11211But it was obliging of Fritz-- now was n''t it?
11211But some folk went to him and asked him would he no do his bit to cheer up the puir laddies in a hospital?
11211But-- how had we got here?
11211Can it be that ye ha''been to the war, man, and we not hearing of it, at all?"
11211Could it be true?
11211Do n''t you remember, Harry?
11211Do you not wear anything underneath it?"
11211Everywhere I had friends; everywhere they came crowding to shake me by the hand with a"How are you the day, Harry?"
11211For the bairn will ask you, straightaway:''Did_ you_ fight in the great war, Grandpa?
11211Gentlemen-- you''ll accept such hospitality as we can offer you at our officer''s mess?"
11211Go out before an audience and seek to make it laugh?
11211Ha''ye heard the tale of the Scotsman and the Jew?
11211Ha''ye seen a''the men frae the wee but- an''-ben, And the gallants frae mansion and ha''?"
11211Had he been one of those who had come through the attack, gloriously, to victory, so that he could look back upon that day so long as he lived?
11211Had he folks at hame in Scotland who had gone through days of anguish on his account-- such days of anguish as I had known?
11211Had he sent word to German warships of the plans and movements of British ships?
11211Had he swept on, leaving that bit of his kilt as evidence of his passing?
11211Had the Hun launched some new and terrible attack?
11211Harry Lauder wants to go to France to sing for the soldiers?
11211Have I told you how my boy looked?
11211Have they kept Canada''s men, and America''s, from reaching France?
11211He was an American-- would ye no know it from his speech?
11211How can I laugh when my heart is breaking, and make others smile when the tears are in my eyes?"
11211How comes it ye are here?
11211How could a man get such a plea as that and not want to do what those laddies asked?
11211How could he think of the great deal they were doing and not want to do the little bit they asked of him?
11211How could you pass away your time if you had no work to do?
11211How fared it with Britain in the war?
11211How is a man to account for such things as that?
11211How long did I lie there?
11211How many of that old British army still survive?
11211How was a mortal man to foresee?
11211How was he to dream of it?
11211How would you like old England or auld Scotland to be looking like that?
11211How''s things in Blighty?"
11211I thought they would be glad to see me, but how could I be sure?
11211I wonder did those folk at Christchurch think I would keep the money and make a profit on that flag?
11211I wonder if my boy is all right?"
11211If he were not all right, how should he be there?
11211If it was hard for us to make this climb, if we stumbled as we walked, what had it been for them?
11211If there were tears in my eyes when they made me believe that, will you blame me?
11211Is he to put them down to chance, to luck, to a blind fate?
11211Many letters, did I say?
11211Men there are in the British army who winked as they enlisted and were told:"You''ll be a Canadian?"
11211Need we lash ourselves about him?
11211Of course there were dangers-- where are there not along that strip of land that runs from the North Sea to Switzerland in France and Belgium?
11211Or was he dead-- perhaps within a hundred yards of where I stood and gazed down at that relic of him?
11211Our breath came hard and fast-- how had it been with them?
11211Sing my songs when my heart was broken?
11211Suppose the Germans came to Australia?
11211That is rank superstition, you say?
11211The refinements of life were lacking, to be sure-- but who cared?
11211The submarines?
11211The tin fish?
11211There were moments when in my anguish I cried out, aloud:"Why?
11211They get rid of the cooties-- you know what they are?"
11211They will no doubt come again-- but when?
11211Was I frightened?
11211Was it for the last time?
11211Was it no a trying situation?
11211Was it out?
11211Was that no a fine plan I had made for my son?
11211Was that no a weird, strange game of hide and seek that I watched being played at Vimy Ridge?
11211Was there a chance of that?
11211We were not really supposed to give any roadside concerts that day, but how was I to resist them?
11211We were talking of the war-- what else was there to talk aboot?
11211Were there scattered ships, here and there, that might swoop down upon Australia''s shores and bring death and destruction with them?
11211Were we seeing him now so strong and hale and hearty, only to have to go the rest of our lives with no more than a memory of him to keep?
11211What did you do?''
11211What do you hope to gain?"
11211What new tricks were the damned English up to now?
11211What of the German navy?
11211What would the boy be saying and having you do?
11211When would John go out?
11211When?
11211Where would ye be going with me, anyway?"
11211Who can tell how long it will be before the soil about Vimy Ridge will cease to give up its relics?
11211Who had he been?
11211Who shall blame them?
11211Who would not trust the British navy, after the great deeds it has done in this war?
11211Why did they have to take John, my boy-- my only child?"
11211Why else had I been so sad and uneasy in my mind?
11211Why else would we go on about our tasks?
11211Why else, all through that Sunday, had it been so impossible for me to take comfort in what was said to cheer me?
11211Why?
11211Will he be nearer to me than now?"
11211Would Britain be drawn in?
11211Would I?
11211Would be make a report?
11211Would this war ever end?
11211Ye ken that tale?
11211Ye would think, would ye no, that they had enough of that in the trenches, where they got lumps and bruises and sorer hurts in the run of duty?
11211You mind the place?
11211Ze bloody Boche?"
28926What shall we do?
28926-- End of the Peninsula campaign-- Fifty or sixty thousand dead-- Who is responsible?
28926-- End of the Peninsula campaign-- Fifty or sixty thousand dead-- Who is responsible?
2892611._--Will any body in this country have the patriotic courage to reform the army?
28926258_ Consummatum est!_-- Will the outraged people avenge itself?
2892692 What will McClellan do?
28926And what is the army for?
28926And where has Seward acquired all this information?
28926Archbishop Hughes is to influence Paris and France,--but whom?
28926Are his heart, his soul, and his convictions to be looked for in the debate, or in the proclamation?
28926Are the European statesmen to be prepared beforehand, or are they to be befogged and prevented from judging for themselves?
28926Are we already so far?
28926But does Mr. Lincoln perceive other, more awful, signs of the times?
28926But if the rebellion is crushed before January 1st, 1863, what then?
28926But is that all which is needed in these terrible emergencies?
28926But is this the condition of the Union?
28926But will they have the energy?
28926Can Seward be fool enough to irritate England, and entangle this country?
28926Can Seward for a moment believe that Wikoff knows Europe, or has any influence?
28926Can anybody be a more noble incarnation of the American people than J. S. Wadsworth?
28926Can it be ignorance of this elementary knowledge with which is familiar every corporal in Europe?
28926Can this man never go out from this rotten treadmill?
28926Curious way of treating and dealing with rebellion, with rebels and traitors; why not arrest them?
28926Do these mummies intend to conduct a war without boldness?
28926Do they believe they can awake enthusiasm for their persons?
28926Do they not know better here in the ministry and in the councils?
28926Do they not know better?
28926Do those Fabiuses know what they talk about?
28926Does Seward believe it?
28926Does he see the bloody handwriting on the wall, condemning his unnatural, vacillating, dodging policy?
28926Has Scott used up his energy, his sense, and even his military judgment in defending Washington before the inauguration?
28926Has he not studied Napoleon''s wars?
28926Have they no blood; are they fishes?
28926Here,_ our great rulers and ministers_ shut the more closely their mind''s(?)
28926How are we to understand this man?
28926How can the Minister of Foreign Affairs advise the President to resort to such a measure?
28926How could it have been otherwise?
28926How far the diplomats sent by the administration are prepared for this task?
28926How will foreign nations behave?
28926How will the Congress act?
28926How will the people stand this masterly administrative demonstration?
28926I am sure that McClellan may lose the whole army, and why not if he continues as he began?
28926If he was so pugnacious in January, why has he not made with the same number of men a flying expedition only to Centreville, right under his nose?
28926If the rebels turn loyal before that term?
28926If the treasonable revolt is conceded to the Cotton States, on what ground can it be denied to the thus called Border States?
28926Is Seward so ignorant of international laws, of general or special history, or was it only said to throw dust?
28926Is he too old, or too much of a Virginian, or a hero on a small scale?
28926Is it possible to say such trash even as a joke?
28926Is that all that he knows of that hateful watchword-- strategy-- nausea repeated by every ignoramus and imbecile?
28926Is there any thing in the world capable of opening this people''s eyes?
28926Is there no penitentiary for all this mob?
28926Is this man mad?
28926Mr. Mercier retorted,"How can you, sir, have such notions?
28926Mr. Seward, Mr. Seward, why is your name to be recorded among the most ardent supporters of this_ strategy_?
28926O Mr. Seward, Mr. Seward, who is it that contributed to turn the current against the cause of right and of humanity?
28926Of what earthly use can be such_ politique provocatrice_ towards England?
28926Oh, why has he established his headquarters in the city, among flunkeys, wiseacres, and spit- lickers?
28926Oh, why this Congress possesses not the omnipotence of an English Parliament?
28926Or does his imagination or his patriotism carry him away or astray?
28926Or is it only to give some money to a hungry, noisy, and not over- principled office- seeker?
28926The men will come; but will statesmanship and generalship come with them?
28926The rebels act in this manner; but what point was found out, what blows were ever dealt by McClellan?
28926The vessel and the crew are excellent, and would easily obey the hand of a helmsman, but there is the rub, where to find him?
28926This movement was perhaps necessary, and could not be avoided; but why at the start had such a basis been selected?
28926Very well; but why not use for it the best, the most decided, and the most thorough means and measures?
28926Was it ignorance in McClellan, or his inborn disrespect of truth, or disrespect of the country, or something worse, that made him make such a report?
28926Was it neutral or honest?
28926Was not some Union- searching at the bottom of that stoppage?
28926Were the Magyars recognized as such in 1848-''49?
28926What a thoughtlessness to press on Russia the convention of Paris?
28926What an idea have those Americans of sending a secret agent to Canada, and what for?
28926What are doing in Europe all these various agents of Mr. Seward, and paid by Uncle Sam?
28926What can I do, what can I do?
28926What can signify his close alliance with such outlaws as Wikoff and the Herald, and pushing that sheet to abuse England and Lord Lyons?
28926What is the matter with Scott, or were the halo and incense surrounding him based on bosh?
28926What is the matter?
28926What is the use of urging on the foreign Cabinets-- above all, England and France-- to rescind the recognition of belligerents?
28926What is this administration about?
28926What is this wheel within a wheel?
28926What sacrifice the official leaders and pilots?
28926What the d---- is Seward with his politicians''policy?
28926What will McClellan do?
28926What will Mr. Seward say to it?
28926What will Seward and Chase say to it, and even old Abe, who himself dreams of re- election, or at least his friends do it for him?
28926What will be its march-- what stages?
28926What will be the result of this experimentalization, so contrary to sound reason?
28926What will he do with 600?
28926What will the anglophiles of Boston say to this?
28926When are his great plans to burst out?
28926When will they begin to see through McClellan, and find out that he is not the man?
28926When will they start, when begin to mould an army?
28926When will we deal blows?
28926When, oh, when will come the opposite?
28926Which of the two will be Mr. Lincoln''s fate?
28926Who around me approaches this ideal?
28926Who is to be taken in?
28926Why did not McClellan take_ the road_ himself, after Hooker was obliged to leave the field?
28926Why does Mr. Seward dabble in war and strategy at home?
28926Why does not the administration call for more on the North, and on the free States?
28926Why shows he not a little_ strategy_ under his nose here?
28926Why?
28926Will Halleck warn the country against McClellan''s incapacity?
28926Will McClellan display unity in conception, and vigor in execution?
28926Will it be one more illusion to be dispelled?
28926Will it turn out that the same men who are to- day at the head of affairs will be the men who shall bring to an end this revolt or revolution?
28926Will the cowardly murderers be exemplarily punished?
28926Will the shallow rhetors, will the would- be leaders in the Congress, be as subservient to the bunglers as they have been up to this hour?
28926Will this McClellan ever advance?
28926Will this outraged people avenge itself on the four or five diggers?
28926Yes, Stanton is, but how about some others?
28926_ Consummatum est!_-- Will the outraged people avenge itself?
28926_ Quousque tandem_--O SEWARD--_abutere patientiam nostram?__ Sept.
28926_ Who began the civil war?_ is repeatedly discussed by those quill cut- throats and allies on the Thames and on the Seine.
28926all these Weeds, Sandfords, Hughes, Bigelows, and whoever else may be there?
28926and, above all, what are the so expensive commander and his staff for?
28926what are they about?
46261Anything stirring?
46261Are you ready to roll?
46261Are your wounded ready?
46261Hell,said the sentry;"he is n''t a bit proud, is he?"
46261Much doing last night?
46261One must live,said he,"and it''s very amiable of the Boches to keep us in fish with their_ marmites, n''est- ce pas, mon vieux_?"
46261Well, when did you come over?
46261What, is it my turn to roll? 46261 Where were you in the States?"
46261_ Un blessé-- urgent?_ Hold your lantern up While I turn the damned machine! 46261 _"So the poor chap''s dead?"
46261A voice from our American West began,"Say-- what kind of carburetors do you birds use?"
46261And London, on being shown the stretcher arrangements of our cars, exclaimed,"That ai n''t so dusty,--eh, wot?"
46261Did n''t any of the wounded come this way?
46261Do you hear that shrapnel tune Twang through the frightened air?
46261Do you remember the time he had two blow- outs and four punctures in twenty- four hours and then had all his brake- bands go at once?
46261He addressed himself to Pottle:"Did he shake hands with you?"
46261It was my design to leave at the beginning of the year, but why should I go?
46261It was very impressive, and even my friend the gendarme said,"_ C''est chic, n''est- ce pas?_ It is the heaviest rain we have had for several days."
46261My first question was:"_ Comment ça va avec le capitaine ce matin?_"All she said and could say was"_ Fini_."
46261New England asked,"How many cars have you got?"
46261Their homes, then, were in Boesinghe?
46261Twice expelled and severed at the roots: where were they going now?
46261Was not her husband away fighting and had not her eldest son been marked down as missing ever since his company took a German trench last June?
46261Well...."Did I leave that spark- plug wrench under the car?
46261When I get well, in two or three weeks, how would you like it for me to spend a week resting in some suburb of London?
46261Why had they asked him to wait?
46261Would they this time reach Calais or would they be pushed back?
46261Wounded?"
46261You know the last house down on the right- hand side?
30264Ah?
30264How long had I been there?
30264How many are there?
30264How?
30264I suppose you are wondering about my waist? 30264 Well,"he said,"they''ve done everything they''ve said they have, have n''t they?"
30264Where to?
30264Why did I want to go away?
30264Why had I come to Liége?
30264''s children are related by marriage to a high official of the Imperial Court?
30264All that horror over again?
30264All the famous hat shops were closed-- who would have a reason to buy hats?
30264And I had to bear all that humiliation because-- well, why?
30264And nobody was indignant, but rather complacent and obliging, for had they not all sons at the front and the same great grief at heart?
30264And the valor of your Sons-- was it ever surpassed?
30264And where are they going to, the poor things, with all roads in the country choked up, soldiers and trenches everywhere?
30264But do the people who stay at home change like that?
30264But how can he get away with the eye of the arrogant usurper on every corner and road?
30264But is it barbarism and not rather the refined cruelty of civilization?
30264But to what good?
30264But was n''t it lucky I was here with André when the troops passed through our village?
30264But why was he not in Russia as he was expected to be?
30264But why"_ nicht weiter_"with the_ Herr Feld Marschall''s_ permission in our pocket?
30264Can it hold out?
30264Can it then be possible that the others we heard are true, too?
30264Can she die?
30264Can you imagine what it would be like?
30264Can you understand what that means?
30264Could it be that he had not enough to eat, or was it despair?
30264Could we stay there on our knees in the water for many hours, perhaps days?
30264Could you not make an especial effort to get it for me?"
30264Could your Embassy aid me?"
30264Did I explain that Liége is encircled by twelve forts, built about twenty- eight years ago under the personal direction of Général Brialmont?
30264Did one of the hundreds, one of the thousands, one of the millions, hesitate the fraction of an instant at your call?
30264Do I not know?
30264Do n''t you think the crow would agree with me?
30264Do you think that is amusing?
30264Does battle blot out the soul of a man in one savage conflict?
30264Does that not prove the inestimable value of earth- colored clothes?
30264Does that not seem a terrible irony to be buried in one''s own trenches?
30264Does this not bear out what the illustrious Roman said about the"Belgians,"which certainly did not exclude the women?
30264Finally my inquisitor became suspicious, or feigned it, and said,"But what have I to prove that you are an American?"
30264For what other reason is an American Consul if he is not to protect his people, particularly in wartime?"
30264For whom?
30264Fortunately for him, he was allowed to sleep in the hotel, but can you imagine what the anxiety of those twenty- four hours was?
30264Had they been rash enough to protest against strength and did they want to share the fate of the pitiful Visé?
30264Had we gone back twenty years instead?
30264Has its owner been in hiding all these weeks or is he lying yet unburied among the friendly trees?
30264Have I not experienced the mailed fist?
30264How is it possible in a few days, with fifty- two forts in triple line?
30264How is it that the whole house of cards falls down together?
30264How shall a little nation bar the way Where that resistless host is borne along?__ You never thought, O!
30264I pulled out the little white card and addressed him-- not too timidly either, for had n''t I the great American people behind me?
30264I saw a little girl come out from the débris to draw water from a pump-- for what?
30264I suppose you will say,"But why be so disturbed about things?
30264If they do come--?
30264In all these centuries of Struggle and Learning and Science and Dissent has nobody found a common leaven for bread?
30264Is it not better then to remain a primitive, with a beautiful faith in the Sun- god?
30264Is it the calm before the storm?
30264Is it true?
30264Is n''t it funny how we continue to deceive ourselves and life is a sham to the last throw?
30264Is n''t it human nature to want to get out of prison?
30264Is that not too horrible for words?
30264Is that so little?
30264Is the burden of her woes too great?
30264It did not occur to me that there would be any difficulty about it, so I calmly asked him if he could get it for me by six o''clock to- night?
30264It sounds wild, does n''t it?
30264Just before it pulled out of the station, a friend of Comtesse de M. rushed up to the car window and said,"Madame, must you go?
30264Monsieur J. attacked the captain with this question, as a leader,"when he thought the war would be over?"
30264O,_ chère Soeur_, in your sweet faith, are stiffened jaws such a trivial circumstance?
30264Prussian troops in khaki continue to pass; will they never cease?
30264Shall I ever forget it?
30264Shall I ever get away from that word?
30264The Count burst into tears and cried,"Uncle, Uncle, wo n''t you speak to me?
30264The Red Cross trains bear witness to tremendous battles somewhere-- but where?
30264The stranger, however, was rather insistent and asked if she would rent the cow, then, for fifty francs an hour?
30264Then the warm, brightly- lighted railroad station, opposite the pier, leaped into our numbed consciousness-- why had we not thought of it before?
30264There seemed to be only one thing to say, which was,"Did you hear that?"
30264They are expecting marching orders in the morning and are probably eager to ride on to victory(?).
30264Was n''t that comical?
30264Was she pleading for that mercy which drops as Her own gentle tears from Heaven?
30264Was that not a clever way for a French Scout to find out the lie of the land?
30264Was there ever a queerer offer?
30264Was there ever such a wildly exciting ride, plunging through two battle lines( French and Belgian) into massed formations everywhere?
30264What blight could have fallen on our children over night?
30264What does it all mean?
30264What kind of soldiers can it be that does these things, but brutes and barbarians?
30264What other lone factor could bring about at the same moment, such circumstances, the absolute cessation of every living element of our existence?
30264What was to be done?
30264What will tomorrow bring forth?
30264What words to find for this barbarism?
30264Who can assert that it has not all been arranged for us?
30264Who shall dare to say them nay?
30264Why not?
30264Why should one not know them?
30264Why should they want his family portraits?
30264Will a fatal arrow attain his charméd person?
30264Will an eager Fate close them in?
30264Will anything ever expiate the offense?
30264Will she live?
30264Will the daylight never come?
30264Would you say,"Better to slip down in a swoon?"
30264_ August 5th, Wednesday._ I wonder what you are thinking of events, at home?
30264how are there men enough left after all these weeks of killing to continue a battle?
49544Angry with you,I said,"why should I be angry if, as I suppose, you got the wound in honest fight against us?
49544I really could n''t help it, Sir? 49544 When?
49544Why have these stupid fellows sought shelter?
49544Will you stick by me, Murray, and charge them?
49544Would you prefer beer?
49544Could I believe my eyes?
49544Did not our horsemen overthrow the Gora regiment and the Hindustani risala?
49544Did not the Jungie Lat Sahib[7] retire from the field after the battle?
49544Did not we capture four of your guns and the standards of three of your regiments?
49544Has he not been following me all along?"
49544Here was a pretty dilemma; what was to be done now?
49544Were not the 6th Dragoon Guards, the 60th Rifles, and the Horse Artillery Batteries within a couple of miles?
49544Were there not three Hindu punkah- coolies in the verandah, and were not all their lives at the mercy of these miscreants?
49544What could I do?
49544What else could possibly be expected?
49544What is it to me?
49544Why should we hand all this wealth over to the prize agents?
49544Would our two thousand bayonets have been adequate to occupy a circle of walls seven miles in length against an army of at least forty thousand men?
41094Air- raid?
41094And those two over there?
41094Are the British preparing an attack near the coast?
41094Are you Russian,_ effendim_?
41094Beds? 41094 Food?"
41094German?
41094Good?
41094Have you heard about Mr. Hayden, the English tailor? 41094 Have you seen General Allenby lately?"
41094How about it?
41094How about''X''.?
41094Is the report true that General Allenby has left Palestine for France?
41094Name?
41094Really?
41094Signal?
41094Speak English?
41094What can you desire to say, my dear?
41094What''s Paris like now?
41094What''s that?
41094What, therefore, can we do, my friends?
41094Why ask me then?
41094Why come not English? 41094 Why the dyed moustache, and why this?"
41094Wojer want?
41094Would n''t you like,said M.,"to be away from this nightmare of a life and in a peaceful country like Egypt?"
41094You always as keen in handling Hun war material?
41094You are a English prisoner, not?
41094_ Anglais?_repeated the young officer.
41094_ Anglais?_said a young officer as he dismounted.
41094_ Est- ce- que les Anglais viendront bientôt?_said the young officer who had first spoken.
41094_ Niet; Monsieur Belaef._"_ Droug Vladimir Ivanovitch Wilkowsky?_He gave me a long look, smiled, and said under his breath:"Yes, meester."
41094_ Qui sait?_"_ Moi, je l''espère bien, parce que je suis Arménien. 41094 _ Russky vapor Batoum?_"I asked in pidgin- Russian.
41094_ So!_ And now, what do you expect?
41094_ Wir wollen keine Englander._We were about to move on, when--"_Was gibt''s?_"called a Feldwebel as he stepped from the truck.
41094Airerplanes we attack mostly on the longeerongs-- those ribs o''wood that runs dahn the length uv the body, ai n''t they?
41094Being a Turk, he continued, why was he kept in a room with Englishmen, who were his enemies and wanted to hurt him?
41094But what could he do?
41094Carncher read it?
41094Could it be that the Turks treated their prisoners well instead of badly?
41094Could we make use of these sentiments in planning an escape?
41094Each man in turn was asked:"Would you prefer a hot bath or a cold?"
41094Each morning the doctor walked once round the ward, said to each patient:"_ Bonjour, ça va bien?_"signed the diet sheets, and left us.
41094For his third attempt, who could blame him for taking as companion a German officer''s horse, since Allah had sent such a wonderful gift?
41094Furniture?"
41094Had the gods left_ no_ loop- hole?
41094Have n''t you heard of the gold at''X'', of a certain Arab emir and of certain British officers?"
41094He clicked his heels, bowed from the waist upward, and inquired:"Hauptmann Bott?"
41094How would you like to take the job now?"
41094If he were about, on whatever night we fixed for our escape, how could we climb down to the ground unobserved?
41094If the Pasha says to me:''What have you learned from these prisoners?''
41094S.?"
41094Surely it could not be White, whom I had last seen running through the streets of Koum- kapou, in a perfectly respectable suit of Red Cross clothes?
41094The Greek contractor''s sons, are n''t you?"
41094The coast?
41094Then, after a puzzled pause:"Where have you been?"
41094Trial by taste was evidently the custom; and since Allah had provided hands and mouths, why use forks and spoons?
41094Turks?
41094Was I getting better and would I like some wine sent to me?
41094Was it true that the British were friendly to the Arabs, and gave their Arab prisoners all sorts of privileges not given to the Turkish prisoners?
41094Was it true, he asked( the Jew acting as interpreter), that the British intended to give Arabia and part of Syria to the Arabs?
41094Why, then, had he troubled to ask my opinion if I could ride for three hours?
41094Will you be so kind as to let me go to a small room where I can remain alone?"
41094Wo ist mein Pferd?_"The Sanitätsunteroffizier motioned our guide to turn round, and we retraced our path.
41094Would I be kind enough to give him my word of honour not to try to escape while in his charge?
41094Would I honour the officers by joining them at dinner?
51803How?
51803Howdy, stranger?
51803Howdy?
51803Sure it''s not some of the Yankees?
51803Then she is a resident here, and there is no danger of their being spies?
51803This is your most direct route, is it not?
51803What''s up?
51803Where?
51803Will you kindly tell those gentlemen who I am? 51803 You do n''t expect to sit here with it all day, do you?"
51803How can you succeed where they and all the others have failed?"
51803In reply to his"What ere''want, stranger?"
51803Will you tell me what regiment this is?
22584An''ef I''m loyil, I''m same as you''uns?
22584And why not?
22584But he does not appear, I suppose?
22584But is it usual,I queried,"for you gentlemen to refuse promotion when offered-- I do n''t mean to not seek it-- to remain with your old companies?
22584Can you get in here, sir?
22584Did it ever strike you,said the colonel, waxing philosophic,"that you_ ca n''t_ dine in but two places south of the Potomac?
22584Hard to believe, sir, is n''t it? 22584 Have you paid your fare?"
22584How far astern?
22584How is it you have n''t your commission?
22584How you fine zat, eh? 22584 I''d show well at the club-- portrait of a gentleman?"
22584Indeed?
22584It_ would_ go well with that stew, taken out of a tin cup-- eh, cookey?
22584Mussput--_hic_--fi dollus on- jack?
22584Next quadwille, Miss Wose?
22584No? 22584 That''s what the council this evening meant?"
22584The President is at this house?
22584Wa''dat yo''s sain''now?
22584Waffer, Mars''Sam?
22584Wail then,rejoined Johnny Reb slowly,"did n''t them darned rebs jest geen us hell sometimes?"
22584We''re all good Union alike, eh?
22584What are you doing here?
22584What do I wish?
22584What do I wish?
22584What do you think Bendann would give for a negative of me?
22584What would''the house''do? 22584 What''s the Washington news?"
22584When do I start?
22584When do you start?
22584Will she overtake us, Cap''n?
22584Will your government use force to supply Fort Sumter?
22584Work for the government?
22584Yes, for the South? 22584 Yo allus calls de Gen''ral--_Weel_-er?"
22584Yo''say Ise jess ekal as yo''is?
22584''Bold and erect the Caledonian stood,''but how long do you think he would have been''bold,''if they had stewed his''rare beef''for him?
22584--"Has Bragg commenced business?"
22584--"What about Tennessee convention?"
22584And pray why?"
22584And through it rose a hoarse whisper, swelling at last into angry query, why had the campaign miscarried?
22584And what are your new duties?"
22584And why not?
22584Anxious knots were at every station and water tank, and not overclean hands were thrust into the windows, with the cry:"Airy paper?"
22584But does yo''say dat Ise good as missus?--_my_ missus?"
22584But is that proud flag-- with the glory and the pride wrought into its folds, by suffering, honor and endurance unexcelled-- really"furled forever?"
22584But were these worn and wretched men a fair sample of the army that was to battle for their dear city against the fresh thousands of McClellan?
22584But, said the dancers, we do the fighting-- we are the ones who are killed-- and if we do n''t object, why in the deuce should you?
22584CHAPTER XXVI.--The Failure of Finance 223- 229 Was Cotton really King?
22584Can any candid thinker analyze these results and then believe Grant a strategist-- a great soldier-- anything but a pertinacious fighter?
22584Captain Wyatt, A.A.G.--demnition neat, eh?
22584Did anybody ever make connection there?
22584Did you hear that_ mustang_ colonel?
22584Do n''t it bring back our dinners at the Spanish legation?
22584Do n''t yer want''er go for a sojer?"
22584Do n''t you wonder how we ever dare to declare ourselves old enough?"
22584Do they not illustrate the character of the navy, and bring it out in bold relief of heroism?
22584Early in secession days, a bombastic friend approached Colonel Tom, with the query:"Well, sir, I presume your voice is still for war?"
22584Eh?
22584Evening boat, March 4th?
22584Has History a Parallel?
22584How can men legislate-- how can men fight with a pound of stewed abomination holding them like lead?
22584If Government will on any pretext ignore one- third of its obligation, what guarantee have we for the other two?
22584Is it a go?"
22584Lots of southern members leaving already"--and Knower''s voice sunk to a whisper--"and would you believe it?
22584Men looked at each other through the gloom, and even as they asked--"Brother, what of the night?"
22584One day, at the St. Charles, a resident stopped him on the way to their accustomed table:"Have you seen these people eat?"
22584She stopped in mid- waltz; touched my friend on the broidered chevron with taper fingers, and sweetly said:"Captain, may I trouble you to dismount?"
22584So I answered the question by another:"What are you going to do when you get there?"
22584So hist him along, will yer?"
22584Some one has Blundered?
22584Swallowing the obnoxious allegiance, he turned to the Federal officer and quietly asked:"Wail, an''now I reck''n I''m loyil, ai n''t I?"
22584Taking title, eh?
22584The generals past, an aide spurred up to the toilet- making vet, and queried sharply:"Did n''t you see the generals, sir?
22584The other adding:"You doubt it?
22584Then, to be as good as my word, I sold some cotton and some stock, equipped this company and--_voila tout!_""But you are not commanding your company?"
22584They had left affluence, luxury, the caresses of home-- and, harder than all, the habits of society-- for what?
22584Toward her sallied the flippant young underling, with the greeting:"Well, madam, what do_ you_ wish?"
22584Was Johnston hounded to His Death?
22584Was it a wonder that I then and there swore at that fireman, as only meek and long- suffering men, when aroused, can swear?
22584Was it the punch?
22584Was n''t he, Styles?
22584Was she a new Sodom?
22584Were not their sons, and husbands, and brothers, really a part of them?
22584Were these the only dependence of their hopes and their cause?
22584What do you say?
22584What in thunder are you doing?"
22584What is it, adjutant?"
22584Where did he get that idea?
22584Where does history show more stirring motives for poetry?
22584Where were the Leaders?
22584Whether the monotonous stretches of pine barren depress mentally, or frequent recurring"ager"prostrates physically, who shall say?
22584Who did More than They?
22584Who does not remember"Beechenbrook,"that pure Vestal in the temple of Mars?
22584Who has not heard of the First Virginia?
22584Who in all that goodly throng of soldiers, statesmen and critics-- did more?
22584Who in army, or government, did not?
22584Who in the South does not honor it?
22584Who shall justly calculate the influence the lobby and its workings had in hastening that inevitable, the war between the states?
22584Who will stop that mighty whirligig to inspect whether the champagne is real, or the turtle is prime?
22584Who, that was in it, will ever forget that bitter night?
22584Why do n''t you speak English, instead of saying''wah yo''is''?"
22584Why had General Lee been forced into battle on ground of the enemy''s choosing?
22584Why had he fought the whole Yankee army with one division?
22584Why had the campaign failed?
22584Why on Pursuit?
22584Why should the best blood of Carolina do more than the best blood of Virginia?"
22584Why was Victory not Pushed?
22584Why, what''ll become of our business if they move the Capital?
22584Why_ do n''t_ they behave themselves?
22584Will the cute Yankee of New England submit to be ruined, and starved, and taxed in addition?
22584Will the great commercial metropolis let the grass grow in her streets and the vessels rot at her wharves, that once laughed with southern cotton?
22584Would There be a Long War-- or any?
22584Would n''t that make a show on a waxed floor?"
22584Would you stay in the ranks as a private when as a captain or major you might do better service?"
22584Wy, we''uns kem hyah ter fight th''Yanks; an''ef you''uns skeer''un off, how''n thunder ez thar goan ter be a scrimmidge, no how?"
22584Yer married his sister Cynthy-- the one as squints?
22584You do n''t mean Miss Mamie on Charles street, do you?
22584You remember her that night at Mrs. R.''s fancy ball?"
22584_ Que voulez vous?_ Pork is mighty!
22584any news from home?"
22584asked a splendid fellow leaning on an ax, the rapid strokes of which he stilled at my approach--"Not a half bad thing for a fancy ball, eh?"
22584cheerily responded the youth, rising from his seat--"Have you got a leg for me, too?"
22584cried a baldheaded man from the fire--"Don''t your heart rise at the scent of this_ olla_, my boy?
22584was the bland query--"Pray what was it?"
22584what are my principles to you?
22584with a war in the land must people enjoy themselves?
22584you did?
13202Ai n''t your name Sam?
13202Are they spies?
13202Can anybody tell me whar them Yanks are? 13202 Did you ever look?"
13202Did you have horns, Uncle Zack?
13202Hello, Lee, what does Cleburne say the Yankees are doing at Jonesboro?
13202Hello,says Hood,"Whar in the Dickens and Tom Walker are them Yanks, hey?
13202How do you know then?
13202How do you sell it?
13202How much is your fish worth?
13202Lee, ask Cleburne if he feels feinty? 13202 Now, where are you, Johnny Reb?
13202WHAT IS THIS REBEL DOING HERE?
13202Well, Uncle Zack, what sort of a looking lamb were you?
13202Well, after you got to heaven, what did you do then?
13202Well, how often did they shear the lambs, Uncle Zack?
13202Well, sir, that''s too thin; why did you not get a pass?
13202Well, what color were the lambs, Uncle Zack?
13202Were there no old rams or ewes among them?
13202What command do you belong to, sir?
13202What is it, boss?
13202What is that you say?
13202What is the matter? 13202 What regiment are you from?"
13202What regiment do you belong to?
13202What regiment is your detail from?
13202What''s the matter now?
13202What?
13202You are whipped, are n''t you?
13202200, are you?"
13202200?"
13202AM PROMOTED"Why, hello, corporal, where did you get those two yellow stripes from on your arm?"
13202After the fighting was over, where, O where, was all the fine rigging heretofore on our officers?
13202Ah, ha, have you stacked your arms for a surrender?"
13202Am I mistaken?
13202And then to hear some fellow ask,"Why ai n''t you with them, then, you cowardly puppy?
13202And what wonder that General Bragg''s name became a terror to deserters and evil doers?
13202Any news or letters that you wish carried home?
13202Approaching Sergeant A. S. Horsley, he said,"Vy ish you got nodings mit your knapsack?
13202Are we going to be captured?
13202Are we worthy to be called the sons of old Maury county?
13202As soon as he saw me, he said,"Who have you there-- a prisoner, or a deserter?"
13202Ask him how a fellow feels when he feints?"
13202BATTLE OF RESACCA Well, you want to hear about shooting and banging, now, gentle reader, do n''t you?
13202Did I see my comrades buried and see the violet and wild flowers bloom over their graves?
13202Did I see our country laid waste and in ruins?
13202Did I see soldiers marching, the earth trembling and jarring beneath their measured tread?
13202Did I see the flag of my country, that I had followed so long, furled to be no more unfurled forever?
13202Did I see the ruins of smouldering cities and deserted homes?
13202Did I see those brave and noble countrymen of mine laid low in death and weltering in their blood?
13202Did my eyes deceive me?
13202Do you recollect in that year, for the first time in your life, of hearing Dixie and the Bonnie Blue Flag?
13202Do you think we can take them?
13202Does He who noteth the sparrow''s fall, and numbers the hairs of our heads, have any interest in one like ourselves?
13202EATING MUSSELS Reader, did you ever eat a mussel?
13202EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY- ONE Reader mine, did you live in that stormy period?
13202Every man I met had a furlough; in fact, it seemed to have the very double- extract of romance about it--"fur too, eh?"
13202Every one who passed would be hailed with,"Well, what news from the front?"
13202Finally, he closed the book with a slam and started off, and said I,"Did you want to find out my name?"
13202From what command?
13202Hans, vat fer ish dot shooting mit mein left wing?
13202Happening to catch sight of me, he asked,"What is this Rebel doing here?"
13202He had no nerves, or rather, has a rock or tree any nerves?
13202He rode on down the road toward me, and when he had approached,"Who goes there?"
13202He took Alf''s knapsack and on opening it, what do you suppose was in it?
13202Here is a sample of the colloquy that followed:"Mister, have some butter?"
13202Here was the field, and here were the roastingears; but where was the raft or canoe?
13202How many of those 120 original members are with the company today?
13202How much more valuable are we than many sparrows?
13202I asked several other fellows what in the dickens did all this mean?
13202I asked the litter corps,"Who have you there?"
13202I could not help thinking all the time,"Ai n''t that old woman dead yet?"
13202I opened my eyes, and asked,"Who are you?"
13202I ran to the road and asked them what was the matter?
13202I said,"When?
13202I thought that I recognized the voice in the darkness-- and said I,"Who are you?"
13202I turned away and thought how long, how long will I have to witness these things?
13202I walked on as if I was just relieved, and had passed their lines, when I turned back, and says I,"Captain, what guard is this?"
13202I went back, and says I,"Who fired those two shots?"
13202In looking back over these pages, I ask, Where now are many whose names have appeared in these sketches?
13202In the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty- one, do you remember those stirring times?
13202Is it a bargain?"
13202Is it true that I have seen all these things?
13202Is that some high office?
13202Is your army going to advance on us?"
13202Ish dot der Repels, Hans?
13202JOHN WHITTAKER THEN COMES THE FARCE PALMETTO JEFF DAVIS MAKES A SPEECH ARMISTICE ONLY IN NAME A SCOUT WHAT IS THIS REBEL DOING HERE?
13202John says,"Madam, do you want that dog killed, sure enough?"
13202Johnny answered,"What do you want?"
13202Meynheer Dutchman comes out; and says,"Ish dot so?
13202Not who was the best general, or colonel, or captain-- but"who ranked?"
13202Now, reader, what do you suppose that negro was doing?
13202Now, we tagged first, why do n''t you tag back?
13202Now, what became of the original 3,200?
13202Or have we fought in vain?
13202Preacher, ai n''t that old woman dead yet?"
13202Reader, I ask you who you think was to blame?
13202Reader, were you ever held in reserve of an attacking army?
13202Say, captain, say, if yet my task be done?
13202Says I,"Are you speaking to me?"
13202Says I,"Colonel Field, what''s the matter?
13202Says I,"Galbreath, what are you making a fool of yourself that way for?
13202Says I,"What is the long roll for?"
13202Says I:"Madam, how do you sell your eggs?"
13202Says he,"What''s this?
13202Stewart, do you think you will be able to get through with your job of blowing up by day after tomorrow, or by Saturday at twelve o''clock?
13202Take off that coat and those chicken guts; coo, sheep; baa, baa, black sheep; flicker, flicker; ai n''t you ashamed of yourself?
13202That''s your plan, is it?
13202The whole army is routed and running; had n''t you better be getting away from here?
13202Then I said,"Wright, why do n''t you jump out of that wagon and run?"
13202Then you take it up to the general; the guard stops you in a very formal way, and asks,"What do you want?"
13202Then, said he,"What is your name?"
13202They answered,"Matter enough; yonder are the Yankees, are you infantry fellows going to make a stand here?"
13202To hear some of our boys ask,"What regiment is that?
13202We are not supported; what is the matter?
13202We halted but a moment, and said I,"Colonel, where are you wounded?"
13202We will get millions of dollars by robbery alone, do n''t you see?"
13202Well, Yank, why do n''t you come on and take us?
13202Well, what news?
13202Well, what was to be done?
13202Well, what''s the matter now?
13202Well, you have come here to fight us; why do n''t you come on?
13202Were they true men?
13202What are you going to do about it?
13202What could I do?
13202What could we do?
13202What do you suppose he was doing?
13202What does that mean?
13202What does this yell mean?
13202What is the matter?
13202What next?
13202What regiment is that?"
13202What was I to do?
13202What was it worth?"
13202What''s the matter?
13202What?
13202When I could hold in no longer, I laughed out, and said,"Well, Walter, what luck last night?"
13202Where are many of my old friends and comrades, whose names were so familiar at every roll call, and whose familiar"Here"is no more?
13202Where are they tonight?
13202Where were our generals?
13202Who are they?
13202Why do n''t you let us hear the cannon''s opening roar?
13202Why do n''t you rattle a few old muskets over there at us?
13202Why do n''t you unbottle your thunderbolts and dash us to pieces?
13202Why?
13202Will this pay you for your hog?"
13202Y''S YOU GOT MY HOG?
13202Yank says,"What you doing, Johnny?"
13202Yank would halloo over and say,"Well, Johnny, have you got everything across?"
13202You are going to starve us out, eh?
13202You say,"Well, General, what is the matter with it?"
13202You''ve got the dry grins, arn''t you?
13202[ Author''s note: In the Southern army the question was, who ranked?
13202are they being enacted today?
13202did they happen?
13202did you have wings?"
13202flour bread?
13202halt after today''s victory?
13202is that so?"
13202or are they the fancies of the imagination in forgetful reverie?
13202that they are real incidents in my life''s history?
13202vare ish Shineral Mackferson, eh?
13202we''re coming, coming, look out, do n''t you see us coming?
13202were they eating grass?"
13202what is that?
13202who goes there?"
13202who goes there?"
52656Well, what are you doing here?
52656Where are you from?
52656Coming to a stand in front of me he saluted and asked in excellent English, with an American accent,"Are you the captain of this vessel?"
52656Even if the German crew had released them at the last moment, what chance did they have of being saved?
52656He came down the deck to where there were several of the passengers standing and asked:"Does anybody belong to these things?"
52656I told him that it was rotten and told him why; Rose merely pulled that Prussian smile of his and said:"What do you expect?
52656Our lady prisoners immediately commenced playing a game of"button, button, who''s got the button?"
52656So and So, wo n''t you come to my room for a minute?
52656Somebody asked Rose why he did n''t introduce us to his friend, and Rose answered:"What do you think I am-- a fool?"
52656The great question now was"What next?"
52656There is another point to consider: why did Nerger and his officers continually assure us that the womenfolk should be landed shortly?
52656Thinking this I fell asleep and at 6:30 A.M. of February 25th( shall I ever forget the date?)
37331''And you?''
37331''Are n''t you one now?''
37331''But how?''
37331''Come back all right, then?''
37331''Do you mean----?''
37331''Do you remember that chap who kept us all awake in barracks, talking of it?''
37331''Do you want a green envelope?''
37331''Hear that?''
37331''Is there time?
37331''The Army?''
37331''The last you did read?''
37331''The literary ones?''
37331''Then how do you account for it?''
37331''Then it would n''t be much of a gift, would it?''
37331''What''s the best yarn you ever read?''
37331''Who is your favourite author?''
37331''Why was_ I_ there?''
37331''Why, that must be nearly ten pounds a night, sir?''
37331( four copies), or even the books these titles stood for in the typewritten catalogue that arrived( from Paris) too late to entertain us?
37331--I turned to the last comer--''if it is n''t a rude question?''
37331And how much joy had they given in their lodgings or behind the shop?
37331And if any link was of His forging, why not the whole chain, as two thankful people dare to think?
37331And what sensation novelist would build a plot on such foundations and hope to make his tale convincing?
37331And yet-- and yet--_was_ it his grave that had been found?
37331Another chunk off the stump of the once delicate and dizzy belfry, what did it signify unless the chunk came through our roof?
37331Are there no gramophone records of such things?
37331As the cricketer said about the yorker, what else can you call him?
37331But what better than a gateway to give a man his bearings?
37331But what was there to say to such a pair?
37331But who inspired them?
37331But, in the day of battle, could there have been a better sight than this potential band of bush- rangers and demon bowlers?
37331Did it begin in South Africa?
37331Did we waste time talking about it, discussing our chances, or mildly anathematising our last- straw luck?
37331He it was who, in his early days in France, had heavily inquired:''Who be this''ere Fritz they be arl tarkin''about?''
37331He said:''But surely there must be somebody in the Battalion that you could take with you, to identify the place?''
37331He was making his will in his field pocket- book; could I tell him how to spell the pretty name of one of his little daughters?
37331He was now out here in his grave; but which of them was not?
37331I could almost hear his eager question:''Is everybody all right?''
37331Is it that in their thoroughgoing way they strip starker than any, where all go as naked as my Canadian friend declared?
37331It may: and if a man has no personality of his own, will he be so much the worse for the composite substitute to be acquired in the Army?
37331OTHER OLD FELLOWS It was pleasant one morning to hear a sudden voice at my elbow:''How''s the Rest Hut?''
37331One lucky flourish with the bones, one more addition to these sharp- edged shell- holes, and how many of the party would have a groan left in him?
37331Put your hands up?''
37331Some of them, indeed, took the opportunity of speaking for themselves; and who had a better right?
37331What guide could I have hoped to get to show me all I wished to see, and what could I have seen or done without a guide?
37331What were we going to do?
37331Who had brought him to my side-- at the last moment-- the very man I wanted-- the one man needful?
37331Who had brought us?
37331Who had ever been prouder of them than their comrades, or done so much to''bring them out''?
37331Who had prompted or inspired those directly responsible for our being there?
37331Who had so beautifully arranged the whole difficult thing?
37331Why had I not gone to Belgium( to be near the boy) as I at first intended?
37331Why not that night?
37331Will anything of the kind happen to- day?
37331Will it be taken?
37331Would I mind looking it all over, and seeing if it would do?
37331Yet what is he to do, when he gets a beauty from one whose boots he is unfit to black?
37331Yet, need I say it?
37331You know how I wear my helmet, with the strap behind?
37331_ Had he now?_...
37331_ Was_ the evidence as good as it seemed?
37331a canny bit o''money, sir?''
37331who have undergone similar sensations at their baptism of fire?
41324Beg pardon, sir?
41324Did n''t I tell you we''d shoot one off to show''em who''s who?
41324Drinkin''salt water, eh?
41324For God''s sake, save me----"Ca n''t you swim?
41324So long as you feel that way, it''s fortunate this letter came for you this morning, is n''t it?
41324We figured what a lot we''d have to talk about on that camping trip, eh?
41324Well, well, so you are to be a Matron, are you?
41324What ship have I hit?
41324What''s bitin''you all?
41324What''s happened?
41324What''s that to you?
41324What''s this?
41324Where is it you want to go, sir?
41324Where is your captain?
41324Where''s McCaffrey?
41324Why not join the British army?
41324Why not join the British ranks?
41324Will you ask an American officer aboard the Man- o''-War to come aboard the British Hospital ship and speak with an American woman?
41324Will you let us wish on you?
41324You did n''t stand by just because I volunteered to, did you?
41324_ No Recreation Party what''s er matter?_he hollered.
41324_ Where is your captain?_Then it was that little Tucker, sitting forward, tense, leaned far out and yelled:"Douse yer glim, Cap, douse yer glim.
41324After all, seventeenth is n''t so far down the line, now is it?
41324At last we could read it, it spelled:"What are you doing,--bringing Brooklyn Bridge over with you?"
41324But that is side- stepping my story, is n''t it?
41324But, yes, fifteen times so far, and what of that?
41324Ca n''t you see it?
41324Could I qualify in her eyes for a post at the front?
41324Could I reach him?
41324Did they utter a word of complaint?
41324Did we pump hell into her from our stern gun?
41324Did we sleep well?
41324Do n''t they give you salt baths and charge you a stiff price?
41324Do you blame them?
41324Do you know how they done it?
41324Do you remember wondering how such heroes came to be born as the men of the"Light Brigade,"who rode without a quiver straight into the jaws of hell?
41324Do you think they left their ship?
41324Ever see an oil collier?
41324Ever see men who have faced death in a leaky boat all through a black night?
41324He could n''t have paid me less, but what difference did it make to me?
41324How did they protect themselves?
41324How did we feel?
41324How do you think?
41324How long did she think the war would last?
41324How many men could she send across at once?
41324Is that straight?"
41324It extended about a foot out of water and was visible only a few seconds, but say, did he let out a yell?
41324It looked busy and prosperous and warlike to me-- but gay?
41324Naturally it meant work and lots of it, but why stay in the"pick- and- shovel"class if you do n''t have to?
41324Not bad, eh?
41324Now I ask you, was n''t that rum luck?
41324Now, that''s not bad, is it?
41324Pullmans?
41324Say, do I want to go over again?
41324That was making history, was n''t it?
41324Then secondly, was n''t I Irish, which meant gettin''into any scrap that was goin'', so help me?
41324WARRANT CARPENTER HOYT SPEAKS: THE FLOWER OF FRANCE EVER see those red poppies that grow by the roadside in France?
41324Was I glad to see the good old American flag?
41324Was n''t I getting out of that all- fired hot country?
41324Were we glad to get ashore?
41324What can you do with people like that?
41324What chance had they?
41324What did our country hope to do?
41324What did we do?
41324What if it had been me own kid?
41324What was the use?
41324When is a hero not a hero?
41324Which one?
41324Why not?
41324Why would n''t it, with eighty- three barrels of oil on board?
41324Would I be after lettin''him see that I''d be givin''up all hope?
41324Wounded?
41324You know about that little party at Vera Cruz last year?
41324and not enough of either to last much longer-- and then what?
45568Captain, are you sure? 45568 D''ye hear that?
45568Is little Gus alive?
45568Was it possible that such happiness could be mine?
45568Where is Sam?
45568Why do n''t that man hold that gun_ properly_?
45568Why, do n''t you know? 45568 Yes, you may be a corporal, but where is your squad?"
45568Are they all well?"
45568Can the Third Corps men endure it?
45568Did we not charge to its thrilling strains?
45568Did you ever walk twenty miles in a day?
45568Do n''t you know that war is a suspension of the Ten Commandments?"
45568Had an improvident comrade devoured his three days''rations prematurely?
45568Has she seen them lately?
45568I then began to ask myself:"Would I ever again have soft bread every day?"
45568Is n''t_ that_ squad enough for you?"
45568Is there any intoxication like the joy of victory?
45568Joe held out the newly adorned arm, exclaiming,"Is not_ that_ corporal enough for you?"
45568Look at the disgraceful condition of this musket!--of what use would such a weapon be if we should be called into action?"
45568Pointing to the advancing masses, he says,--"Do you see those lines?
45568Taking it from its owner and holding it out before us all, he said sternly,--"Corporal, what sort of an example is this to set before the company?
45568The constant question in our hearts was,"What will the folks at home say about us?"
45568The voice of this spirit asked insistently,"Why do you not go to the war?"
45568The watchful major anxiously asked:"What is that?
45568They all walked slowly and wearily and if you asked one of them,"How is the battle going?"
45568Was it that, or was it the gloom of the apparently endless conflict which had entered his soul?
45568Was not martial music the soldier''s inspiration?
45568Was the sacrifice worth while?
45568We often marched day after day until we fairly lost track of time and you might hear a dialogue like the following:"Bill, what day is this?"
45568Were we to prove it once more?
45568What of the band in the day of battle?
45568Who is talking out there?"
45568Yet there was strange mystery abroad: everywhere a weird sound-- was it of sorrow or of foreboding, nature''s wail or nature''s warning?
45568You would hear one and another say:"Captain, is n''t there one for me?"
45568and the answering jeer of his comrades:"Jim, did you hear what that one said?
45568is that so?
45828And who will do your work while you are gone?
45828Have you gone crazy?
45828What have you on board?
45828What shall I do?
45828What''s a buxom wife and four sturdy children good for if they ca n''t do a man''s work when he is off at war?
45828Where are you bound for?
45828A pretty American girl approached me, saying,"Will you have tea, bread and butter?"
45828After these minor details had been attended to the question paramount in our minds was:"How could Uncle Sam bring all his children home?"
45828As one maid said, in a small Bavarian town,"How can I see others working for their country while I stay on and work for myself?
45828As soon as we were near enough to hear her words one of her officers gave the following queries:"Where do you come from?"
45828CHRISTMAS WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS Have you ever stopped to think what Christmas would mean with no Christmas tree nor Santa Claus?
45828Could it be that it was coming nearer?
45828Did God create human lives and fertile lands to have them all fall before the greed of man?
45828Do you not hear a song more beautiful than the cries and groans of war?
45828Do you not hear the call of life and creation, the making of more homes and the caring for those homes?
45828HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A REFUGEE?
45828Have you ever seen a manoeuvre?
45828Have you ever seen a mobilization?
45828How would you like to be a refugee for four weeks, fleeing from the horrors and hardships of war?
45828How would you like to be cut off all this time by mail and cable from relatives and friends?
45828I wonder what has become of the great numbers of designers and artists who were dependent on foreign purchase for their livelihood?
45828O, thinking woman, woman of all lands, do you call death, destruction of life and property, glory of war?
45828One day while walking across the country road, I stepped up to a farmer and said:"When do you go to the war?"
45828SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED AS TO THE CAUSES OF THE WAR The questions uppermost in the minds of many people are:"How will the war end?
45828The question then presents itself:"What may happen to their children?"
45828The thought uppermost in their minds was how would we get out if Russia really declared war on Germany?
45828This is an epitome of what woman has done to relieve suffering, but what does war mean to her?
45828WHAT MOBILIZATION MEANS Have you ever been to war?
45828WHAT THE WORLD- WAR WILL MEAN TO WOMANKIND Have you ever stopped to think what this world- war will mean to womankind?
45828WHAT WILL THE ROYAL CHILDREN DO IF THEIR PARENTS ARE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS?
45828We spend hundreds of millions a year for war; can we not afford to spend one million for peace?"
45828What did this mean?
45828When will it end?
45828Who is in the right?
45828and Who is in the wrong?"
53168By the way, is the watch keeping good time?
53168Can you come down this week- end?
53168DEAR DAD, What do you think of the 40 warships bombarding Zeebrugge?
53168DEAREST MUM, Whatever induced you to do it?
53168Did I tell you that my Gieve lifebelt had turned up?
53168Did my last letter to Mother arrive very sticky?
53168Did you get the letters I wrote to Liverpool when you were going off?
53168Did you hear how Usborne and Ireland[16] were killed?
53168Great news about Warneford, is n''t it?
53168If not, put two and two together, and the answer is----?
53168Is n''t it terrible news about Warneford?
53168It was the 6th shot, but the others were all very close-- not bad shooting, eh?
53168One Tommy, speaking to another over the trenches:--"Ello, Bill, got a lice over there?"
53168She was really getting too ancient, and has now been packed up and is going to be sent home for School work; too bad, is n''t it?
53168What do you think of this story, the latest from the trenches?
53168What else could I do?
53168Whatever has become of you all?
53168tin of Friars''Mixture( medium)?
50483A feeling of philosophy and awe prompts me to ask why all this great sacrifice of human life, misery and suffering?
50483A very pertinent question was often asked toward the close of the winter--"Who would command in the next campaign?"
50483Americans all, and all for what?
50483Are their deeds worth recording, worth remembering?
50483But I was going to the war and why should I care for comment or criticism?
50483But how''s this, we fighting behind entrenchments and the enemy in the open, four or five lines deep?
50483But it''s all grand and glorious, is n''t it boys?
50483Continuing, he said,"If he means to attack us on this side, why does he not reinforce on this side?
50483Do you not, sir?
50483How was this wicked and useless sacrifice brought about?
50483I was now halting between two opinions; was he aiming to have me commit myself, or was he really a friend?
50483If it were not for a great and wise purpose, how could it be?
50483Is it any wonder I am partial to Kentuckians and proud of their record in this great and memorable battle?
50483That legion hath marched past the setting of sun: Beaten?
50483What patriotic soldier could fail to be moved by its charm and pathos?
50483Why concentrate so much artillery on the bluff yonder?
50483Why should I not linger and contemplate?
50483Why, oh why, did Beauregard not allow us to finish the day''s work so gloriously begun by Johnston?
50483You know, old boys, just how this was, do n''t you?
5854I presume that some one said to the Governor about this time,"Why do n''t you get Sheridan?"
5854This feature was more than acceptable to the parents at times, for how else could they so thoroughly learn all the neighborhood gossip?
20111''Aunt Rose,''he asked even before we embraced,''is there any one else stopping with you?'' 20111 ''Well then, Dubois, what''s all this nonsense?
20111''What? 20111 ''_ Eh bien, nos patés_?
20111And Vauquois?
20111And at Beausejour?
20111And mine, Madame, how about him?
20111And no one complains, Madame Dumont?
20111And that does happen often?
20111And you?
20111Are n''t you afraid you might miss forty winks?
20111Are n''t you going to mend my pick- axe, Maxence?
20111Bah, what difference does that make so long as they are happy and can live in peace? 20111 But how about_ their_ incendiary shells?
20111But the economical struggle?
20111But your husband?
20111But, Jules, why do you write such things?
20111But, was he educated for the career?
20111But,I suggested,"do n''t you realise what a risk you are taking?
20111Can you just see something happening to him with his father out there in the trenches?
20111Did you bring a letter?
20111Did you come across Lucien, and Bataille''s son?
20111Did you hear what I said? 20111 Gentlemen,"said he,"excuse me for interrupting, but do any of you know the exact depth to which an aeroplane bomb can penetrate?"
20111Good evening, mother; how''s your man to- day?
20111He''s at the front?
20111How about your regiment? 20111 How old are you?"
20111I say, Paul,he called out to him,"would you do us the honour of dining with us?
20111I''ve been saying to myself every day,he continued,"Is n''t it a pity that nobody should see them?
20111I? 20111 In four years?
20111In the trenches? 20111 Is Madame at home?"
20111Is he one of ours?
20111Is n''t mine at Verdun?
20111Is that so? 20111 Just look at them, are n''t they splendid?
20111Look here, Business, did I hear you say it wo n''t be over in four years?
20111Madame, you wo n''t mind if I come after them to- morrow, would you?
20111Now, then, how many of you are there in your trenches?
20111Oh, shut up, ca n''t you? 20111 One or two rooms?"
20111Over? 20111 Pistre?
20111That goes right to the spot, does n''t it?
20111That''s a good strong- box, is n''t it?
20111The Germans back here? 20111 The President of the Republic once asked General de Castelnau,''Well, General, what shall you do after the war is over?''
20111Then your father is coming later?
20111Three months? 20111 We thought we knew how much we loved them, did n''t we, Madame?
20111What are you doing there, Jules?
20111What are you looking for?
20111What are you writing?
20111What difference does that make?
20111What forces have we in front of us?
20111What have you got to kick about?
20111What time did you start out, child?
20111What''s become of Chenu, and Morlet and Panard?
20111Where did they fall? 20111 Where is your mother, dear?"
20111Where on earth did you get wool? 20111 Who is it?"
20111Who''s excited?
20111Who?
20111Why is n''t he at the front?
20111Why, Madame, what on earth would we do about the inventory when peace comes, if we were not to put a little order into our stock?
20111Why, what were you expecting?
20111With or without bath?
20111Would you prefer number six or number fourteen?
20111Yes, and what are you going to do if the letter carrier gets killed, or the Boche locate the mail waggon on the road every other delivery? 20111 Yes-- why?"
20111You mean old Père François who keeps the public gardens?
20111You wicked, wicked girl-- what made you tell such lies?
20111You''re as well off here as you were in the trenches of Bois Le Pretre, are n''t you?
20111You''ve all doubtless seen the sign that I put up in my window?
20111You''ve gotten used to this life?
20111Your son? 20111 Your what?"
20111''Who was leading, and who first cut the German barbed wire?''
20111Absinthes, bitters and their like have not only been abolished, but replaced-- and by what?
20111After all, I keep telling them there must be a few, otherwise who''s going to write history?
20111After all, could it be possible that this was the very midst of war?
20111After presentations and greetings:"You are not leaving town this Summer?"
20111And did they not witness the battles in the streets, all the horrors of the Commune, after having experienced the agonies and privations of the Siege?
20111And history''s got to be written, has n''t it?"
20111And the bombardment?"
20111And the dahlias I gave you?
20111And we who are going out to meet death have got to face it on empty stomachs?''
20111And when will it all be over?
20111And your papa?"
20111Are you ready?
20111Are you ready?"
20111Besides, the women gave up pastry, did n''t they?
20111But hold on a minute, is n''t Lorrain a friend of yours?"
20111But we''d never have realised how really deep it was if it had n''t been for this war, would we?"
20111But what''s the use of trying to shape your own destiny?"
20111But why do n''t you go and see''Père François''?
20111Can you blame him?
20111Cut it out, wo n''t you?
20111Cyprien,"his friends enjoined;"shut up a bit, ca n''t you?"
20111Did n''t Mr. Dumont who used to teach the third grade, draw it all out for us on the blackboard the last time he was home on leave?
20111Do you hear me?"
20111Do you know we found that monogram on an old 18th century handkerchief?
20111Does he still live where he used to?"
20111Fair Soissons, what is now your fate?
20111Follow in line-- what''s the use of crowding?"
20111For once again, to quote the laundress of the rue de Jouy--"Trials?
20111For what home did she thus pine?
20111He is n''t too awfully ugly, is he?
20111How about my eau- de- Cologne?''
20111How about them?
20111How can a fellow think if you all scream at once?
20111How did they turn out?"
20111How in the presence of such calm can we believe in war?
20111I remember a druggist who on greeting me exclaimed:"A pretty life, is it not, for a man who has liver trouble?"
20111I''d like to know what your wife would say if she caught you smoking a pipe in her hay loft?"
20111I''d like to know where you''d be then?
20111I''m so sorry, what''s the trouble-- nothing serious, I hope?"
20111In what state shall we find you?
20111Is it not on those same fertile fields so newly consecrated with our blood that every struggle for world supremacy has been fought?
20111Is n''t he the image of the Bacchus who forms the centre of the painting?
20111It used to be--''Popaul here-- Popaul there-- where''s my tobacco?
20111Leaving?
20111Now, with your mad idea, just suppose those who had a right foot all wanted tan shoes, and those who had a left could n''t stand anything but black?
20111Poor, melancholy_ Mireille_, what master was she mourning?
20111Ready to protest against this disfigured travesty of their war?
20111See that little fellow rolling his cigarette?
20111Shall I give Madame their address at Houlgate?
20111Should n''t you think their Officers would look after them?
20111So how is the brave little woman even to think of paying four years''rent, which when computed would involve more than two- thirds of her capital?
20111Sometimes when you would all start out for some excursion I''d see him coming back towards the gate:"''You''re not going with them then, Jacques?''
20111Stationary?"
20111Suppose the Germans were to get back here again before you sell it?
20111That''s an awfully bad sign, is n''t it?"
20111That''s no reason why you should mess up a house that belongs to your own people, is it?
20111That''s the principal thing, the one for which we''re all working, is n''t it?"
20111This one or that one?
20111Thus armed can they not look the horrid spectres square in the face?
20111To whom is this due?
20111Was it such a terrible thing, since the air fairly rung with merriment?
20111Well then, when a bombardment sets in how on earth could I get home quickly without my bicycle?"
20111Well, do you think that prevented the Parisians from fishing in the Seine, or made this café shut its doors?
20111What can one more or less mean now?
20111What could they do?
20111What did they all contain?
20111What do you take us for?
20111What good can that do them?"
20111What has become of those fifteen or sixteen hundred brave souls who loved you so well that they refused to leave you?
20111What on earth are you doing here?"
20111What shall I do?"
20111What ultimate destiny is reserved for your cathedral, your stately mansions, your magnificent gardens?
20111What will become of me now?
20111What''s a war cross more or less to me?
20111What''s artillery for, anyway?"
20111What''s the matter back there?"
20111When did you get here?"
20111Where have they gone?
20111Where''s mamma?"
20111Which way?"
20111Who were they?
20111Why did n''t Madame know that both Monsieur and Madame left for the seashore last evening?
20111Will Monsieur kindly give me the baggage check?"
20111Would they not be disgusted?
20111Would you mind walking around to the farms and telling them that Maxence will be here to- morrow morning?
20111You''re better off here than in the trenches, are n''t you?
20111_ Qui sait_?
20111and then turning to his mother,"I say, mamma, if one of them lands on our house, you promise you''ll wake me up, wo n''t you?
20111boys, who''s ready?"
20111exclaimed H."Do you hear the_ pompiers_?
20111he cried,"is it thus that you receive your sons who shed their blood for you?"
20111what terrors can lack of work, food shortage, or war hold for such people?
20111you''re surely not thinking of leaving your babies alone in the cellar?"
50410And do n''t you want me to pray for you?
50410But what will I do now for the price of my tobacco? 50410 I say, Colonel, what does this mean, your men barking at me like so many dogs?"
50410Well, how could I prevent her talking? 50410 What, those same men disobeying my orders again?
50410You got hit, did you?
50410Can you say that the words of the preacher have the same effect on the memory as the printed page?
50410Did you ever hear of a congressman or legislator quoting a preacher in support of a measure?
50410Did you ever hear of the pulpit controlling the market?
50410Do you think we could carry on a war by some one of us having a few dollars in our pockets?
50410He placed his hand to his ear and said,"What''s that, sir?"
50410I noticed they were a different kind of potato from what I had ever seen, and politely asked her,"Please, madam, what do you call those potatoes?"
50410Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen and Honorable Judges: The question before you,"Should Education Be Compulsory?"
50410Should education be compulsory, then, for the benefit of the child?
50410So determined and persistent was the fight in our part of the line, I heard a voice behind me saying,"Sergeant, what regiment is this?"
50410The Chaplain asked,"Now, Andy, do n''t you feel the spirit of God coming within you?"
50410The doctor took the canteen and said,"Do you think you can stand it now?"
50410The press there is recognized as having more influence than the pulpit or the clergy, and, why?
50410What is it that influences legislation, the pulpit or the press?
50410What was it that brought the rebellion upon us?
50410What was it that passed the pension bill?
50410What''s on top of that pole?
50410Where is the family in McLean County that does not see and read the weekly paper?
50410Would not the effects be wonderful?
50410[ Illustration:( end of chapter icon)] SHOULD EDUCATION BE COMPULSORY?
50410what was there?
46750''And Madame de Duras?''
46750''Are you their confidential friend?''
46750''But even if he should find nothing,''said I to myself,''can any one ever escape who has once fallen into their hands?''
46750''Have you your_ carte_?''
46750''Is Madame de Duras there?''
46750''Very well; but what are you doing here?''
46750''Well,''said I,''have you heard anything?
46750''What is your name?''
46750''Where is your entry in the jail- book?''
46750''Will you allow me,''said I, as I handed it to him,''to tell you what took place, and why I am here?''
46750''You are not going to send me away?''
46750''You were not arrested, then?''
46750But for you, my dear child, what would have become of them?
46750But what am I saying?
46750But what good will that do her?''
46750But what would become of those three children?
46750I found at the door the jailer( no longer the good Benoît) with two turnkeys, who asked me:''What are you doing here?''
46750I heard them saying near me,''Do you see how agitated that young lady is, and how she talks to the other one?''
46750I highly approve of your lodgings; shall I tell my sister- in- law that I insist upon your remaining with your brothers?
46750If Heaven spares my life it will be a precious moment to me( who could imagine one more so?)
46750Is there no hope?''
46750Mademoiselle de Pons, much moved, said to her companion,''Is it possible that we are surrounded by such miserable beings?''
46750Marinot said to him, angrily,''What are you doing here?
46750May I know what use you have for them?''
46750Revolution?_ Madame de Mouchy added:--''Having been united to my husband for fifty- two years I have entertained no opinions differing from his.''
46750Revolution?__ Have you not signed I have never signed any resolutions.
46750They took me at my word, adding with eagerness,''Do you promise it?''
46750This terrible man continued in the same tone:''Why are there only three persons in this room?
46750What will be my fate?''
46750What would the father and mother of these unfortunate children feel if you should abandon them?
46750When the administrators arrived, with their caps pulled down over their eyes, to ask,''Have you no petitions to send in?''
46750When they came to the_ assignats_ I said,''Citizens, are you not going to count them?''
46750_ Are you a married man?
46750_ Your age?_ In my seventy- ninth year.
46750_ Your name?_ Noailles Mouchy.
46750_ Your profession before and I have been a soldier from my youth; since the Revolution?_ and I have risen to the rank of Marshal of France.
46750resolutions derogatory to liberty?__ What have you done for the All that was required of me.
46750what can it be?''
46750why not?''
51552And did you have a Christmas tree and a happy time then?
51552Could you have believed that such atrocity could have been committed in the land of Washington?
51552Do you remember the Psalm Mr. McCarer[ our pastor] read the last night at our house, before I left with the regiment, the ninety- first?
51552Do you still like to hear stories?
51552Does my little Alice talk much about her papa?
51552Have you any action to direct?"
51552I believe under the circumstances you will agree with me that for the present it is best that you should not come over,--will you not?"
51552I write my wife:--"How would you and little Alice like to come out and live with me in a log hut for a while this winter?
51552My letter of the 13th of August gives some account of that visit:--"Does it look natural to you to see this letter dated from Knoxville?
51552Poor soldiers, do n''t you pity them?
51552Was it cold at home?
51552What do you say,--must I go in for it?
51552What think you of it?"
51552When shall that be?
51552Will you come down to see me there, or shall I jump on a boat and come up the Mississippi and Ohio and see you?"
51552Would you like papa to tell you a little story in his letter?
51552You will excuse me, will you not?
5861Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command?
58589:45 p.m."LIEUTENANT- GENERAL GRANT:"Would it not be well for Warren to go down with his whole corps and smash up the force in front of Sheridan?
5858He remaining mounted, spoke first to me, saying simply,"How are you, Sheridan?"
5858I assured him with thanks that I was"first- rate,"when, pointing toward the village, he asked,"Is General Lee up there?"
5859As I drew up by the party, Bismarck accosted me with,"Well, General, are n''t you hungry?
5859Offering the flask to his uncle, he said:"You''ve had a hard day of it; wo n''t you refresh yourself?"
46097Ai n''t she the dizzy limit?
46097Any more there?
46097Call that a riding test?
46097Hello, Bluegum,he said,"not killed yet?"
46097How much?
46097Nurse,said one of them, with a shattered leg, as he raised himself with difficulty,"will you write a little note for me?"
46097Say, what do you think of''Big Lizzie''?
46097Very cheap?
46097Where''s Murphy?
46097Who''s the Jonah?
46097You like fine scarab?
46097( And the people did give the victory to M. Venizelos-- but Greece, oh, where was she?)
46097And what was I doing there, anyway?
46097And why, after the hundreds of boats they have missed, should they get a bull''s- eye there?
46097Are there any finer roads in the whole world than the Mena road and that to Heliopolis?
46097Call that fair fighting?"
46097Can you who live at home at ease realize what that means?
46097Can you wonder that the Light Horse wanted to get a move on and make a start for the front?
46097Got any nice_ new_ ones?"
46097Had the Turks any idea of our projected departure?
46097Have I not already told how some of our cricketers caught the enemy''s bombs and hurled them back again?
46097Have you ever dreamed that you were standing on the edge of a precipice and that an enemy was racing along behind you to push you over?
46097He replied:"How could 12,000 of us take prisoners when we were up against 35,000?"
46097How''s that for a beginning, nurse?"
46097I wonder did that sniper wait till he got the three in line, instead of making sure of one?
46097I wonder will I ever see dear old Erringhi again?
46097Is it necessary to explain that this was the affectionate way our fellows alluded to the super- Dreadnought_ Queen Elizabeth_?
46097Is it really worth five_ piastres_?"
46097Is this boasting?
46097It was quite common for a trooper to cry out:"Are you there, Abdul?
46097The rising in India, the intention of the Australians to proclaim their independence the moment when Britain found herself in peril-- where were they?
46097There was a picture-- in_ Punch_ I think-- of the incident of the Irishman who yelled out to the Germans,"How many of yez are there?"
46097There was only one text that appealed to us, and that was"How long, O Lord, how long?"
46097What change could one have there?
46097What did it matter that we had no hot cross buns for Easter, no hard- boiled eggs, no ling, no salmon?
46097What rest?
46097Whence came these qualities in a branch of an immortal race bred to peaceful pursuits?
46097Where now was the"disintegration"of the British Empire which the German Emperor and his War Lords had so confidently predicted?
46097Why should that love- laden barge be the mark for the Turkish gunners?
46097You who delve into the mysterious, will you explain?
5856At this General Grant remarked:"Did he say so?
5856Where are you?"
5857Could not your cavalry go back by the way of Stony Creek depot and destroy or capture the store of supplies there?
5857Have any more troops arrived from Richmond, or are any more coming, or reported to be coming?
5860What appointment?
5860When he did speak it was to ask:"Grant, how many wolves do you think there are in that pack?"
5860will you work?
5863Halleck was present and spoke up, saying:"How would Sheridan do?"
5864Where?
43589Has Man a Conscience?
43589Have you finished harvesting? 43589 Well with the child?"
43589Well with the child?
43589Well with the child?
43589Well with the child?
43589And in what arm of the service?
43589And must he not arise?
43589And perhaps you may ask, does it meet my expectations?
43589Besides, it prohibited fire- water, and does not a father prevent his children from drinking fire- water?
43589Ca n''t we learn from our enemies?
43589Daniel is a first- rate business man, and, as he likes farming, why not make it his business?
43589Did I not come through your country one year since?
43589Did I then make promises to you?
43589Did you gather many walnuts?
43589Do you run as erect as you walk?"
43589Do you think the characters of Pitt, Fox, and Burke, as described by the author in the former work, are correct?
43589Do you think we could get Governor Everett?"
43589Does my venerable friend Seattle object?
43589Governor Stevens:"Does any one object to what I have said?
43589Great Chief, what shall we eat if we do so?
43589Have I told you that we are living in the government palace?
43589Have you any school in view now for next summer?
43589Have you ever read any volumes of the''Spectator''?
43589How could Oliver and the girls, if any are at home, pass the time better than reading or studying till perhaps ten in the evening?
43589How long a leave had I better get?
43589Is he not needed?
43589Is it good?
43589Is it not because your young men go out on war parties, and thus the flower of your tribe is cut down?
43589Is it not better that your young men should have wives and children, and that your numbers should increase?
43589Is it to be wondered at?
43589Is it vacation with John Loring now?
43589Is not here a work for a Moses or an Alfred?
43589Is not his speech in the case of Blake v. Wilkins admirable?
43589Is not the dissolution of the Union a subject of fearful foreboding?
43589Is this good, and do you want this?
43589Now, what have you to say?
43589Shall I hear from you there, and how many letters will await me?
43589Shall I hear from you there?
43589The Great Father desires this, and why am I able to say this?
43589The Indians had some discussion, and Governor Stevens then put the question:"Are you ready?
43589The first question Isaac put,"Can a sincere Universalist be saved?"
43589The following beautiful lines were written by Mr. Brooks, in condolence upon the sad loss:--"Well with the child?"
43589To this the governor rejoined:--"''Why is it that you have two or three women to one man?
43589Was this meant to vanish into thin air?
43589Were not many of you now present witnesses of the fact?
43589What are we to do?"
43589What did the Whigs gain by representing General Jackson to be in leading- strings?
43589What do you think of them generally?
43589What had I best do?
43589What is the lowest grade that you would be willing to accept?
43589What should they do, they asked, in case the Blackfeet came near their camp at night?
43589What will a man do for his own children?
43589Where, then, shall we find these?
43589Why not let us live together with you?
43589Why not send them to the east?
43589Why should we sell all?
43589Will you meet them in council?''
43589Wo n''t your women prefer husbands to scalps and horses?
43589Would you desire such a transfer?
43589You say you will give us land, but why should you give us the mouth of the river?
43589p. 373 dress of a chief?
5862Can Grant supply himself from the Mississippi?
5862Often"Johnny"would call:"Well, Yank, when are you coming into town?"
5862The next was,"What are WE to do?"
54065At length he emerged from the tunnel, and, in answer to the question,"What success?"
54065How did you get in there, sir?"
54065If it be asked, how can a people, professing to be civilized, act thus?
54065Many were anxiously exercised upon the questions, what shall we eat?
54065Should I fall on my first field, or should I escape?
54065Should I share the joy of victory, or experience the sadness of defeat?
54065Still uncertain, I asked,"Where are the troops to relieve us?
54065The question then arose, who shall go out first?
54065There was a shade of sadness on many a brow; for we were about to go forth two by two, to separate to meet again-- when?
54065What boy''s blood has not been stirred by the story of Bunker Hill, the exploits of a Marion, and the fall of Yorktown?
54065What youth has not wept as he read the story of Warren''s death, or the sadder story of the execution of Hale, the proud young martyr of liberty?
54065Where are they now?
54065and wherewithal shall we be clothed?
54065be a prisoner in the hands of the foe, or, wounded, lie helpless among the slain and dying?
54065what shall we drink?
6008419th, 1862,"addressed to one of his relatives, in answer to the question,"how he liked soldiering?"
60084In the language of the christian,"why should we not put our trust in Him, and pray for Him to bring us out of all our trials and afflictions?"
60084The question often comes into my mind,"have I done right?"
60363Who comes there?"
60363why do n''t you charge?"
40046All right, Johnnie, are you ready?
40046Are you the sergeant of the guards?
40046Aunty, are there any white folks close around here?
40046Do you really want me to do that?
40046Do you take me for a fool?
40046Do you think that I am a fool that I would hide you after you have been robbing me?
40046For de Lawd sake, is dat what you cut cheese wid?
40046For de Lord sake, honey, how you scare me; who is you?
40046Have you got a couple of government horses here?
40046Have you got any corn for my horse?
40046Have you seen any Yanks?
40046Hold on, there,said one of my comrades,"do you want to kill yourself?
40046How many are there of you?
40046I suppose your master is a Union man, is n''t he?
40046Is dem Yanks got away? 40046 Is there any white people around here, Aunty?"
40046Is you all alone, honey?
40046Is your master in?
40046Is your name Smith?
40046It do n''t make any difference who I am,said I;"but, Aunty, can I get anything to eat?"
40046Now, is dat so? 40046 Oh, you are the guards?"
40046Oh,said she,"what''s dat?"
40046So they have had you in irons four days?
40046Then there are no soldiers that come here?
40046Well, aunty,said I,"can I stay here to- night?"
40046Well, did you see any of the Johnnies on your trip from Batesville down?
40046Well, uncle,said I,"what do you think of me?"
40046Well, what about your Colonel?
40046What are you doing that for?
40046What is your name?
40046What will pa say when General Curtis comes along and wants to know what has become of the guards he sent?
40046Where are you stationed?
40046Why did you not call off your dogs?
40046Why, what is the matter?
40046You has? 40046 You have n''t?
40046''John, what have you got in your sack?''
40046After he had read the contents, he looked me over from head to foot and finally asked,"What regiment do you belong to?"
40046Ah, would this thing never end, or was I doomed to die in rebel hands?
40046Are you?"
40046As we were passing she called out:"Is that what you Yankees call skedaddling?"
40046Could it be possible that I was to get back to see my kind old mother, and my wife and little ones who had mourned for me as dead?
40046Dead?
40046Do n''t you like coffee?"
40046Do n''t you see how the cane is parted where they waded or swam over?"
40046Do n''t you think it is some one chopping?"
40046Do you call yourself a gentleman and stand and see your dogs tear a man to pieces?
40046Do you know when your men are to pass here?"
40046Does ye heah?"
40046Finally he broke out and said:"Now, look here, stranger, do you think you are going to sit there and bulldoze me all night and make me sit here?"
40046Fo''de Lord''s sake; what will become of dis pore niggah?
40046He soon got through with his writing, folded it up, put it in a large envelope and handed it to me, saying,"Sergeant, have you a good horse?"
40046How was it our government left us there to die?
40046I remember on one of our foraging trips we came up to a very nice farm house, and an old lady came out and said,"Are you''ns Yankees?
40046Is dat you?
40046Is de Yanks got loose?"
40046Is you a Yank?"
40046Is you afraid of the white people?"
40046Now just look over the coach of young soldiers in the first flush of manhood; can they all get back to their homes?
40046Now the road is infested with rebels; are you willing to undertake it?"
40046Now, my dear, ca n''t we study up some plan to get away with these Yanks?"
40046Old Aunty goes to the door and said:"Wot''s de matter, massa?"
40046Old aunty walked up to him, snatched the possum out of his hand, gave him a smart box on the ear and said:"Ai n''t you got no manners?
40046Said I,"Mister, supposing they are confederates, what are we to do?"
40046Said I:"Boys, do you think there is any chance for getting anything to eat up there?
40046Said Jim,"Look here, sis, have you any sweet potatoes, butter, chickens, or anything good to eat?
40046Said he:"Master, are you a Union soldier?"
40046Seeing an old lady standing close by the road I spoke to her and said:"Aunty, what do you think of us, anyway?"
40046Seen any Yanks pass this way?"
40046She looked up at him and seeing he was in dead earnest said:"When would you want me to go?"
40046Some of the men in the heat and intensity of their feelings exclaimed,''Is this hell?''
40046The Johnnie called over,"Are you hit, Yank?"
40046The little fellow put on his suit of gray, and Mrs. Wirz said,"How do you like your clothes?"
40046The old man looked at us and said:"Do you call yourselves gentlemen and force yourselves upon us?"
40046The old man raised up and said:"How do you do, sir; will you sit down on this bench?"
40046The same young lady was sitting where he last saw her, and he walked up to her, made a very polite bow and said,"How do you do, sis?"
40046Then the old gentleman looked around and saw the pigs in a line around the fire and said:"Hello, what have you here, sergeant?"
40046They would say,"Why did you not go and dig up that money?"
40046Was this some horrible dream, or was it real?
40046What brought you out here?"
40046What girl could resist such pleading from such a handsome young fellow as our Jim?
40046What is we to do?"
40046What of that?"
40046What''s the matter, honey?
40046Who is yous?"
40046Wirz said,"What are you doing here?"
40046You niggah, does you hear?
40046has you got store coffee?"
40046how can we forget it, comrades?
40046said Jake;"who is you?"
40046what is that?
40046where did you get your corn?''
40046who comes there?"
5865Well,said he,"did n''t you think it was the biggest shuck and the littlest ear that ever you did see?"
5865Well,said he,"did you see him take it off?"
5865MAJOR- GENERAL THOMAS, Nashville, Tenn. Is there not danger of Forrest moving down the Cumberland to where he can cross it?
5865Should his request be granted, who would you like as his successor?
5865Why not attack at once?
51559But the Boche--?
51559But,I said,"what is there in it for me?
51559Commandant X---- and his staff are coming to lunch-- I ca n''t leave the stove-- what on earth shall we do?
51559Did you see me get that Boche over the wood? 51559 Dis donc, mon vieux,"he ends triumphantly,"where would Europe be now if it were not for us?"
51559Do you know why, my friend? 51559 Not so bad, this one, hein?
51559See the tanks ahead of that wave of assault? 51559 Where''s D----?"
51559Why do you lie so quiet, my friend? 51559 Why should I weep?"
51559Wouldst thou kill me, sacré espèce of a camel?
51559You will shoot me up, will you?
51559A few grenades persuaded the survivors to come out of this, with no fight left in them; but how to get into the others?
51559And how many of those poor Germans did you kill?"
51559And you are poor-- well, what of that?
51559But wait, what is wrong with the Spad on the right end of the V-- a beginner surely, for at this rate he will soon lose his patrol?
51559Five?
51559How many in your patrol?
51559If I had known France before the war I could decide better a question that constantly occurs to me:"Has France grown more religious with war?"
51559Is it fancy-- or is there a slight condescension in his greeting?
51559Is there a life after death?
51559Only four now-- who and where was the other?
51559Well, what of it?
51559What is he in civil life?
51559Why not?
51559You love our little A----, eh, sergeant?
51559inquired the other, puzzled,"how did you get him down-- where was he?"
52121And what have you there, Alexander?
52121Are you an actor?
52121Could anything be done to better the matter?
52121Did you ever see, General, the paper that brought about your promotion?
52121I say, Cuthbert, would you like to go to Richmond?
52121Is he badly hurt?
52121What is it you want?
52121What is the attraction?
52121What think you?
52121What was his leading division?
52121Where shall I find you, General, to make this report?
52121Who is the general just falling?
52121Why so, General?
52121Will this do?
52121All through the night, while passing stray troops on the road, I could hear the question,"Who have you there?"
52121At Richmond we took the oath, as prescribed, to the United States Government, the courteous Federal officer asking pleasantly if it"tasted bad?"
52121But why did we not attack on the 14th in daylight?
52121Ca n''t you send us General Lee?
52121Can not you help me?"
52121Franklin should have been, I think, the man for Lincoln; but who knows?
52121Had he been with Lee where would our commander have made his battle?
52121It amused the infantry footing it on the side paths, and they would call out,"Here comes the cavalry, but what''s that gun tied to the tail for?"
52121Quite bald, it was scarred in several places, and looking at the mark of an ugly gash I inquired,"And, General, where did you get that one?"
52121Should we not have countermined actively and fought their men off in their own galleries?
52121Some years after the war he met in Europe General McDowell, who said,"Russell, do you know what day this is?"
52121Where now is the morning''s vision of victory which Babcock raised?
52121Why not?
52121Will you have it?"
52121You have the building, I have the company; what about the rest?"
56211D---- you, for a fool,he said;"what sort of a shot do you call that?
56211Do you think you could find it?
56211Hallo,he said,"why Harris, old boy,_ you_ are not going to begin, are you?"
56211Hallo?
56211More luck and grace to you,said Mc Lauchlan;"and it''s that you''re maning, is it?"
56211Walcheren,he inquired,"eh?"
56211What age are you, Rifleman?
56211What have you got there, sir?
56211What trade have you been of?
56211Where have you been?
56211Why do n''t they come on like men,they cried,"whilst we''ve strength left in us to fight them?"
56211At length Captain Leech observed her, and called out to the company,"Does any man here know what has happened to Cochan?
56211Do you think you are fighting here with your fists, that you are running into the teeth of the French?"
56211Men began to look into each other''s faces, and ask the question"Are we ever to be halted again?"
56211Musther Hills,"I heard him say,"where the d--- l is this you''re taking us to?"
56211Rifleman,"he said,"how came you here?"
56211What have you done for him?"
56211do you remember what happened to me at Salamanca?"
56211he said, as he grasped hold of me,"who the h- ll do you think is to stay humbugging all day for such a fellow as you?"
56211looking for money, my lad,"said he,"eh?"
56211no shoes, Harris, I see, eh?"
57212Ah,replied the General,"has the Doctor returned?
57212And pray, why not?
57212But,I said,"General, if you should die, what do you wish me to say to your wife?"
57212Can we get something to eat?
57212What do they say?
57212Which way were they going?
57212He met me with:"Well, Dr. Quintard, what can I do for you?
57212He took for his text on that occasion:"If thou hast run with the footmen and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?
57212His reply was:"How can you ask such a question, when you know as well as I do what has happened?"
57212I presented him for ordination and preached the sermon, from the text:"What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?
57212I said to him;"My dear Colonel, what is the matter with you?"
57212Where does he officiate?
57212Will you walk in?"
57212Would you mind exchanging with me for a little while?"
57212and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?"
57212why do n''t we attack them?"
60343Have you a servant?
60343Did we eat?
60343The everlasting cry is we are a young country and it takes us time to learn, but, damnation, does it take one hundred and fifty years?
60343Then, what would we eat and where would we eat it?
60343Were we spending the night?
60343Why could not our Government have attended to these matters twenty- five years ago?
60343_ August 19th._ How can I tell all that has happened in the past three days?
61370Is it just possible that out of this great conflict there may arise a stronger desire for religious unity than the world has ever yet known?
61370The whole nation is doing its utmost; can we quite honestly say the same of England?
61370WILL UNITS PLEASE COPY ORDERS REFERRING TO THEMSELVES?
5852Well, ai n''t you on our side?
5852But it first became necessary to settle the important question of who should succeed General McPherson?
5852But what next?
5852Can you expedite the sending to Nashville of the recruits that are in Indiana and Ohio?
5852If Hood goes to the Alabama line, will it not be impossible for him to subsist his army?
5852Others say:"What are we to do?
5852Pausing awhile, and watching the operations of this man roasting his corn, he said,"What are you doing?"
5852Some say:"I have such a one sick at my house; who will wait on them when I am gone?"
5852This being so, how is it possible for the people still here( mostly women and children) to find any shelter?
5852Who ever supposed they would come away down here in Alabama?"
5852said a listener,"do n''t you know that old Sherman carries a duplicate tunnel along?"
59757Did I tell you about this billet of ours?
59757Did I tell you that I thought it would have made a good picture for an artist to paint?
59757Did I tell you this already?
59757I do n''t know what news you have already had about things, so will you forgive me if I repeat things you already know?
59757I wonder if it would trouble you to send me my Psalter with the tunes?
59757I wonder whose idea it was to do it?
59757This does n''t convey much information about our whereabouts, does it?
59757Will you please excuse only short hurried notes just now?
38855Are you a Union man?
38855Are you telling the truth?
38855Are you the person from whom Sherman''s battery took its name?
38855At what points?
38855Did not God command the Israelites to buy slaves from the Canaanitish nations, and to hold them as their property for ever?
38855Did the jury that tried him, acquit him?
38855Did you desert?
38855Did you say that you were opposed to the slavery which existed in the time of Christ?
38855Did you tell Mr. Creath that you knew some negroes who were better, in every respect, than some white men?
38855Do you believe that any one can call the spirits?
38855Had the Federals a large force at that place, and who was in command?
38855Have you a Federal pass?
38855How does it read?
38855I suppose it is all right with you?
38855In the Destrict?
38855Kin you talk Funnyography? 38855 May I write a letter to my wife?"
38855Parson Aughey, is Phonography a Abolition fixin?
38855Parson Aughey, what is Funnyography?
38855The question I desire to propose is this-- How many preceded Noah in leaving the ark?
38855These irons,said he,"are very insecure; who helped you to put them in this condition?"
38855Well, Sam, what trade''ll ye gin?
38855What does he want?
38855What is your father- in- law''s name?
38855What is your profession?
38855What was your business in Iuka?
38855What will be your fate?
38855When was I missed after my escape, and how did the officers act when they learned that I was gone?
38855When were you at Iuka?
38855Where do you reside?
38855Where is Malone?
38855Where were you born?
38855Who reported me, and where are your witnesses?
38855Why did you attempt to bribe Barnes?
38855You confess, then, that you are a Union man?
38855''sposen I had a young filly, and you a old mar, ye would n''t ax an even trade, would ye?"
38855Are we prepared for all the evils attendant upon a fratricidal contest-- for bloodshed, famine, and political and moral desolation?
38855Are we prepared for civil war?
38855Are we prepared for such a result?
38855As I retired, I heard one picket say to the other,"Who is that?"
38855Did any of the prisoners know of or aid you in your escape?"
38855Do you know, sir, where the witch of Endor lived?"
38855Does she propose to refund the purchase- money?
38855Guilty, helpless, wretched as thou art, what is thy plea why sentence of eternal death should not be pronounced against thee?
38855Have they complied with the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law?
38855Have you a pass?"
38855Have you ever been within the Federal lines?"
38855How and when did you succeed in leaving that prison?"
38855How can ye dwell with devouring fire?
38855How happens it that you look at matters in a different light from your relatives?"
38855How long shall the wicked triumph?
38855I often thought of the couplet in the old song--"The hounds are baying on my track, Christian, will you send me back?"
38855I, in a peremptory tone, addressed him, in quick succession, the following interrogatories:"Where are you going?
38855In the first place, did you ever say that you did not believe that God ordained the institution of slavery?"
38855My proof is in Philemon, verses 15 and 16, where the apostle asks that Onesimus be received, not as a servant, but as a brother beloved?"
38855Myself in chains, my life declared forfeited, ought we not all to be deeply impressed with the necessity of immediate preparation to meet our God?
38855Now, my fellow- citizens, what shall we do to resist Northern aggression?
38855Of what worth was their declaration if they had remained inactive?
38855Parson Aughey, are you in favour of the South?"
38855Suppose you was to preach in Phonography, who''d understand it?--who''d know what was piped or harped?
38855The Colonel, turning round, glared upon me with eyes inflamed with passion and liquor, and thus addressed me:"Are you a Union man too?"
38855The South has made the North rich, and what thanks do we receive?
38855The following colloquy now took place between the commander of the post, the Provost Marshal, and myself:"Why did you attempt to leave us?"
38855The inquiry is often made, what becomes of the soul after death, and where does it await the general judgment?
38855The question has been asked, is there any Union sentiment in the South?
38855The question is often asked, is slavery sinful in itself?
38855To whom do you belong?
38855What has Mississippi lost by the Union?
38855What patriot would hesitate for a moment which to choose?
38855What room will you be pleased to have?"
38855What, under these circumstances, could resist the progress of Halleck to the Gulf?
38855When the political issue is made, shall we, or shall we not, grant license to sell intoxicating liquors as a beverage?
38855Where do we obtain the right of secession?
38855Where have you been?
38855Who ever heard of a government breaking to pieces without an arduous struggle for its preservation?
38855Who originated Mormonism, Millerism, Spirit- rappings, Abolitionism, Free- loveism, and all the other abominable_ isms_ which curse the world?
38855Who wishes to endure it?
38855Who would be a craven- hearted, cowardly, villanous submissionist?
38855Who would have gone to an officer who was apparently aiding and abetting the rebellion, ably and assiduously, to communicate his Union sentiments?
38855Whose life has been endangered, or who has lost his liberty by the action of the Government?
38855Why should we secede, and thus destroy the best, the freest, and most prosperous government on the face of the earth?
38855Will not God visit for this?
38855Will secession give us any more slave territory?
38855Will secession remedy this grievance?
38855Will ye play, then?
38855Wodent it all spill out, and leave''em dry, and whar ed we be?
38855Would her territory revert to France?
38855Would not Mississippi cut a sorry figure among the nations of the earth?
38855Would she become a territory under the jurisdiction of the United States Congress?
38855and where does them folks live what talks it?"
38855believe that the spirits can be called?"
38855how can ye take up your abode, your eternal abode, in everlasting burnings?
38855it''s going to rain; do n''t you hear the thunder?"
38855says Pat,''are you charmed at the first note?''"
38855what soundeth-- is creation Groaning for its latter day?
38855will ye dally With your music and your wine?
45894''Cause, sar, I can go to school, and learn to read; and den--"Well, what then?
45894Ai nt she a- ripping up the old salt water canvas, skearing the sharks and astonishing the sea sarpints?
45894And would you like that, Charley?
45894Are you willing to run the risk?
45894But we will be heard by the guerillas who may not be far off, and what would we do if a dozen of them should come upon us?
45894Dus you make books like dis- a- one?
45894How is you, Yankees? 45894 I sup- pose if we can not help it-- what you do?"
45894I suppose you would not hesitate to pink a rebel if he should come across you instead of a deer, Joe?
45894Is your piece loaded?
45894Oh!--Is you a- gwine to print a paper? 45894 Vat for you lay in ambush, den?"
45894Well, uncle,I said,"how do you like the Yankees?"
45894What company?
45894What did you cum for, den?
45894What name?
45894What were you sent here for, then?
45894What will all this amount to, lieutenant?
45894What''s the matter?
45894Wo n''t the rebs chaw him up?
45894Would you sooner be with the Yankees than the rebs?
45894You is-- you do? 45894 You think you are free now, and that the Yankees made you free, do you?"
45894A relapse ensued, and in a few days he was a corpse-- the victim of''red tape,''or incompetency, or criminal carelessness-- which?
45894As we marched in to take our position, the officer in command of the battery, asked--"What regiment is that?"
45894BY"ONE OF THE SEVENTEENTH,"[ Illustration: Thomas Kirwan( signature?)]
45894But how few, comparatively, of our detachment were now so eager, after encountering one enemy, to meet another?
45894Col. Amory coming up soon after, said--"Why do you stay here?
45894De press-- wha- what press-- de ex- press?"
45894Fowl, flesh, or fish?
45894Giving assurance that I intended no harm to any of them, I inquired if the master of the house was at home, and if so, where he then was?
45894Had he any whiskey?
45894How did you get here?"
45894Is that all the men I have?"
45894It was here that the 9th New Jersey picked up( captured?)
45894Observing an elderly gentleman in civilians''clothes, I remarked--"You do not look like a soldier either, friend?"
45894One of them a lad about 16 years old, was thus interrogated by the Major:"Vat for you be guerilla for?"
45894Seeing that he appeared unhurt, I questioned him while loading my piece:"What''s the matter?
45894Struck by the oddity of the saying, I stopped and questioned the lad--"Why are you glad you''re free, my little fellow?"
45894The transport we embarked upon was a dilapidated steamer called the"Haze"( who that ever took passage in her to or from Dixie can forget the old tub?
45894We have come''away daown Saouth in a few days,''have n''t we; and how do you like the lay of the land?
45894Were they huge gulls or windbags, cormorants or cranes, devils or dogfish?
45894What are you doing here?"
45894What chance would we have against so many?"
45894What then was it?
45894What-- can''t you even say''hooray?''"
45894When Tom McNally( the hero of the kicking mare) came up, Dr. Ainsworth asked--"Well-- what''s the matter with you, sir?"
45894When one of the delinquents stepped forward and asked--"If we goes, Massa Kimball, will dey guv us guns?"
45894Why do n''t you fire?"
45894there,--what does all this mean?
55702But surely it is very dangerous work?
55702But what do you do when you have finished?
55702Go up and have a look; then,"Who''s on our flank?"
55702He( the German) must be having a bad time; why does n''t he see it?
55702They''ll come away now?
55702Well, children,said the commander,"what shall I say to you?
55702What''s his wound? 55702 Are We Ready? 55702 But I''m keeping you awake, am I not?
55702He replied by quoting the answer of an Irishman:"He''s probably thinking, Is there any one that I''ve left out?"
55702He turned round several times to ask,"Is the Englishman there?"
55702How can any one say prayers for a world which is at war, or for himself that is a part of it?
55702In our interrogations we usually had to distinguish between"Did you surrender?"
55702Shall I return?
55702The Colonel came forward to me with a preoccupied smile:"A convoy for the flag,"he explained, and turning to his men;"you have the flag there?"
55702What is Mary doing?
55702What of our friends, the poor inhabitants, whom we left behind?
55702What was wrong with your motor yesterday?
55702When we were waiting before the post office for Sir Edward Grey''s speech, every one was asking,"Have they done the right thing?"
55702Where are you off to now?"
55702Will you be so kind as to forward to Omsk the accompanying note to our captive airman, Lt.----?
55702and"Did you come across of yourselves?"
17978A what?
17978Age?
17978Ah, yes, Monsieur le Capitaine, you will not take a seat? 17978 Ah,"I said,"that was n''t your fault, Barbara, was it?
17978And have you heard from your folk at home?
17978And how is it with your food?
17978And how is your''family''?
17978And how like you this War?
17978And how like you this war?
17978And the order?
17978And what about the Germans?
17978And what are you going to make of him?
17978And what did they do then?
17978And what do you boys do?
17978And what is your village?
17978And what said the German officer, Shiva Lal?
17978And wherefore?
17978And wherefore?
17978And why?
17978And you got home with the Uhlans?
17978And you will do the same?
17978And you, Mula Sing, what think you of this war?
17978And you?
17978And your birthday, Barbara?
17978And your lady mother, is she alive?
17978Are they all alone?
17978Are you married?
17978Are your parents alive?
17978At what hour did you enter the Café à l''Harmonie?
17978Avez- vous tué des Allemands?
17978Bad?
17978But what is the matter with the doll?
17978But where are they going?
17978But you make them pay for that?
17978But,I exclaimed in astonishment,"are you still administering justice?"
17978Can I talk to him?
17978Carter Paterson?
17978Cheek, is n''t it?
17978Cheek, is n''t it?
17978Come up to the Flying- Ground to- morrow, will you?
17978Did you hear about that chit the Camp Commandant at the Headquarters of the----th Corps sent to the A.Q.M.G.?
17978Do you know Jules F----?
17978Do you plead guilty or not guilty?
17978Do you sing too?
17978Et pourquoi?
17978Et votre ordonnance?
17978Had any trouble with German submarines?
17978How many patients have you got accommodation for here?
17978Hulloa, that you, Peter?
17978I feeds yer,he said reproachfully,"I waters yer, I grooms yer, I stays from my dinner to dry yer, and what do I get for it?
17978I know it-- is not Turkaran Patal the head- man?
17978I say, B----,I asked as I contemplated a hay- stack of things,"what''s the regulation allowance for an officer''s luggage?
17978I suppose you sometimes wish you were back in Wiltshire now?
17978I suppose you''re fond of your horses, Hawkins?
17978I suppose you''re pretty comfortable here?
17978I suppose you''ve had a hot time up there?
17978If one Frenchman is equal to three and one- third horses, how many Huns are equal to one British soldier?
17978If you be coming back again, will you ask for me to be de- tailed to you, sir? 17978 In war?"
17978Is he a German?
17978Is it a large farm?
17978La guerre, quand finira- t- elle?
17978La guerre, quand finira- t- elle?
17978More gardening?
17978My wife and Pat-- you''ve never seen Pat, I think? 17978 No?
17978Not much space here, eh? 17978 One and six a day we gets,"cried one of them,"and what''s this about this New Army getting four bob?"
17978Pourquoi non?
17978Profession?
17978Résidence?
17978Shall I write to thy people?
17978Shall we get to Calais?
17978Shikkar?
17978Should an Army follower be hanged or is he entitled to be shot? 17978 So you''re a Wiltshireman?"
17978So you''re leaving your hospital to go up and join a Field Ambulance?
17978Street- lamps?
17978The goat?
17978The grease?
17978The sahib would like to hear a story?
17978Une lessiveuse?
17978Vous êtes une blanchisseuse, aujourd''hui?
17978Well, but who is''Teddy,''anyhow?
17978Well, you see the roof of a house between the second and third tree from the right? 17978 Well?"
17978What about rations?
17978What did you do with him?
17978What do I get for it?
17978What do they cry?
17978What do you call it?
17978What do you think of the Germans?
17978What do you want all those for, Major Peter?
17978What have you found?
17978What is your name?
17978What might be your parts, sir?
17978What the devil did he mean?
17978What was I a- doin'', zur? 17978 What?"
17978When did you join?
17978Whence come you?
17978Where is thy home?
17978Where were you on the 3rd of April at 7 P.M.?
17978Who are you? 17978 Why is this?"
17978Why?
17978Will you come again, and take his tempewature-- Pwomise?
17978Will you wite a pwescwiption?
17978Would you call him a Bosche?
17978Yea, gladly; what shall the words be?
17978You have been out a long time, then?
17978You like the bayonet?
17978You see that row of six poplars over there?
17978You surely do not doubt the word of the German Government?
17978Your name?
17978''s, did I ever tell you the story of how I pulled the leg of old Macassey in South Africa?"
17978----?"
17978And I said unto him,''How is it that you, who are Christians, treat the Tommies so?
17978And I said,''Wherefore should I do this thing, and bring sorrow and shame upon my people?''"
17978And as for the rest of the Act and its preamble, and its sections and its sub- sections, are they not written in the Statute Book?
17978And he fell to wondering whether he would be reported in the casualty lists as"killed in action,"or would it be"missing"?
17978And the receipts?"
17978And they pull me by the leg"( can it be that the jemadar is pulling mine?
17978And what d''ye think we found, sir?"
17978And would they send his wife his identity- disc, as they did with those who had fallen honourably on the field?
17978And you too are a subadar?"
17978And your requisition-- you have your commandant''s written order and signature, no doubt?"
17978And, after all, were things so very different?
17978Are you not Christians?
17978But is n''t there something for civilians called a First Offenders Act?
17978But what had that to do with the charge?
17978Curious, is n''t it,"he added meditatively,"that you never see any Flemish fugitives without their feather- beds?"
17978D''you mind?''
17978Dae ah look like it?"
17978Did I know it?
17978Did he wish to ask the witness any questions?
17978Did_ you_ see?"
17978Do you understand?"
17978For how many of the old Army are left?
17978For what purpose is Ammonal used-- is it a drug or an explosive?''
17978Had they missed?
17978Has he not written that the ideal holiday is to watch another man doing your own job-- particularly if he does it badly?
17978Have you children?"
17978He comed fra oor toon, and he tellt me hissen the neet afore:''Jock,''''e said,''tha''ll write to me wife, woan''t tha?''
17978He spoke again, this time in Flemish:"_ Van waar komt gy?
17978How did he stop it?
17978How had it come here?
17978How like you the War?"
17978How''s that?"
17978Hullo, what''s that?"
17978I read on-- this time in silence: I say, have you killed any Huns yet?
17978I said they did not know; how could they?
17978I say,"he exclaimed joyfully,"did you see?
17978I was going to visit the battlefield of the Marne-- yes?
17978If I did n''t make my sanitary reconnaissances with my chloride of lime and fatigue parties, where would you all be?"
17978Is a carrier- pigeon an Army follower?
17978Is not that your very Hun?
17978Les Allemands?
17978Let me see, will this do, do you think?"
17978No?
17978No?
17978Now I ask yer?"
17978Our Officer, Capt''n S---- T----, d''you know''en, sir?
17978Strong?
17978The door opened and an old lady in a black silk gown inquired,"Qu''est- ce que vous voulez, M''sieu''?"
17978The whole school''s fritefully bucked up about you, and we''re one up on Fenner''s...."What''s Fenner''s?"
17978To what supremacy of effort has it not incited?
17978Tumhi kothun allé?_"said my friend Smith, turning aside to a lonely figure on my right.
17978Waar gaat gy heen?_"The man pointed with his hand vaguely in the direction of the Menin ridge.
17978We christened her Patricia, you know?"
17978What is the penalty for fraudulent conversion of an Army follower?"
17978What more can man want?"
17978What was he to do with a prisoner who elected neither to make a statement nor to put questions to witnesses, and who never gave him any lead?
17978What was the matter with the officer''s eye?
17978When he came to the prisoner''s name he looked up and said,"Is that your name and number?"
17978When will the war end?"
17978Where do you come from?"
17978Why are we kept back in the trenches, Sahib?"
17978Why is this?''"
17978Why not the soldier too?"
17978Why was this?"
17978Why?
17978Will the honourable sahib send a word for me who am thus crippled?"
17978You are smoking one of them now-- a very good cigar, is it not?"
17978You do n''t mind if I rag a bit, do you, old chap?
17978You know the four canons of the bacteriologist?
17978You remember Folly Wood?"
17978and what do you think of the Uhlans?"
17978and wherefore, Monsieur le Capitaine?"
17978asked the_ maire_ sleepily;"you have the Commandant''s order?"
17978bist gwine to fight for King and Country, Jarge?''
17978have you never heard the story of Simpson and the giddy goat?"
17978is that you, C----?
17978said the other with a certain paternal sensitiveness,"what do you suggest?"
17978was all wrong, when, catching sight of me, he came up and said,"Hullo, old man, back from the Front?
17978will it never end?"
39072''Ave you enough of ze gaz- o- leene?
39072''Where are you going?'' 39072 And what were we doing?"
39072And when is that?
39072Are you afraid?
39072Are you going back to Germany after the war?
39072Could n''t you fix it up for me just once to have ham and eggs and apple pie for breakfast?
39072Did n''t you hear him say he was n''t Irish?
39072Did they get anybody?
39072Did you ever read''Ivanhoe''?
39072Did you see those Germans yourself?
39072Do n''t you see? 39072 Do they allow enlisted men to drink in the saloons in this town?"
39072Do you ever speak to the German prisoners?
39072Do you see those tents?
39072Do you think I''m going to die?
39072Have n''t you got an Irish father or mother or are n''t any of your people Irish?
39072Have the Germans bombarded the town at all today?
39072Have you enough gasoline to go to the camp and back?
39072Have you enough gasoline?
39072Have you enough gasoline?
39072How are you, my little man?
39072How did you get the military medal, lieutenant?
39072How do they look?
39072How is that?
39072How many are you?
39072I suppose,he said,"that you made a little speech to the men before they fired that first shot?"
39072I wonder what those Germans are up to?
39072I wonder,said a passenger,"whether those submarines have wireless?
39072I''ve asked for fried eggs again and again and do you know what they do? 39072 If they get the balloon does that mean that they get the observer?"
39072In what military class are you?
39072It''ll be fine, wo n''t it, when somebody asks me:''Daddy, what did you do in the great war?'' 39072 It''s a question of whether we get her first or she gets us, is n''t it?"
39072Of''Ivanhoe''?
39072Qu''est- ce- que c''est?
39072Say,cried a voice across the diminishing strip of water,"what place is this anyhow?"
39072Say,inquired another reporter,"did anybody notice what was the color of the sergeant''s hair?"
39072Say,shouted the artilleryman,"what''ve you been doing?
39072Was there any other activity?
39072We do n''t get anything much but slum,he said, when I asked him,"How''s the food?"
39072Well, didja notice the trained seals?
39072Well, what are you doing it for?
39072What did he say?
39072What did you think of Conan Doyle?
39072What happened to you?
39072What would I make a speech for?
39072What''s that?
39072What''s the matter?
39072Where are you going?
39072Where have you come from?
39072Who invented this gas stuff, anyway?
39072Why are n''t you in khaki?
39072Why did n''t you send a man out ahead to look out for shell holes?
39072Why do n''t you like Paris?
39072Yes,said the irritated captain,"and what the hell do you want?"
39072You are going to Paris?
39072''Well, what did you do it for?''
39072''What''s the matter?''
39072''Where do you get off to be a marine?''
39072''You were told not to do that, were n''t you?''
39072A low comedian came out and said to his partner in perfectly good English:"Well, didja like the show?"
39072Anne?''
39072Ca n''t you use him in the bakery or the kitchen or some place so he wo n''t have to be put in the firing line or in the trenches?
39072Can you make them understand you?"
39072Do n''t you know what that is?
39072Do you suppose now that boat could send messages on ahead and ask other U- boats to look after us?"
39072How much?
39072I asked him:''Do you mean officers or Tommies?''
39072I looked out the porthole and asked an ambulance man:"Did we get her then?"
39072I was sitting at the next table and I leaned over and asked:"How do you like Paris?"
39072I''ve got no authority over them, and if they want to leave the party, what can I do?
39072It was the second day out that I heard a voice from just outside my porthole inquire"E- S- T-- what''s that and how do you say it?"
39072Later the universal question became,"Do n''t any of these people speak American?"
39072Mixtures seemed incomprehensible to them and the officer who kept crying out,"Madame, where are my oeufs?"
39072One band played"Wo n''t You Come and Waltz With Me?"
39072One day he came rushing out of the house with a valise in his hand and his good wife stopped him and asked,''Where are you going?''
39072One officer was distinctly annoyed because the first sentence he found in a chapter headed war terms was,"Where is the grand stand?"
39072Rid of him, the captain really began to sleep, only to be awakened by a knock at the door and a voice,"Is this the company commander?"
39072She was breaking my heart and I leaned forward and asked:"What part of New York do you come from?"
39072Silly ass, was n''t he?
39072Somebody else wanted to know,"Is there any place in town where a fellow can get a piece of pie?"
39072That would be fine business, would n''t it?"
39072The conversation had scarcely begun when one of the women somewhat tactlessly remarked,"General, this is a young man''s war, is n''t it?"
39072The lieutenant called him up then and said,"You''re writing a lot of lies home, are n''t you?"
39072The men in the front line tried him with all the German they knew--"You German pig,""what''s your regiment?"
39072The officer hesitated and a man who was passing stepped up and said:"May I interpret for you?"
39072They all looked at the sign then, and another soldier said:''I suppose that"bières"there is"beers,"is n''t it?''
39072Walking in dough?"
39072We passed a café on the way and one of the soldiers asked:''What''s this"vin"I see around on shops?''
39072Were n''t they"first to fight"?
39072What did the French say about them?"
39072What''s your name?''
39072When I asked one doughboy,"How do you get along with the French?
39072When a censor wants to kill a story he usually says,"Do n''t you know that your story may possibly give information to the Germans?"
39072Why, how could I consent to marry you, When I have my whole regiment to love?
39072and''Do you love me, kid?''"
51118Do you know who the parties are?
51118What have you been doing that they have arrested you? 51118 A man named Charley Durham who had resided at West Plains and had met me several times, rode up near us and asked me;What did you say your name was?"
51118About that time some man near the warehouse called out:"Who in hell are you?
51118After we were dressed in their old clothing, one of them asked:"What did you say your name was?"
51118And what are you doing here?"
51118Are you going to cage me?"
51118Could n''t you tie the knot upon them to hang them?"
51118Do you hear the drums and the fife?
51118Do you know what we are going to do with such men as you are?
51118Do you want us to take you up to headquarters?"
51118Had we not better accept the proposition and wait for results?"
51118He asked:"Did you ever live down here about the state line?"
51118He came to the author laughing and remarked:"You found my corn, did you?
51118Hogan stepped up to him and said,"You little rascal, would you attempt to cut me with a knife?"
51118Hogan, with an oath, said,"What are you doing with my horse?"
51118How are you getting along?
51118I asked him if he thought we would be able to remain there until morning?
51118I told him"That is my business; when you was in the military service did you inform the civilians of your object and aims?
51118I would ask him;"What''s the matter now?
51118Is that you?
51118Nicks said,"You have got him, have you?
51118On reaching the company Captain Forshee walked out of the line and remarked to them"Why have you brought him in here alive?"
51118Shall we attempt to run, or had we better pass them?"
51118The Captain came inside of the guard, called out,"Monks, are you asleep?"
51118The author asked, just as they had completed the tying,"What do you mean?
51118The author at once arose to his feet and remarked,"I am here, what is wanted?"
51118The author halted, of course, and the next remark was,"Who are you and where is the balance of your crowd?"
51118The author raised up in a sitting position and said,"Captain what is wanted"?
51118The author said to Long:"What shall we do?
51118The judge then said to him,"What about that money of yours; are you able to pay the$ 150 fine?"
51118The judge turned to him and remarked,"Mr., what did those boots cost you?"
51118The sheriff and others would come to me and say:"Colonel, why did n''t you shoot some of those fellows long ago?
51118There were four or five negro men standing upon the street corner and one of the officers holloed out to the negroes;"Which way did the rebels go?"
51118They said,"What does this mean?
51118What do think now in regard to the two parties living together?"
51118What is it that men wo n''t do?"
51118What''s the matter?"
51118Will there be no history left to tell of the heroism and devotion to their country in its darkest hour?
51118You do n''t intend to enforce it, do you, Captain?"
51118Your people may ask the question, what right have you Missourians to come down into our state?
47332A special train which he was probably on passed about 2 p. m. But what was the use of keeping troops under arms in line all day?
47332Ai n''t I a good Yankee?
47332And would not an alert, sagacious commander have made a forced night ride in order to have been with the first of his forces on the field?
47332But does he mention any other Corps so pleasingly?
47332But how about the uneasy souls-- the remorse of those who are responsible for this war in the hereafter?
47332But if we are uncomfortable what condition must the enemy be in?
47332But what''s become of the eight lines of C. W.?
47332Could anything in Hades be any worse?
47332Did ever anyone see such stupidity?
47332Did n''t our Division have about as many killed and wounded as both the First and Second Divisions together, although smaller than either?
47332Good(?)
47332How often are such things done?
47332I wonder if this awful war will ever find an end?
47332I wonder if we are always to be rear guard?
47332I wonder what the Johnnies think of us as fighters now?
47332Is man irresponsible?
47332It is said he did give the order to do so, but if he had been a_ great_ military genius would n''t he have_ seen_ that it was done?
47332Of course, I awoke in fine spirits for how could I help it?
47332On arrival there we found there had been a great scare from Mosby but it amounted to nothing; wonder if he thinks guerrilla warfare manly?
47332Or after being continually flanked by him from the Rapidan to Petersburg and later to Appomattox where his surrender occurred?
47332Should he not have a care?
47332The query generally is,"when will the army move, and where?"
47332Think you Lee then thought himself a greater field marshal than Grant?
47332Was there any excuse for the Confederates not driving the Union forces from the field in a rout on July first?
47332Was there ever before such a shocking battlefield?
47332What does it all mean, anyway?
47332What was he in Pennsylvania for or selected and paid for handling such an important matter to the Confederacy for?
47332What, therefore, was to prevent the Second Division or Vermont Brigade from advancing?
47332When will I get out of this?
47332Where was there any infantry of any amount except in the ravine in front of the Third Division?
47332Who could have anticipated it with such conditions?
47332Who gave the order to concentrate for battle at Gettysburg but he?
47332Who was?
47332Who will say we have n''t stood up to the rack?
47332Who would n''t?
47332Who would think it?
47332Who would wish to criticise troops unfairly under such circumstances?
47332Why not give the Third Division its due?
47332Will I ever make such devoted friends again?
47332Will the historian ever correctly record it?
47332Wonder if we wo n''t be abused for all this bye and bye by other than copperheads?
47332Would either Grant or Sheridan have lost their cavalry for several days, as Lee did, when on such a campaign in an enemy''s country or anywhere else?
47332Would they not be glad to do so if they could?
47332[ 25] Did Ewell take the best advantage of his opportunities?
47332[ 27] Does not every experienced soldier know that under such circumstances no one can tell exactly at what moment a battle will commence?
47332and do it almost at once, even as brilliantly so as at Winchester a month previous?
47332but was n''t it an_ alert_ Commander''s-- a_ genius''s_--business to have been there?
7190A doctor was standing there and asked"how do you feel?"
7190As we were standing there talking, I heard someone mention the name Len Pierce, so I called out"Who knows Len Pierce?"
7190Do they do a loop the loop, half roll or flip?
7190How do they get their feet on the ceiling?
7190I would sometimes spend several hours worrying: did I or did n''t I do it?
7190Remember Pete Lenzi who had hitchhiked to California and Joined the Marines?
7190The fellow was so excited to see his friend he yelled"What did you do with my clothes?"
7190We went over to another plane and the instructor asked Who''s next?"
5853Any guerrillas?
5853Is it a good road, and how far?
5853What do you know of Uncle Billy?
5853What is to be done with the freedmen?
5853Can it be that such a resort finds root in any stratum of American opinion?
5853Could not such a camp be established about Pocotaligo or Coosawhatchie?
5853Could not such escaped slaves find at least a partial supply of food in the rice- fields about Savannah, and cotton plantations on the coast?
5853Davis, etc.?
5853General Blair simply asked,"Do you like it?"
5853General Grant remarked,"What is to prevent their laying the rails again?"
5853If the rebel leaders were to arm the slaves, what would be its effect?
5853Should we allow them to escape, etc.?
5853So that the only questions that remained were, would he surrender at Raleigh?
5853State in what manner you would rather live--whether scattered among the whites, or in colonies by yourselves?
5853State what you understand by slavery, and the freedom that was to be given by the President''s proclamation?
5853State what, in your opinion, is the best way to enlist colored men as soldiers?
5853Then followed the question,"Is Fort McAllister taken?"
5853What signified the terms to them, so long as we obtained the actual surrender of people who only wanted a good opportunity to give up gracefully?
5853What was to be done with the rebel armies when defeated?
5853Who have prompted him?
5853Why was this, or why was all mention of any field of duty for the head of the army left out of the army regulations?
23340Any Reb- bils out yonder?
23340Are you pulling in there, you men?
23340At Washington, ma''am?
23340Boy,I heard him say, to a slight figure, near at hand,"boy, what are you standing there for?
23340But where were Porter''s columns?
23340By right or by conquest?
23340Can I obtain any facts from you,I continued,"as to the battle of Hanover?"
23340Can ye not watch with me one hour?
23340Can you make out his shoulder- bar?
23340Chamberlain,said Griffin,"ca n''t you save the honor of the Fifth corps?"
23340Colonel,I called to the officer in command, as the line of bayonets edged me in,"may I pass out?
23340Dear me,said Mr. Axiom,"you would ruin our circulation at a wink; what would become of our ball column?
23340Did n''t I projuce yer honor in good time, sur?
23340Did you ever make a public lecture?
23340Did you lose yer poultry?
23340Did you lose yer sheep?
23340Do her pictures look like her?
23340Do n''t the Irish make the best soldiers?
23340Do you command?
23340Doctor,said one, feebly,"I feel very cold: do you think that this is death?
23340For what?
23340Friend, have you a drop of water for a man that''s fainted here?
23340Fuh what puhpose?
23340He is going,exclaimed a private, excitedly;"where''s the man that was to try a lead on him?"
23340How did they go?
23340How do you know?
23340I wonda if dey''ll take Richmond dis yer day?
23340Is that so? 23340 Is there any reward out?"
23340Is there but one of''em?
23340Is this General M''Call?
23340Is this your house?
23340Just makin''reconnoissance,said one of the freebooters;"s''pose a feller has a right to walk around, hain''t he?"
23340Moss,he said again,"ai n''t you got no tobacco, Moss?
23340My friends,--may I say, almost my parents? 23340 News?"
23340Not unless he has a pass,said the Quartermaster;"have you written permission to leave camp?"
23340P''raps not,said the tall soldier, drily;"did you ever grub on fat pork, Miss?
23340Pray describe how Payne twisted, and whether you think Atzeroth''s neck was dislocated?
23340Sot down, honey,said the old woman, producing a wooden stool;"is you a Yankee, honey?
23340Stuart, how are you?
23340Then I am not upon the Alexandria turnpike?
23340Townsend,said Heath, as he swept the whole country with his keen eye,"do you know that we are standing upon historic ground?"
23340Townsend,said Lowe,"have you the copy of that matter you printed about me in England?
23340Under arrest? 23340 Was the rope attached to her left ear?"
23340Was we licked, do you think?
23340Were you aware of the order prohibiting correspondents from keeping with the advance?
23340What do you mean by crossed?
23340What giggling for, Bob?
23340What is it you wish, Lieutenant?
23340What is it?
23340What is the color of his coat?
23340What is the matter, my man?
23340What sort of rope was it, for example?
23340What will the girls say when they come back?
23340What''s this, Watch?
23340Where are your companies?
23340Where''s Gen. Banks? 23340 Where''s the man that wants to mutiny?"
23340Where''s your pass, bub?
23340Who are yeou?
23340Who are you?
23340Who invited you?
23340Who is it, Sergeant?
23340Who is it?
23340Who opened it?
23340Who''s thar?
23340Whose horses are these?
23340Why not?
23340You are a Northern man?
23340You knew that you had no business upon scouts, forages, or reconnoissances; why did you go?
23340Young Moss,said he,"ca nt you give a po''soul a drop o''sperits?
23340_ Would n''t_ she tell Henry? 23340 ( Pens?) 23340 A universal fear now found expression, and helpless people asked of each other, with pale lips--How far have we to walk to reach the James?"
23340Ai n''t dat so, chillen?"
23340All were looking up, and saying, in pleading monotone:"Is that you, doctor?"
23340Among the hogs, I think?"
23340And where have ye been?
23340Are yeou a rebbil?"
23340Are you going to ride over this wounded feller?"
23340Are you shot bad, Bobby?"
23340Besides, how did I know that some correspondent had not reached Washington, by way of one of the Potomac vessels, and so forestalled me?
23340But how few of the illustrious Senators, Chief Justices, Generals, etc., who draw their sustenance from the Capital, care a penny to decorate it?
23340But what were the circumstances?
23340Can Mr. Davis visit it, and pray as he does so devoutly afterward?
23340Cause why?
23340Compare this with Chancellorsville, Williamsburg, the Wilderness, Bull Run, and what shall we say?
23340Did you ever gnaw yer hard tack after a spell o''sickness, and a ten- hour march?
23340Directly Gen. Hartsuff returned, and the forager rose, with a grim smile about his mouth--"Hartsuff, God bless you, how- de- do?"
23340Do n''t you s''pose he''ll prent it all?"
23340Do you remember the thrilling chapter of"The Jew''s last night alive,"in"Oliver Twist?"
23340Does you want you fauchun told by de ole''oman?"
23340Has any battle so successful ever been fought in Virginia?
23340Has the attack succeeded?"
23340Have anymore of our boys been hurt that you know of?"
23340He relapsed again for a few minutes, when he continued:"You do n''t like fellers to bag yer poultry and sheep, do you?"
23340Hey, Ike?"
23340How many days or hours would have here sufficed to annihilate all the races of men?
23340How was I, so dismounted, to reach the distant river?
23340How''s that, Ike?
23340I believe you have telegraphed up to a House instrument, have n''t you?"
23340I saw a jail in Florence, and it troubled me; who in that beautiful city could do a crime?
23340If they had a been, why wa''n''t they on hand to save my regiment, and the New Jersey brigade?"
23340Is it harsh to say that artists have been too well rewarded, and thinkers and writers too ill?
23340Is not this work for gratulation?
23340Is that so, boys?"
23340Is there nothing over all?
23340It is an encomium in America, to say that a man"Can keep a hotel,"but what shall be said of the man who can keep a hotel in war- time?
23340It never rains but it pours, does it?"
23340It''s a sad thing to know that one''s children died enemies, is n''t it?
23340Massar, is your family from ole Virginny?"
23340Mother, where is the gruel you made for him?"
23340No?
23340No?
23340No?
23340Not any?
23340On the way from the field to the hospital he wandered in mind at times, crying out,"Captain Weaver how is that line?
23340One may be passing for a young duke, or tourist, or clergyman, or what not?
23340One of your military friends?
23340Pardner, is there water over there?"
23340Richmond had cost them half a million of lives, a mountain of blood and wealth, four years of deadly struggle; would they not complete its ruin?
23340Rough recognitions would ensue, as thus:--"Bobby, is that you, back there?--Bobby Baker?"
23340Shall I take my cigar at the Spotswood on Sunday fortnight?"
23340Shall the North be victorious in the next battle?
23340Shall we ever make Washington the representative Capital of the country?
23340She asked me, wistfully:"Masser, how fur to de nawf?"
23340The deplorable results?
23340The question at once occurred to me: Can I stand fire?
23340Townsend,"said he, smilingly,"back already?
23340Townsend?"
23340Was I in a hostile country, surrounded by thousands of armed men?
23340Was n''t I the boy to make the keers?"
23340Was this, in fact, revolution, and were these simple country girls and their lovers revolutionists?
23340We had met the enemy; were they to be ours?
23340We must a killed a thousand or two of''em, do n''t you think so, Adjutant?
23340Were the incidents of this evening portions of an historic era, and the ground about me to be commemorated by bloodshed?
23340Were we to retreat one hundred miles down the hostile Peninsula,--a battle at every rod, a grave at every footstep?
23340What capital had I for this essay?
23340What do you think, pardner?
23340What do you wish?"
23340What in---- do you want?"
23340What regrets for good resolves unfulfilled, and remorse for years misspent, made hideous these sore and panting hearts?
23340What were the results?
23340What''s to be done with_ us_?"
23340What?
23340Where were the lewd contractors, who had hoarded Confederate scrip by the basest exactions?
23340Who ever loved a mule?
23340Who is responsible for this?"
23340Why ai n''t we led up, sa- a- y?"
23340Why do n''t you shoot me?
23340Why, Jeems, could n''t we foot it, honey?"
23340Will Richmond surrender within a week?
23340Will you kindly bear with me a moment while the janitor gets me a glass of water?"
23340Wo n''t he be jealous?
23340Wo n''t he, lad?
23340Would n''t they let him and Sam off this wunst?
23340Would they finish what friends had commenced,--the sack, the desolation, the slaughter of the place?
23340You dead, Ally- bammy?
23340You do n''t think they''ll refuse to let me take his bones to Baltimore, do you, sir?
23340You have n''t got a drop of water, have you?"
23340and_ should n''t_ she write to Jeems?
23340or, indeed, in the East?
23340said I,"and the Pennsylvania Reserves?"
23340said an officer;"have they moved a battery so close?
23340said one,"what business you got wi''a hoss?"
23340said the Sergeant, sternly;"what are yeou deouin''aout at this hour o''the night?
23340said the old lady;"a must take care of''is''ealth; will a come hoom wi''Tummas and me and drink a bit o''tea?"
23340said the old man in his great voice,"where are you men going?"
23340she said, buoyantly--"is dat all?
23340was the mother''s next sob;"they loved the place: do you think they will know it?"
48142Afoot?
48142And did you visit them before you went to California?
48142And do your father and sisters live in Mississippi?
48142Are you a Southern man?
48142How much do I owe you?
48142How much do you charge?
48142I knew you were from the South,said one:"Why?"
48142Was Dick your brother?
48142Well, how do you know you are going?
48142What is your name?
48142What sort of a looking thing is a dry dock?
48142Where are we?
48142Where are you from?
48142Where are you going?
48142Where have you been?
48142Wonder if all the boys who read these lines understand about the change from sun time to railroad time?
48142Wonder what there is here?
48142After I had signed my name, he said,"Wash, do you want your furlough now?"
48142After the close of the session I approached him with the remarks:"You never saw me before?"
48142Are you ashamed of it?
48142As I spun my yarn that night around the fire- side, my sister said,"Brother, why did n''t you ask Mrs. Edmondson to send you out in a buggy?"
48142As they came up, the owner of the boat said:"Who are you?"
48142Can you curry horses?
48142Could you not do so?"
48142He easily detected me, as I had on a fur cap, very uncommon in the South, He said:"Are you ready to pay me, sir?"
48142He looks around in wonder and what do you think he sees?
48142He replied:"How are you going to get any grub?"
48142He said:"Do you know Safford in California?"
48142He said:"Do you know who he was?"
48142He said:"Do you think I am a fool?
48142He said:"Was it Ike Reader?"
48142He said:"Well, old fellow, are you loyal?"
48142He scowled at me, then said to the old lady:"Who''s this you''ve got here?"
48142Here is a nice town, some large stores, a court house and public school building, all of brick; but what on earth keeps up the town?
48142I ca n''t recall it all now, but after a while it was arranged and the man asked:"What do you want for this?"
48142I choked them down the best I could and finally said:"Yes, sir but how did you know it?"
48142I looked at the astonished lady at the end of the room and stammered out:"Is this Mrs. Edmondson?
48142I said,"How far is it to Newton?"
48142I said:"How can a man be otherwise than loyal when he comes from Beloit, Wis.?
48142I said:"How far is it from Newton now?"
48142I said:"Is there no ferry there?"
48142I said:"Mrs. Edmondson, do you remember a boy coming here two years ago and hiring a horse and buggy to go out to Garlandsville?"
48142I suppose it will be all right with you?"
48142Immediately he took my breath by saying:"You are lately from California, are n''t you?"
48142In signing my name, he asked:"Are you one of the Alabama Crumptons?"
48142Is there anybody living near here, on whom it would not be an imposition, who might let me rest until Monday morning?"
48142ONE who travels and observes could write letters indefinitely about what he sees and hears, but the question is:"How long will the readers stand it?"
48142Resuming the conversation, he said:"How is it that you are afoot?"
48142Seeing me crying in affectionate, helpless distress, the fellow had the heartless bad taste to exultingly ask:"What do you think of that, young man?"
48142Taking dinner with a farmer, who was evidently in sympathy with the Southern people, he said:"How are you going to get across the river?"
48142The next question was:"What is the name of the lecture?"
48142The next question would have been:"Do you know a young fellow by the name of Crumpton, lately from California?"
48142Was it possible, I thought, that somebody had found out my secret and had sent this chap aboard to look me out and arrest me when I reached Aspinwall?
48142What do you say?"
48142What else does man want than that which he can find in Arizona?
48142What is the attraction?
48142What was I to do?
48142What would Alabama farmers think of running a plow with six and eight horses attached?
48142Who in Alabama does not know him, and among us all, whose life has not been touched to some extent by the influence of his?
48142Why he was there I never did know, but when I had finished my speech, he said:"Did you say your name was Crumpton?"
47474Ca n''t you take a joke?
47474Do you know what I''ve been thinking ever since? 47474 Early to bed and early to rise?"
47474How soon shall the power that turned back the clock of civilization be stopped?
47474The bravest battle that ever was fought, Shall I tell you where and when? 47474 Where are they?"
47474A chap from Montana came up to the canteen counter behind which I stood, and said,"Say, did you ever hear the story of the Statue of Liberty?"
47474Ah, but you say, how well were they doing it?
47474And what have we found this"new woman,"this woman of war, to be?
47474At about six o''clock a chap who had been eying me for some few minutes said,"Say,_ I know you; who are you_?"
47474Barnes turned to me, and said,"Shall we walk or wait?"
47474But why dwell on that tragedy?
47474But why multiply instances?
47474CHAPTER XIV_ THE FIGHTING PARSON_"Did you mean what you said about the-- preacher just now?
47474Do you say that woman''s sphere is in the home?
47474Do you want it?''
47474Does the gigantic little Welshman lift his head betimes and listen for the voices of the Past?
47474Does this all sound like rare presence of mind and complete self- control?
47474Finally I said,"Do you use the gas out there?"
47474His famous"speech"at the tomb of Lafayette,"_ Lafayette, we are here_,"was true to his best form, and what could have been more complete?
47474How do we live?"
47474How long will it stand for the Y. M. C. A. man''s assuming a rôle that does not belong to him?
47474I began with a more or less complete analysis of my own mental state-- but why discuss personal matters when there are other people to talk about?
47474I heard muffled coughing, and a sweat broke out upon me; were we to be trapped without a chance for our lives?
47474I said:''What are you here for?
47474It is an honor to a family, and is that the time for weeping?"
47474On this particular morning I sat up in bed and said sternly, very sternly,"Billy Buttons, what are you doing here, anyhow?"
47474Out under the trees early one morning we talked about the gravest problem a man ever faces,"Where shall I put my life?"
47474Rather, there are two such questions: first, What is the moral character of the American soldier abroad?
47474Then he said,"I stopped there in the sky, and all that I could think was,''Do they feel it?''"
47474They shall not pass!_"What is this spirit?
47474Was a raid to be received, or were our lads to deliver one?
47474Was there gas in the room?
47474Were we under general attack?
47474What did it mean?
47474What is the attitude of the American military authorities in France toward drink and vice?
47474What is the spirit of the trenches?
47474What is the spirit of the trenches?
47474What is this spirit, the spirit of the trenches?
47474When I myself urged a holiday upon them,--and not in a year have they taken one,--they said:''What will our men at the front do when we stop?
47474When will they start again?
47474Where do we go from here?"
47474Where do we go from here?''"
47474While the question,"Is he looking at me?"
47474Who sent you?
47474Whose are you?''
47474Why?
47474Will the Germans sit back and rest too?
47474With his hands he made a vise and gripped my shoulders, as he said, like one in a dream,"Poling, what are you doing here?"
47474_ I never saw a man injure another man up there, or seek to._ Quarrels?
47474and I replied,"Which one?"
47474and, second, What are the American military authorities in France doing to keep the soldier physically competent and morally fit?
47474secretaries?"
56407( I wish the reader to mark the manner in which the doctor addressed me, for what has a physician to do with a person''s christian experience?)
56407Ask yourself the question, what did Dr. Bell urge me to relate my christian experience for?
56407Because God saw fit not to give me the abundance of this world was I any the less incapable of happiness here and hereafter?
56407Because I differed from some of my family in my religious opinion must I be taken and imprisoned?
56407Because I was a poor factory girl must I be treated in this brutal manner, in this boasted land of liberty?
56407But why is all this contention about religion?
56407But would I have willingly thrown myself away?
56407Could it be that Eliza Lufkin would turn me out of her house on the third day of my illness?
56407Had a poor persecuted christian ought to be consigned into the hands of unconverted rough men?
56407I felt prepared to meet Christ, but was often asked what I thought of it?
56407I often thought that I would give up my business and labor entirely for the Lord; and then I thought what should I do for a home?
56407If I was in a weak state and tryed about my spiritual state, was it right to shut me up away from all my dear associates and godly influence?
56407In my usual manner I asked him if he had a change of heart?
56407Is it not a law in nature that every body desires happiness?
56407Is there a person this side of the grave for whom God has nothing more to do?
56407Is this done in this free and happy land?
56407Miss Barber said sneeringly, do you not expect to enter the pearly gates and walk the golden streets of the city of the New Jerusalem?
56407My sister had asked me if she should send for brother Stephen?
56407Reader, can you imagine what my sufferings were?
56407Upon that I made the expression"_ grated windows, and locked door_, where am I?"
56407What does such language imply?
56407What kind of treatment is this in this Gospel land of light and liberty?
56407What right had they to put me in such a place?
56407Why is the public so silent upon the sufferings of a poor girl?
56407Why should I wish to start such a thing before the world if it was not so?
56407Why was I shut up and no one allowed to see me?
56407why did he ask me how much I read the Bible, more than any other book?
42721Alone?
42721And how does the frontier run?
42721Been wounded?
42721Ca n''t you see that all the others have been seen to? 42721 Can you see anything?"
42721Had he secured the gun? 42721 Have you any identification papers?"
42721Have you any money?
42721Have you no money at all?
42721Here lives...? 42721 How did that happen?"
42721How long were you at the front?
42721How often have I not wished that at least one of my children were a boy? 42721 However,"he observed,"is it sure that the French would have spared us?
42721Indeed?
42721Let us take some infantry coats,somebody ventured;"what''s the difference?
42721Silly ass?
42721So you wo n''t do it?
42721That''s neither here nor there,said the lieutenant- colonel,"the women and children are French, too, so what''s the harm done?
42721The police?
42721What are their names? 42721 What are you doing here?
42721What are you doing there?
42721What do you want?
42721What? 42721 Where are the officers?"
42721Where are the others?
42721Where do you come from?
42721Where is your equipment?--Lost?--Lost? 42721 Who are you?"
42721Who are you?
42721Who is there?
42721Who''s got honey in his cooking pot?
42721You are sappers, are n''t you?
42721You''re a sapper?
42721You, too?
42721A Socialist comrade, a reservist, had the pluck to cry aloud,"Do you hear that, comrades?
42721And the officers?
42721And what about ourselves?
42721And why not?
42721And yet-- what else could we soldiers do but obey the order?
42721Are you wounded?
42721But how was I to get there?
42721But what was to be done?
42721But where was our company?
42721But who had the time now to bother about that?
42721Did you see the last look he gave us?
42721Do you hear the others cry?"
42721For who was there to care about such"trifles"?
42721Had He cast them aside?
42721Had we not been shooting and stabbing, murdering and clubbing as much and as vigorously as we could the whole night?
42721Had we not received fresh food for cannon so that the mad dance could begin again?
42721Have a look; perhaps you are and do n''t know it?"
42721He or I?
42721He received us with the greeting,"Where have you been, you boobies?"
42721How long do you expect me to wait?"
42721How often since have I not thought of these and similar incidents, asking myself whether I thought those things improper or immoral at the time?
42721I asked them:"Why do n''t you throw me over my bag which I threw away in the hurry?
42721Maybe they are at Vitry?"
42721Regiment?"
42721Retire?
42721See?
42721Thereupon he overwhelmed the soldier with all the"military"expressions he could think of, like,"Are you mad?"
42721Was it fear?
42721Was it true what we had heard-- that those prisoners were not our enemies at all, that they were our brothers?
42721Was that the terrible German war machine?
42721Was the old chap blind or--?
42721We had but to follow to the place where the herd was to be slaughtered; what did it matter where that would be?
42721Well, where?
42721Were those the cowardly, degenerated Frenchmen whom we had driven before us for days?
42721Were we not soldiers, mass murderers, barbarians?
42721What did we care?
42721What should I say if they caught me?
42721What was to happen to us if this should continue for months--?
42721What were others to them?
42721What were the others to us?
42721What were we doing at Aix- la- Chapelle?
42721What were we to do?
42721What were we to them?
42721Whence am I to get the money to pay for this journey?"
42721Where are we going to?
42721Who could describe the feelings that overcome a man in the first real hail of bullets he is in?
42721Who could have known it?"
42721Who is it that has this terrible war, this barbaric crime on his conscience?"
42721Who knew?
42721Who was it to be?
42721Why could it not always be as peaceful?
42721Why was that so?
42721Why were we joyful and why did we crack jokes?
42721Would they hit Apremont?
42721You or I. I?
51211An''will ye tell me, Jack,said his companion,"what sort of foightin''it is, ye loikes?"
51211Did you ever time this horse for a half- mile?
51211How can we, general? 51211 Is that your horse?"
51211Well, why do n''t you call a board of survey and have it condemned?
51211What do I mean? 51211 What do you mean by that, sir?"
51211What is that?
51211What''s the difference? 51211 Why, general?
51211An''sure an''_ do ye think I''m goin''to hell widout me pardner_?"
51211But what will you do when the Yankee gun- boats come up the river and begin to throw hot shot into Savannah?
51211Catching at the suggestion as a revelation of duty, she asked,"And cheerfulness makes better soldiers of the men, does it not?"
51211Did the Southerners really think themselves a match for ten times their own numbers?
51211Did you ever eat one?
51211Do n''t you call that high?
51211Do you know what I''ll do then?
51211Do you think he will advance before spring?"
51211Had we not better oblique into the woods?"
51211How did people manage to live during such a time?
51211How else were his boots and his accouterments to be kept clean, his horse to be groomed, and his meals cooked?
51211My health and my life are worth less than those of my brothers, and if they give theirs to the cause, why should not I do the same?
51211Now you''ll not disappoint me, will you?
51211Pointing to a fearful gash in his own neck, the man replied,--"Do n''t ye see I''m a dead man, captain?
51211S._ Is n''t it pretty high?
51211S._ Yes; but how about luxuries?
51211The teamster called out to his companion, in a loud voice, after the manner of deaf people:"I say, sergeant, who_ is_ that durned old fool?
51211What cared they for the failure of mere human efforts, when they were persuaded that through such failures God was leading us to ultimate victory?
51211What else were they made for?
51211What''s the use of pottering around with technicalities when the efficiency of a battery is at stake?
51211When I had finished he looked at me intently for a moment, and then asked,"Are n''t you the man who came so near shooting me at Ashland?"
51211Who shall say?
51211Why, then, the reader doubtless asks, if this was the temper of the Virginians, did Virginia secede after all?
51211Will you show me a civilian who is charging only six times the prices charged in 1860, except the teacher only?
51211You never see any coffee nowadays, do you?
51211_ Union Soldier._ Are n''t times rather hard over there, Johnny?
50970Are you akin to David Hepler?
50970Boys,he continued,"supposing it should become necessary for us to separate into two squads, how''ll we divide?"
50970But just now, where did you come from just now?
50970Can it be that they have been caught?
50970Can it be,said Smith,"that Averill''s cavalry are on a raid through here?"
50970Has n''t any one been to mill?
50970He lived in Cincinnati, did he, and belonged to Company-------- Regiment, Ohio Volunteers?
50970How about the keys; do n''t the whites get up and unlock?
50970How many were there in the squad?
50970O, one or two,answered Childs,"but they were in a hurry, and did n''t stay long?"
50970We do n''t have to stand picket in the night- time; we do n''t have to march, skirmish, and frequently fight in the night- time, I suppose?
50970Well, this is Lewis''s house, is it?
50970What do you want?
50970What does this mean?
50970What''s your name?
50970Where is Lewis?
50970Why do n''t you get up, then?
50970You did n''t say any thing about us, then?
50970As I was sitting next him, he took hold of my pants at the knee, and inquired rather roughly,"Where do you belong?"
50970As he neared the shore on which we stood we asked,"Are you a brother- in- law to Alderman?"
50970As he was endeavoring to gain the shelter of the bushes the woman noticed him shying off and asked,"What are you afeared of?"
50970As he was staring at us, we accosted him with,"How are you, old fellow?"
50970As it was also half inquisitive, the woman answered that there was a company of soldiers not far off, and asked,"An''t you one of''em?"
50970As soon as we were at leisure he asked,"Are you the boys that came in from prison two days ago?"
50970At the same moment we halted, and Sutherland put his hand to his mouth and asked if any whites were about?
50970Did those who had not finished dinner, now finish it?
50970Giving each of us a hearty shake of the hand, he said,"I know where you are from; will you have some coffee?"
50970He refused to even get out of bed, whereupon Sutherland demanded,"Shall we burst your door down?"
50970He then put his mouth to the string- hole and asked,"Is any body at home?"
50970If asked why so?
50970It was the 30th of March, after we had dressed ourselves anew, when Smith came to me in Lytle Barracks, saying,"Where''s Wood and Sutherland?"
50970On seeing us, Wood approached, saying to the negro,"Where did you come from?"
50970Since we had already traveled twenty miles without rest or sleep, the question was, Can we reach the picket- post by dark?
50970Smith then asked,"Did n''t that man at Camp Reynolds say that Phillips did business near the Public Landing?"
50970Sutherland then asked,"Did you ever see or hear of any Yankee prisoners escaping through here before?"
50970Sutherland then asked,"Smith, where is Taylor?
50970Sutherland then said,"I wonder where Davis and Tige are by this time?"
50970The man said,"That rests with you,"and inquired,"Who are you, and where are you going?"
50970The query then arose, shall we hide in the open woods on our left, or in the inclosed woods on our right?
50970Was supper prepared?
50970Was there time for coffee?
50970We continued talking with Childs, however, and Smith said to him,"I suppose you have n''t reported us, have you?"
50970We pressed on, however, and in the course of an hour we met a man of whom we asked,"How far is it to the pickets?"
50970When we were ready to leave the river this question arose: what shall we do with our canoe-- tie it up or allow it to float down the river?
50970Wood, addressing the largest of the men, asked,"Your name is Lewis, I suppose?"
50970an''t he coming?"
50970and Wood added,"and come in and burst your noggin?"
50970dat so?"
48997Are you a Red Cross man?
48997Are you certain about this?
48997But, Mr. Benson, what would anybody say about such a reason as you give,''going to Holland to visit a friend in war time?''
48997Have you a commission?
48997How do you prove you are a Red Cross man?
48997Is that right?
48997Well, my man,said the colonel,"you''ll pardon me, but can I do anything to help you?
48997Were you personally acquainted with these innocent people who were murdered?
48997What kind?
48997Who goes there?
48997Who goes there?
48997Why not?
48997Why, my friend,she said,"what makes you look so sober?"
48997Why,said he,"I have a wife and two children at home, and if I go out and get killed what becomes of them?"
48997Yes, the name, please?
48997You''re not really military, and why then are you attempting to buy a military ticket? 48997 _ Qui Vive?_"... No reply.
48997_ Qui Vive?_... Then Valke pressed the trigger and with a groan the apache crumpled up, dead.
48997After a moment I said,"Perhaps, Monsieur, you have my pipe?"
48997And so as I opened the door he rubbed it in, saying,_ Sehr gut, eh?_ With a sickly smile on my face, I replied,"Yes, very good,"and went out.
48997As I met one of the boys he said,"Where were you?"
48997Benson?"
48997But then-- what is death?
48997Could I face my friends, to whom I had preached peace and gentleness, now that I had applauded violence and war?
48997Did he say he was out in the town of Louvain?
48997Going to Holland, what for?
48997Had the nation of_ Kultur_ descended to such fiendish methods of torture?
48997He continued,"Do you love the French?"
48997He said"You will offer yourself to the Red Cross in Belgium?"
48997He said,"Oh, did you go to Harvard?"
48997He said,"Then where did you know him?"
48997He said,"What is it this man wants?"
48997He said,"What will you do about it?"
48997He saw it, and said,"Prisoner, eh?"
48997He was looking right at me, and said''Vincent, how about it?''
48997How would I stand in the eyes of God?
48997How-- is-- the-- battle-- go----?"
48997I asked,"Is he too busy to attend to business?"
48997I knocked on the door and asked,"Is Colonel Listoe in?"
48997I said,"Wo n''t the Kaiser take care of them?"
48997I said,"You would n''t dare to say these things when that soldier was here, or in front of military men, would you?"
48997I then said to him,"Would you be willing to give me a list of the names of some of the people whom you know to have been innocently murdered?"
48997If they did, what next?
48997My reasons?
48997The man asked me,"What do you want to go to Belgium for?"
48997The man finally said,"I shall write it on your passport that you will offer yourself to the Red Cross in Belgium?"
48997The woman asked,"Have you papers to show that you are military?"
48997Then I said,"Colonel, is there anything else I need to do before I can go to Belgium?"
48997They all go, but how did you die?
48997Was it right or justifiable?
48997What are all the influential and wealthy people doing now, to lighten the burden and help the cause?
48997What did he say?
48997What else could I do?
48997What else could I do?"
48997What is the woman''s name who took the plate upstairs?"
48997What was Mrs. Vanderbilt doing over there working in a hospital?
48997What was the procedure?
48997What would people think?
48997Where was I?
48997Who could pity such a vile ghoul as he?"
48997Who is he?"
48997Why is it?"
48997Would n''t they say it was none of your business?"
9975I rang up a friend on the telephone, and began, as usual:''Hullo, is that you?'' 9975 What nation could be more fitted than the United States to take the lead in the peace negotiations?"
9975Where did you see that?
9975And what if they are?
9975How will she use it?
9975Shall we win?
9975The Belgian authorities asked at the French headquarters:"What shall we do with him?"
9975The maid slyly asked:"Is that the road to Paris?"
9975What if we were yet to be defeated again and again?
5851Now, where is the proper place to break it?
5851What is your badge?
58511, but are in the immediate neighborhood, on their plantations?
5851Can we whip the South?
5851General Halleck had a map on his table, with a large pencil in his hand, and asked,"where is the rebel line?"
5851Halleck''s telegram of last night says:"Who sent Smith''s division to Nashville?
5851Has any thing been heard from the troops ordered from Vicksburg?
5851He dropped out of the retinue with an orderly, and after we had ridden a mile or so he overtook us, and I asked him,"What luck?"
5851He said:"What is the use of your persevering?
5851He turned to me and said,"Ca n''t you take your regiment up there?"
5851I answered, rather shortly,''How the devil do you know there is a masked battery?
5851I answered:"How can you go to New York?
5851I asked Deshler:"What does this mean?
5851I had on my undress uniform indicating my rank, and inquired of the sentinel,"Is General Fremont up?"
5851I said I had come to see him on business; and he added,"You do n''t suppose that he will see such as you?"
5851If you ca n''t get over, how can the rebels get at you?''
5851Mr. Lincoln, who was still standing, said,"Threatened to shoot you?"
5851Of parties claiming foreign protection?
5851Renick said,"What do you want with General Fremont?"
5851Sherman said to me:"Admiral, how could you make such a remark to McClernand?
5851What can I do for you?"
5851When ground is owned by parties who have gone south, and have leased the ground to parties now in the city who own the improvements on the ground?
5851When houses are occupied and the owner has gone south, leaving an agent to collect rent for his benefit?
5851When houses are owned by loyal citizens, but are unoccupied?
5851When movable property is found in stores that are closed?
5851When parties owning houses have gone south, and the tenant has given his notes for the rent in advance?
5851When parties who occupy the house are creditors of the owner, who has gone south?
5851When the owner has gone south, and parties here hold liens on the property and are collecting the rents to satisfy their liens?
5851When the owner lives in town, and refuses to take the oath of allegiance?
5851When the tenant has expended several months''rent in repairs on the house?
5851Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command?
5851where are they to come from?"
9874''How far?''
9874''How will that do?''
9874''Pourquoi ils ne répondent pas?''
9874''Pourquoi?''
9874But if that is so, you will ask, why is it that they have not made more impression upon the enemy''s position?
9874Could any one better epitomise the duties of a good citizen?
9874Had the great guns that destroyed Liége made their first breach at Verdun, what chance was there for Paris?
9874Once to my horror he fixed me with his hard little eyes and demanded''Sherlock Holmes, est ce qu''il est un soldat dans l''armée Anglaise?''
9874Or had they got from under?
9874Were they buried beneath it?
9874Where were the ants who had made the nest?
9874asked the Commandant, and yet again''Pourquoi?''
38497''I am to die then; and-- how long?'' 38497 And pray, madam, where are the boys?"
38497Do n''t know but I may; can you cook?
38497How did it appear?
38497How is that?
38497How much do you think you can earn a month?
38497Then you saw the treatment which I received, and heard the abusive language which Doctor E. made use of on that occasion?
38497Well, my boy, how much work can you do in a day?
38497What the---- does he want of a darkie wig?
38497What whiskey does he drink?
38497What whiskey?
38497Why are you sorry, Colonel? 38497 A little later he was asked,What is the foundation of your hope of Heaven?"
38497And do they hate us?
38497And have the lips of a sister fair Been baptized in their waves of light?
38497And is this hope vain?
38497And now, what shall I say in conclusion?
38497And, through this bloody baptism, shall not our nation be purified at length, and fitted to act a nobler part in the world''s history?"
38497Another question is frequently asked me--"Are not the private soldiers cruelly treated by the officers?"
38497As soon as I was seated she inquired:"To what fortunate circumstance am I to attribute the pleasure of this unexpected call?"
38497But how or where was it to be found?
38497But how was I to make biscuit with my colored hands?
38497But the great question to be decided, was, what can I do?
38497But was I capable of filling it with honor to myself and advantage to the Federal Government?
38497But what woman''s heart could resist the pleading of a mother at such a moment?
38497But where was the chaplain?
38497But why should blue eyes and golden hair be the distinction between bond and free?"
38497Col. R. demanded, in a very stern voice,"Jack, where did you get that beef steak and those chickens?"
38497Could he make any suggestion, or throw the least ray of light upon the subject, which might lead to the whereabouts of the general?
38497Could he tell me when he was expected at headquarters?
38497Could it be that she was meditating the best mode of attack, or was she expecting some one to come, and trying to detain me until their arrival?
38497Did he know of any place where the necessary information could be obtained?
38497Do my friends wish to know how I felt in such a position and in such a costume?
38497Had she been killed or wounded?
38497He then asked:"Can you go direct to that house, and show my men where Allen''s body is?"
38497How shall we cause them to assimilate to us?
38497How shall we ever make them good and useful citizens?
38497I believed it was a christian duty to stand in the foremost of the fight, and why should I be afraid?"
38497I have often been asked:"Have you ever been on a battle- field before the dead and wounded were removed?"
38497I knelt beside him and asked:"What can I do for you, my friend?"
38497I see it now, with its white lips and beseeching eyes; and then the touching inquiry,"Do you think I''ll die before morning?"
38497I told him I thought he would, and asked:"Has death any terrors for you?"
38497I turned to him, and asked:"How is it with you?
38497If fate unite the faithful but to part, Why is their memory sacred to the heart?
38497If they are in carriages, their vehicles are sure to get smashed, and then the trouble arises, what are they to do with their baggage?
38497Is it Bourbon or Monongahela?"
38497Is this affection, so deep, so holy, yearning over its object with undying love, to be nipped in the very bud of its being?
38497Is your peace made with God?"
38497Looking a little startled he exclaimed--"Am I really dying?"
38497May I run and fotch it?"
38497One man asked a surgeon, who had just performed an operation on one of his arms,"Doctor, is there no alternative-- must I be taken prisoner?"
38497One of the men said"See here old woman, are you sure that she can tell us if we find her?"
38497One of the men, desirous of changing the conversation, said:"Uncle, are you blind?"
38497President?"
38497Say, who should mourn for him?
38497Shall I know the bright spirit as thee?
38497Shall we not even know those dear ones in the spirit world?
38497The clerk turned away in disgust, and disdaining to reply to the soldier, he inquired,"But where shall I sleep to- night?"
38497The first words I heard were spoken in the most touching manner--"Oh, why did you send away my boy?
38497The following are a few extracts:"Oh, can it be that my Willie will return to me no more?
38497Then came the interrogatory process-- Who was I, where did I come from, and what had brought me to that city?
38497Then looking at me again in that earnest, scrutinizing manner, she said:"I know I can trust you-- you will do as I have requested?"
38497There is, undoubtedly, vice in the army; but where is there a city or community throughout the North where vice is not to be found?
38497Turning to General R., as he came up, he said:"Wo n''t you hold my horse while I find General R.?"
38497Was there any person there of whom I could inquire?
38497What had become of him?
38497What part am I to act in this great drama?
38497When the last hours of life are closing around And death''s summons cometh to me; Will God send an angel messenger down?
38497Whether they have the countersign or not?
38497Which do you propose to do, enlist and get the bounty, or refuse, and be obliged to go without anything?"
38497Which, think you, acted most as if lacking soul-- the black or the white woman in the hospital at Winchester?
38497Who could it have been?
38497Who is this beside me?
38497Why do you not answer me?"
38497Why not?
38497Will it be, think you, by merely giving them land on which to settle?
38497Will they become one with us because they grow in material wealth and prosperity?
38497Will you hire me, Massa?"
38497Will you''cept dese tings for de poor men?"
38497Would you wish to see me suspended between heaven and earth all the time?"
38497and how dare I wash them for fear the color would wash off?
38497can you tell me where General Richardson''s headquarters are?"
38497do you think you can take care of yourself, now that you have no master to look after you?"
59519Another typical song the British troops sang was:"Standing in the trenches on a cold winter''s night, Aw Gawblimey, ai n''t it cold?
59519Are you afraid to come?"
59519Burying stiff''uns on a cold winter''s night, Aw Gawblimey, ai n''t it cold?
59519CHAPTER III THE CALL OF THE MOTHERLAND"Uncle, what are you going to do with that gun?"
59519Can you imagine what this sermon meant to those brave men out there on the battlefield?
59519Could he read and answer them all before he would have to go in to the front line?
59519Going back to Blighty on a cold winter''s night, Aw Gawblimey, ai n''t it cold?
59519Going reconnoit''ring on a cold winter''s night, Aw Gawblimey, ai n''t it cold?
59519He stopped me and said,"Are you one of those fellows I have to salute?"
59519He then said,"Are you ready to leave to- morrow night?"
59519I listened, and heard the same voice shout out these startling words,"Where in h--- is the end of this damned ditch?"
59519I thought you were going for a walk?"
59519Not bad for a blood- thirsty Briton?
59519One wonders, when one sees a German face to face, is this really one of those devils who wrought such devastation?
59519Our"hero"whispered these words:"Where are you going?
59519What in brief does the Red Cross Treaty provide?
59519What is the Red Cross doing in France for the soldiers?
59519What is the Red Cross?
59519What nation first organised such relief?
59519When I had an opportunity to speak to him, I said,"Well, Duffy, how about that dream?
59519When the big''un hit''em, do n''t they look a sight, Aw Gawblimey, ai n''t it cold?
59519When we get to Blighty, then we''ll be all right, Aw Gawblimey, ai n''t it cold?
59519When we meet with Fritzy then there''ll be a fight, Aw Gawblimey, ai n''t it cold?
59519Who first conceived such service on an international basis?
59519Who first organised relief for those wounded, sick, or neglected on the field of battle?
59519Wiring party working and we darn''t show a light, Aw Gawblimey, ai n''t it cold?
45931A la tête...."Vous restez couché comme ça toute la journée?
45931Are we downhearted?
45931Are you qualified to teach musketry?
45931Are you the poor soldiers who are going back to England?
45931Avez- vous des plumes, de l''encre, et du papier à écrire?
45931But do n''t you know? 45931 Can you drill troops?"
45931Et vous n''avez pas eu de blessure à la jambe?
45931Für alle?
45931Have you any last message to send back to your family?
45931Here''s a funny kind of Christmas,he whispered;"next Christmas we''ll be at home, sha n''t we?"
45931How have you got into this party?
45931How long are you going to be?
45931How many divisions were you?
45931How many years''service did you say?
45931Is that all that is the matter?
45931Is there anything I can do for you?
45931Officer? 45931 Oh, you poor men,"said a voice in English,"is there anything we can do for you?"
45931Oui, mais dans quelle parti avez- vous été blessé?
45931Où avez- vous été blessé?
45931Où avez- vous été blessé?
45931Ponjour, Matame; here we are all French, is it not? 45931 The French doctors came round, but what could they do?
45931Voyons, M.   le Curé, aimez vouz les Boches?
45931What is he doing here? 45931 Who are you?"
45931Who is Sinclair?
45931Who is that fellow?
45931Why have you English come against us?
45931Why should I be happy this morning,said I,"more than any other morning?"
45931Wilt thou not show us the pretty post- cards, my little one?
45931After five minutes''wait an official looked in at the door, and was about to pop out again, when I asked a question:"Can we have something to eat?"
45931After this function followed the inevitable question,"Where were you wounded?"
45931And the Boches?
45931At one of the halts a German stepped out of the ranks--''Hullo, Jock, what''s ado wi''you?''
45931Debu when she brought in breakfast,"Who was it died in the ward last night?"
45931Do you love the Boches?"
45931Has he been wounded?"
45931Hope and despair now fought confusedly; where was the truth?
45931How could this quiet gentleman and I, lying sick, be at war?
45931I did not answer him, but turned round to the wounded soldier next me and said to him,"When did you mobilise?"
45931I said,"and what are you doing here?"
45931I wonder if Dr Debu remembers his first visit to me as well as I do?
45931In what part of France was the best French spoken?
45931Is there a man in Carlow or in all Ireland who could have witnessed this scene unmoved?
45931Les jambes nues,"he said, addressing me; and then as"le grand"turned round,"Pardon, quel rang?"
45931My brain was scarcely able for thought in more than one language, and it was after a long pause that I said in English,"Who the devil are you?"
45931Our conversation ran as follows:--"Bonjour, bonjour; vous êtes un officier anglais, n''est- ce pas?"
45931She said to me afterwards,"Où êtes vous allé chercher de si grandes phrases?"
45931Should I have refused my hand at parting?
45931Some people find it impossible when visiting hospitals to get beyond the everlasting phrase,"Where were you wounded?"
45931The cod- fish eyes looked hard at me:"Können Sie Deutsch verstehen?"
45931The figure spoke in French:"Are you a wounded British officer?
45931The question in those days was not merely"Will an operation save life?"
45931Then a brilliant idea struck him:"Parlez vous Français?"
45931There are three that I am looking for; do you know where the others are?"
45931They were very cheery, and it was cheering to see them and hear the familiar query,"Are we downhearted?"
45931Was it indeed wrong, as many said at the 106, thus to converse with a Boche?
45931What Brigade?"
45931What authority have you to search for wounded?"
45931What have we done that destruction should now fall upon our heads?
45931What if the nation still fails to understand?
45931What regiment?
45931What was to be done, where was she to flee for safety?
45931When our officer heard of this he told us to obey orders, so what could we do?
45931While at Cambrai and Würzburg two questions were constantly in my mind-- first, Would there be an exchange of officers?
45931Who would pay attention now to such a detail when whole villages are blown into the air all along a thousand miles of battle?
45931but rather,"Is there time to operate on those whose lives might be saved?"
45931la santé?"
45931mais à quel endroit avez- vous été blessé?"
45931second, If there was to be an exchange, how was I to make sure that my case would not be forgotten?
44702About how many?
44702Are n''t you very tony? 44702 Could I ask you to take some money to one of my men?"
44702Did he do the same by your neighbors?
44702Did you marry Belle Cooke last year?
44702Do n''t you think you are taking a great risk?
44702Had they all gone?
44702Have they been exchanged?
44702Have they ever been made prisoners?
44702Have they got recruits there now?
44702How about your railroad fare?
44702How are they?
44702How far up or down the river is there such a ferry?
44702How is that?
44702How so?
44702How so?
44702How was that, sister?
44702How were they treated?
44702How will we know when we get there?
44702Is he a non- commissioned officer?
44702Is that the way you do? 44702 Outside in this hard rain?
44702Sister, ca n''t you tell me something more about them?
44702Sister,I persisted,"if they had some money would it be of any help to them?"
44702Then, will you kindly bring it in to me when you come in tomorrow morning?
44702What are you going to do?
44702What do we want of the sheriff?
44702What do you read?
44702What do you want of turpentine?
44702What do you want?
44702What is it?
44702What is it?
44702What is it?
44702What is your business?
44702What is your name, rank, regiment and where and when were you captured?
44702What''s your name?
44702Where are you going?
44702Where does he stop?
44702Where in the North were they confined?
44702Where is his office?
44702Who are you?
44702Who is he?
44702Who is your ranking officer?
44702Why did n''t you tell me that before?
44702Why not?
44702Why not?
44702Why should we not draw our pay?
44702Will you be going there again soon?
44702Will you take the dogs in so that I can come in?
44702Would you kindly get me a half pint of good spirits of turpentine?
44702Yes,I replied,"but is it not a greater one to remain here?"
44702Yes,I said,"but how about prisoners of war and especially those who have made their escape?
44702Yes,I said,"but what would it do to you?
44702Yes,he said,"we have been given away, but how shall we get out of this muss?"
44702You tell me I lie, do you?
44702About 10 o''clock we heard dogs, and said:"Hastings, what is that?"
44702After a few days, when we were getting rested, I would hear:"What is it we hear about Libby, Belle Island and Andersonville?
44702After a little, the youngest daughter began to rub her eyes and shed tears, and said:"Mister, we wo n''t tell on you uns, will we mar?"
44702After we were in the stockade the main topic of conversation was:"Was it possible to get out of there?"
44702But the question was:"How did he get onto it?"
44702Captain Aldrich came up, took hold of my right arm and said:"Are not those the guerrillas?"
44702Could I ask you to take it out and sell it for me that I might buy something with the money to help me?"
44702Did you tell me your name was D. A. Langworthy, Captain of Company''E'', 85th New York?"
44702Do you suppose they will take us?"
44702Have any of you got a bottle?"
44702He asked us:"What is the news?"
44702He came up and said,"Captain, where is that bottle?"
44702He said,"I suppose you know there is an order forbidding us to pay officers or men if they are away from their command?"
44702He said:"Why do you wish to go to the jail yard?"
44702He then said:"Am I the first Yankee you have met?"
44702He then said:"Captain, you do not have much to read do you?"
44702He was met by the officer in command of our guard, who saluted and inquired:"Is this Captain Wirtz?"
44702I recognized one of them, and asked our captain of the guard:"Who is that officer with Colonel So- and- So?"
44702I said,"Girls, why do n''t you invite me?"
44702I said:"Boys, are you from the Eighty- fifth New York?"
44702I went to one of them and said:"Sister, have you been out to the race course?"
44702In the afternoon one of my lieutenants said to me:"Are you going to make a break tonight?"
44702Is n''t that a terrible way to bring up children?"
44702The next morning when they came in, this prisoner approached the lieutenant and said:"Lieutenant Davis, can I presume to ask a favor of you?"
44702The next question was:"What to do with the dogs?"
44702Then the question was:"What next?"
44702They looked up and said:"How are you, captain?"
44702They said:"How far are you going?"
44702We had not gone very far before our guide was called by name by someone in the woods who said:"Where are you going?"
44702We said:"Hastings, how about that?"
44702What do you want me to do?"
44702What is your military rule when you meet in this way?
44702What provision is there for them?"
44702When were you paid last?"
44702Which of you officers is in command?"
44702Who else is there down here from Elmira?"
44702Who is in command?"
44702Why was n''t our boys''camp here instead of over there on that hill?
44702Would it pay?
44702and jumped up, embraced me and said:"Captain, did n''t you know us?"
44702and soon was joined by the other two, all weeping and saying:"Mister, we wo n''t tell on you uns, will we mar?"
44702inquired Captain Wirtz,"and what are they?"
60296Do you know,asked Urquhart,"what troops of ours are engaged there?"
60296As I got closer two of them came hesitatingly towards me, saluted, and one said,"Sir, is your name Pringle?"
60296But what''s his name and where is he from?''
60296Can He find a safe way for our feet in the darkness?
60296Did you barely do your routine duty or go further and lend a helping hand?
60296Did you squeeze in near the stove on a cold day no matter who else was shoved away?
60296Do you wonder that Brodeur loved the dog?
60296Does n''t it seem to you to be the right direction, the right trail, the right guide?
60296How can we test Him when we do not ourselves know the way?
60296How did he use his teeth?
60296Is there another Officers''Mess that has that record?
60296Not much in itself, but it meant-- well, who could tell what amazing new finds it might mean?
60296Or were these the wild, elemental forces of nature playing at games that the Creator had taught them and that they had played from all eternity?
60296Throw my bowlful of porridge away and do without half a breakfast on account of that button which I could n''t swallow?
60296Was it Shep''s way of boxing his ears?
60296Was there anything that we could do for him?
60296What are the credentials of Christ when He offers himself as our Guide?
60296What could I do?
60296What did I do?
60296What direction would He lead us?
60296What is the great burden of His message accepted by all Christian Churches down underneath the load of dogma, form and ceremony?
60296What plan did I follow in dealing with these numerous needs?
60296What then would everybody think?
60296What would you have done in my place?
60296When you got a fruitcake from home did you"hog it"all yourself or share it with your chums in generous chunks?
60296When you want to minister to men in such times, do n''t your thoughts just naturally turn to the Man of Nazareth?
60296Where would He lead us if we followed Him?
60296Who can quarrel with such gambling?
60296Why not you as well as those other fellows?
60296Will He leave us to follow when we can not see him?
6962And what became of the rest?
6962What bad luck?
6962As soon as the siege of Knoxville was raised, he applied himself earnestly to the question, What next?
6962But how as to amnesty?
6962Do n''t military success imply the safety of Sambo, and_ vice versa_?...
6962He telegraphed the news to Rosecrans with the significant question, What does it mean?
6962If the law- abiding were disarmed and those who scattered and refused to give up their weapons were at large, how could the States preserve the peace?
6962It concluded,"Would it not be well to put Sherman and all other commanding generals on their guard in this respect?"
6962One of the first questions a soldier asks in regard to his camping- place is, Where is water to be got?
6962The Confederate cause was unquestionably in great straits, and calling for men and means was a good deal like Glendower''s call,"Will they come?"
6962The question would naturally arise, What might happen in the places from which troops were drawn, if they were not used by Johnston immediately?
6962There were no doubt difficulties in the way-- when are there not?
6962What, then, as to slavery?
6962When discussing a situation with his familiars, after strongly stating his own view he would add,"Now what is Joe Johnston''s game?"
6962Will you be on this part of the line soon?"
6962Would the Ninth Corps remain in the department, or would it be ordered to the East for duty under Burnside, as was already rumored?
6962a regimental wag cried out,"do they issue butter to you regularly now?"
6962if your horse is so weak on Sunday what would have become of him and you on a week day?"
8380But how do you know you killed that many?
8380My contract requires me to stop on here until December of 1898, but it does n''t sound so long if you say''a year after this,''does it?
8380Akers, of the_ London Times_, and_ Harper''s Weekly_, who has held two commissions from the Queen?
8380But why should we not go a step farther and a step higher, and interfere in the name of humanity?
8380For what voice crying in the wilderness are they still waiting?
8380Is it likely, having risked such a price for it that they would lie about what they have seen?
8380Is it that the American people doubt the sources from which their information comes?
8380It will not do to put it aside by saying that"War is war,"and that"All war is cruel,"or to ask,"Am I my brother''s keeper?"
8380Now suppose the troops are sent at short notice from the military camps along the line to protect any particular point?
8380Or if the members of the Senate and of Congress can not visit Cuba, why will they not listen to those who have been there?
8380What further manifestations are needed?
8380What will convince them that the time has come?
8380Why should we tolerate Spanish savages merely because they call themselves"the most Catholic,"but who in reality are no better than this naked negro?
6961But where are_ you_ going?
6961Who are you?
6961And where were Burnside''s men?
6961Does one need better evidence how much worse than useless was McClellan''s secret service?
6961Have we time for the sifting process?
6961Here, however, we have to meet the question What is military art as applied to the problem of winning battles or campaigns?
6961I said to the young man,"Did General Reno send you with any order to me?"
6961Is an advance of our army likely to prevent additional reinforcements being sent against General Grant by Bragg?
6961Is an immediate or early advance of our army advisable?
6961The President had coupled his earliest telegraphic congratulations with the question,"Ca n''t you beat them some more before they get off?"
6961To"hold at all hazards"might be understood, but what is the effect of the phrase"if possible"?
6961What d''ye think of that?"
6961What, then, was the plan of battle of which the first step was this movement of Hooker''s?
6961Where should Burnside have been, if not at Cincinnati?
6961Will any other hypothesis intelligibly account for McClellan''s dispositions and orders?
6961Will you neglect the chance?"
45810But where''s the château?
45810C''est de quel couleur, Mademoiselle?
45810Did n''t you just hear that the lady is American?
45810Did you have enough to eat?
45810Do n''t tell me you''re married?
45810Have you your papers, your permis de conduire?
45810I suppose,said Mrs. Bigelow,"that''gilets''means''preservers''?"
45810Mais que voulez- vous? 45810 Où est- ce?"
45810Well, not exactly,said I;"''gilets''means waistcoats, and''sauvetage''means salvation; literally, the waistcoats of salvation; quaint, is n''t it?"
45810Were the Boches nice to you?
45810( I would like to have eyes to see you now, old fellow; is it true you are just going to be married?)
45810( Why be called fatuous if you can not live up to it?)
45810A queer choice?
45810Also you would find"essence,"where to get it, how much to pay for it,--"shall we stop here and buy some, or chance it till we get home?"
45810And where do we come in, we pensionnaires?
45810But in some ways I would rather have them drop cards than bombs on the villages, had n''t you?
45810C''est vrai que tu vais te marier?"
45810Could n''t you tell some of our dear friends about the Vestiaire?
45810Did I ask you if you have read"God, the Invisible King,"by Wells?
45810Did you ever have meat and eggs?"
45810Did you ever?
45810Did you hear about the mirrors used on submarines so that they are very hard to see?
45810Do n''t forget, Father, you''re going to get some confiding editor or journalist to send me to the devastated towns?
45810Do you remember reading it with Mother at Bailey''s last summer?
45810Do you remember the day we looked up Denfert- Rochereau on the map?
45810Do you remember when we used to struggle and squeak through"Anges purs, anges radieux"?--where it goes up a key each time?
45810Do you suppose I will want white wine with luncheon and red with dinner, when I get back?
45810Do you think, Father, you could get me a chance?
45810Does n''t it sound entrancing?
45810Does n''t that sound pretty nice?
45810He kept saying,"What is there for me to do?"
45810How can I describe Bordeaux as we saw it through that musty cab window?
45810How can a moving plane hit another in the dark?
45810How can either side tell which is friend and which is enemy, lights or no lights?
45810How can even an anti- aircraft gun hope to hit a tiny moving plane way up in the air?
45810How did they have the men and the time to do it all?
45810I guess it must have sunk,--isn''t it just my luck?
45810I said,"How much do you suppose the cheapest little frock would be?"
45810I said,"Vous pouvez dire hop- scotch?"
45810I should have told Madame that we were navrées not to have enough room to keep them and would they be safe in the cellar?
45810I wonder if it would interest you to hear what we did for one family in the way of moving?
45810I wonder if they are really using them as much as they expected to?
45810I wonder if you have the same picture that I had of it before I arrived?
45810I wonder just how soon one would be killed if she tried it?
45810I wonder what that meant?
45810I wonder what they expected-- that I would stay by the side of the road all night with a puncture?
45810I''ve never been so far away before, have I?
45810Is n''t it awful to think of Padua being bombarded?
45810It is a favorite thing to send, but even with that taken into consideration, it seems odd, does n''t it?
45810Miss Curtis will have a wonderful experience, wo n''t she?
45810Now, do n''t you call that the limit?
45810Oh, you dear, dear people, how did you ever think of doing such a wonderful thing?
45810Où vastu, mon vieux?
45810She said that she did n''t serve any meals except breakfast, but would we like eggs with our coffee?
45810The nice American said that he"knew nothing about a car,"but"could he help?"
45810They are not very dignified, I think, and it is an amusing campaign, is it not?
45810We made wild speculations-- were they French or Boche?
45810We went in and said"How do you do?"
45810Well, I was n''t dressed, and I could n''t go and ask the steward, so I said,"Go and find the steward, and say,''Où sont les gilets de sauvetage?''"
45810Well, there was n''t much chance for a vacation for me, was there?
45810Well, there was supply-- what cared I for the Metro?
45810What am I usually doing the first week in July?
45810What in the world could I say?
45810What is going to happen?
45810What will stop it all?
45810What would you say if I brought him home with me?
45810Where does the money come from to finance this war?
45810Which of the deep booms were guns and which bombs?
45810Why should any have lights?
45810Why should n''t they be paid for it, and paid well?
45810Why, why, do n''t we all use the same system of measuring clothes, coal, essence, and lots of things?
45810Will there be anything beautiful left after this war?
45810Wo n''t that be great?
45810Would n''t it be funny if-- I wonder how thick the roof of this place is, anyway?
45810but Marje-- a diplomatic one-- asked Madame if she thought it was quite comme il faut for two young girls to have a washstand in their salon?
5850Any chickens?
5850Any eggs?
5850Any flour or grain?
5850Are you a member of the other House?
5850Are you the Governor of a State?
5850Certainly not"Have you ever had a vote of thanks by name?
5850Do you think you could become so interested in my conversation as not to notice the door- keeper?
5850Have you any meat?
5850Is anybody in the house?
5850Is it locked up?
5850Is no one about who can get in?
5850Well,said he,"what do you want of me?"
5850Well,said he,"why do n''t you go into the gallery?"
5850What do you live on?
5850Why?
5850A few days afterward the husband again appealed to his commanding officer( Taylor), who exclaimed:"Have n''t you got a musket?
5850After shaking hands all round, the Governor said,"Coleman, what the devil is the matter here?"
5850At every meal the steward would come to me, and say,"Captain Sherman, will you bring your ladies to the table?"
5850Ca n''t you defend your own family?"
5850Governor of a State?
5850He asked me,"Where?"
5850He inquired,"Why not both?"
5850He then asked in his quizzical way,"Are you a foreign embassador?"
5850He then said,"Have you any impudence?"
5850I touched it and examined one or two of the larger pieces, and asked,"Is it gold?"
5850In that event, would it not be possible for you to become a citizen of our State?
5850Major Childs inquired,"Where is Coacoochee?"
5850Major W. T. Sherman: Will you accept the chief clerkship of the War Department?
5850Mason said to me,"What is that?"
5850Member of Congress?"
5850So that among the younger officers the query was very natural,"Who the devil is Governor of California?"
5850The Governor knocked at the door, and on inquiry from inside"Who''s there?"
5850We then returned to Benicia, and Wool''s first question was,"What luck?"
5850Wo n''t you speak your mind freely on this question of slavery, that so agitates the land?
5850said Mr. Lincoln,"how are they getting along down there?"
29264Well, my dear, point out where to find them?
29264( Do you know any thing about it, O, Halleck?)
2926423._--Why could not Mr. Lincoln choose for his Secretary of State some man who has a holy and wholesome horror of pen, ink, and paper?
29264Among others, hear the following query:_ Whether this unconquerable and irresistible nation shall suddenly perish through imbecility?_ etc.
29264And shall not our butchered soldiers be avenged?
29264And what free State is not New England''s son?
29264And what is done?
29264And who is now?
29264And why is Stanton silent?
29264And why not?
29264And why not?...
29264And why not?...
29264Are bad, worthless, insincere, selfish men to be the agencies and the factors of great and lofty principles?
29264Are contracts at the bottom of the puff, or is it only one of_ Weed''s_ tricks to defile and to ruin_ Stanton_?
29264Are not the humble, suffering, orderly contrabands infinitely superior to the rowdy, unruly, ignorant, savage and bloody whites?
29264Are the Gods against us?
29264But are the French people so debased as to submit?
29264But how could the government entrust him with this expedition?
29264But if not, will Meade attack Lee?
29264But of what benefit to me is this fatal, this Cassandra gift of foreseeing?
29264But were it true?
29264But what else could he do?
29264But where is the responsibility?
29264But who inaugurated and directed them in 1861?
29264But why do you suffer yourselves to be crushed down by the upper- crust of senile nincompoops?
29264But why has the Senator forgotten to ascend to one of the paramount causes?
29264But why not previous to the battle?
29264But, to be candid, how can activity and dash be expected from generals who have at their head, a shallow brained pedant like Halleck?
29264Comparative to what?
29264Comparative to what?
29264Could Seward learn how to be earnest, precise and clear, without spread- eagleism?
29264Does Halleck- Burnside intend to wait until the rebels shall be thoroughly prepared to repel any attack that may be made upon them?
29264England, in 1848- 9, whipped women in Ireland, and how many thousands have been murdered by the_ Decembriseur_?
29264For heaven''s sake let us know, pray,_ pray_ let us know who was Lincoln''s amanuensis?
29264Forgotten the true son of the people?
29264Had Lee ever vetoed Stewart''s raids?
29264Had Lincoln, had Halleck meddled?
29264Has England considered Napper Tandy and his aids as belligerents?
29264Has England ever treated the Irish according to the laws of international warfare?
29264Has Lincoln played false to humanity?
29264Has Sumner insinuated this himself to some newspaper reporter in_ extremis_ for news?
29264Has he a clear comprehension of the sacrifice thus perpetrated by the people?
29264Has not Mr. Lincoln thrown confusion around?
29264Has not this time Lee overshot the mark?
29264Have any generals Franklinized?
29264How can Burnside venture to say that after the repulse, during three days he expected the enemy to leave his stronghold and attack him-- Burnside?
29264How could he?
29264How could it be otherwise, with Lincoln, Seward and Halleck at the head?
29264How could the Senator thus belittle one of the most elevated political positions in the world, that of a Senator of the United States?
29264How many such patriots as Wadsworth, can we boast of?
29264How much foresight have your-- dearly- paid-- servants shown?
29264How should a Halleck do so?
29264How will it end?
29264How, in fact, was Burnside to move a great army without pontoons?
29264How, then, can the Democrats rave for McClellan, the most unfighting soldier ever known?
29264I am sorry to bring such details before the public, but how otherwise convict a liar?
29264If Lee committed a fault, are you, gentlemen, in duty bound to imitate his mistakes?
29264If Meade had not, or has not troops enough, why is not Foster ordered here with all he has?
29264If all is confirmed concerning Hooker''s incapacity, then it is a crime to keep him in command; but who after him?
29264If such declaration was needed, why not make it through the regular representatives of the country, as are Mr. Adams and Mr. Dayton?
29264In America, not to have an adequate material?
29264In the North, the Governors, all of them,( Seymour?)
29264Is Mr. Lincoln becoming seriously serious?
29264Is Stanton dragged down by the infuriated fates?
29264Is he acting thus_ in obedience to orders_?
29264Is it forgery or stealing?
29264Is it my fault that they give me no occasion?
29264Is it not so, Lincoln?
29264Is it the Constitution, the Statute, is it the incarnate four years formula which seals Stanton''s heart and brains?
29264Is it to be a commercial union, this hobby of your minister here?
29264Is it to organize some underground road to reunion on the Mercier- Seward- Richmond programme?
29264Is not Lincoln hailed as the new Moses?
29264Is not Virginia the first in the slave States for the number of slaves?
29264Is such a thing possible?
29264Is that the_ accident_ of which the precious proclamation so impudently speaks?
29264Is the North not pouring forth its blood and its treasures, and are they not all squandered by counterfeits?
29264Is the example of Judas forgotten?
29264It can not be a_ reconnaissance_--of what?
29264L. B._--Are the people again to receive a President from the hand of intriguers, from politicians, or from honest imbeciles?
29264Loyalty to principles?
29264Mr. Lincoln may now be serious in a great many matters, but if he could have been serious a year ago-- how much money would have been economized?
29264O, Halleck, where are the depots?
29264O, why can not Mr. Seward learn from Gortschakoff how not to put gas in such weighty documents?
29264O, you Bible- reading people, can Judases and rotten consciences carry out good principles?
29264Oh why is Lee engaged on the bad and damnable side?
29264Oh, why has Congress forgotten to pass a law forbidding Seward, for decency''s sake, to make himself ridiculous?
29264On paper or in the grave?
29264On the authority of the published"DIARY,"I am asked, even by letters,"Where is Stanton?"
29264Or are not rather all his favorites-- not even whitened-- sepulchres of manhood, of mind and of sacred intellect?
29264Or has imbecility exasperated even the merciful but rational Christian God to that extent, that God turns his back upon us?
29264Or perhaps orders exist not to bring about a general engagement?
29264Parumne campis atque Neptuno super Fusum est--[Yankee] sanguinis?
29264Pretty well has all this succeeded, and why can not the younger generation seize the helm in this terrible crisis?
29264So did the Herodians sneer at the star of Bethlehem; and where now are the Herodians?
29264Some man gifted with a sound brain, who never is quick at writing a dispatch, and would demand double salary as the price of writing one?
29264Staff duties require special studies, they are the highest military science; and where, in the name of all, could Butterfield have acquired it?
29264The people fails not, but how about the helmsmen?
29264The_ New York Times_ begins to mend its bad ways; but how long will it continue in the better path?
29264Then we march a few miles onwards, more miles backwards, and what not?
29264Then why make it?
29264To amuse the people?
29264To those of the enemy?
29264Upon what?
29264Warren fought well, but if Sykes was within supporting distance, why did they not annihilate the rebel corps?
29264Was Hooker again stunned, to make such a deliberate mistake-- nay, crime?
29264Was it done without any plan?
29264Well, Loyalty, but to whom?
29264Well, pompous Chase; how do you feel for having sided with Seward?
29264Well, why has Lincoln forgotten Texas all this time?
29264Were it not so, how many rhetors would be abolitionists?
29264What for?
29264What is in the wind?
29264What is the matter?
29264What is the use to deny it now?
29264What is to be more scorned?
29264What knows he about them?
29264What must the crown lawyers in England have thought of Mr. Evart''s great mastery of international laws?
29264What was to be answered?
29264What will Chase do?
29264What will be the manoeuvring to- morrow?
29264What, in the name of common sense, could he do with a single corps, when the whole army was repulsed?
29264Where are they?
29264Where could the rebels scrabble together such a number?
29264Where, oh where are the paid men?
29264Who ever read that Alexander, or Cesar, or Frederic, or Napoleon, or even captains of lesser fame, selected their ground?
29264Who gave them?
29264Who knows how far the soldiers are right?
29264Who will be taken in?
29264Who will have the best, the Monitors or the batteries?
29264Whom do they hope to humbug in this way?
29264Why does Hooker publish such a proclamation?
29264Why has not_ pater conscriptus_ uttered a single word of condemnation from his Senatorial_ fauteuil_, and kept mute during three sessions?
29264Why is Stanton silent?
29264Why not mask our movements before Gordonsville from the observation of Lee?
29264Why not?
29264Why shall it not be so here, when want of energy is the word?
29264Will Halleck soon be sent to California?
29264Will Mr. Lincoln have courage to dismiss McClellan from the army?
29264Will Mr. Lincoln realize the grandeur of this unparallelled trust?
29264Will a man start up in the next Congress and call the malefactors to account?
29264Will any European government, power, or statesman permit the United States to acquire even the most barren rock on the European continent?
29264Will it be possible to find among our Potomac generals one in whom revelation will supply experience?
29264Will the iron- clads resist the concentric fire from so numerous batteries?
29264Will this country ever escape the tutorship of sham science?
29264Will this new disgrace serve to strengthen the Administration?
29264_ August 18._--A patriotic gentlewoman asked me why I write a diary?
29264_ January 28._--The Congress almost expires; and will or can the incarnated constitutional formula save the country?
29264_ July 13._--What is_ Meade_ doing?
29264_ June 30._--How will Meade compose his staff?
29264_ September 22._--On all sides I hear the question put, Who is Gilmore?
29264_ September 24._--How could Meade let Lee send troops to Bragg, and why Meade attacked or attacks not?
29264_ Tschto den griadoustchi nam gotowit?_( Puschkine.)
29264_ What_ accident?
29264are our Generals to carry on a mere war of civilities?
29264as the man for the times, as the only one God sent to direct the people, and to grapple with the stern, earnest emergencies and perils?
29264how can you thus pointedly and mercilessly criticise your own deeds and policy?
29264mass them on the south side of the Potomac under such generals as Heintzelman, Sigel, etc., and take the enemy between two fires?
29264or is Stanton eaten up by the rats in the Cabinet?
29264to increase losses in men and in material?
29264when a Franklin is still sustained, when a Seward and a Halleck remain firm in their high places as the gates of hell?
29264who so recklessly waste all the people''s sacrifices, will you volunteer more brains and less selfishness?
34344Ai n''t you Mr. O. K., that was out in Texas with Major J----?
34344Are you both Yankee soldiers?
34344Are you sure that your friends over there have not heard of your being in the army?
34344Aunty,seeing that I was awake, came closer to my bed, and, in a kindly way, asked:"How is you dis mornin''?"
34344But do n''t I have to pay something for the delivery?
34344But, my dear boy, why did you refuse to take the oath of allegiance? 34344 But,"said the old scoundrel,"why did n''t you stay here last night?"
34344Do you know Colonel Blank, of Baltimore?
34344Does the Secretary want to procure any information as to General Patterson''s movements?
34344How does a man feel in battle?
34344How is it that your companion in the uniform ran away on the approach of our troops?
34344How long have they been here?
34344Is that so? 34344 It looks as if something was up, do n''t it?"
34344Oh, you have passes, have you? 34344 Rd"did not seem to comprehend, and made the telegraphic signal for interrogation(?)
34344Right away; do you hyar?
34344Say, Baker, ai n''t you just playing off as a Dutchman? 34344 That''s enough, ai n''t it?
34344What are they doing up there?
34344What are they talking about so much; why do n''t they come on?
34344What are you doing there?
34344What did he say?
34344What do they do with them?
34344What regiment was your friend in?
34344What shall I tell him?
34344When did you see him?
34344Where in---- are you going?
34344Why,I said,"are we near the navy yard?"
34344Yes, I know; but what soldiers?
34344121 The Sergeant kindly Gave Him the Steel 441"To Father: I am Safe; Are All Well at Home?"
34344282 Cavalry Picket on the Rappahannock 473"Colonel Mosby''s Soldiers, I Reckon, Sir?"
34344338"Bill, Ai n''t He the Fellow?"
3434466 An Interview with Parson Brownlow 304"Are You Union, or Confederate?"
34344Addressing me courteously, he said:"What in the name of all that''s good brings you out on this road on such a dark night, disturbing our sleep?"
34344Broome?"
34344Ca n''t you go up there and see them for me?"
34344Could I forget that banquet?
34344Could it be possible that we were to be baffled at last?
34344Dear me, what bass drums there were in General Patterson''s army; was n''t there one to each company?
34344Did we catch any fish?
34344Did you ever try to get into a hammock?
34344Do n''t you see the''old man''is full?"
34344Every person I have talked with for five minutes about Gettysburg, asks the question:"Were you there when Pickett charged?"
34344He drew his chair right up in front of mine, looking me straight in the eye, as he said:"Now, my young friend, what is it that you propose?"
34344He replied to my observation:"Yes; where did you come from?"
34344Here are some Maryland secessionists being sent away down here to Tennessee to punish and coerce Unionists?"
34344His reply to this put me off my pins entirely:"Well, why do n''t you all go to your own home in your own country?"
34344How, then, could I explain this arrest to them?
34344I asked only the one question--"Where do we go?"
34344I made the signal for interrogation, or question, which all operators understand to mean,"I did not hear you,"or"What did you say?"
34344I met at the hotel office my companion, the Colonel, who, upon seeing me, rushed over the office floor to say:"Why, where the devil have you been?
34344I said more deliberately:"That message about Banks-- is there anything important?"
34344I spoke first, with the desperation of an outlaw challenging a helpless traveler:"Are you Union or Confederate?"
34344In a voice trembling with suppressed rage, he said, looking savagely at me:"Did n''t you see me at the theater the other night?"
34344Instead of that, however, in a quiet, slow- speaking voice, I suggested involuntarily:"How about the Monitor and Merrimac?"
34344Is n''t he just too nice?"
34344It may also be asked why I bring this subject up at this late date, and after Hancock''s death?
34344It must have been a violent shock to father, but why should I so write and rouse within all of you the bitter renewal of your grief?
34344Making an appearance at the head of the stairway, she asked, pleasantly:"What in the world is the matter with you?"
34344Never turning my head, I was walking on hurriedly when the blamed fool sang out after me so everybody could hear:"What?"
34344Of course, I must have imagined the worst; who would not have done so under the same conditions?
34344SKETCHING, ARE YOU?"]
34344Sketching, Are You?"
34344Superintendent here?"
34344The Colonel said:"You have a letter to send home I am told?"
34344The Colonel, who was the jolly fellow of this trio, said, laughingly:"Hello, boy, what have you been up to?"
34344The General, without halting his slow movement, gruffly said:"Where is Slocum?"
34344The first words the brass tongue of the instrument sounded to his startled ears were:"I am O. K."--this was my telegraphic signal--"Who are you?"
34344The hint was sufficient, and to my hurried inquiry:"Are there any cavalrymen at the house?"
34344The man on duty at the door looked at me with disgust as he said:"That''s no damned doctor, man; do n''t you know General Meade?"
34344The officer now began to get mad and, in a commanding tone, inquired:"What is your business, sir, with the General?"
34344The only consolation I got from the officer was,"Can your horse stand it?
34344Then Lanyard with a contemptuous look, turned to Baker and said:"Say, Dutchy, you blasted rascal, you played me for a marine, did n''t you?"
34344Then she added, laughing heartily as she spoke:"Did n''t you hear him slam the door?"
34344Then taking my arm, familiarly, said:"Come along, the boys will all be glad to see you?"
34344Then the old lady chipped in with:"Shall I send Mammy to help you bathe it with warm water, before you go to bed?"
34344Then, in an undertone,"Are you all alone?"
34344To gratify the General, and get around the question, I asked:"Is it''Rd?''"
34344To his sleepy growl of"Who''s there?"
34344Under the circumstances, what could I do?
34344Under the circumstances, what else could I do but take this advantage of the good people?
34344Was n''t there a Rebel camp near Leesburg, or was that the name of the town near that mountain?
34344We passed the two men-- one of whom was in uniform-- and as we did so, I heard one of them, say:"That''s him, ai n''t it?"
34344Were they going back to their Rebel camps?
34344What are you doing?
34344What can I do for you?
34344What could I do?
34344What could have been better for my purpose?
34344What did I do?
34344What did I do?
34344What would have been the result,_ if_ Meade had been supported by Franklin, when he broke Stonewall Jackson''s line at Fredericksburg?
34344What would you have done?
34344When Covode crawled into the carriage, Mr. Moorehead said,"Well, what''s the programme?"
34344When handing the paper back to the clerk, he remarked jocularly:"They have made you sign a mighty tight paper, have n''t they?"
34344When he stopped his conversation long enough to hear me, he simply said, in his polite, kindly way:"Well, you come in and see me again, wo n''t you?"
34344Where is Slocum now?
34344Where is he?"
34344Where shall your answer be delivered?"
34344Who are you?"
34344Who in---- are you, anyhow?"
34344Who is it?"
34344Why did n''t I get ahead of them?
34344Why did n''t you say something to me before?
34344Will you please give me your name?"
34344With my own hand trembling on the telegraph key I sent my own message, as follows:"To father: I am here safe; are all well at home?"
34344You do n''t know what that is?
34344[ Illustration: TAPPING THE TELEGRAPH WIRE.--"ARE THE YANKS IN FREDERICKSBURG?"]
34344[ Illustration: TO FATHER:"I AM SAFE; ARE ALL WELL AT HOME?"]
34344[ Illustration:"ARE YOU UNION OR CONFEDERATE?"]
34344[ Illustration:"BILL, AIN''T HE THE FELLOW?"]
34344did n''t you tell me to keep close to you?"
34344is a question often asked, or"Were you frightened the first time?"
34344is that you, Yank?"
34344now?"
43590''General, your men do n''t appear to work well to- day?'' 43590 Do you know of any instance where volunteer troops have successfully stormed works as strong as those which defend the approach to Secessionville?"
43590Do you mean Governor Stevens?
43590Have you a thousand men at your disposal, and suffer yourself to be set at defiance by a wagon- master? 43590 Have you any reason to believe that the result in the present case will be different in its character from what it has invariably been heretofore?"
43590Is Governor Stevens your father? 43590 Now, how are we here as at a post?
43590Should I speak to you of things that happened long ago, as you have done? 43590 What effect would it have on the Sound should nothing be done until May or June?
43590A principal chief of the lower Spokanes said:"Why is the country in difficulty again?
43590After a pause of some minutes Governor Stevens said:--"I will ask Ambrose where is Victor?"
43590Again, what is the interest of the Hudson Bay Company?
43590And is not something due the_ morale_ of his troops, which was almost systematically broken by the blunders and disasters of this unhappy campaign?
43590And what was the duty of those having forces at their command?
43590And why should I hide anything?
43590Are their wishes to be disregarded?
43590Ask yourself this question to- night:''Will not God be angry with me if I neglect this opportunity to do them good?''
43590Can more be said for the gallantry and devotion of the soldiers, or the hold upon them of their heroic leader?
43590Can you presume, sir, to be able to correct your opinions by a hasty visit to the Sound for a few days?
43590Could the country expect it?
43590Did I write you that his conduct on the battlefield was witnessed by the rebels with great admiration?
43590Did we propose to hold a council with them, or ask them for advice?
43590Do Alexander and Michelle speak in the same way?
43590Do you agree to this treaty?--the treaty placing the Pend Oreilles and Koo- te- nays on this reservation?
43590Do you think, because your mother was white and theirs black, that you are higher or better?
43590Do you want peace or war?"
43590Does Victor mean to say that he will neither let Alexander come to his place nor go to Alexander''s?"
43590Does he not know that Mr. Burr and another man went to Fort Benton the other day?"
43590Does he prefer the Yakima reservation to that of the Nez Perces?
43590Dumb as a dog?
43590Ever since I have been thinking, How will the governor speak to us?
43590Foiled in their plot, why did they then so quickly agree to the treaties, which up to that time they had so bitterly spurned?
43590From what you have said, I think that you intend to win our country, or how is it to be?
43590Governor Stevens:"Alexander, did you agree yesterday to give up your country and join Victor?"
43590Governor Stevens:"Does Victor want to treat?
43590Governor Stevens:"How can Moses say I am not going to the Blackfoot country?
43590Governor Stevens:"I will ask you, my children, if you fully understand all that was said yesterday?
43590Have all of you talked straight?
43590Have we not told your messenger yesterday that our hearts are not Cuyuse hearts?
43590Have you not always done well?
43590He had labored only for their good as their friend, and could they wonder that he was grieved at this state of affairs?
43590How long could his scanty force of nine regiments, outflanked and overborne, have resisted the avalanche?
43590I ask Alexander, are you willing to go on the same reservation with the Flatheads and Koo- te- nays?
43590I ask Michelle, are you willing to go on the same reservation with the Flatheads and Pend Oreilles?
43590I ask Victor if he declines to treat?"
43590I ask Victor, are you willing to go on the same reservation with the Pend Oreilles and Koo- te- nays?
43590I ask again, what is the interest of the Hudson Bay Company?
43590I ask them, Why are you in such a hurry to have writings for your lands now?
43590I ask you now, can you all agree to live on one reservation?
43590I said to the Sun chief,''What is the reason you are getting into trouble?
43590In the late sad, glorious fight where were you?
43590Is he, as one of his people has called him, an old woman?
43590Speaking Owl, a Nez Perce chief and the mouthpiece of Looking Glass, now spoke up and said,"Will you give us back our lands?
43590Suppose you show me goods, shall I run up and take them?
43590That not an Indian in the whole course of the war has been killed by the whites except in battle?
43590The question was, What should be our route home?
43590Three Feathers:"Why do n''t you get up and say you are all going with Governor Stevens?
43590Was he to remain idle and let the storm come?
43590Was not his life wonderfully preserved?
43590What are their hearts to us?
43590What do you, Victor, Alexander, and Michelle, think?
43590What is it that he wants?
43590What is the reason we are talking about treaties?
43590What is the reason?
43590What is the remedy for this state of things?
43590What means of defense had the enemy at this juncture?
43590What more can I do?
43590What should he do?
43590What was your reply?
43590When Looking Glass asked you,''How long will the agent live with us?''
43590When did you kill me?
43590When we were enemies I always crossed over there, and why should I not now when we are friends?
43590Where are they?
43590Where are they?
43590Where is his heart?
43590Where is the heart of Young Chief?
43590Which is the one?"
43590Which of these chiefs[ pointing to the Blackfeet] says we are not to go there?
43590While the Nez Perces are going straight, why should they turn aside to follow others?
43590Who ever finds the Highlanders behind?
43590Who that knows Jackson''s career can doubt his will and power to seize the golden opportunity?
43590Why are they not hanged?
43590Why are those Americans alive now?
43590Why ca n''t Mansfield be sent here, and both Hunter and Benham relieved?
43590Why can not you manage to keep peace?
43590Why did he not say to Alexander yesterday,''Come to my place''?
43590Why did he promise to come here, then, to hear our talk?
43590Why did you not answer and say''Come''?"
43590Why did you not inform me of your presence in the Sound on your arrival at Steilacoom?
43590Why did you not say,''Yes, come to my place''?"
43590Why do n''t you wait until a treaty is made?
43590Why do you come here and ask three chiefs to come to a council, while to the head chief and the rest you say nothing?
43590Will they go to the valley with Victor, or to the mission with Alexander and Michelle?
43590Will you accept my offer?"
43590Would you have expected it?
43590Your old men have spoken, and where is the man will turn his back on it?"
43590or is not Victor a chief?
43590you might have replied by asking the question,''How long have you been head chief of the Nez Perces?''
50247About how long shall we be on the journey?
50247Do you think I shall be able to sit up in a day or two?
50247Françaisee,''pang''--see? 50247 Got any pang, Mum?"
50247How about a little bomb for him, sir?
50247I wonder what devilry he''s got up his sleeve?
50247Looks almost like a Blighty for me, sir, do n''t it? 50247 Oh, that''s it, is it?
50247Reg''ler bloomin''pacifist, is n''t he?
50247Well, I''m very much better this morning, do n''t you think?
50247What base are we going to?
50247When are we going?
50247Where''ll you have yours, matey?
50247Who goes there?
50247( Do you remember the preternaturally slow and wall- eyed salesman, with the wart, in the Salisbury shop where we bought it?)
50247*****_ Next morning._ You will forgive the left- handedness of the writing, wo n''t you?
50247And the spirit that dictates their little jokes, is n''t it as fine as any shown in bygone days by the aristocrats of France and England?
50247And what about poor old"A"Company?
50247And what does it look like when one stares out from one''s front trench?
50247Another repeats it, in a regular open- air auction shout, with a grin and an interrogative"Compree?"
50247Are they putting me up for sale?"
50247Bit confusing, was n''t it?
50247But ca n''t you imagine the excitement in the Boche line?
50247But how best to do it?
50247But that''s not exactly illuminating, is it?
50247But we''ll manage to get a bit nearer before we leave''em, wo n''t we?"
50247But what do you think of it?
50247But, madam, how to do it?
50247Chocolate, eh?
50247Cigarettes?
50247Compree?
50247Did n''t yer know I was on sentry?
50247Extraordinary, is n''t it?
50247I did wish I knew a little more German than"Donnerwetter"and"Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"
50247I hardly thought about it, but just went, and that shows there''s something shapes our ends, does n''t it?
50247I wonder how you, and people generally at home, interpret that?
50247I wonder if I should ever have seen it had there been no war?
50247I''ve got to"jot down"this everyday trench routine for you, have n''t I?
50247In Engletairy,''bread''--see?
50247In which case, it seems rather waste of time writing at all, does n''t it?
50247Is n''t it maddening?
50247It was neat, was n''t it?
50247It''s a pretty good spirit, is n''t it?
50247Jolly, is n''t it?
50247My Platoon wo n''t be quite the same again, will it?
50247My goodness, are n''t English nursing sisters lovely?
50247Odd, is n''t it?
50247Pretty sloppy, was n''t he?
50247Pumps?
50247Queer thing, is n''t it, that just seeing these fields from the windows of a train should bring the water to one''s eyes?
50247Queer was n''t it?
50247Queer, is n''t it?
50247Rather nice, was n''t it?
50247Taffy writes a much better letter, does n''t he?
50247That''s a kindly thought, is n''t it?
50247That''s understood, is n''t it?
50247The daily routine?
50247Then why not cut a lane through the Boche wire by means of shells, just before dark, and use that to bomb from after dark?
50247Then why--?
50247Was n''t it extraordinary, when he had had a whole day to think about it, and must have known we should be at work there that night?
50247Was n''t it queer, jawing away like that, while they were hammering the stuffing out of our line?
50247What do you think the shell landing at his feet and showering mud on him extorted from weary Tommy Dodd?
50247When I last wrote we had only begun to talk about the new front trench, had n''t we?
50247Why, how''d our poor chaps ever be able to stand the smell of all them potted Huns, an''so close, too?
50247Wotcher givin''us?"
50247Wotjer playin''at?
50247Would n''t you now?
50247Yes, yes; we''ll soon be back again, an''then we''ll give the blighters what for, eh?
50247You bong, très bong; compree?
50247You get that?
50247You know Taffy Morgan-- Billy-- of our Company?
50247You might almost say,"But why should anybody want to hold the beastly things?"
50247You remember"the Infant,"do n''t you?
50247says I;"what''s this?
4361Any chickens?
4361Any eggs?
4361Any flour or grain?
4361Any guerrillas?
4361Are you a member of the other House?
4361Are you the Governor of a State?
4361Certainly not"Have you ever had a vote of thanks by name?
4361Do you think you could become so interested in my conversation as not to notice the door- keeper?
4361Have you any meat?
4361Is anybody in the house?
4361Is it a good road, and how far?
4361Is it locked up?
4361Is no one about who can get in?
4361Now, where is the proper place to break it?
4361Well, ai n''t you on our side?
4361Well,said he,"what do you want of me?"
4361Well,said he,"why do n''t you go into the gallery?"
4361What do you know of Uncle Billy?
4361What do you live on?
4361What is to be done with the freedmen?
4361What is your badge?
4361Why?
43611, but are in the immediate neighborhood, on their plantations?
4361A few days afterward the husband again appealed to his commanding officer( Taylor), who exclaimed:"Have n''t you got a musket?
4361After shaking hands all round, the Governor said,"Coleman, what the devil is the matter here?"
4361At every meal the steward would come to me, and say,"Captain Sherman, will you bring your ladies to the table?"
4361But it first became necessary to settle the important question of who should succeed General McPherson?
4361But what next?
4361Ca n''t you defend your own family?"
4361Can it be that such a resort finds root in any stratum of American opinion?
4361Can we whip the South?
4361Can you expedite the sending to Nashville of the recruits that are in Indiana and Ohio?
4361Could not such a camp be established about Pocotaligo or Coosawhatchie?
4361Could not such escaped slaves find at least a partial supply of food in the rice- fields about Savannah, and cotton plantations on the coast?
4361Davis, etc.?
4361General Blair simply asked,"Do you like it?"
4361General Grant remarked,"What is to prevent their laying the rails again?"
4361General Halleck had a map on his table, with a large pencil in his hand, and asked,"where is the rebel line?"
4361Governor of a State?
4361Halleck''s telegram of last night says:"Who sent Smith''s division to Nashville?
4361Has any thing been heard from the troops ordered from Vicksburg?
4361He asked me,"Where?"
4361He dropped out of the retinue with an orderly, and after we had ridden a mile or so he overtook us, and I asked him,"What luck?"
4361He inquired,"Why not both?"
4361He said:"What is the use of your persevering?
4361He then asked in his quizzical way,"Are you a foreign embassador?"
4361He then said,"Have you any impudence?"
4361He turned to me and said,"Ca n''t you take your regiment up there?"
4361I answered, rather shortly,''How the devil do you know there is a masked battery?
4361I answered:"How can you go to New York?
4361I asked Deshler:"What does this mean?
4361I had on my undress uniform indicating my rank, and inquired of the sentinel,"Is General Fremont up?"
4361I said I had come to see him on business; and he added,"You do n''t suppose that he will see such as you?"
4361I touched it and examined one or two of the larger pieces, and asked,"Is it gold?"
4361If Hood goes to the Alabama line, will it not be impossible for him to subsist his army?
4361If the rebel leaders were to arm the slaves, what would be its effect?
4361If you ca n''t get over, how can the rebels get at you?''
4361In that event, would it not be possible for you to become a citizen of our State?
4361Major Childs inquired,"Where is Coacoochee?"
4361Major W. T. Sherman: Will you accept the chief clerkship of the War Department?
4361Mason said to me,"What is that?"
4361Member of Congress?"
4361Mr. Lincoln, who was still standing, said,"Threatened to shoot you?"
4361Of parties claiming foreign protection?
4361Others say:"What are we to do?
4361Pausing awhile, and watching the operations of this man roasting his corn, he said,"What are you doing?"
4361Renick said,"What do you want with General Fremont?"
4361Sherman said to me:"Admiral, how could you make such a remark to McClernand?
4361Should we allow them to escape, etc.?
4361So that among the younger officers the query was very natural,"Who the devil is Governor of California?"
4361So that the only questions that remained were, would he surrender at Raleigh?
4361Some say:"I have such a one sick at my house; who will wait on them when I am gone?"
4361State in what manner you would rather live--whether scattered among the whites, or in colonies by yourselves?
4361State what you understand by slavery, and the freedom that was to be given by the President''s proclamation?
4361State what, in your opinion, is the best way to enlist colored men as soldiers?
4361The Governor knocked at the door, and on inquiry from inside"Who''s there?"
4361Then followed the question,"Is Fort McAllister taken?"
4361This being so, how is it possible for the people still here( mostly women and children) to find any shelter?
4361We then returned to Benicia, and Wool''s first question was,"What luck?"
4361What can I do for you?"
4361What signified the terms to them, so long as we obtained the actual surrender of people who only wanted a good opportunity to give up gracefully?
4361What was to be done with the rebel armies when defeated?
4361When ground is owned by parties who have gone south, and have leased the ground to parties now in the city who own the improvements on the ground?
4361When houses are occupied and the owner has gone south, leaving an agent to collect rent for his benefit?
4361When houses are owned by loyal citizens, but are unoccupied?
4361When movable property is found in stores that are closed?
4361When parties owning houses have gone south, and the tenant has given his notes for the rent in advance?
4361When parties who occupy the house are creditors of the owner, who has gone south?
4361When the owner has gone south, and parties here hold liens on the property and are collecting the rents to satisfy their liens?
4361When the owner lives in town, and refuses to take the oath of allegiance?
4361When the tenant has expended several months''rent in repairs on the house?
4361Who ever supposed they would come away down here in Alabama?"
4361Who have prompted him?
4361Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command?
4361Why was this, or why was all mention of any field of duty for the head of the army left out of the army regulations?
4361Wo n''t you speak your mind freely on this question of slavery, that so agitates the land?
4361said Mr. Lincoln,"how are they getting along down there?"
4361said a listener,"do n''t you know that old Sherman carries a duplicate tunnel along?"
4361where are they to come from?"
36720''But why?'' 36720 ''Not invited?
36720''The harem? 36720 And the rest of you gentlemen sided with the North?"
36720Are you a man responsible for his words?
36720Are you ready to apologize to me?
36720But really, how many?
36720But what can one do in such a case?
36720But what sense is there in men dressing in that way? 36720 But why do you ask?"
36720Comfortable?
36720Do they?
36720Do you mean that-- seriously?
36720How many Society friends have you, Miss Browneyes?
36720I hear, Mr. Miller,I said,"that you are my compatriot-- that you are a Hoosier by birth, as I am-- is it true?"
36720If I want to go to Indianapolis, what road do I take?
36720If I want to go to Madison?
36720Is it signed?
36720Is n''t it?
36720It''s stuff and nonsense,I interposed,"but what yarns did they tell?"
36720Lies? 36720 No, did I?
36720On terms?
36720Quite a new attitude of mind to you, is n''t it, Doctor? 36720 Say,"he broke out, interrupting some formal question of mine,"Say, do you know anything in fact?
36720Still again what harm would have been done if he had succeeded in selling the article? 36720 Suppose your book were published, how many of your Society friends could you confidently reckon upon as probable purchasers?
36720The American publishers of your father''s poem,he said,"have paid him all they could afford to pay in the present state of the law, I believe?"
36720Then what were you doing there?
36720To what book do you refer?
36720Well, what do you think? 36720 What about their literary quality?"
36720What am I to do with that?
36720What battery is that over there?
36720What did you say to him by way of reply?
36720What do you think of servants?
36720What is its theme? 36720 What is the Federal work that lies in front of it?"
36720What was it?
36720What was your special objection to me?
36720What? 36720 Whence comes the color of the rose or the violet or the dandelion?
36720Whence comes the inspiration?
36720Why not submit the question to Mr. Bryant himself?
36720Why, Mr. Briggs,I protested,"it was only a paragraph----""What of that?"
36720Why, sir, do you presume to tell me what is and what is n''t in an article that I''ve read for myself? 36720 Why, what do you call these chairs if they are not comfortable?
36720Would you mind reciting to me so much of it as you''ve written? 36720 Yes,"I answered in astonishment,"but how do you happen to know anything about it?"
36720Yes-- but what is it? 36720 You are thinking of''Elsie Venner''?"
36720You think human liberty is involved?
36720You''ve found it so since, have n''t you?
36720''With a pit- cher of but- termilk un- der her arm''--don''t it sing?
36720Almost forgetting to say"good- morning,"he eagerly asked:"Are you sure of your facts in that Amour story-- can they be proved?"
36720And how much of it have you written?"
36720And now that I have read the reminiscences in print, why am I unable to recall the fact that I wrote them?
36720Are we helplessly provincial or hopelessly snobbish?
36720Are we, after all, provincial?
36720Are you a rainbow chaser?"
36720Are you entirely certain that the manuscript was mine?"
36720Are you going to write on this affair in the Senate, or shall I take it up?"
36720As the evening of the dinner day approached, I asked my host:''When shall we dress for the dinner?''
36720As they turned their backs on the humorist and moved away, the Bishop asked:"What did you say the name of that mountebank is?"
36720At last the man asked in despair:"Well now, stranger, suppose I wanted to go to Hell?"
36720At that point he grasped my hand warmly and said:"Tell me, how is Joe?
36720Booth?"
36720Bryant?"
36720But as a people, have we outgrown our provincialism?
36720But could he learn it within six months?
36720But did you ever hear an English_ grande dame_ crush the life out of a sweet and innocent young girl by calling her''that young person''?
36720But is it gain?
36720But is the world richer or poorer for the change?
36720But what should it be about?
36720By the way, did you ever hear that I once committed arson?"
36720Do n''t you see how it sort o''sings?
36720Do you know Arithmetic an''Algebra an''Geometry and can you really teach me?
36720Do you know that is the worst tomfoolery this idiotic world ever gave birth to?
36720Harper?"
36720Have we achieved our intellectual independence?
36720Have we learned to value our own judgments, our own thinking, our own convictions independently of English approval or disapproval?
36720Have we not yet achieved our intellectual and social independence?
36720He was a genuine poet-- as who can doubt who has read him?
36720His creative ability failing him, what can he do but use his critical ability in its stead?
36720How are you?
36720How long would a bookkeeper in a bank hold his place after making a similar blunder?
36720How was that?"
36720I observed the stress he laid upon the word''you''and asked:''Is n''t it time for you, also?''
36720I think Mr. Eggleston and Mr. McCabe were in active service on the Southern side during the war?"
36720If Fitz Lee had been educated at Yale or Harvard, what place would he have occupied in the world?
36720In its first month?
36720In reply he said:"Lent him money?
36720Is n''t that about the way the mysticists make up their''facts''for the misleading of half- baked brains?"
36720Louis?"
36720Of that book?
36720Or is it that our English literary visitors make more skilful use of the press agent''s peculiar gifts?
36720Or is it, perhaps, that we are more generous and hospitable than the English?
36720Presently he asked:"Did n''t you command a mortar fort at Petersburg?"
36720Quoth Charles:''Old Hetman, wherefore so, Since thou hast learned the art so well?''"
36720Still cool, self- possessed, and sarcastic, Tilton asked:"Do I correctly understand you to mean, Dr. Fulton, that you shrink from sensationalism?"
36720Suddenly he interrupted in his impetuous way, asking:"Are you the man I took on my crupper that day down there by Dranesville?"
36720That''s tautological, of course, for prejudice is always ill- informed, is n''t it?
36720Then a moment later he asked:"Did you ever read one of them?"
36720Then adopting something of his own manner I asked:"What is it you want me to do, Charley?
36720Was that a bit of theatrical"business"?
36720What chance has an American novel, published at a dollar or more, in competition with English fiction even of an inferior sort published at ten cents?
36720What could I do?
36720What is more reasonable, then, than that he should select marketable things that other people have written and sell them?
36720What should be its plot and who its personages?
36720What''s in a Name?
36720What''s the use of drudging when a fellow has got it in him to write poetry like that?
36720What''s your guess?"
36720When I scourged myself for neglecting the task, why did n''t my memory remind me that I had actually discharged the duty?
36720Where should its scene be laid?
36720Why bother, then, to make a journey for the settlement of a matter of business which could wait as well as not for next court day to come round?
36720Why should anybody who invites us both to dinner, expect that we shall wear the same sort of clothes?
36720Why should n''t we have a"Watch Night"after our own fashion?
36720Why, otherwise, were the German speaking people of Pennsylvania and the mountain regions south universally known as"Pennsylvania Dutch?"
36720Why, what can you mean?''
36720Will you come?"
36720Would even Mr. Howells be made to feel that he was appreciated there as much as many far inferior English writers have been in New York?
36720Would he have become a Virginian lawyer and perhaps a judge?
36720Would n''t I, for a consideration, secure the acceptance of her novel by some reputable house?
36720XVIII[ Sidenote: What''s in a Name?]
36720You remember Thackeray''s Roundabout paper with that headline?
36720You were a Federal officer, were you not?"
36720[ Sidenote: A Challenge to the Ghosts]"Did he have the same experience the rest had had?"
36720or are you just pretending, like the rest?"
36720or what else?
49444And is that all-- is that the head and front of your offending?
49444And those are your sentiments, as therein expressed, toward our cause, Madam?
49444But hold; here I am talking quite foolishly, for how do I know that either of those ladies would accept? 49444 But how old would that be?"
49444But what does it mean?
49444Have I the pleasure of addressing that lady now?
49444I am Mrs. E. Will you come in, Sir?
49444I suppose, then, the summons is imperative and I must go?
49444Is Mrs. E. at home?
49444May I inquire, Sir, speaking of being under orders, what your orders are?
49444There is Miss Emma; how old is she? 49444 What do I think of him?
49444What do you think of him, Miss Emma, and how will we be likely to fare in his charge?
49444What dreadful noise is that?
49444What is the matter, Lieutenant, you look so pale?
49444What''s the matter?
49444Why, Sir, what do you mean?
49444), is that the word for a man seeking a companion?
49444And who in America have been so much favored in the past with leisure as the people of the South?
49444And will this be honorable to the last?
49444Approaching us at the counter, with quizzing eye, and an air of triumph, she said:"Well, Sir, how did you like the speech yesterday?"
49444As near as we can calculate we had about three thinks: First, who was the Doctor?
49444But dare I say it(?
49444But do I love her well enough to make a wife of her?
49444But is it true in my experience?
49444But many are running to and fro in the earth, and knowledge is being increased; for the runners, are they not making books for the million?
49444But on the question, What shall be done, what measures adopted, what course pursued, to make the most and the best out of the situation?
49444But sense replied: Why where''s the harm?
49444But the cause, what do you suppose it is?
49444But what could the charge mean?
49444But where find we in life, sensations new?
49444But which one first?
49444But why do we thus comment?
49444But, meanwhile, what had been going on at the house of Mrs. E.?
49444But, my dear lady, what are the Doctor''s grievances when compared with those of Christ and his Apostles?
49444Can I not have the holy sacrament to my comfort before I die?"
49444Can you be ready in that time?"
49444Did you ever see the downcast look of a sheep thief?
49444Do you see anything of Judge Campbell''s son here?"
49444Do you see anything of old Sam Houston here?"
49444Do you see anything of young Sam Houston here?"
49444Endure(?
49444Have you been committing some enormous crime that deserves the punishment of expatriation?
49444Here handing her the letter, he inquired:"Mrs. E., do you recognize the letter as yours?"
49444How dar''st thou blot The honor of my little Dot, With lies from out thy lying throat, Each lie a mountain from a mote?
49444I see a new order of things here since I left; how do you like it?"
49444I wonder if nature is?
49444If not, why was he there at that late day?
49444Is it far, Sir?"
49444Now what is a man to do with an experience so in violation of the orthodox teaching and steady habits of the olden times of our ancestors?
49444Or was it ominous of that fearful struggle of blood which afterward rent the country for four long years?
49444Our assailant paled, and looked as if his heart were quoting the interrogatory of the ancient devils:"Hast thou come to torment me before my time?"
49444Preposterous, do you say?
49444Relieving the highway of its presence, and casting it into the brush by the wayside, they passed on, querrying,"What next in the line of sensation?"
49444S.?"
49444She looked a little pale, as if she might not have rested well the entire night, which induced him to ask:"Are you quite well this morning, Mrs. E.?
49444Suppose she were but forty; how would that do?
49444The Lieutenant here mischievously inquired,"Mrs. E., is it here you would like to escape from me''into the deep tangled wildwood?''"
49444The argument looked plausible to the green ones, did n''t it, reader?
49444The desert(?)
49444The question is, why is the country so overstocked with this kind of grape?
49444The writer has been asked a hundred and one times:"How did you escape the army?"
49444Was it for amusement or a farcical burlesque on the governments of the Old World?
49444We walked up and saluted them, saying,"How are you, gentlemen?
49444Well, I think I could, or do(?
49444What am I about?
49444What say you, Sir, to this?"
49444What shall I do?
49444Woman''s a name for falsity, A dark and deep immensity Of mystery-- who can explain?
49444and echo will answer, where?
49444and have we been fighting each other?
49444and may I know what for?
49444and third, who were we?
49444and yet what would you think of the idea that they carried deadly weapons to defend their characters and persons with?
49444in?"
49444second, who was the lady addressing us?
9896And your comrade?
9896But what am I to do?
9896How is that?
9896How much do you want?
9896I dare say you would have been glad if French and English had fought side by side in this war?
9896Is it a little pig?
9896Is it a young pig?
9896Is it sucking- pig?
9896So you want me to be shot?
9896Well,said the suspicious private,"have you not noticed that every time he orders us to march forward we invariably encounter the enemy?"
9896What is the matter, my dearest?
9896Who did it?
9896Why did they do it?--was it because your men had cut the telegraph wires and destroyed some of the permanent way?
9896You know me, then?
9896You know the Lei- ces- terre Square? 9896 Are n''t you going to leave with the others?
9896Come, what is it, tell me?"
9896Could Trochu''s plan and Bazaine''s plan be synonymous, then?
9896Did the Empress at that moment wonder when, where, and how she would next see them again?
9896Do you know London?
9896Do you know Regent Street?
9896Do you know the Soho?"
9896Had we not bought at least a dozen newspapers?
9896How would they dress, even supposing that they should contrive to dress at all?
9896How''s that?"
9896It is young Vizetelly, a friend of my son''s,"adding,"Did you wish to speak to me?"
9896Many a time in the course of the next few years did I hear foreigners inquire:"What do the London papers say?"
9896So saying, the officer produced the small bottle which had been taken from the unfortunate traveller, and added:"You see this?
9896The question which immediately arose was-- could we catch it?
9896To what despair would not millions of women be reduced?
9896We occasionally procured English ale from him, and one day, late in October, when I was passing his establishment, he said to me:"How is your father?
9896What name is the music- hall there?"
9896Why a dozen, when sensible people would have been satisfied with one?
9896Why had Chanzy brought his army there?
9896You are the young English correspondent who was allowed to make some sketches at Yvré- l''Evêque, are you not?"
12302A person or a type?
12302About what, sirr?
12302All that''s left of your platoon?
12302And what do you suggest doing to this Piccadilly Tube of theirs?
12302And what then, sirr?
12302And what was it,inquired Private Cosh with heat,"that happened last week?"
12302Any news of your patrol?
12302Are the Battalion in the trenches at present, sir?
12302Are there any other troops in the area, sir?
12302Are we going to touch off all this stuff now, and clear out, or are we going to wait and see?
12302Are you doing anything on the nineteenth?
12302Are you sure it is n''t a trap?
12302As how?
12302Bogle, what are you doing here?
12302Bully? 12302 But tell me, why have you repaired the Boche wire instead of your own?"
12302But what about Arthur Roberts?
12302But wo n''t the Boche try to prevent you?
12302Can you see?
12302Can you, Corporal M''Snape?
12302Did any one write to you about it?
12302Did he tell you anything, Wagstaffe?
12302Did the Fritzes run? 12302 Did you wish the hale wood tae be shelled?"
12302Do we look like stragglers?
12302Do you remember those first trenches of ours at Festubert? 12302 Do you see it, sirr?"
12302Hallo, what''s that hanging up, I wonder?
12302Has it ever occurred to you, my mannie, what would happen tae the English-- if Scotland was tae make a separate peace?
12302Has your officer returned yet?
12302Has your patrol come in?
12302How do you know?
12302How many men are deficient of an emergency ration? 12302 How many men are serving that gun?"
12302How much have you got?
12302How near?
12302How? 12302 How?"
12302How?
12302How?
12302How_ does_ one choke off a tripe- merchant of this type?
12302Is that Captain Little?
12302Is that a fact?
12302Is that all?
12302Is the battery there?
12302Is there no way of knocking them out?
12302Is this a catch of some kind?
12302Knocking off?
12302Like Second Lieutenants-- eh?
12302M''Gurk, do_ you_ understand?
12302Man,exclaimed Cosh, shedding some of his philosophic calm,"can ye no unnerstand that what I telled ye was jist a mainner of speakin''?
12302Many-- casualties?
12302Mucklewame? 12302 Near?"
12302No? 12302 Now, Howie,"said Bertie the Badger, fingering the fuse,"what about it?"
12302Rations? 12302 See it?
12302Sergeant M''Nab, what is the strength of''C''Company?
12302Some one in the regiment?
12302Stragglers?
12302Such as?
12302That all? 12302 That crowd?
12302That is Bernafay Wood on our right, I suppose?
12302That you? 12302 The regiment?"
12302The waggon? 12302 Then what the hell_ did_ ye mean?"
12302Then you think the Boches are going to make a push of their own?
12302We shall want a good many guns, though, sha n''t we?
12302Well, Angus, how goes it?
12302Well--Wagstaffe looked intensely mysterious--"of course one never knows, but-- have you heard any rumours on the subject?"
12302What about rations?
12302What about''B''Company?
12302What are they going to do with you?
12302What do you propose to do?
12302What do you think?
12302What does she say?
12302What does that mean?
12302What for would he pit his name on it, Wully?
12302What for, ole son?
12302What for?
12302What is your name?
12302What kind o''a battle will it be this time, sirr?
12302What sort of place is this new palace we are going to doss in?
12302What the''ell_ for_?
12302What then? 12302 What troops are those, please?"
12302What was his Christian name, do you know?
12302What way could a Gairman pit my name on a bullet?
12302What way, sir, will a body get his dinner, if we are to be fighting for twa- three days on end?
12302What were your prisoners like?
12302What yarn was that?
12302What''s the matter, sirr?
12302When do you think they''ll attack?
12302Where are you bound for?
12302Where are your puttees?
12302Where have you been all day, Bobby?
12302Where have you come from?
12302Where is young Sandeman?
12302Where is your head?
12302Where is your iron ration?
12302Where will us wear it?
12302Who is Edgar?
12302Who? 12302 Why did you leave the telephone just now?"
12302Why, my youthful Mormon?
12302Will each officer present,he said,"kindly name his pet aversion among his fellow- creatures?"
12302Will the bridesmaids be pretty?
12302Will they attack?
12302Wull you try another cup o''tea, Major?
12302Ye mind what the Captain said aboot smoke?
12302Yes?
12302You do n''t think, sir, that we shall make another Push?
12302You in charge of this draft?
12302You mean hospital work, and so on?
12302You remember his remark to me, that we only had the bye to play now? 12302 You say you can hear the enemy working?"
12302You understand English, Fritz?
12302You will excuse my raising the point, I know, but can the apartment now be regarded as shell- proof?
12302Your contribution, M''Lachlan?
12302''Are you all right, Bill?''
12302''Are you_ still_ all right, Bill?''
12302''Are you_ sure_ you''re all right, Bill?''
12302*****"How strong are you?"
12302Again, five minutes later:--"Is that''A''Company?"
12302And Bobby?
12302And the next article?
12302Are we for off again, sirr?"
12302Are you of age, my lad?
12302Are your fellows all ready, Bobby?"
12302Are''A''Company capable of handling the situation at present?"
12302At last Bill, getting fed up with this unusual solicitude, yelled back:''What''s all the anxiety abaht, eh?''
12302Avez- vous un feu_--er--_inflammé pour moi dans la chambre_?"
12302Been doing some job of work, have n''t you?"
12302Been to the War Office?"
12302Beer?"
12302Before your time, I fancy, Bobby?"
12302Brigade?"
12302But how could any troops get through thirty feet of uncut wire, enfiladed by machine- guns?
12302By the way, take care of Edgar, wo n''t you?
12302Can they hold on, or can they not?
12302Can you see any bayonets twinkling in the Boche trenches?"
12302Cockerell explained When he had finished, he added wistfully--"I suppose you have not got an odd tin or two of bully to give away, sir?
12302Cosh and Tosh snorted disdainfully, and Private Nigg, who was present with his friend Buncle, inquired--"What way was they disguised?"
12302Country has thrown oot flank guns''?"
12302D''ye ken what happened tae me?
12302D''yer''ear that, Fritz?"
12302Dae ye unnerstand me the noo?"
12302Did we stick to Longueval all right?
12302Did ye hear that, Jimmy?
12302Did you not hear me say that no one but Corporal M''Snape was to come?"
12302Do you remember a pair of fat fellows in their leading platoon?
12302Do you understand?"
12302Does anybody happen to know where this train is going to?"
12302Does he begin by striking an attitude and hurling defiance at the foe?
12302Does he fill sandbags, or pump, of his own volition?
12302Eh, boy?"
12302Ever and anon he would stoop down at the entrance of some deep dug- out, and bawl--"Ony mair doon there?
12302Fairly newly married, I fancy?"
12302Haf you whiskey?
12302Hallo, what''s that?"
12302Have you a bomb about you?"
12302Have you been round the advanced positions?"
12302Haw, Jock, was ye hearin''aboot Andra?
12302He lined up his disreputable paladins in the darkness, and spoke--"Sergeant M''Nab, how many men are present?"
12302How does he treat this bulwark?
12302How old are you?"
12302How would a Maconochie apiece suit your boys?"
12302How''s a''wi''you?
12302How''s that for a Christmas pantomime?"
12302I say?"
12302Is n''t that worth a war?
12302Is that B Company, curse you?
12302Is that B Company?
12302Is that B Company?
12302Is that C Battery?
12302Is that C Battery?
12302Is that C Battery?
12302Is that C Battery?
12302Is that C Battery?
12302Is that C Battery?
12302Is that C Battery?
12302Is that C Battery?
12302Is that C Battery?
12302Is that the Adjutant?
12302Is that you, Chumps?
12302Is that yoursel'', Jock?
12302Is the Adjutant there?
12302Labour and Capital, and so on?"
12302Last night a plaintive voice cried out--"Are you dere, Jock?
12302Longueval?
12302No, he begins by inquiring, in no uncertain voice, where his---- dinner is?
12302Or-- in the same spirit--"Wull I luft the soup now, sir?"
12302Pretty artistic-- what?"
12302Pretty decent of him, was n''t it?
12302Private Buncle, refusing to be appeased, replied sarcastically--"Aye, is it?
12302Put the average Tommy into a trench under fire how does he comport himself?
12302Shall I advance or retire where I am?
12302Sleeping here?"
12302Somme Battle-- what?
12302Tell me, what is your strength, here and now?"
12302That''s the sort of--""What is her name?"
12302The fellow--""But you have not seen many Boche planes lately?"
12302Then a round and ruddy face rose like a harvest moon above the tailboard, and a stertorous voice replied respectfully--"Sir?"
12302Then he added, thoughtfully, referring apparently to the star performer:--"We_ have_ been and spoiled his entrance for him, have n''t we?"
12302Then--"I suppose,"he said almost timidly,"that those were members of a_ Reserve_ Regiment of the Guards?"
12302There was a dead Frenchman buried in the parapet-- you know how they used to bury people in those days?"
12302There''s just time tae cook it--""What kin''o''a fire is this?"
12302They have confirmed you in your rank as Captain, I suppose?"
12302Was they, Jimmie?"
12302Weel, Jock, did ye get a quiet nicht?
12302Well, get your bunch on to the road, and-- Hallo, what''s the matter?
12302Well, my lad, what abaht it?
12302What can I do for you this morning?
12302What did fate hold in store for him to- morrow?
12302What for?
12302What luck, old son?
12302What other alternatives are open to you?"
12302What sort of a job is that likely to be?"
12302What time did you leave the Base?"
12302What time would that be-- sir?"
12302What was going to happen this time?
12302What''s that you''re sayin''?
12302What''s the map reference?
12302What''s your view of the situation at home, Wagstaffe?
12302What?
12302Where did we go in?
12302Where is that little girl now, we wonder; and has she got another frock?
12302Where is your old one?"
12302Where''s your fuse?"
12302Whit was that?
12302Who do you think?"
12302Who was it?"
12302Why the blazes have n''t you answered me sooner?
12302Why?"
12302Will they attack, or will they not?"
12302Working- party?
12302Working- party?
12302Would it no''be better to get it repeatit?
12302Would some one have a look, and tell me if we have got Longueval all right?
12302Wull we pit oors on?"
12302X Brigade complied, and having been furnished with refreshment, led off with the inevitable question--"Does one-- er-- get shelled much here?"
12302You mean to say the Boche has n''t got_ him_ yet?
12302You remember how the two ridges used to look down into our lines at Wipers and Plugstreet?
12302You were pulled out from there, were n''t you?
12302You''re makin''a''orrible mess of this message, ai n''t you?
12302or"Compree?"
12302told them so?
8423And did you shoot some Nips, Grand Dad? 8423 Had you a. brave co- pilot, too?"
8423What were the Japs up to now?
8423Would this be the explosion that would blot out our existence?
8423A pilot bold was I, my lad,"The old man hung his head, A pilot for a plane, my lad,"( The old P. W. lied)"Was yours a P- thirty- eight, Granddad?"
8423And chase them from the air?"
8423As a soldier broke down a boarded- up window in the stone wall near where Ted Winship was busy quanning( cooking), Ted asked,"Who are you?"
8423But with what?
8423Dec. 15, 1944: The bright sunrise rekindled our apprehensions-"Are we being left on board the ship to be bombed out of our miseries?"
8423General Leslie Groves, the"Father of the Atomic Bomb,"asked me,"What did you think of the, Atomic bombs we dropped on Japan?"
8423I asked Major Nakar:"How come this barrio seems to be named,''Jones,''after an American?
8423I asked the teniente,"What is so funny?"
8423I inquired,"Do you know that we are at war with Japan?"
8423Many important persons came to look me over and ask,"Are you having any difficulty adjusting?"
8423My answer was always the same,"If somebody gave you a Lincoln car, would you have trouble adjusting?"
8423Or did they outsmart me and get back to the States to sit out the war?
8423THE PILOT* by Gen. William Brougher in the Long Dark Road"What did you do in the war, Grand Dad?"
8423Ted countered with:"Where the hell have you been for three years?"
8423Tenko(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The count,(?)
8423The sea has turned muddy(?
8423They entered houses along the road and slapped the Filipinos, demanding,"Where are the Americans?"
8423Toward evening, Mr. Wata, the Jap interpreter, entered the theater and inquired,"Who is too sick or too disabled to continue journey to Japan?"
8423Was the Rainbow war plan not working?
8423What greater satisfaction is there for grandparents than to see their children and grandchildren turning out right?
8423When I inquired as to the direction to Buen- venida, the Spanish owner asked me:"Did you come to surrender?"
8423Where were our American planes?
8423Who could have ever dreamed that World War II in the Philippines would both begin and end at Camp John Hay, a Rest and Recreation Center?
8423Will it ever stop?"
31124Are the buses running?
31124But do n''t you ever look out of the window?
31124But every mate''s called''Bill,''ai n''t''e, Bill?)
31124But has he any symptoms?
31124But if he is willing to risk his life to save his brain, can they still refuse?
31124But what shall you do, Scutts? 31124 But what will happen to him?"
31124But why do you want to stop them? 31124 Can you get me a book, nurse?"
31124Can you move it? 31124 Could n''t I lie on my side?"
31124Did you crawl back or walk?
31124Do n''t you ever read?
31124Do you ever go to theatres? 31124 Do you see anything in that?
31124Evan?
31124Got my eye yet?
31124Have they many beds?
31124He''s come to talk to you about it?
31124How can you possibly have found out?
31124How do you know he means that?
31124How shall we get home...?
31124I do...."Are you?
31124I know, I know....Do I know?
31124Ironing?
31124Is anything wrong? 31124 Is he a professional?"
31124Is no one going to reassure Gayner?
31124Is that her?
31124Is your cup empty?
31124Is your leg hurting you a lot?
31124Lil bird, am I?
31124May I ask at what price?
31124Oh, Sister, why not...?
31124Oh, is that so?
31124Oh-- and nurse...?
31124Parcel come for me, Sister? 31124 Shall I call your Sister?"
31124Shall I get you some water?
31124Shall you be awake, Waker?
31124Sister, what will they do with Palmer?
31124Sister,he said again,"do you think I can have a word with you?"
31124Six, was n''t it?
31124So she wo n''t wait for you when you are late?
31124Then there is nothing you condemn?
31124Was it in me lung?
31124Well, how about Wednesday, then?
31124Were you? 31124 What can I do for you?"
31124What do you mean? 31124 What good does it do them?"
31124What is really the matter with him, Sister?
31124What will it be like, Scutts?
31124Where''s the one?
31124Why should one make a fuss and another say nothing?
31124Why should you fight because another man tells you to?
31124Why should you think that?
31124Will they give me something to make me sleep to- night?
31124Will you brush my hair?
31124Would it?
31124Yes?
31124You do like it, nurse?
31124You''re willing to risk it?
31124''Can you move that vase of flowers?''
31124''When you come up next time could you bring me an envelope?''
31124''s have to go to the funerals?"
31124( He pronounces the"g"--a Lancashire boy....)"The shrapnel?"
31124( I, the least of mortals, had made a promise belonging only to the gods....)"Oh, Sister, why not?"
31124( Who are they all... these men with their differing tastes?)
31124("Whatever is that?"
31124... ever since Mons, these ulcers, on and off?"
3112411 and I?
3112424 really ill?"
31124A citizen... a baker or a brewer, tinker, tailor, or candlestick- maker...?
31124Afterwards in the dining- room during Mess he will ask politely:"What did you think of the concert, Sister?
31124An inspecting general, pausing at his bed this morning, said:"A dairyman, are you?
31124And then( horror):"Do n''t you think nurse puts her cap on well?"
31124And then:"Is not one man alone sufficient matter on which to reflect?"
31124And would you mind sewing this button on my glove?"
31124And, most disturbing question of all, is to be"liked"the final standard?
31124Another voice:"Nurse, is there any modern French poetry in that bookcase?"
31124Are n''t we leading magic days?
31124At last a noise in the corridor, a tramp on the stairs.... Only walkers?
31124But in a few days he will think,"I am alive, but I might be better..."; and in a few weeks,"Is this, after all, happiness?"
31124But there was this question of her authority.... How was she to live among her fellows?
31124But when the specialist is afraid, what can ignorance say...?
31124But who knows what compliance the years will bring?
31124But whom need one trust?
31124Can one afford to disdain them?
31124Can one grow used to death?
31124Can one steer happily with indifference?
31124Can you sleep in it?
31124Could one guess what he is?
31124Did he match your other carefully?"
31124Did you run across my young cousin, a lieutenant in the...?
31124Do n''t they admit that?
31124Do n''t you like revues?"
31124Do they feel it and dislike it?
31124Do you like them?"
31124Does one go into a ward primarily to help the patients or to help the Sister?
31124Does the wind from outside hurt?"
31124February... can it be yet?
31124Frightened of horses, are you?
31124From two places away I heard her voice piping up:"Nurse, excuse my asking, but is your cap a regulation one, like all the others?"
31124Go to London?"
31124Had I been"nice"?
31124He has a way of saying,"Now, my men, who is going to volunteer to fetch the dinners?"
31124He never says"What?"
31124How far are you a dictator?
31124How many years have you walked in fear of this?
31124How will he celebrate it?
31124I once met him...."Or:"You''ve been in Gallipoli?
31124I sat and thought:"Is it that she has her life settled, quietly continuous, and one breaks in...?
31124I think from time to time,"Is he alive?"
31124I thought:"I am not afraid.... Is it because I am more educated, or have less imagination?"
31124In hospital since Mons...."I wonder how many men he has seen die of tetanus?"
31124In what manner does his dream run?
31124Is it no better?"
31124Is n''t it curious to wish so passionately for the day which may place them near to death again?
31124Is n''t the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?
31124Is n''t there a charm hanging about us?
31124Is the lull when_ they_ go over the top?
31124It is n''t so simple as that, is it, dairyman?
31124Many times a day she hears the words,"Sister, you''re hurtin''me.... Could n''t you shift my heel?
31124Must one, to be"liked,"bend one''s spirit to theirs?
31124Part of the cargo of a ship... one day..."a nigger for Central Africa....""Where''s his unit?"
31124Perhaps the angels feel like this as they trail about in heaven with their wings flapping on their thin white legs...."Who were you, angel?"
31124Perhaps there is nothing better than the ecstasy and unappeasement of life?
31124Seen my X- ray picture?"
31124Shall I ever grow out of that excitement over the first bit of snow...?
31124She looked at me uncertainly:"Are n''t you coming?"
31124She said,"Why?"
31124Since I am under her authority and agree to it, why dare she not use it?
31124Small parcel?"
31124Soldiers...?"
31124Sometimes I think,"Will there never be another convoy?"
31124Summer.... Can it be summer through whose hot air the guns shake and tremble?
31124Surely it must be haunted?
31124The only thing that cheered Rees up as he was wheeled away was the voice of Pinker crying,"Jer want white flowers on yer coffin?
31124The ranklings, the heart- burnings, the gross injustices.... Who is to make the only poultice?
31124The things that one asks from one''s bed are so small:''Can you get me a book?''
31124Then what do you do about the cows?"
31124Then, slowly:"How... permanently am I in disgrace?"
31124There is the lady who comes in and asks the table at large:"I wonder if any one knows General Biggens?
31124They look at each other as weak human beings look, and:"We might try...?"
31124They were whispering:"Do you?"
31124To what a lost enchantment am I recalled by the sight of a branch across the moon?
31124Touching the arm of a man, I asked him the all- important question:"Are the buses running?"
31124Were n''t he, Bill?"
31124Were we late?
31124What about one''s habits of life...?
31124What does he want me to respond?
31124What is there so rapturous about the moon?
31124What kind do you like?"
31124What strange machinery is there for getting him back?
31124What were they doing there?
31124What, then, does this particular minute bring him?
31124When I say to- morrow,"How is the boy?"
31124When Monk was working at a woollen belt Pinker said:"Workin''that for yer girl?...
31124When they come back, when the postwar days set in, will they keep that vision, letting it play on life... or must it fade?
31124When they come in wounded or sick they say at once,"What shows are on?"
31124Whenever we come near him he lifts his eyes and asks,"What are you going to do now?"
31124Where are the dead?
31124Where is he going?
31124Where is my trouble and my longing, and the other troubles, and the happiness in other summers?
31124Where is the frost, the snow?...
31124Where?
31124Whether to wear, or not to wear, a mask towards one''s world?
31124Who am I that I can step in from outside to criticize?
31124Who goes there?"
31124Who is to paint the very septic throat of Mr. Mullins, Army Service Corps?
31124Who knows what he might say to the eldest Sister?
31124Who would have brought it here?"
31124Why should they be bothered?"
31124Why the look of strain in the eyes of the man in the next bed who could see behind the screens?
31124Why the screens?
31124Why wish to trust all the world?...
31124Why?
31124Why?
31124Yes... but where else...?
31124You do like it?"
31124You don''know what a girl is, do yer, Monk?"
31124You got a girl, Monk?"
31124_ I apologize to those whom I may hurt.__ Can I soothe them by pleading that one may only write what is true for oneself?__ E.
31124of whom they continually ask,"What''s say, nurse?"
31124should the Sister be off for a half- day?
31124that?"
31124to cry,"Who wants you to?"
31124ward, I think:"It almost comes to this: one must spit blood or fight....""Why do n''t you refuse?"
31124what will they say?
14457''Berlue,''he said,"is-- what do you Americans say-- dotty?
14457And how far from that are the German trenches?
14457And these German newspapers, are they neutral?
14457And when the young ladies went out, were they watching the bombs burst?
14457And when there is an attack the attacking side must go through the water?
14457And you have not slept?
14457Are there no nurses at all along the British front?
14457Are you a good climber?
14457Are you the Duchess of Sutherland?
14457But I thought you lived in the administration building?
14457But as a necessity of war?
14457But how do they know when an ammunition train is coming?
14457But if the townspeople fired on the Germans?
14457But there is still need?
14457But what are you doing here?
14457But what do you do?
14457But why did you not tell us?
14457By the victims themselves?
14457Can I get to Ypres?
14457Can you lend us a car?
14457Did you accomplish much to- day?
14457Do you mean that when you go out on scouting expeditions you can communicate with the station here?
14457Do you mean to say that you sleep here?
14457Do you think La Panne will be bombarded?
14457Do you want the Q.M.N.G.?
14457Do you want to know the bravest man in all the world?
14457Have many of them been ill?
14457Have you a camera with you?
14457Have you seen any of the English hospitals on the Continent?
14457Have you seen the Queen?
14457How about seeing the Indians?
14457How deep is the water?
14457How does America feel as to the result of this war?
14457How goes it?
14457How is America affected by the war?
14457How many French have you in the United States?
14457How much farther?
14457How near are we to the trenches?
14457I have seen a number, Your Majesty,"Do they seem well supplied?
14457I mean, of course, from this boat?
14457I? 14457 In the event of the German Army''s retiring from Belgium, do you believe, as many do, that there will be more destruction of cities?
14457In the trenches also?
14457Is madame a good walker?
14457Is there anything further Your Majesty can suggest?
14457Is there no petrol to be had?
14457Is this the town?
14457It''s quite a party, is n''t it?
14457Now, Mrs. Rinehart,she said, straightening,"just why are you going?"
14457Oh, do n''t they?
14457Perhaps,said Makand Singh,"you will have coffee?"
14457Shopping, for what?
14457That is true, of course; but what can we do? 14457 The German position is better, is n''t it?"
14457The Germans can see us plainly, ca n''t they?
14457The best we can do seems so little to what the men are doing, does n''t it?
14457Then you do not believe that they will make a further advance toward Paris?
14457There was no justification, then, for the violation of Belgian neutrality?
14457They were verified?
14457They would confiscate it?
14457To the first line?
14457To the vaults?
14457Towed?
14457Trenches? 14457 We are more modest than the Germans, then?"
14457Were you not frightened the night you were in the Belgian trenches?
14457What about a torpedo?
14457What about the official German order for a campaign of''frightfulness''in Belgium?
14457What are six or seven miles to the German Army? 14457 What can we do?"
14457What do you think of the blockade, General Foch?
14457What does a periscope look like?
14457What is its effect? 14457 What is possible to know of the general condition of affairs in that part of Belgium occupied by the Germans?"
14457What is the percentage of German population?
14457What is your impression of the French and Belgian hospitals?
14457What sort of an errand?
14457What the devil is that to you?
14457What were you told to do?
14457What will happen if it freezes over?
14457What will you do if you see a submarine?'' 14457 When did you get in from the trenches?"
14457Where did you come from?
14457Where do they go at such times?
14457Where do you want to go?
14457Where do you wish to go?
14457Where is the gold?
14457Where shall I go?
14457Where?
14457Why not?
14457Will that land be as fertile as before?
14457Will you see our museum?
14457Will you tell me just what you do?
14457Would you like to see the trenches?
14457You are a cavalry regiment?
14457You came just now in a large car?
14457You do n''t mind, do you?
14457You do not know that in America?
14457You have known very little?
14457You have not gone to mass, Mademoiselle?
14457You intend to stay here for some time?
14457You mean that they have been in a dangerous place?
14457You wished to see the gold? 14457 ***** Do you recall the school map on which the state of Texas was always pink and Rhode Island green? 14457 A general brutalising? 14457 Again, what is he to do? 14457 All these wrecks of boys and men, where are they to go? 14457 And Canada a region without colour, and therefore without existence? 14457 And may I come to the fire?
14457And over there, beyond the line of poplar trees, what?
14457And then they went on-- to what?
14457And what next?
14457And yet who knows?
14457Are there any blows left to rain on Belgium?
14457Are they Belgians and French, driven by the ruin of everything they possess to selling out to the enemy?
14457Are they still there?
14457Battle- scarred France, where liberty has fought so hard for life-- what was France doing?
14457Brussels, for instance?"
14457But is it petty to labour and love?
14457But what else did we know of France and its part in the war?
14457But what of that large percentage who will never be whole again?
14457But what of the Bavarian- born Queen of the Belgians?
14457But what was really happening beyond the barriers that guarded the front so jealously?
14457But what will happen now?
14457But your press endeavours to be neutral, does it not?"
14457But-- exactly what can I do for you?"
14457Did the German officers sit about that pine table and throw a nut to summon an orderly?
14457Did the Germans find and silence that concealed battery of seventy- five- millimetre guns under its imitation hedge?
14457Did the"rabbit trap"do its work?
14457Do figures mean anything to us any more?
14457Do they ever glance at the moving cord of the war map on the wall?
14457Even if she had the mines, where would she get men to labour in them, or trains to transport the coal?
14457Had its last occupant died and the mattress been burned?
14457Have you been in the other part of Belgium?"
14457Have you got any of them?
14457Have you seen the flooded district?"
14457Have you seen the government report?"
14457Having done its part, was it holding an honorary position in the great line- up?
14457How can America know what to believe?"
14457How can we play?
14457How can we think of anything else?
14457How did the men live under these new and strange conditions?
14457How many grown- ups can think of it with dry eyes?
14457How many of the boys I watched playing prisoners''base round their guns in the intervals of firing are there to- day?
14457How many of the officers who shrugged their shoulders when I spoke of danger have gone down to death?
14457How many of them are left to- day?
14457How many remain of that little company of soldiers who gave three cheers for me because I was the only woman they had seen for months?
14457How was it possible to manipulate a large field gun, with a target moving at a varying height, and at a speed velocity of, say, sixty miles an hour?
14457How would you like that?"
14457I always thought it was Flemish for"May I come in?"
14457If even wells contain dead bodies, how about the open water- courses?
14457If there was a God, why should my husband be killed?
14457Is he by any chance a relative?"
14457Is it any wonder that two- thirds of Belgium''s Army is gone?
14457Is it influencing public opinion?"
14457Is n''t it just splendidly boyish?
14457Is that tea?
14457Is the duty of the nation greater than the duty of the home?
14457Is the nation greater than the individual?
14457Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?
14457Is this war to them only a matter of a courtyard or a windmill?
14457It was Chesterfield, was n''t it, who spoke of_"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re"?_ That is General Huguet.
14457Madame did not suspect?"
14457Men without a country, where were they to go when the hospital ship had finished with them?
14457Now they contained torn and stained uniforms, weapons, knapsacks, Does it matter how many wards there were, or how many surgeons?
14457Of mud and the upheaval of quiet lives?
14457Only for a time, I think, for was it not there that the Germans broke through?
14457Or about the soldiers who have been caught in the barbed wire with which these inland lakes are filled?
14457Or about the wounded who fall helpless into the flood?
14457Or cold and insufficient food?
14457Or fear?
14457Or hope?
14457Or scraping acquaintance with the only woman he had seen in months?
14457Or the wind?
14457Over beyond the field and that narrow line of trees, what has happened?
14457Seven miles behind the line?"
14457Since my return, almost the only question I have been asked about France is:"Is Paris greatly changed?"
14457The baby at La Panne-- why should it go through life on stumps instead of legs?
14457The boyish officer-- why should he have died?
14457The loss of much that is fine?
14457The result of the raid?
14457The smiling officer, so debonair, so proud of his hidden battery, where is he?
14457The tiny bridge, has it run red this last week?
14457The watchman in the tree, what did he see, that terrible day when the Germans got across the canal and charged over the flat lands?
14457Theatrical?
14457To inoculate an army means much money, and where is the Belgian Government to get it?
14457Was he merely curious?
14457Was it a fragment or an army, an entity or a memory?
14457Was it resting on its laurels?
14457What Queen Elisabeth of Belgium says, she believes; and who should know better?
14457What are the people to do?
14457What are they to do?
14457What brings you both so far from your thriving and prosperous little community?"
14457What business had he to look away from the sea?
14457What did she think of it all?
14457What did they think?
14457What do you see?"
14457What does America generally know of France, outside of Paris?
14457What does it all mean to them?
14457What does she hope for and pray for-- this Queen without a country?
14457What had become of the heroic Belgian Army?
14457What happened in the little village of D----?
14457What happened to the little"sick and sorry"house during those fearful days?
14457What has become of them?
14457What has happened on that road, guarded by buried quick- firers, that stretched to the German trenches beyond the poplar trees?
14457What if it is to be of years?
14457What if the town was being shelled and the Germans were only six hundred feet away?
14457What is a little time more or less, now?
14457What is one death to men who have seen so many?
14457What matter wet trenches, discomfort, freezing cold?
14457What mattered broken boots and the mud and filth of their trenches?
14457What mattered the German aëroplane overhead?
14457What must they think as they lie there during the long dark hours between twilight and the late winter morning?
14457What then?
14457What was France doing?
14457What was happening then, over there, beyond the horizon,"somewhere in France"?
14457What were the thoughts of these people?
14457What will be the result?
14457What would happen if one of the''dummy''fleets met the other?
14457When the Germans were shelling a town, who was I that a shell should pick me out to fall on or to explode near?
14457When they return to their country, what will they go back to?
14457Where can I get it?"
14457Where is he to go?
14457Where was the mattress?
14457Who are these spies?
14457Who goes there?"
14457Who goes there?"
14457Who goes there?"
14457Who shall say he is not entitled to it?
14457Who was in the tree lookout as the enemy swarmed across, and did he get away?
14457Why?
14457Why?
14457Why?
14457Will madame do us the honour of walking across it?
14457Will there ever be any great poems about these men who have been drowned in ditches?
14457Would I be allowed to land?
14457Would it be a battle of expletives?
14457Would it come?
14457Would the German consonant triumph over the English aspirate, and both ships go down in a sea of language?
11682''And the captain?'' 11682 All safe?
11682Any good?
11682Are there any wounded here, sir?
11682Are there many blessà © s here?
11682Are you an Englishman?
11682Blast yer, Bill... Carn''t yer give a bit of elber room? 11682 But not a soldier?"
11682But now, in the business round Ypres, what can men do-- infantry, cavalry, scouts? 11682 But our honour?
11682C''est la batterie?
11682Did you see that shell burst then? 11682 Do you mean we were beaten?
11682Do you mind?
11682Do you think it will come to- night?
11682Have you begun to realize what it means? 11682 Have you come to Paris for pleasure?
11682Have you got many this time?
11682Hot? 11682 How about a bath?"
11682How did you like it?
11682I beg your pardon, sir,he said, very politely,"but would you mind giving me a sketch of the military situation round your part?"
11682I suppose you will soon be ready for Sandhurst, Dick?
11682Is there any woman to embrace me?
11682It is strange, is it not,said our commandant,"this contrast between war and peace?
11682L''enemi? 11682 Les Anglais?
11682Monsieur would like a little love?
11682Perhaps there is some means by which you could prove that you stayed here?
11682Prisoners? 11682 Que voulez- vous?"
11682Queer, is n''t it? 11682 Queer, is n''t it?"
11682Surely the Church must always preach the gospel of peace? 11682 Suzette?"
11682The Front--how did it look, that place which was drawn in a jagged black line across the map on the wall?
11682Ulloh... Engleesh boy? 11682 Was kann ich thun?
11682What is she doing?
11682What is that?
11682What is the use?
11682What shall it be?
11682What''s that?
11682What''s that?
11682Where are you going to put that, Dick?
11682Where are you going?
11682Where?
11682Who can render the intonation of that''Eh bien''? 11682 Worth it, do you think?"
11682Would Monsieur care to have a little music? 11682 You are an English journalist?
11682Ã � a marche, la guerre? 11682 Again and again, for nine months and more, I have heard French soldiers ask the question,Why are such things allowed by God?
11682Ahlright, eh?"
11682And now, after the declaration of this war, which was none of our seeking, how are they behaving, these Germans?
11682And what were we doing out here?
11682And who are you?"
11682And why glad, you ask?
11682Are people here so ignorant they do n''t even know the name of Josiah K. Schultz, of Boston, Massachusetts?"
11682Are they ready?
11682At the angle of two alleys the lieutenant was killed, and that is why the two notes of his''Eh bien?''
11682Besides, what if a battalion was cut up-- wiped clean out, if you like?
11682But death might be at the end of the journey?
11682But one of them, who stood chatting with me, had a sudden thrill in his voice as he said,"How is Paris?"
11682But supposing he had flung himself upon the soldier and strangled him, or cut his throat?
11682But what did he answer to eager questions about his experience?
11682But what''s that?
11682But why?
11682By what fatal microbe of folly had the French generals been tempted towards that adventure in Alsace?
11682C''est trop, n''est- ce pas?"
11682Can he stand erect and fearless under a sky which is raining down jagged pieces of steel?
11682Cigarettes?"
11682Comment allez vous?"
11682Could nothing stop this bloody business?
11682Could this be Paris-- this city of shuttered shops and barred windows and deserted avenues?
11682Did she know the Germans were coming to Paris?
11682Did these people want war with England or with anyone?
11682Do be careful, wo n''t you?
11682Do you want the gale to blow us up the chimney?"
11682Eh bien?
11682Eh?"
11682For who could say what the night would bring forth?
11682Gord almighty,''ow d''yer think I can get in there?"
11682Have I named any one?"
11682He asked to see the soldier immediately:"''Tell me-- the commandant?''
11682He hesitated a moment and then asked timidly:"Do you think I might shake hands with one of them?"
11682Here and there a strange uniform of unusual gorgeousness made all men turn their heads with a"Qui est ça?"
11682How about the French?
11682How about their politicians?
11682How can she risk a war with France, Russia, and England?"
11682How can we cope with it?
11682How could they believe the theory of an optimist among them that it was a part of a great plan to secure the safety of France?
11682How could they explain the meaning of that retreat to the people at home, expecting loot from the Louvre and souvenirs from Paris shops?
11682How could they tell, these plain, ignorant men who had always wanted straightforward facts?
11682How long would it have to wait to find its billet?
11682How often must one say this to people at home who think that a modern army is encamped in the fields with bivouac fires and bell tents?
11682How then could they follow the war and understand its progress if the cafà © s were closed at eight o''clock?
11682How''s it going?
11682If I could sleep here, on the floor, and dry myself a little-----""Who are you?"
11682If such a thing were possible, why had the nation been duped by its Government?
11682Il y a du progrès?"
11682In retreat?"
11682In that''Eh bien?''
11682In the Avenue de l''Opà © ra no Teutonic tout approached us with the old familiar words,"Want a guide, sir?"
11682Is n''t that courage?
11682Is there any news?"
11682Is there such a place?
11682It gives one a horrible heartache and one is overwhelmed with depression... Great God, how long is this war going to last?"
11682It had been evacuated?
11682It was not a challenge of"Qui va là  ?"
11682It''s pretty rough, is n''t it?
11682Les Zeppelins sont venus?
11682Lille?
11682Mais, pourquoi pas?
11682May I have a light for this cigarette?"
11682Mons?
11682My home?
11682My wife?
11682Newspaper correspondents?
11682Nor give their kisses nor their love with amiability?
11682Nous sommes tous dans le même cas, n''est- ce- pas?"
11682Of what, avail now were their worldly ambitions and their jealousies?
11682Officers approached our cars at every halt, saluted our staff officer, and asked anxious questions:"How are things going?
11682Oh, Paris, was even your laughter to be abolished, if you had any heart for laughter while your sons were dying on the fields of battle?
11682Only now and then the old question came to one,"This-- or the next?"
11682Or was it only the wind plucking at invisible harp- strings, or visible telephone wires, and playing the spring song in Parisian ears?
11682Or was it still only newspaper talk, to provide sensations for the breakfast table?
11682Paris cursed the stupidity of the war, cried"How long, O Lord, how long?"
11682Perhaps a rout?
11682Qu''est qu''on peut faire les soirs?
11682Shall I tell you how I left her, Monsieur?
11682She moaned and cried,"Suzette?"
11682So humanity was still beastlike, as twenty centuries ago, and the message of Christianity was still unheard?
11682So she wanted her lesson?
11682So these women would not smile, eh?
11682So why be illogical and pander to false sentiment?
11682Some of them shouted out a question:"Anglais?"
11682Somebody asked,"What was that?"
11682South Africa?
11682Still the football players, or our soldiers scaling the ridge?
11682Tabac?
11682Tell me, is it time for us to go?"
11682That''Eh bien?''
11682The Arming of Ulster and the Nationalists, Votes for Women, Easier Divorce, the Craze for Night Clubs-- had any of these questions any meaning now?
11682The French and British dead were laid in the same graves--"Are they not brothers?"
11682The most bad- tempered people in the city were those who had slept through the alerte, and in the morning received the news with an incredulous"Quoi?
11682Then a voice speaking quietly across the yard:"Anyone to lend a hand?
11682Then he asked a question earnestly and waited for my answer with obvious anxiety:"Will England join in?"
11682Then he drew, not his sword from its scabbard, but a cigarette from its case, lighted it, and said simply:"''Eh bien?''
11682Those soldiers I talked to in the general headquarters-- how many of them are now alive?
11682Toujours les Anglais?"
11682Vos soldats, ou sont ils, camarade?"
11682War with Germany?
11682Was Lille threatened by the Kaiser''s troops?
11682Was it a retreat?
11682Was it only a freak of imagination that made us see masses of dark figures moving over that field in the mist?
11682Was it possible that the enemy had reached that point?
11682Was it the enemy?
11682Was it true then that Germany had a deadly enmity against us, and warlike ambitions which would make a shambles of Europe?
11682Was there really the mark of the beast upon him so that he should be killed at sight, without pity?
11682Was there some unaccountable delay, or were we fulfilling our bond privately, a great drama being played behind the scenes, like the secret war?
11682Was this the summons, Death itself?
11682Were they all liars, these smiling Germans who had clinked glasses with us?
11682Were they glad to be out of the game, away from the shriek of shells and out of the mud?
11682What about our understanding with France?"
11682What actor could imitate it?
11682What can they be doing at the Ministry of War?
11682What can we do with such a butchery?"
11682What could they know about international politics?
11682What did his individual life matter?
11682What did it all mean?
11682What did it matter-- a few more deaths to indicate a mark on the map?
11682What does it all mean, this surging tide of armed men?
11682What does it matter?
11682What is the most courageous man to do in such an hour?
11682What is the news?"
11682What is the use of civilization if it leads to this?"
11682What shall I do with them?"
11682What uproar or riot or criminal demonstration might not burst suddenly into this tranquillity?
11682What was it Blatchford had said about the Germans?
11682What was that grey shadow moving?
11682What was the sense of it?
11682What were all those thousands of little ant- like things crawling forward over the slopes?
11682What were those cheers?
11682What were those little glints and flashes in the greyness of it?
11682What will happen to her when I am killed?
11682What would the Emperor say in Berlin where he waited for the prize of Paris and heard that it had slipped from his grasp?
11682Where is her boasted organization?
11682Where were the English soldiers?
11682Where were the French aviators who had sworn to guard Paris from such a raid?
11682Who could tell this distracted man whether the mother or child were alive?
11682Why did the Philosopher blink his eyes in such a funny way, as though they smarted at specks of dust?
11682Why had we been lulled into a false sense of security without a plain statement of facts which would have taught us to prepare for the great ordeal?
11682Why not sink the Lusitania and set the waves afloat with the little corpses of children and the beauty of dead women?
11682Why should England make war upon Germany or Germany upon England?
11682Why should Germany want to fight us?
11682Why should they be the pawns of the political chessboard, played without any regard for human life by diplomats and war lords and high financiers?
11682Why should we have been made to fight with each other?"
11682Why were the streets so deserted as though the town had been stricken with the plague?
11682With Great Britain fighting side by side with France, with Russia attacking on the Eastern front, what hopes can Germany nourish now?
11682Would they never tire of singing the Marseillaise?
11682Yes, they have plenty of pluck, and I''ve seen something of their gunners-- quite marvellous!--but have they got any staying power?
11682You want to come with us?
11682what is this coming down on us?
11682who goes there?"
61177A lot of those poor devils will die?
61177And for what, might I ask?
61177Are you sufficiently wearied?
61177Are you sure you saw it?
61177But in the name of God, man,I said,"why do n''t they call a truce-- both sides-- and put that horror underground?"
61177But the bayonet wounds and the saber wounds?
61177Can not this thing be done more quietly?
61177Did n''t you have a pass to go through the lines?
61177Did you have any losses in the charge?
61177Do these things count in the sum total? 61177 Do you see that man?"
61177Get you?
61177Highly interesting, is it not? 61177 How about them?"
61177How far away are the Germans?
61177Hurt anyone? 61177 I say, what news have you from the front?
61177The British, then-- they must be there by now?
61177This war-- it is a most terrible thing that it should come on Belgium, eh? 61177 Well, if they are Americans, why do n''t they talk the American language then?"
61177What''s the news there?
61177When did he die?
61177Where is he?
61177Where was this?
61177Who killed him?
61177Who wanted to get you?
61177Why all the noise, Herr Lieutenant?
61177You had charge of another execution this morning, did n''t you?
61177You won that lately?
61177A German said to me afterwards:"Why do we win?
61177All goes well, eh?
61177All?
61177Are we giving the Germans a proper''iding all along the line?"
61177Assuredly many innocent ones will suffer then with the guilty; but what else can we do?
61177Bullet wounds?
61177But had anybody been killed?
61177Do you know what my men say?
61177Do you think I shall be permitted to enter Brussels and seek for my two daughters?
61177Had he beheld these things with his own eyes?
61177He said:"We had not our daily victory to- day, eh?
61177Hostile gun butts had splintered her front door; why not a stray bullet or two through her back window?
61177I buy me a swine-- what you call him?--a pork?
61177Is it not so, doctor?"
61177Is not that so?"
61177Shrapnel wounds?
61177So, then, I shall have the pleasure of seeing you in the morning, shall I not?
61177Speaking so low that we could scarcely catch his words, he said in broken English:"M''sieurs, the French are in Brussels, are they not?"
61177Then he added:"Could you tell us, sir,''ow''s the war going?
61177There might be some stupid, angry common soldier, some over- zealous under officer-- you understand me, do you not, gentlemen?
61177To him I put the question:"What have you done, now, to merit the bestowal of the Cross?"
61177What did he care for the code of war?
61177What do you want to know?"
61177Why should they?
61177Will you buy some postal cards, m''sieur?
61177Wounds from fragments of bombs?
61177Yes?
61177You heard about the case, did n''t you?"
62571''Do you think you could find it?'' 62571 ''What have you got there, sir?''
62571''What, looking for money, my lad,''said he,''eh?'' 62571 ''Why do n''t they come on like men,''they cried,''whilst we''ve strength left in us to fight them?''
62571A distressing circumstance connected with this( shall I confess it?) 62571 Apparently not noticing what I said, he continued his lamentations, and,''Vil you no stop, sare, I say?''
62571Did you ever see a man so wounded recover?
62571Do you think I am dying?
62571What pen can describe the scene? 62571 ''And why particularly Driver Crammond?'' 62571 ''But what creature turned you out? 62571 ''But where are you going?'' 62571 ''But you will perhaps have the goodness to tell me where you are going yourself?'' 62571 ''Captain Mercer, are you loaded?'' 62571 ''D-- you for a fool,''he said;''what sort of a shot do you call that? 62571 ''Have you no orders?'' 62571 ''What can it mean?'' 62571 ''What is the matter with you, dear?'' 62571 ''Who do you belong to?'' 62571 ''Who turned you out?'' 62571 At length Captain Leech observed her, and called out to the company--''Does any man here know what has happened to Cochan?
62571But was it really a French battery which was wrecking Mercer''s guns?
62571Did He Deserve it?
62571Do you think you are fighting here with your fists that you are running into the teeth of the French?''
62571Do you think you can retire quick enough afterwards?''
62571I smiled at his energy, and, pointing to the remains of my poor troop, quietly asked,''How, sir?''
62571I told him that they were nearly so, and added,''I suppose they wo n''t be wanted, at all events, before to- morrow?''
62571If French, how came he here to die alone so far in the rear of our lines?
62571Is it necessary to define my sensations?
62571Is it possible that I am not understood at once?
62571Is there nothing in this to excite emotion?
62571It may be asked what impulse sent a youth of this type-- under- sized, lean, frugal, canny-- to a soldier''s life?
62571It struck me that I knew his face, and, turning back, I stopped him, asking if he was not Robert Liston, formerly a corporal in the 95th Rifles?
62571Meeting one next morning, a very little fellow, I asked what had happened to them yesterday?
62571Men began to look into each other''s faces, and ask the question,''Are we ever to be halted again?''
62571Musther Hills,''I heard him say,''where the d-- l is this you''re taking us to?''
62571Or, in the mad inevitable distraction of a great battle were the Allied gunners destroying each other?
62571Query-- Who, and what was he firing at?
62571Signed,''& c.,& c."Where is Strytem?
62571The Duke turned roughly upon him,"What the devil do you want, sir?"
62571The usual salutation on meeting an acquaintance of another regiment after an action was to ask who had been hit?
62571The wretches had probably already done mischief elsewhere-- who knows?"
62571Vere is de Dook von Vellington?
62571What could I do?
62571What does each separate human atom feel, when caught in that whirling tornado of passion and of peril?
62571What is all this noise?
62571What was this to a parcel of men who had scarcely eaten a morsel for three days?
62571and for what this sudden move?
62571are we off, sir?''
62571but on this occasion it was,''Who''s alive?''
62571do you remember what happened to me at Salamanca?''
62571he said, as he grasped hold of me,''who the---- do you think is to stay hum- bugging all day for such a fellow as you?''"
62571mine Gott!--mine Gott; vil you no stop, sare?--vil you no stop?
62571no shoes, Harris, I see, eh?''
62571thought I, where are my ammunition waggons?
62571vat for is dis?
62571vat is it you doos, sare?
62571vere is de Dook von Vellington?
62571what would such as you have done in the Pyrenees?''
58233After we go there,asked one of the older officers,"what is the easiest way out?"
58233Am I seasick?
58233An''yours?
58233Are you wounded?
58233But just after I had examined him Thompson stepped up familiarly to me and said:''Do you really think, Smith, that So- and- so did have a pain?'' 58233 Compree"is another sample of broken-- one could not say Anglicized-- French, and it is employed with the signification,"do you understand?"
58233Dear old Kelly,I said, as I pressed his cold hand,"what have I to forgive?
58233Do n''t you think, Kelly,I asked seriously,"that lying in a shellhole like this is rather an undignified position for two proud Anglo- Saxons?"
58233Do ye mane, sor, anatomically, or jayographically?
58233Do you carry much of your artillery on your person?
58233Do you dodge when you hear a shell coming, Kelly?
58233Does it sound like something that a young woman would claim were it untrue?
58233Have swallows a sense of humor, Kelly?
58233Have they a sinse of humor? 58233 How about_ thinking_ it?"
58233How are you, doctor? 58233 How do you know that I am not going to report you to the police?"
58233How long since you have swallowed any food, Jones?
58233Might I be curious enough to ask why a young woman like yourself should be traveling in Spain in times like the present?
58233To move out? 58233 W- were you t- t- tight?"
58233Well, Jones, and what is it this time?
58233Well, Jones, what is the trouble this time?
58233Well, Kelly,I demanded,"of what are you dreaming?"
58233What about liberty as opposed to this cursed German militarism?
58233What are you trying to do? 58233 What da hell do ye tink I''m doin''dis for?
58233What''s doing this time, Jones? 58233 What''s yer name?"
58233Where have you been hit, Kelly?
58233Who said Oi was married?
58233Who took Vimy Ridge, Kelly?
58233Why do you tell a stranger like myself this story?
58233Will ye talk to thim sometimes of Kelly? 58233 You going on leave, too?"
58233''Damn you, Thompson,''I replied,''what right have you to ask me such a question?''
58233''Hello, Brown,''says de oder,''wot- a- hell''s wrong wid yez?''
58233''Oh, come now, Smith, really, do you think he_ did_ have a pain?''
58233Ai n''t the Russhin, an''the Prushin, an''the Frinch, an''the Eyetalian, an''aven the Turk in this foight?
58233An''Oi''ve hated the Englishman all me loife----""What the devil did you come out here for anyway, Kelly?"
58233An''de first answers:''Ye know dat purty little Missus Smit wot lives behind de Lion an''Dragon whose husban''s gone to de front?
58233An''fer whoy?
58233An''they have somethin''to foight fer, whoile Oi''d like to ask ye what has a poor divil loike me to foight fer?
58233Are you seasick?"
58233Blank?"
58233But was it the end of the voyage?
58233But, docthor,"looking at me imploringly,"ye forgive me now, do n''t ye, fer it was on''y taisin''Oi was?"
58233Ca n''t swallow again?"
58233Cawnt you see it, you priceless old things?"
58233Could he be blamed?
58233Did n''t ye see those two Brass Hats goin''along the trenches just now?"
58233Do n''t you know that this is an''in''trench?"
58233Do you wonder that the men made jokes?
58233Do you?"
58233For notting?"
58233Forgetting I was only a Captain, and stalking angrily in, I demanded:--"Where the hell is the--steenth Battalion?"
58233Get your bally head blown off?"
58233Had n''t we better turn back?"
58233He heard a voice hissing:"Who goes there?"
58233I wonder does he talk in his sleep?
58233Is the war changing from the old trench warfare of the past three years into open warfare of the past century?
58233Is there any just raisin whoy an Oirishman should n''t butt in, too?"
58233It was hard, dirty and dangerous work, but bantering voices reached us:"What did you do in the great war, papa?"
58233Misery?
58233Naw?
58233The question was:--"Say, Kelly, what the h---- will all the lice do for a living after the war?"
58233Two men are overheard at the following conversation:"Say, Bill, what are you goin''to tell the croaker?"
58233W''ere''d you come from in old England?"
58233We throw down a glare from a flashlight, and a Tommy''s voice angrily cries:"''Ave a''eart there, myte; d''ye think ye''re the only man in the army?
58233We were going along Caron d''Aix trench when I heard an angry voice behind me demanding:"Doctor, what are you doing in this trench?
58233Were they not paying to be there, and should not that fact have given them some rights over those horrid rules of discipline?
58233What the''ell''s yer name?"
58233When one has inadvertently filtered through, as in this case, can those in the lines be blamed for talking about foolkillers?
58233Who has not felt the benefit of a good laugh?
58233Who has not seen a well- developed sense of humor save a difficult situation, or at least alleviate it?
58233Who''d support moy childer if Oi was kilt?"
58233Will ye do me a favor, docthor, boy?"
58233Would n''t he do yer heart good?"
58233Would n''t you like to take an ounce of it, sir?"
58233Would you kindly divest yourself of your clothes till I examine the shoulder?"
58233_ Mais, que voulez vous?_ as the French say with that delightful shrug.
58233or, in slang- Canadian,"do you get me, Steve?"
58233with the hope of receiving a few hours or days of rest at the transport or in the hospital?
61021An air fight must be rather terrible?
61021And did n''t you feel any bad effects?
61021And how did you feel?
61021And is it,said I as we walked on together,"is it always as noisy as this?"
61021And what struck you most particularly this afternoon?
61021And what''s her name?
61021And you have been building ships for sixty years?
61021And you,said I, turning to the youthful figure beside me,"you were in the battle?"
61021And you?
61021Are these hammers always quite so noisy, do you suppose?
61021Are they-- hurt?
61021Are you often in the gas?
61021Arras?
61021But she''s not so very-- big, is she?
61021But these lawns?
61021But where are the others?
61021But you''ve never flown a Nieuport before, have you, eh?
61021Can you beat that?
61021Can you beat that?
61021Can you give us some gas?
61021Can you sleep?
61021Do you have many casualties still?
61021Er-- I suppose that thing''s all right?
61021For how long?
61021Funnels or not, she''s bigger than you thought?
61021Has your squadron been out lately?
61021Have you built them much bigger, then?
61021Have you had many air duels?
61021Here,said he,"is where we teach''em to throw live bombs-- you can see where they''ve been exploding; dummies look a bit off- colour, do n''t they?"
61021How is she?
61021How long did you say she was?
61021How much?
61021K.,said I, as he floundered into a shell- hole,"about how heavy did you say these helmets were?"
61021K.,said I, as we removed our cumbrous headgear,"about how much do you suppose these things weigh?"
61021No, sir, but--"Nor you either, C.?
61021No,he answered, turning away,"but America got quite angry-- wrote a note, remember?
61021Notice the ticklin''feelin''?
61021One would wonder the enemy wastes any more shells on Ypres,said I,"there''s nothing left to destroy, is there?"
61021Useful things, eh?
61021Was he killed?
61021Well, we know two are all right, and one we think is, but the other-- rather a pal of mine--"Do you often lose fellows?
61021What size guns?
61021Why do you ask?
61021Will she be fast?
61021Wull ye hae one the noo?
61021You mean that those poor fellows will recover?
61021You''re staying to luncheon, of course?
61021And where is the Captain during action, as a rule?"
61021But next time-- who knows?
61021By the way-- do you smoke?"
61021Can the average reader know or even faintly imagine the other side of the picture?
61021Care for a cup of tea?"
61021Care to see?"
61021How about a cup of tea in my dug- out?"
61021How about a whisky and soda?"
61021I asked him if at such times one was not inclined to feel a trifle shaken, a little nervous, or, might one say, afraid?
61021I questioned,"have you done many such wonders?"
61021I wailed, for the hammers were riotous again,"what has she?"
61021It is all very easy to write, but who can form any just idea of such uncountable numbers?
61021It would take all the afternoon to visit every ward, and they are all much alike-- but there is the mad ward if you''d care to see that?
61021Like to try a lachrymatory?"
61021Now, how about the poison gas; feel like going through it?"
61021Now, what else can I show you?
61021On the other hand there''s rifles as Old Nick himself nor nobody else could make shoot straight-- ready George?
61021Over there''s one of the latest submarines, Germany ca n''t touch her for speed and size, and better than that, she''s got rat- tat--""I beg pardon?"
61021Pretty good going for old England, what?
61021Ready?
61021This place holds about five thousand men--""Whose wonderful idea was this?"
61021What would they think of this one, I wonder?"
61021Who knows what noble ambitions once were theirs, what splendid works they might not have wrought?
61021You lose anyone aboard?"
61021he announced,"so if you''re on?"
61021he remarked,"A man ca n''t shed tears and shoot straight, an''he ca n''t weep and fight well, both at the same time-- what?
61021or anything?"
61021said he very quietly,"they know better now, do n''t you think?"
61021so-- what''s it matter, anyway?"
37083And you? 37083 Are you wounded?"
37083Bloemfontein?
37083Ca n''t Auntie have my clothes washed?
37083Can you not see,he continued,"that the hand of God is stretched out against us?"
37083Fight to the bitter end?
37083Has Tante( Aunt) any dried fruit for sale?
37083How far is it still?
37083How old are you?
37083Must we understand,asked General L. Botha, when Lord Milner had read this document,--"must we understand that our proposal is rejected entirely?"
37083Watchman,so I seemed to cry,"what of the night?
37083What is your name?
37083What o''clock is it?
37083What should we eat, and what should we drink?
37083What,he asked one of the latter,"do you think of a rescue?"
37083Where is east?
37083Where must we look for Harrismith?
37083Will this lead to peace?
37083(?)
37083After half an hour we ask again,"And how far is it now?"
37083And had these ideals now been rudely dragged through the mud by the bitter result?
37083And how was this received by our burghers?
37083And if at the commencement we had put our trust in God, why should we now not continue to do so?
37083And then it was asked, whether the war had not been begun in faith, and whether it could not be carried through in the same faith?
37083And was it not therefore the duty of everyone to join those who were going to the Government for that purpose?
37083And what did the English say about the laager that they had taken?
37083And what had we to record as to our loss on the following day after this terrible bombardment?
37083And what shall I say of those-- our own flesh and blood-- who went over to the enemy?
37083And what was his reply?--What?
37083And what was the effect of this spectacle on the burghers?
37083And yet how could I blame others for being troublesome when I had on one occasion got a loaf of bread from that house myself?
37083But how should we surrender?
37083But what sort of Peace?
37083But why was all so still?
37083Can I ever forget those evenings?
37083Constantly the question arose in his mind, what would become of the People?
37083Could he not be released?
37083Could inhumanity go further?
37083Could they do more?
37083Delay?
37083Did no dart of pain, no pang of sorrow, pass through his heart at the thought that he had taken a great share in the extinction of a free people?
37083Did not thine own great hero, Wellington, declare that a nation has the right to adopt every means to resist a foe that is invading its country?
37083Did the English know anything about us?
37083Did this give him satisfaction?
37083Do n''t we keep the war going in this way?
37083EPILOGUE Do I feel any remorse, now that all is over, because I struggled on to the end?
37083Fear?
37083For was it not against the world that the little nation fought?
37083Had that People appealed to God, and had He declared Himself against them?
37083Had the faith of the People been in vain?
37083Has this often happened in the history of the world?
37083He put out his head through the waggon- flap and asked his sons--"Children, what is this?"
37083He would ask_ where_ that bitter end was?
37083How did I behave after having had to manage with my clasp- knife on the grass for so long?
37083How long, we asked ourselves, would our burghers be able to hold out?
37083I asked myself, as I rode by his side, what could be the secret of his power?
37083I do not know how to describe it, so feeble it was,--this:"And why do you ruin England so?"
37083If anybody had said then that the war would last another seventeen months, who would have believed him?
37083If she asked what she was to give her two, three, or six children to eat, the rough retort was,"Ask de Wet that?"
37083If the English did not wish to exterminate us, what then did they mean by driving weak women and children out of doors and destroying the houses?
37083If they had been united in the struggle until now, then surely it would be wrong to be divided at the last?
37083Is it not the Crown of the Orange Free State?
37083It was further pointed out that horses were becoming more and more scarce, and what would the burghers signify without horses?
37083It was now asked,"Where is Field- Cornet Jan Lyon?"
37083Many have not been able to understand the will of God, and have been overthrown by the insulting question,"Where is now your God?"
37083Merely for the sake of fighting; merely to shoot and be shot?
37083One Delegate said that the war had been commenced with prayer and with the Mauser, and, he asked, what had been God''s answer to this prayer?
37083PART III_ RESIGNATION_ CHAPTER I"WILL THIS LEAD TO PEACE?"
37083Racial hatred?
37083Renegades!--What can I say?
37083Return to the Delegates and inform them that England would not grant what they desired?
37083Should we get the looted cattle back?
37083So the English kept on saying; yet, oh mine enemy, what right had''st thou to prescribe to us how we should fight?
37083Strange, is it not?
37083Surely not another proclamation?
37083The burghers were terribly bored in the laager?
37083The day came, and who had surrendered?
37083The question now before the meeting was, whether the Representatives would accept this proposal of England, or-- reject it and continue the war?
37083The question now was, what the meeting was going to do in regard to those proposals?
37083The question was, Whither?
37083They approached the fort in the greatest silence, but the picquet became aware of their approach and cried,"Werda?"
37083This I asked myself, when we had got beyond these mountains, should we then bravely march against the enemy on the plains?
37083Unconditionally?
37083Was he not Chief- Commandant, or at least did he not act as such?
37083Was it not God''s guidance to keep the People united to the last moment?
37083Was it not because there was always something to keep us busy?
37083Was it not for the sole and only purpose of getting breathing- time?--to get reorganised?
37083Was it red earth, or was it the blood of friend and foe that coloured the water?
37083Was it the daylight that vanquished the apprehensions and uncertainties of night?
37083Was this the beginning of the end?
37083Was this, I asked myself, the child whose cry I had heard in the night, when the shells of the Maxim- Nordenfeldt flew over us?
37083We ask ourselves, whence the courage which inspired us to face so determinedly what was before us?
37083Well, then, was there any chance left, humanly speaking, of retaining it?"
37083What advantage would we gain thereby?
37083What are a thousand years to Him who forms the crust of the earth through myriads of years?
37083What better-- what more nutritious food could they have given me than mealies?
37083What else but undisguised hostility could the Governments of the two Republics see in this action of England?
37083What else was I living for?
37083What is an age to Him for whom one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day?
37083What is faith?...
37083What is that deep rumbling in the distance?
37083What is to be done now?
37083What of that, if only it came at last?
37083What of that?
37083What was the commission now to do?
37083What would become of the People if their leaders, in order to gratify their own military sentiment, surrendered unconditionally?
37083What would that be?
37083When he came to a farmhouse, the first questions of his officers and soldiers to the housewife were,"Where is your husband?
37083When we were at Doornkloof the question persistently presented itself to me: Where in the world_ are_ we going to?
37083Where are the Boers?"
37083Where are you going to?"
37083Where is Steyn?
37083Where is de Wet?
37083Where were the 4000 who had been ordered to take the hill?
37083Whither were we going now, now that we could not rest in the neighbourhood of Reitz?
37083Whither?
37083Who can blame the Africander if he can not forget what was done to his mother, to his wife, to his sister?
37083Who cared that they were the utterances of the heart, even though the heart of an enemy?
37083Who is to blame for it if it exists?
37083Who will condemn this action?
37083Who, whilst reading them, asked of himself:"What would I desire the enemy to do, if a letter of mine should fall into their hands?"
37083Why did they not leave an opening on the south for the English to retire by?
37083Why did we have a Commander if, under certain circumstances, we had to decide for ourselves without recognising him?
37083Why is he present at such a scene?
37083Why should there still be division amongst them?
37083Why should they be there?
37083Why then, some Delegates asked, should this be the last chance of negotiating?
37083Why, then, did the burghers feel bored in the laager?
37083Why?
37083Why?
37083Will there be patrols of the enemy on the line?
37083Would it be like that in the Cape Colony?
37083Would it not be best to go through the Vaal River in order to consult Dr. von Rennenkamff, who had joined the commandos of General de la Rey?
37083Would the Delegates be divided?
37083Would they for all future time look back upon this, the greatest moment in the history of South Africa, with bitter reproaches against each other?
37083Would they part from each other in anger?
37083Would this letter be the last I should write her?
37083Yet could I blame this confused multitude?
37083_ But has the bitter end not come?_ Each one of you must decide that question for himself."
37083_ Lord Milner._ May I ask if the prisoners- of- war will also be consulted?
37083_ President Steyn._ I would like to know from Your Excellency what sort of self- government it would be?
37083_ President Steyn._ Your Excellency surely can not be in earnest in putting this question?
37083and then?
37083did not trouble me; but"wherewithal should we be clothed?"
37083have we a Japanese show here?"
37083he asked, addressing the meeting,--"do you say that?
37083just as in the cases I have mentioned, can give the date and the place?
37083v. Niekerk._ But, Piet, you were a Commandant yourself; what did you think of our small numbers against our mighty foe then?
37083what brought me, a man of peace in every sense of the word, on the field of battle?
37083what is that?
37083what of the night?"
37083whence the strength which upheld our worn- out horses?
37083who goes there?"
37083who goes there?"
37083why did those three foals whinny so incessantly?
37083will shots be fired?
37083will there be confusion?
45542''Am I disturbing you?'' 45542 ''Ow old are yer?
45542Are you very hungry?
45542Come to see the war?
45542Do you think the Germans will get to Calais?
45542Has not Belgium suffered more than all countries put together?
45542Have_ you_ removed clothes and boots from helpless limbs caked on by seven weeks''mud and overrun with vermin? 45542 He could n''t go off and fetch the old man if he was on guard, could he?"
45542I''ve a wife_ and_ a mother,says one; while the wilier will ask:"Can I have a second for the company sergeant- major, who is outside the tent?"
45542If King George''as got wot Kaiser Bill wants, why do n''t they go and fight it out themselves?
45542Is anyone left in the building?
45542Sahib, will you buy me two new teeth?
45542Well, and what do_ you_ want?
45542What are_ you_ doing over here?
45542What do you mean?
45542What else could he do?
45542What is it?
45542What on earth are you doing here?
45542What time does the leave boat go?
45542What, the_ same_ company sergeant- major?
45542What_ may n''t_ we put in a letter home?
45542When did we take it?
45542Why are n''t they in the trenches?
45542Why do n''t they blow it up to safeguard the adjoining houses?
45542Why do n''t you come too? 45542 Why, whatever is the matter?"
45542Will we sell them just a_ little_ tea, as it is so expensive in France? 45542 Will you-- er-- stick to the Service-- er-- après la guerre?"
45542Wot difference would it make to us if the country is ruled by Germans or Englishmen?
45542You know, then?
45542Your children around you asking, like the little boy in the picture,''And what did_ you_ do in the great war, Daddy?'' 45542 _ Après la guerre_"--what did it mean?
45542_ That_ is n''t mine?
45542A young"Freiwillige"of 19 immediately inquired:"What about Paris?"
45542Above all, what of the principle of this breach of contract, the signing of invalid documents?
45542After all, which lot is preferable?
45542After all, who were we amongst the countless thousands clamouring to"get out"to the scene of action?
45542Again and again unpleasant scenes come up( and when humour flags is life worth living?).
45542Amazed, the civilian asked,"Why?
45542And can ye wonder we want to get at''em again?"
45542And dare we complain, whilst our men are in the trenches?
45542And is not every third office blazoned with hieroglyphics of some sort?
45542And now?
45542And now?
45542And to- day?
45542Are n''t you drawing your pay?"
45542Are you broken, heart- sick, weary?
45542Besides, it is n''t usual in the Service, is it?"
45542Can they save the right?"
45542Did I say_ hurried_ through?
45542Did you know?"
45542Does not every third man wear some kind of distinctive brassard with its distinctive letters?
45542Every now and then one feels tempted to say,"War?
45542For was I not about to pen an anthem on all the fly traps, papers, cemeteries and fly poisons that are our daily consternation?
45542For what have all previous generations laboured, legislating, studying to salve human ills?
45542For what purpose could such a place ever be used again?
45542Going upstairs he tapped at the door and said,''I say, old fellow, do you mind letting me get a little sleep?
45542Had I by chance come upon one of the members of that huge octopus- like system of enemy espionage?
45542Have- you- seen- lots- of- horrors?"
45542Have_ you_ heard the groans of the wounded, seen arms rotting off and legs smashed to pieces, and dressed black gaping holes in young boys''sides?
45542Have_ you_ seen faces blown beyond recognition-- faces eyeless, noseless, jawless, and heads that were only half heads?
45542How can we blame the slackers who, for want of confidence, refused to throw in their lot with what seems to them a wild- goose chase-- until fetched?
45542I wonder if there is anything in all billet, trench or Base existence to equal an extemporary concert?
45542Is disunion the outcome of overwrought nerves?
45542Is it not useless to hope that this war will be the last?
45542Is it to be wondered at that we in France would gladly hear the death- sentence passed on every one of those traitor strikers?
45542Is it to be wondered that there is sometimes friction?
45542One expected to see him place a monocle in his eye and cap his remarks with a"What-- what?"
45542One is reminded of the anecdote of the man who, when asked if he had ever been in love, replied:"In love?
45542One of them was nastily peppered about the heart with shrapnel and asked:"When shall we be shot?"
45542One wonders why?
45542Or cigarettes-- just a few packets of Woodbines?
45542Or some matches, as theirs, being a Government monopoly, are both dearer and of an inferior quality?"
45542Said a Sikh to a local secretary to- day:"Sahib, you go into town?"
45542Someone said:"Ca n''t we have some_ music_ now?"
45542The question"Shrapnel or bullet?"
45542There is but one task for all-- For each one life to give; Who stands if freedom fall?
45542Was he mourning one of those who passed through earlier?
45542Was not many an historical drama enacted, verse inspired, music created?
45542Was not the"Tale of Two Cities"penned here?
45542Were we inspired to write long descriptions of"The Front"--as they insist on calling the Base-- and of War?
45542Were we not about to face all kinds of undreamed- of perils?
45542What are those old stone walls feeling as their invincible enemy creeps on?
45542What could he mean?
45542What do_ you_ know of war?
45542What matter that legs are too weak to walk or heads to think?
45542What matter that one''s old vulcanite pen feels like cast iron and runs on by itself?
45542What was I expected to know, to be participating in?
45542What will be done to the many millions''worth of stores in this spy- ridden place?
45542Where is the unity of purpose that bound us all together in the beginning?
45542Where, I wonder, is the crushing success Mr. Winston Churchill promised us, for which people at home were preparing to hang out their flags?
45542Who could he be?
45542Who dies if England live?_"--RUDYARD KIPLING.
45542Who knows when they will next sleep in a bed?"
45542Why do n''t we have conscription?
45542Why do we treat them so well?"
45542Why not removed?
45542Why, after all, should our beautiful island be left with the unfit, the loafers, the"funks"as fathers for the future generations?
45542Will the hopeless cases have to be left behind?
45542Will the picture I have learned to love so well ever fade?
45542Will those who are knitting away at home ever realise the value of their own handiwork, I wonder?
45542Will you come and speak to him, Sister?"
45542You are in it too?"
45542_ October 31st._ Who could believe, had they not seen for themselves, the manifold horrors of war?
45542_ You?_"he added, addressing the prisoner.
45542_"Is the pathway dark and dreary?
45542are liable?
45542roared the Major,"what''s that fly doing there?"
45542the smell of the gas gangrene-- shall we ever forget it?
45542they cry sadly--"et après la guerre?"
45542when Captain M----, asking"May I smoke?"
45542with a cheerful:"And what are you looking for?"
46434''A strained ligament(_ entorse_)?'' 46434 ''Ah, what can you expect?
46434''At Rheims?'' 46434 ''For the house of Pommery?''
46434''Here, you, what are you groaning about?'' 46434 ''Is that the bag?''
46434''That you, François? 46434 ''Uncomfortable, are you?
46434''What do you make of the convention of Geneva?'' 46434 ''What shirt did he have on?''
46434''Why? 46434 ''You are leaving us?''
46434''You are wounded, General?'' 46434 ''You know France?''
46434A military point to that bombardment? 46434 And why,"we pressed him,"did you run away without going to your mother?
46434And you are away from the army now,''on permission''?
46434By any chance, do you know a friend of mine, Charles Bonnell?
46434Do you know what you are in danger of in telling lies? 46434 Do you know, my sister, what has been done to the ciborium( sacred vessel for the sacrament)?"
46434Do you spell it B- o- n- n- e double l?
46434Do you think I''m taller than my uncle?
46434Enough, for I may die this very night And how should I dare die, this man let live?
46434Have you told your parents or any one?
46434How is this?
46434How long did he remain there thinking before he accomplished his crime?
46434How many milliards will bring us back our happiness?
46434Is it not true that the Lady Superior of the Hospital organized her people for the purpose of firing on our wounded with rifles?
46434It is then his son, the Crown Prince, who is responsible?
46434Oh, then, you care more for your furniture than you do for your own safety?
46434Pretty stagey, is n''t it?
46434Were they soldiers or officers?
46434What does it remind me of?
46434Where are you going?
46434Which is the one who lives next door to the hospital?
46434Why did you burn our homes?
46434Why is this house shut up? 46434 Why should nations go to war, since the principle of nationality is not vital?"
46434Why will you set fire to this house?
46434You are not afraid?
46434You are often shelled?
46434You have n''t any bread?
46434You rode easily?
46434Your name is Bonnell?
46434''Who is upon the Lord''s side?''"
46434And for which nationality, Greek or Bulgar?
46434And the remedy?
46434Are not the greatest nations of mixed blood?
46434But does our recent history mean much to Czech or Russian Jew or Calabrian who has settled among us?
46434But how is the social change inside the country to be related to other States?
46434But is that scrupulous care of mine a justification to the_ Independent_ for omitting to tell the humiliations visited on that convent school?
46434But was the case not established by the same process I have used-- personal observation, documentary proof, and the testimony of eye- witnesses?
46434But who will do the paying, and when will they do it?
46434Can that be the village of Evres on fire?
46434Could n''t work it to get the front?
46434Did n''t you think she might be anxious?"
46434Do I need to say that the soldier was bought out?
46434Do the Balkan mountains represent the purposes of God in Macedonia?
46434Do you think race and nation are the same thing?
46434Does venom act so?
46434Has Leon Mirman, Prefect of Meurthe- et- Moselle, given them a statement in which he retracts what he said to me?
46434Has that testimony shown that the destruction and murder did not take place?
46434Have the social workers as a unit denounced the continuing injustice to Belgium?
46434Have they examined the originals of the German diaries and found that I have omitted or altered words?
46434Have they spent many days in Lorraine taking testimony from curé and sister and Mayor and peasant?
46434Have you met Dick?
46434He stood there a moment in silence, then burst out again angrily:"''What are you eyeing me for?
46434He wrote:"What is America to do?
46434How can an officer in war time disobey the orders of the supreme military command?
46434How can they know it?
46434How does it differ from other sections of the map?
46434How fashion a civilization that shall absorb and assimilate those blood- strains and traditional beliefs?
46434How shall a man serve all humanity whom he has not seen, if he does not serve his nation whom he has seen?
46434How should I go about getting that promise?
46434I thought to myself, What is happening?
46434I thought: What is going to happen to them?
46434If we are disloyal, what then do you call the Choates, the Roosevelts, the Eliots, and the foreign- born Haven Putnams?"
46434Is it fair of the_ Independent_ to be inaccurate?
46434Is it too much to ask them to abstain from their peace parties and their anti- munitions campaigns?
46434Is that civilization potent enough to shape the new contributions?
46434It is easy to throw the discussion into nonsense by asking: Is there any such thing as a pure race?
46434Neutrality of word and thought?
46434Not yet can an American of these recent years stand off from the stream of his experience, saying,"What does it mean that I am an American?"
46434One of us asked him:"And were n''t you afraid, my boy, of the fight?"
46434Quis pro Domino?
46434Shall we take away their tradition from them?
46434So why should we who read of them?
46434The Germans saw him and said:"It is a lunatic asylum, do n''t you see?"
46434The final question was this:"As the result of this war, what hope have we of reconstruction and an altered policy in Germany?"
46434The officer asked me:"''Do you know these ladies?''
46434The quarrel none of ours?
46434The second question read:"How are such acts of German severity to be accounted for?"
46434The test of our desire for peace will be found in this: Do we mean business?
46434This idea is either good or evil; and you continue to call yourselves men and Christians, you claim the right of remaining neutral?
46434To what country can he travel where the sun is pleasanter on happy fields?
46434Too proud to fight?
46434Want a cigarette, do you?''
46434War profits out of their blood?
46434Were they present in Belgium at the moment of impact?
46434What blend can we obtain from a score of mixtures?
46434What does America mean?
46434What is Coöperative Americanism?
46434What is it trying to do?
46434What is the solution of these diverse elements?
46434What people can he visit who have the dignity and simplicity of his neighbors?
46434What shall be our foreign policy?
46434What the people say is this:"Ah, back in Paris, were you?
46434What to do?
46434What will they do?
46434What will you do about it?"
46434Where are your majors?"
46434Where does our future lie?
46434Why are these Southerners loved?
46434Why did they commit these horrors?
46434Why do n''t they cease their quarrel, and live as we live?
46434Why do their accomplishments conquer the world so gently, so irresistibly?
46434Why does Mr. Bourne applaud the one and lash the other?
46434Why else blindly scrape one''s way past a creaking truck of shells, testing 20 horses, two abreast, steaming in their own cloud of sweaty vapor?
46434Why have you taught your young men the use of arms?''
46434Why should he be seeking strange lands, like the troubled races?
46434Why should not social workers declare themselves in time?
46434Why the overnight change from sharp intolerance of successful injustice?
46434Why?''
46434Will you put out the fire?"
23565''And what will become of us women?'' 23565 ''But with Simon''s?''
23565''By whose orders?'' 23565 ''Ca n''t, can I, Ann?''
23565''Captain, where was that picket- firing?'' 23565 ''Did you ever reflect, Tom, upon the source of political power?''
23565''Do you call that brother Jim''s clothes?'' 23565 ''Hab you made your peace wid God, and are you ready for eberlasting rest?''
23565''Have you had any lately?'' 23565 ''How dare you insult a Regular officer?''
23565''How many rooms?'' 23565 ''Reckon you hab a moder and sisters?''
23565''There, sir,''said the General, pointing, with rather a pleased countenance;''do you see that barrel, sir?'' 23565 ''Tut, tut, Tom, did n''t I stand shoulder to shoulder with your father in the old Clay Legion?
23565''Well, I swow, old woman, is this what you call a private fixin''?'' 23565 ''What are you doing there, sir?''
23565''What''s the matter? 23565 ''Who the d----l are you?''
23565''Who the h-- l are you, sir?'' 23565 ''Why, gentlemen officers?''
23565''Wo n''t you get off your critters?'' 23565 ''Your name and Regiment, sir?''
23565And are they Rebel cannon?
23565And could n''t you let that go? 23565 And is he going to practise upon us?"
23565And what is a Tippo, Typo, or Toppographical Engineer, Sergeant?
23565And whin? 23565 And who is Abraham''s Daughter?"
23565At this I straightened up, drew up my shirt collar, pulled down my vest, and said with a sort of hopeful inquiry,''Why should there?'' 23565 But how did you get the sword?"
23565But how did you hear all this? 23565 But, Captain,"said his First Lieutenant,"would you fight alongside of a darkie?"
23565But, Lieutenant, if that''s so,alluding to the purpose of their march,"why are we halting here?"
23565Can I see a Chaplain?
23565Captain, where did you make the raise?
23565Charlie, what''s the state of the larder?
23565Corporal,said he, addressing the little Irish Corporal,"do you know how near we are to Martinsburg?"
23565Did he drink and swear?
23565Did they intimate any opinion as to what we ought to do?
23565Do n''t the river surround them, and can they cross at more than one place, and that a bad one, as an ould woman whose pig I saved to- day tould me?
23565Do n''t you think I had oughter Be a going down to Washington To fight for Abraham''s Daughter?
23565Do you really think so?
23565Do you recollect, General,I remarked,"whether you had forty rounds of ball cartridge in your box then?"
23565For revenge?
23565From my Head- Quarters, sir? 23565 General,"suggested the Colonel,"would not that have been improper?
23565Get it? 23565 Goin''to stay yer-- right in this meadow?"
23565Has he ordinary honesty? 23565 Has he the foresight common among business men?
23565Has the Sergeant told''the whole truth,''and nothing but the truth?
23565His canteen?
23565How can I do it?
23565How did he make it?
23565How long can I live?
23565How so, Terence?
23565How so?
23565I did n''t intend it as a sermon; what application would you make?
23565In regard to what point, General?
23565In regard to what point? 23565 In what way?"
23565Is n''t it something like a land surveyor; and be Jabers, was n''t the great Washington himself a land surveyor? 23565 Is the movement general?"
23565Oh, it''s the ould First ye are spaking about, is it? 23565 Point out the Devil!--will you point to something that is strictly in accordance with the regulations?
23565Pretty well played,said one of the crowd;"but what has that to do with a whisky barrel?"
23565Prove my loyalty?
23565So bad as that? 23565 The General was about leaving the Sibley, when he turned suddenly;"''Do you drink, sir?''
23565Then you want to make us pay nearly what the whole farm cost you for using the meadow a single night?
23565Thin why the Divil do n''t we charge?
23565Tom,said a non- commissioned officer, addressing a private whom we have before met in these pages,"where did you get that box?"
23565Was it a Rebel pig?
23565We had n''t time to look around before the old woman screeched out--''You wo n''t disturb my private fixin''s, will you?''
23565We have the Pyrrhic dance as yet; Where is our Pyrrhic phalanx gone? 23565 Well, Captain, what did you see?"
23565Well, what does all this mean?
23565Were there many Rebs about?
23565What authority have you, George?
23565What did you enlist for, anyway, Terence?
23565What does it all mean, Charlie? 23565 What for you shrug your shoulders?''
23565What is up now, Corporal?
23565What luck, Adjutant?
23565What right have you to confiscate it?
23565What sort of swearin''have you for that?
23565What''s the matter now?
23565What''s the matter with Old Pigey?
23565What, killed?
23565What, sir?
23565When did you get him, Corporal?
23565When, do you say? 23565 Where are your children?"
23565Where did those dogs come from?
23565Where did you steal your whiskey?
23565Where does the old fellow live, Corporal?
23565Where is the Captain, Lieutenant?
23565Who is Hannah Amanda?
23565Who is quartered here?
23565Who? 23565 Why did n''t they join him?"
23565Why do they not now, come boldly out and acknowledge that slavery is a curse to any nation?
23565Why not, Doctor?
23565Why not, sir? 23565 Why, what could Old John have done with them?"
23565Why, what''s in the wind now?
23565Why, what''s the matter wid ye, boy? 23565 Why, where did you get that?"
23565Why?
23565Why?
23565Why?
23565Will the General please indicate which is correct?
23565Will you please point them out, General?
23565Would you drive a darkie away if he came to assist you in a struggle for life?
23565''Just look at the miners who frequent your hotel, each of them has influence, and do n''t you think that you could control their votes?
23565''That your private mark, eh?''
23565''The d----l it didn''t-- would you have me disbelieve my own ears?
23565''Took it?''
23565''What does this mean?''
23565''Where did that shell explode?''
23565''Where have I seen service?
23565''Where have you ever seen service?''
23565''Why need you concern yourself about it?''
23565*****"What''s the matter, Dinah?"
23565*****"Where is Old Pigey?"
23565*****"Who commands you?"
23565A laugh, with the inquiry"how he knew that?"
23565About daylight the General came out, rubbing his eyes, wanting to know who that early bird was?
23565And have they not equal claims?
23565And how high above him did this red- tapism extend?
23565And why should n''t we use them?
23565Are you the owner?"
23565At last says he:"''Well, how did you leave the horse?''
23565Bray, eh?"
23565But again, if the Rebels were in force, why did they not attack us?
23565But what can be expected from officers who are not in the service from patriotic motives, but rather from prospects of pay and position?
23565But what is to become of the Lieutenant- Colonel?"
23565But when did you hear that?"
23565But who tould you that you wud be kilt, and meself that''s alone and friendless escape?
23565But why individualize?
23565But why multiply?
23565By the way, whose hand- writing is this copy in?"
23565Can you ride him?"
23565Captain?
23565Clerk?
23565Colonel, you are a lawyer, and is it possible that you ca n''t see what that d----d Court has done?"
23565Did you ever hear any of my misfortunes?"
23565Do n''t you see the boys?"
23565Do you know that you have influence-- and political influence at that?''
23565Do you understand, sir?''
23565Eh?
23565Eh?
23565Eh?"
23565Every night we are troubled with the persimmon business,"said the Colonel;"but what does the''also Lying''mean?"
23565George, did you ever hear any patriotism about those Head- quarters?
23565Has it come to this?
23565He rushed to him,''My boy, who fired that shot?''
23565How big is that house?''
23565How can any living man tell that the batteries we saw to- day upon the ridge, are not the batteries we drove before us yesterday?
23565How do you like the smack of that, Tom?"
23565How does that strike you?''
23565How long must these sneaking Catilines in high places abuse our patience?
23565How was that?"
23565How will Gen. Franklin do?''
23565How you like him?
23565Hudson,''said the Prince of politicians,''how can I repay you for your services?''
23565I wonder whether this Grand Army of the Potomac would n''t halt when about going into battle, to see whether the men had their shoe- strings tied?"
23565If their pictures are faithful, where in the world do our swarms of pugs and aquilines come from worn by those claiming Revolutionary descent?
23565In hip?''
23565In what other nation can you combine the elements of the American volunteer?
23565Is he broke?"
23565Is he likely to be imposed upon?"
23565Is it beyond their skill to make a pug or an aquiline an index to nobility of soul or heroic resolve?)
23565Is that the order you mean?
23565Lieutenant?
23565Major, where''s your canteens?''
23565Of two such lessons why forget The nobler and the manlier one?"
23565Rheumatism, eh?
23565The fellow that has been going along nearly double, with both hands over the pit of his stomach, for a week past?"
23565The little Dutchman would yell out whenever he would see him--''What for you come?
23565Their movements indicate that_ they_ realize their position fully; but when will the country realize that''strategy''is played out?"
23565To one fond of mountain scenery, and who is not?
23565To say nothing of their fighting, why do n''t our Generals use them as servants, and why are they not our teamsters and laborers?
23565Was it the force that we had driven before us?
23565What are you anyhow?
23565What did the land cost you?"
23565What does that Record show?"
23565What for you want him?
23565What have we here, any how?"
23565What is it, anyhow?''
23565What is the Constitution worth without a country for it to control?"
23565What need you care about the brains of a soldier?
23565What will General McClellan say with that record before him?
23565What you tink?"
23565When did you scrub last?"
23565When will earnest men cease to be foiled in this war by treacherous commanders?
23565When will our Hawthornes and our Taylors be just to the land of their birth?
23565Where are our old fighting stock of Generals?
23565Where''s your horse?''
23565Who ever heard of a clerk being employed?
23565Who ever saw a dead cavalryman?
23565Who would be the successor?
23565Who''ll go along?"
23565Whose canteen have you been sucking Commissary out of?"
23565Why can not the whole country meet the issue boldly as one man, and atone for past offence by unanimity in the abolition of the evil?"
23565Why do n''t they come down and shoulder muskets themselves?''
23565Why do n''t we advance?
23565Why do n''t we advance?"
23565Why do n''t we attack them?"
23565Would it not have implied an already existing organization of the court?
23565Would the change be radical?
23565Would you have your children, Joe Dixon, insulted, made do the bidding of some long- haired lank mulatto nabob?
23565Yes, I''ll be G-- d d----d,"and his arms came down slapping against his hips,"let him off, with what?
23565You do n''t think that camping upon this meadow will injure it any, do you?"
23565_ Undue and unjust deference._ Does not the history of the Army of the Potomac prove it?
23565did n''t we beat the Rebs yesterday?"
23565did you say, sir?''
23565did you say?''
23565do you know, Lieutenant, that that fight was all a mistake upon our part?
23565do you say, Adjutant?"
23565eh?
23565how far do you suppose that firing is?"
23565on his coat buttons?"
23565or Orderly?
23565or were the Rebels in force upon that ridge, making the Oppequan their line of defence?
23565our Hookers, Heintzelmans, Hancocks, and men of like kidney?
23565such a night as this?"
23565whar did you git the jump- high?''
23565what news from the Sibley?"
23565when will my moder and sisters hear of dis, and what will dey say?''
23565who,"elevating his voice,"would have furnished hot rolls for the officers, and warm bread cakes and pies for the men?
23565why did you go for a Soldier?"
23565why did you go for a Soldier?"
23565why did you go for a soldier?"
23565will you permit a corporal, and an Irishman at that, to spake a word to ye?"
22324''But what is this Australian doing? 22324 ''What authority have you for taking away this coal?''
22324A bit of leave and a bit of golf would be a nice change now, eh? 22324 And you know it''s forbidden for waggons to be trotted except in very exceptional circumstances?"
22324And you made no attempt to prevent it trotting until the sergeant- major told you to stop it?
22324Any news about us?
22324Any news?
22324Any news?
22324Are they going to hold it?
22324Are you from the--nd Brigade?
22324Are you improving your accommodation at the battery?
22324Are you ready?
22324Are you there, Morgan?
22324As we did n''t take a train ride, should I push you back in that, major?
22324B Battery... two casualties... how was that?
22324Battery''s pretty done, I suppose?
22324But do n''t you know that it is an Army order-- that guns should be left parallel?
22324But listen; can you hear all that traffic? 22324 But what about the men who have been out here?
22324Ca n''t we shorten this preliminary verbiage?
22324Can you get on to them?
22324Can you hear machine- gun fire?
22324Can you see them? 22324 Can you see them?"
22324Can you tell me how the front line runs now?
22324Can you tell me where the--th Brigade Headquarters are?
22324Can you turn one of my batteries on to them?
22324Did n''t he say''his General''? 22324 Did n''t you see him while you were there?"
22324Did the Boche shell much during the attack?
22324Did the Boches ever try this?
22324Did they?
22324Did those come anywhere near you?
22324Did you notice any tracks from the wood towards the batteries?... 22324 Did you notice his regiment?
22324Did your rations get up last night?
22324Do n''t you keep your guns parallel when you are n''t firing?
22324Do you agree?
22324Do you know if Major Bartlett read this?
22324Do you know the latest motto for the Labour Corps?
22324Do you realise the Brigade has been only four days out of the line since August 1st? 22324 Do you see that signalling pole on the roadside?
22324Do you see the square piece removed from the church spire, sir?... 22324 Do you think twenty- five too much?
22324Do you think you can get back to the battery, bombardier?
22324Do you want feeds on, sir?
22324Do you want to buy a calf, old boy?
22324Does he shell much?
22324Does the offer of a reward refer to me, sir?
22324Got any ammunition left after filling up the limbers?
22324Had many casualties?
22324Have the other sections got up all right?
22324Have you got him at the waggon line?
22324Have you had the''PREPARE FOR ATTACK''?
22324Have you heard the story of the old woman at S----?
22324Have you no aiming- posts?
22324Have you seen the colonel?
22324He was in a hole behind some trees,he said,"and we were walkin''along, when he hit old Alf in the foot----""Is old Alf all right?"
22324Heavies doing good work to- day?
22324How do you find them? 22324 How is the colonel?"
22324How is the colonel?
22324How long had you been in the line?
22324How long have you been here?
22324How long is it since orders were issued?
22324How was Major Veasey wounded?
22324How''s he got through as far as this without any one shooting at him?
22324Is it a red- roofed house?
22324Is it true, sir, that we''ve done well up north? 22324 Is n''t that a battery order?"
22324Is that official?
22324Is that one of your batteries?
22324Is that the adjutant, sir?
22324Is that the adjutant, sir?... 22324 Is the battery in action?"
22324Is there a house on top of that hill?
22324Is there anything you want me to tell them-- or are you coming round yourself later?
22324Is this it, sir?
22324Is this the--rd Brigade?
22324It''s a shooting- box, is n''t it? 22324 Jerry is n''t as cheeky as he used to be in Flanders last year, is he?"
22324Life''s very hard sometimes, is n''t it?
22324Not waggon line?
22324Now what are we going to do about a meal?
22324Of course,interrupted the other colonel;"but what are you doing now?
22324Oh, is it, sir?
22324Rather amusing just now to recall that''Truth''a short while ago was saying there were too many horses in the Field Artillery, is n''t it?
22324Ready, Wilde?
22324Should we wait a few minutes on the road, sir?
22324The battery commander was n''t here then?
22324The waggon was trotting away, was it?
22324These sudden bursts of fire are very disconcerting, are n''t they?
22324Was he a staff captain, with a Military Cross and another ribbon?
22324Was ist ihr regiment?
22324Was the battery still firing when you came away?
22324We have one tent, have n''t we?
22324Well, Dumble, what news?
22324Were n''t you in my battery?
22324Were you much shelled when you took your waggon lines up there this evening?
22324What about a fire, sir?
22324What about the--nd Brigade?
22324What about these Defence File papers and the maps on the wall, sir?
22324What about this, sir?
22324What are you doing here?
22324What are you firing at, Johns?
22324What batteries have actually got over the canal?
22324What battery do you belong to?
22324What brigade?
22324What do you mean?
22324What do you say if we stop at this place and go on after a rest?
22324What do you think of my quarters?
22324What road are we going to bring the cart along when we come back? 22324 What sort of a time have you had?"
22324What were our infantry doing?
22324What''s become of the aiming- posts?
22324What''s happened to our anti- aircraft people?
22324What''s happened?
22324What''s he up to?
22324What''s it like up there?
22324What''s the odds on the war ending by Christmas?
22324What''s the view of things at Infantry Headquarters, sir?
22324What''s your name, Bombardier?
22324When did Colonel---- take over?
22324Where are our new positions, sir?
22324Where are we to find them, since they wo n''t give us co- ordinates over the telephone?... 22324 Where are you bound for?...
22324Where are you going now?
22324Where is B Battery?
22324Where''s Morgan sleep? 22324 Where''s my groom?"
22324Who gave orders for them to leave? 22324 Who is that man?"
22324Who told you that?
22324Who''s that?
22324Who''s up there?
22324Whom are you from?
22324Why did n''t you tell us that before?
22324Why did they send us here?
22324Why do n''t you obey it, then?
22324Why not try a whistling code?
22324Will you come over and see our colonel, sir?
22324Wo n''t you wait and have breakfast, sir?
22324Wounded last night taking up ammunition, was n''t he?
22324Wounded?
22324Yes, but you know where we are, do n''t you?... 22324 You and C are running as separate batteries again, are n''t you?
22324You are quite sure Major Harville was killed?
22324You knew you were doing wrong.... Why did you send the waggon off when you saw the sergeant- major?
22324You remember the doctor''s fat mare, sir-- the wheeler, you used to call her? 22324 You were in Combles when you were captured?"
22324You''re doing liaison for Division, are n''t you?
22324You''ve got a big piece of chalk this morning, have n''t you?
22324You''ve had some of the Americans with you, have n''t you?
22324'', does n''t it?"
22324--with a rush of hopefulness--"you have no orders, I suppose, for the--nd Brigade?"
22324A staff captain is on a brigadier- general''s staff.... His colonel?...
22324A strained voice outside shouted,"Is the colonel there?
22324And are n''t they hot with the machine- gun?
22324Any we did n''t want would we burn, or drop in the stream before we left?
22324Are you sure he was a staff captain?
22324As he thanked me he asked,"Are n''t you fed up with this journey?
22324But do you know what I did the last time I was on leave and had a few rounds over my home course----?"
22324But there''s a risk, and I should prefer to be on the safe side.... Will you speak to the General about it?"
22324But what do you think?
22324But what was this?
22324Can more ammunition be sent up immediately, please?
22324Can you see it?...
22324Can you tell me how many guns you have in action now?"
22324Can you turn your guns on to''em?"
22324Concentrate Two 0 minutes on Number One.... Corrector 152.... Why did n''t you shout out your Fuze Number 3?...
22324Could it be that the attack had really surprised the Boche?
22324Did I not rouse a frowning town major and two amazed sergeant- majors before 5 A.M. and demand that they should do something in the matter?
22324Did he show you a chit?''
22324Did not this entirely support my belief of the early morning?
22324Did you hear, too, about Manison, one of the new officers?
22324Did you see Tom?"
22324Do n''t say anything over the wire, of course.... Any papers for me to see?"
22324Do you know if they are round here?"
22324Give me counter- batteries, will you?"
22324Had n''t you better let the colonel know?"
22324Has he any authority to draw coal?
22324Have you seen them in action?...
22324He''s not troubling our infantry,"he informed me, and then added,"Has the kit been got away from the quarry yet?"
22324How did you leave the cider- cellar?"
22324How many thousand rounds have they fired?"
22324I asked...."Did n''t you tell him it was our dog?"
22324I crackled a way among twigs and undergrowth until the piquet called out,"Who goes there?"
22324I did my tour of the batteries, heard Beadle''s jest about the new groom who breathed a surprised"Me an''all?"
22324I did not know Major---- very well, but a habit contracted through frequent visits to the Infantry made me call out"Any news?"
22324I heard the colonel say,"Are you troubled by gas?"
22324I heard the''ping''and saw dust come out of the window.... Now then, is that line through yet?"
22324I opened the door and walked down the passage, calling,"Is this the--rd Field Artillery Brigade?"
22324I overheard one man, who had accepted a pair of leggings from a prisoner, reply to a comrade''s mild sneer,"Why not?...
22324I told him Colonel B---- had called, and he said he''d go round and see him-- their mess is in the village, is n''t it?"
22324I''ll offer a reward for it.... Will you come with me to look for it?"
22324Is n''t it a topper?"
22324Is n''t that one of them, that black horse lying under the trees?"
22324Is that clear?...
22324Is the adjutant there?"
22324Is the colonel far away?"
22324Manning gave me a"Had a good leave, sir?"
22324Never mind; the old horse has earned his keep these last few days, has n''t he?"
22324Now, who has any suggestions?
22324Shall I make it fifteen?"
22324The adjutant''s voice, low, solemn, but resolved-- he had his work to do:"It is absolutely certain it was the colonel?
22324There is no shadow of doubt?
22324There''s a dead horse round the corner...""Have you been shelled much at the battery?"
22324There''s a show to- morrow, and we must be over the canal before daybreak.... Heard the splendid news?...
22324They''re fine, are n''t they?"
22324This was one told with quiet relish by our guest that night:--"You remember the---- show?"
22324Three Two- fifty-- Two Nine- fifty.... Will you acknowledge orders, Sergeant Kyle?..."
22324Umph.... Well, where are you to be found?...
22324Was he a gunner or an infantryman, or what?"
22324Was he wearing red?"
22324Was n''t this talk of luring him on a myth?
22324We had both ducked; the colonel looked up and asked,"Well, do we continue?"
22324Well, have you been with any of''our boys''?...
22324What are they-- artillery?"
22324What had become of the sergeant- major with the waggon that was to gather up our left kit?
22324What if they were true, and what if the offensive on this front had been checked because of the happenings North?
22324What if to- morrow should result in failure?
22324What was happening on the other side of the canal?
22324What was that story a Corps officer told me the other day?
22324Which is the way to it?"
22324Which way do you go from here?"
22324Who do you belong to?"
22324Who was it gave the order to remove the aiming- posts?"
22324Why ca n''t they do their work properly?"
22324Why ca n''t they send to us as arranged?
22324Why did he take such a long time?
22324Why had n''t I put on my best pair of leggings to come away in?
22324Why this strange quiescence?
22324Why were you so long?"
22324Will you get back and see that telephone wire is brought up?
22324Will you send up my British warm when you get back, some sandwiches for Bushman and myself, and my Thermos flask?"
22324Will you take the orders down from this?"
22324Wo n''t they be the people of England after the war-- the real representative people?"
22324Would he know me after my six months''absence?
22324Would we distribute the supplies free to our men?
22324You ca n''t give a co- ordinate over the telephone?...
22324You ca n''t give me a more definite map- spotting?
22324You ca n''t tell us anything more definite?...
22324You quite understand?
22324You remember the team we were training for the''Alarm Race''when we were out at St Saveur?
22324You''re thirsty, are n''t you?"
22324You''ve heard about young Beale being wounded, of course?
22324exclaimed the brigadier, staring at my head and shoulders,"where did you come from?"
22324in the Retreat,"he went on;"he was killed on August 8th-- went out to clear up a machine- gun pocket.... Damned nice fellow, was n''t he?"
22324is n''t that a fine burst?"
22324lines will be''?"
22324no one has been here with a watch.... You want an officer to come over to you?...
22324with a parade- ground volume of voice; he followed with the clarion demand of"Why do n''t you acknowledge orders?"
22324you''re back,"ejaculated the major when I touched him...."Have you brought my white wine?"
20400And why?
20400Any Colonials?
20400Anything serious, sir?
20400Anything serious?
20400Are you in a giant hurry to get back to Henniker''s?
20400Can you spare me, sir?
20400Come and sit down, Mr Intelligence; have you raised a band of robbers yet?
20400Did you ever see such fellows? 20400 Do you know where to find him?"
20400Do you speak Dutch and Kaffir?
20400Eggs-- butter? 20400 Have you got him?"
20400How about Zwingelspan?
20400How did you see me? 20400 How do you mean?"
20400How was we to know, sir, as how they were generals? 20400 In what capacity do you want me?"
20400Mr Intelligence, what do you make the distance between this and the pass this side of Fauresmith?
20400No; who are you?
20400Not Henniker''s?
20400Oh, it''s you, is it?
20400Oh, you are from the general, are you? 20400 Railway Staff Officer?
20400That I do n''t wear kid gloves----?
20400Well, my pocket Ulysses, what is the extent of your adventure?
20400Well, will you come down to a farm over there, and back me up in everything that I do? 20400 What do you mean?"
20400What do you want?
20400What is it, Tiger?
20400What proof have you that it is not all a plant on the part of your friend, Mr Intelligence? 20400 Where have you come from?"
20400Where is headquarters?
20400Where is your man? 20400 Where the devil are you galloping to?
20400Where''s a map?
20400Which is the brigadier?
20400Which means----?
20400Who are these?
20400Who is it?
20400Who is the commandant?
20400Who the h-- ll are these fellows?--are they tame Boers?
20400Whose column?
20400Will you canter up and mark out a camp? 20400 [ 7]"And your sons?"
20400''What commando is this?--is it Judge Hertzog''s?''
20400''Will you give me your hand on that, colonel?''
20400( furiously)_"You d----d young cub!--is this the way you treat your seniors?
20400(_ Intelligence Officer and the Tiger canter on._)_ Tiger._"Please, sir, did he say that the De Aar column was in?"
20400(_ Roughly_) Now, throw it out,--what happened?"
20400(_ The Intelligence officer nodded assent._) Then why do you detain our only chance?
20400*****"Please, sir, can I speak to you a moment?"
20400Also of what value are the British soldiers?
20400Am I not of an age to formulate opinions of my own?
20400And who can blame him?
20400And why is this?
20400Are you astonished that I should have mistaken your attitude towards us?
20400Are you sure that he was leading you wrongly?"
20400Are you with the main column?"
20400As to my object in coming here, surely your Africander spy has informed you?"
20400But can we ask the general to dinner?"
20400But how does it affect the orders you issued last night?"
20400But is there no other way by which the enemy can get to the Riet: by swinging round between Fauresmith and Jagersfontein, for instance?"
20400But may not he have been told to tip us this yarn on purpose?
20400But may we not be in the right position to- night?
20400But what are you going to do with it?
20400But where will you be?"
20400But who may you be?"
20400But with what object?"
20400But you will say, How, if this is really the case, was it to be avoided?
20400By the way, has the rest of the New Cavalry Brigade come in here?
20400C._"The devil you have!--but do you realise what it means when you mutiny on active service?"
20400Can any enemy within a mile have failed to hear it?
20400Did I ever tell you about the Boer spies?
20400Did you give him a guide, Mr Intelligence?"
20400Did you hear that boy give an order?
20400Did you kill him?"
20400Do n''t you know that you should n''t approach mounted troops at that pace?"
20400Do they often treat you to these protests?"
20400Do you go straight in up to the elbows, or do you play about in kid gloves?"
20400Do you know anything about staff work?"
20400Do you know this country?"
20400Five thousand!--did you count them, sergeant?"
20400For what reason had he sent him?
20400Hand her over to the supply officer,--he''s acting provost- marshal, is he not?
20400Have you any other information confirming this theory?"
20400Have you been into Strydenburg?
20400Have you got a match?"
20400Have you got any boys?
20400Have you got your rifle loaded?"
20400Have you had anything to eat?
20400Have you told your men to rally on that farm?"
20400He never looked up from the paper on which he was writing as he opened the following conversation--_ Pale Youth._"What can I do for you?"
20400Here, signaller!--where is the brigade signaller?"
20400Here, who is commanding the advance- guard?
20400Here, you(_ and he beckoned a colonel in palpably just- out- from- England kit, who was standing by_); what are you doing here?
20400His answer was characteristic:''Say, colonel, what do you want us for?
20400How could I?"
20400How could he be?
20400How could he?
20400How could it be otherwise?
20400How far back is your general?"
20400How many boys have you on this farm?"
20400How many men had Mr Crauford with him?"
20400How much separated these two men in age?
20400I do n''t see why-- but what do you want----?"
20400I have----"_ B._"My dear colonel, have some tea; or perhaps you would prefer some whisky- and- sparklet?
20400If bricks have to be made, has not the workman a right to expect to be supplied with the ingredients?
20400If the country''s honour lay in my groom''s hands, how much more must it lie in mine-- the employer of labour?
20400If the other column should not be in position?"
20400Is it for a straight scrapping with Boers, or is it to meander about as a town garrison?''
20400Is it surprising that I regarded you as their accomplice in rebellion?"
20400Is not centralisation the cause of it all?
20400Is that a flag?"
20400It is this that has made you so beloved in the Republics; but how does your attitude hold good with me?
20400J._"For how much?"
20400Let me see; you have a brigade- major?"
20400Madam, had you not better withdraw?"
20400May I see him?"
20400Now, what is his information?"
20400O._"But your children have seen Burgher generals?"
20400O._"Did you see all the Boers pass?"
20400O._"How did you come by this?"
20400O._"How do I know that you are not still playing a part?"
20400O._"How many Boers would you say went by?"
20400O._"How many men had he with him?"
20400O._"How, if your object was to save your father, did it happen that Lotter was informed of our presence at Richmond Road?"
20400O._"I mean, what is your job?"
20400O._"In that farm?
20400O._"Then what are you doing out here now?"
20400O._"Then whatever made you come out in the ranks?"
20400O._"Were they going fast?"
20400O._"What do you belong to?"
20400O._"What is in there?"
20400O._"When did he leave?"
20400O._"Where are the others?
20400O._"Which way did he go?"
20400O._"Who are the people in this house?
20400O._"Who is Fischer?"
20400O._"Why the devil did n''t you shoot them?"
20400O._"You can find your way there in the dark?"
20400O._(_ brutally_)"And did you?
20400Repeat to,"& c._ Brigadier._"What do you think of that?"
20400See that depot over there?
20400Tell me who is in Britstown?"
20400That is true, but how was it to be prevented?--where can you draw the line between legitimate requisition in war and brutal plunder?
20400The Mount Nelson Light Horse-- they are marching from Hanover Road?"
20400Then this being given, why not deal leniently with such men as have served you well, and who may be trusted to profit by experience dearly purchased?
20400Then turning to the chief of the staff,"Have you got a match?
20400There; is not that an admission worthy of a loyal Africander?"
20400This is not the only road in the whole bally country, I presume?"
20400Two men, who kept on shouting orders to the passing Boers, were sitting in the back of it----"_ Intelligence Officer._"What were they like?"
20400Well, what the deuce is he worth to you after that, either as a framer of fact or flinger of fiction?
20400Were you out here, sir, during the Black Week-- the Colenso- Magersfontein period?
20400What about your details?"
20400What can I do for you?"
20400What can I do for you?"
20400What can that boy know about it?
20400What chance had the horses which had been overridden and under- fed for the last twelve days?
20400What chance of success lies with the officer content to passively hug ox- waggons instead of pressing on against his mobile foe?
20400What columns are in Hopetown?"
20400What did Nelson do at the battle of Copenhagen?
20400What do you belong to?"
20400What do you do at home?"
20400What do you think?
20400What does it all mean?
20400What have they got to say?"
20400What have your prisoners got to say, Mr Intelligence?"
20400What is it?"
20400What is our private information?"
20400What is the full limit at which you may requisition a spring cart?"
20400What is your name?"
20400What kind of a man are you?
20400What right, therefore, have you to catechise me as to my goings and comings?
20400What was it worth?
20400What would the bright little maid who brings in the tea in the morning say, if she could see us now?
20400What would you think if you could catch a glimpse of us?
20400What''s the force?"
20400What''s the good of lying?
20400Where are the rest of you, then?"
20400Where are the telegrams?
20400Where are the''Number Threes''?"
20400Where are we to go?"
20400Where are you going now?"
20400Where is your father?
20400Where is your manhood, where the courtly bearing of the Englishman, of which I have heard so much-- and seen so little?"
20400Who are you?"
20400Who commands you?"
20400Who has attempted to follow the train of thought which has been uppermost in the native mind?
20400Who is it from?"
20400Who may you be?
20400Who shall blend the two?
20400Who told you to come in here?
20400Who, if they had not known, would have said that the beautiful panorama, which the morning sun now unveiled before us, was a theatre of war?
20400Whose column is that?"
20400Why do you wish to see him?"
20400Why should men fight in a land such as this?
20400Why?"
20400Will you have some coffee?"
20400Wo n''t you stay for your drink?"
20400Yes, they had both; they would only be too glad-- would not the general take food with them?"
20400You are senior captain in your corps, are you not?"
20400You only slip into it worse every time; now, then, to the columns?"
20400You see the parallelogram?
20400Your dream and rest is over; for are you not the general''s flunkey?
20400[ 28]"Are you aware, old boy, that we do n''t get any grub to- night?"
20400_ B.-M._"And what do you intend doing yourself, sir?"
20400_ B.-M._"But if I find that he has crossed the river?
20400_ B.-M._"What escort shall I give it?"
20400_ B._"And what are four columns doing halted here in this_ dorp_?
20400_ B._"Are the wounded talkative?"
20400_ B._"Do you know your Shakespeare?"
20400_ B._"Good; and what is the latest news about De Wet?"
20400_ B._"Have you any one who knows the way?"
20400_ B._"How many dismounted men are there?
20400_ B._"I forget how you came by this information?"
20400_ B._"Intervening country?"
20400_ B._"Sanguinary, my boy; well, are you the last survivor?
20400_ B._"True for you; what''s the odds?"
20400_ B._"Wait-- how did you get away from the general battue?"
20400_ B._"Well, what has he got to say?"
20400_ B._"What happened?"
20400_ B._"What would you think is the value of this one?"
20400_ B._"When is our convoy due at Strydenburg?"
20400_ B._"Who are on him?"
20400_ B._"Will old Stick- in- the- mud have got that, too?"
20400_ Brigadier._"And your guide?"
20400_ Brigadier._"Any Boer wounded?"
20400_ Brigadier._"How far is the flat kopje from us?"
20400_ Brigadier._"Was there ever a worse atrocity perpetrated than this?
20400_ Brigadier._"Well, have you been fighting-- where''s your crush?"
20400_ Brigadier._"What do you make of it?"
20400_ Brigadier_(_ commencing to divest himself of his wet clothes in front of the fire and pointing to the turkey_),"Honestly come by?"
20400_ Chief._"Where have you come from?"
20400_ Colonial Colonel._"What does this mean, men?"
20400_ D._"Where will you want him to take you?
20400_ D._"Who can say?
20400_ D._(_ the tears drying_)"And you promise me that you will not harm him?"
20400_ F._"Are you a general, mister?"
20400_ F._"Can I see the general, Mister Secretary?"
20400_ G._"When do you meet your convoy, and how far behind you are your details?"
20400_ Intelligence Officer._"Do you know where the camp is?"
20400_ Intelligence Officer._"Is this road clear into the_ dorp_?
20400_ Intelligence Officer._"Miss Pretorius,--how did you get here?"
20400_ Intelligence Officer._"Sjambok?"
20400_ Intelligence Officer._"Who are you?
20400_ Intelligence Officer._"Who is Stephanus?"
20400_ Miss P._"And may I also ask something,--What authority have you to put me such a question?
20400_ Miss P._"Did I?
20400_ Miss P._(_ suddenly paling, and losing for the moment her self- control_)"The worst!--surely you have not burned our farm?
20400_ Oom Jan._"But the commandant wo n''t take my cart?"
20400_ Staff Officer._"Certainly, sir; but what do you belong to?
20400_ Staff Officer._"What column is this?"
20400_ Sub._"Have you been here before?"
20400_ Sub._"Have your boys?"
20400_ Sub._"Which way?--how many were there?"
20400_ Subaltern._"Why have n''t you given me a guide?"
20400_ T._"So you have taken her out for a drive to- day?"
20400_ T._"Then you have been driving another lady?"
20400_ T._"What have you got those two cushions on the seat for?
20400_ T._"Where have you come from?"
20400_ T._"Where is that?"
20400_ T._(_ who was now close up to the cart and busy in examination of it_)"What have you been doing in Britstown, and how long have you been there?"
20400_ Weeping Bride._"If you take him, how shall I ever know what you will do with him?
20400and where the devil have you come from?"
20400have you seen any of the staff of the other column?"
20400muttered the Rimington captain, and as the truth flashed upon him came the challenge in Dutch--"_ Wie dar?_""Follow me, Rimington''s!"
20400said the brigadier when the Intelligence officer reported himself,"what has all the shooting been about?"
20400what is that?"
20400where are your horses?"
20400where''s your rifle?"
20400who goes there?"
12877;You''re my Baby"; and the ungrammatical"Who Were You With Last Night?"
12877A clock? 12877 All present?"
12877And it''s to be the day after to- morrow?
12877And what do you think of that?
12877And your people at home,he said,"you think they are taking the War seriously?"
12877Any casualties?
12877Any casualties?
12877Any news, Colonel?
12877Are the first details ready to begin?
12877Are you a professional?
12877Are you rotting us?
12877Are you sure?
12877Back already?
12877Badly?
12877Been a long time finding out, has n''t he?
12877Beg pardon, sir, where shall_ I_ go now?
12877But we are wandering from the subject, which is: what advantages are we, personally, deriving from the war? 12877 But what,"inquired that earnest seeker after knowledge, Mr. Waddell,"is the general attitude of the country at large upon this grave question?"
12877But who_ is_ he?
12877But you feel capable of taking on the job?
12877By the way, had any more trouble with Minnie?
12877Ca n''t_ we_ do anything?
12877Carfrae?
12877Combine?
12877Comment?
12877Corporal Mather, why did n''t you mention this?
12877Cross- roads-- eh? 12877 Did she do much damage?"
12877Did they loose it off last night?
12877Did they?
12877Did your respirator work?
12877Do you know what a chiropodist is?
12877Does he?
12877Does one wear a sword on parade?
12877Eyesight wrong?
12877Flies?
12877For better or worse?
12877Four of us went out patrolling in front of the trench--"Who?
12877Got the bearings?
12877Got the biscuits here, Sergeant- Major?
12877Guilty-- eh? 12877 Had you any excitement, Ayling?"
12877Have we finished that new trench in front of our wire?
12877Have we got any tame chiropodists in the company, Rae?
12877Have you been here long?
12877Have you had much experience?
12877Have you located her?
12877Hey, Jock,inquired a husky voice,"is that you?"
12877Honkle yang- yang?
12877Hoo''s a''wi''you, Jock?
12877How are the Company doing generally, Sergeant- Major?
12877How are things on the left, sir?
12877How did you enjoy yourself passing Fosse Eight?
12877How did your fellows get on last night, Wagstaffe?
12877How do you mean?
12877How long have they been-- here?
12877How many, Bobby?
12877How would you indicate the position of the place?
12877How?
12877How?
12877I expect they''ll have lots of transport there about ration- time-- eh?
12877I''m so sorry to bother you, but could you make inquiries and ascertain when the marker on Number Seven is likely to come out of the chloroform?
12877In private life I am a beak at a public school--"What school?
12877In what way, sir?
12877Is this true?
12877Jock,he inquired wistfully,"hae ye gotten a fag?"
12877Lance- Corporal Ness, how would you describe it?
12877Lance- Corporal Ness, what did you notice in the foreground of the picture?
12877Look here, my man,said Ayling,"do you, or do you not, know where you are?"
12877M''sieu le Caporal désire?
12877May I suggest an explanation?
12877More wounded, or are we being photographed?
12877Now,he begins,"what conspicuous objects do we notice on this target?
12877Prisoners? 12877 Private M''Micking, what is a scout?"
12877Private McNulty?
12877Private Mucklewame?
12877Private Wemyss?
12877Sirr?
12877Sirr?
12877Smokes? 12877 Some Staff-- what?"
12877Tell me what?
12877That old fire- eater? 12877 That you, Wagstaffe?
12877That you, Wagstaffe?
12877That you, Wagstaffe?
12877The trenches, or the middle of the redoubt?
12877This true?
12877Walk? 12877 Well"--Captain Blaikie began to fill his pipe--"who takes about nine- tenths of the risk, and does practically all the hard work in the Army?
12877Well?
12877Were they badly hit?
12877Wha goes there?
12877What about our chipping in with a one- fifty- five turn-- half a dozen H E shells into Minnie''s dressing- room-- eh? 12877 What about revolvers?"
12877What are we going to do to- night, sir?
12877What are you doing?
12877What did you do?
12877What did you do?
12877What did you do?
12877What did you do?
12877What do the other side say?
12877What do you do when you are leading a party along a road and meet a Staff Officer?
12877What does a Tommy do,he inquired,"if he meets an officer wheeling a wheelbarrow?"
12877What does it look like? 12877 What for is the wee felly gaun''tae show us puctures?"
12877What have you got out of the war, Ayling?
12877What have you to say, Private Dunshie?
12877What in thunder will they ask for next?
12877What is he to do? 12877 What is it for, then?"
12877What is it this time?
12877What is that?
12877What is the general attitude,asked Mr. Waddell,"towards the war?"
12877What is the new trench for, exactly?
12877What is this man''s crime, Sergeant- Major?
12877What kin''o''a thing is a Review?
12877What message can I deliver to him?
12877What sort of message?
12877What trenches wass you seeking?
12877What was that last movement?
12877What went wrong, Sergeant?
12877What were your sensations,_ exactly_?
12877What''s the trouble now?
12877What''s the trouble?
12877Whaur''s ma drawer?
12877Where do we get the earth to fill the sandbags?
12877Where''s that?
12877Where?
12877Who are these assassins-- these imbeciles-- these_ crétins_,inquired Petitpois,"who would endanger the ship of the State?"
12877Who is Charlie Chaplin?
12877Who is it?
12877Who is wheeling the barrow,inquired the meticulous Struthers--"the officer or the Tommy?"
12877Why ca n''t they let well alone?
12877Why did n''t you lodge a complaint?
12877Why in thunder ca n''t you keep your filthy tea- kettle in its own place, instead of bringing it here to draw fire?
12877Why not?
12877Why should the idiots put one''s religion on the thing?
12877Why?
12877Will you follow me, please? 12877 Will you listen to me?"
12877Will you send us down all the bombs you can spare?
12877Wull we be gettin''hame to our dinners now?
12877Wull ye give a body yin?
12877Yes, but suppose some one salutes_ you_?
12877Yon man, oot there on the left,shouts the instructor,"what''s your number?"
12877You doing it too?
12877You just make a hobby of it?
12877You remember it on the map?
12877You saw the men throwing biscuits at the prisoner?
12877You say there is cover to within twenty yards of where he is sitting?
12877You say you found a cord running back from Bain to the trenches, M''Snape,asked Captain Mackintosh,"and a sentry holding on to it?"
12877Yous, what''s your number?
12877''You all right, Wagstaffe?"
12877--And when they came into power, they knew as well as anything that after three weeks or so the country would begin to grouse--""Grouse?
12877A sporting bird?"
12877A truly peaceful atmosphere-- what?
12877After the corroborative evidence, the Captain asks his usual question of the prisoner--"Anything to say?"
12877Again, where should one sit at meal- times?
12877All done by simple ledger- de- mang?
12877Also your toothbrush, and-- excuse the question, but do you shave?"
12877And how is this to be done?
12877Any casualties?"
12877Any complaints?"
12877Anything else?"
12877Are there no boots in the quartermaster''s store?
12877Are we entitled to clamour in this peremptory fashion too?
12877Are we fed up?
12877Are you there, Whitson?"
12877Been in the army before, have n''t you?"
12877Borrodaile, what about you?
12877Brought your machine- gun officer?"
12877Buck up with the next lot, will you?
12877But do n''t you think you ought to keep some of your company in rear, as a supporting line?
12877But how can you insert yourself between two armies when you are faced by only one army-- an army stretching from Ostend to the Alps?
12877But how can you outflank a foe who has no flanks?
12877But stay, what is this disturbance on the extreme left?
12877But what is that sudden disturbance in the front- line trench?
12877But what will that profit us?
12877But-- what is that light haze hanging over the enemy''s trenches?
12877But--""Do you understand my order?"
12877By the way,_ was_ it yesterday?"
12877C. OF E.]"What is this for?"
12877Can it be--?
12877Can you empty a cottage by firing a single rifle- shot in at the door?
12877Can you exterminate twenty Germans in a fortified back- parlour by a single thrust with a bayonet?
12877Compree?"
12877Did you get much machine- gun practice?"
12877Do you known how much personal baggage an officer is allowed, in addition to what he carries himself?"
12877Do you mass half a million men at a chosen point in the enemy''s line?
12877Do you observe that young officer sitting on a ration- box at his dug- out door, with his head tied up in a bandage?
12877Do you understand?"
12877For glory_?
12877Got that?
12877Got that?"
12877Got your working parties fixed up?
12877Hae ony o''you billies gotten a fag?"
12877Has any one ever done that at Buckingham Palace?
12877Have a bit of chocolate?
12877Have you seen Our Active Service Trouser- Press?
12877How are things going on our right?"
12877How are we to get home?
12877How can you lay an ambush for the modern Intelligence Department, with its aeroplane reconnaissance and telephonic nervous system?
12877How did you persuade''em, Bobby?"
12877How many officers take the trouble to examine the stamp on their parcels?
12877How often does the guard at Buckingham Palace fix bayonets?
12877How would that church be marked on a map?"
12877I say, are you_ there_?
12877If you may not cut or slash a biscuit, what_ are_ you to do with it?
12877If you start arguing now about small things, where will you be when the big orders come along-- eh?
12877Is it possible?
12877Is this the Big Push at last?
12877It might be a Headquarters?
12877Meanwhile Private Cosh, the linguist of the platoon, proffers twopence, and says:"Doolay-- ye unnerstand?"
12877Next?"
12877Nine o''clock, you say?"
12877Now, what about breakfast?"
12877Now, what about getting home?
12877Now-- why?"
12877Or should we creep round behind the screen and take what we can get?
12877Or should we sit still, and wait till we are served?
12877Private Mucklewame?"
12877Private Wemyss?"
12877See the idea?"
12877See?
12877See?"
12877See?"
12877Shall I carry on with the unloading?
12877So what did they do?
12877Some carpenter-- what?
12877Suddenly a strangled voice was uplifted--"In God''s name, what for can they no come tae_ us_?
12877Supposing I had sent one of you forward into that landscape as a scout.--By the way, what is a scout?"
12877Swallow it whole?
12877Talking of time, what about breakfast?
12877Telephone orderly, there?"
12877That it?"
12877The grouse?"
12877Then presently come snatches of a humorously amorous nature--"Hallo, Hallo, Who''s Your Lady Friend?
12877Then, soothingly--"Now, Jimmy, tell the officer what would ye dae in case of fire?"
12877They knew that the country would soon start giving them the bird--""What bird?
12877Thompson?"
12877VII SHOOTING STRAIGHT"What for is the wee felly gaun''tae show us puctures?"
12877Waddell, if I give you a shilling, will you take it over to the German trenches and ask them to drop it into the meter?"
12877Wagger, what are you getting out of it?"
12877Want to go to the front, do n''t you?"
12877We ask why?
12877We, however, take the turning marked SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, and after passing( quite wrongly, do n''t you think?)
12877What about you, Sketchley?"
12877What could Napoleon himself have done under the circumstances?
12877What did you do?"
12877What did you have on Saturday?"
12877What do you think of that?"
12877What do you want?"
12877What happened to''A,''Bobby?
12877What has this church got?"
12877What is he like, this impromptu Thomas Atkins?
12877What is it?"
12877What is your opinion?"
12877What say?"
12877What''s that, Sergeant?"
12877What''s that?"
12877When was our last meal, Bobby?"
12877Where are the shells coming from?"
12877Where is nine o''clock?"
12877Where would twelve o''clock be?"
12877Whereabouts in the line were you?"
12877Who are you?"
12877Who are"C,"to--?
12877Who can see them?"
12877Who is this anxious gentleman?"
12877Why is he shot?"
12877Why is it-- eh?"
12877Why?"
12877Will I warn one of them?"
12877Will we open fire?"
12877You arrived?
12877You did it, then?"
12877You remember that great man''s criticism of the Books of Euclid?
12877You see the idea now?"
12877You want to be the man who kept the rest from going to the front-- eh?"
12877_ End of mansion- house_--_eight o''clock_--_two finger- breadths_--what does that give you, Lance- Corporal Ness?"
12877_ End of mansion- house_--_eight o''clock_--got that?"
12877_ Why?
12877_ You''re there, and I''m here, so what do we care?_ in fact.
12877exclaimed Bobby with a jerk( for he was beginning to nod),"what was that on our right?"
41995And you intend to fight for the south, do you?
41995Are the Yankees that near?
41995Are there many cases to be disposed of?
41995Are you up a tree?
41995But what was our cavalry doing,I asked,"that they did n''t pursue and capture the villains?"
41995But where were you going?
41995But you have been constantly away, running around after the Indians,he continued;"how is it you wish to vote here?"
41995Calvin Reeves?
41995Can you not, then, give me something to eat?
41995Did the Yanks ever find out that Terry had him captured?
41995Did you see him, yourself?
41995Do n''t know no more; does you know it all? 41995 Do you refuse to kiss the book?"
41995Do you remember that Yankee''s name?
41995Do you want to ship?
41995Do you wish to see_ him_, sir?
41995Good on your head,said the Lieutenant;"but, Captain, what in the world were you doing in the Yankee lines?"
41995Gwine after the Comanches?
41995Have you killed any of our dogs?
41995Have you nothing to say?
41995How came you to be there? 41995 How did he behave himself?"
41995How do you want to vote?
41995How far does Terry live from here?
41995How far is it to de forks ob de road? 41995 How far is it, ole man, to de nex house?
41995How is it that you want to vote here?
41995How many are there of you?
41995I say ole man, is ye gwine ter let me stay all nite? 41995 I say, ole man, whar doe dis road go to, rad di di da di di da da?"
41995Injuns?
41995Is not that a Yankee uniform you are wearing?
41995Is that so?
41995Let me see; did n''t he catch a Yank at his house about a year ago?
41995Look here, old man,said I savagely,"if I let you live, do you think you will trouble Union men in this county again?"
41995Madam, I am a stranger; how should I know which house you were in?
41995Master,he said piteously,"you is n''t gwine to kill me, is ye?"
41995Not at all, sir,was my answer,"an honest man is never afraid of being watched?"
41995O you villain,she shouted;"Is that you?
41995Por donde vamos?
41995Que quiere alla?
41995Say, young man,said the party,"do n''t you want to go to Texas?"
41995Then, why did n''t you vote there?
41995Then, you can tell me a good place to go and hide, ca n''t you?
41995Tom Green; but, madam, what do you want?
41995Was n''t his name Pike, instead of Spikes?
41995Was there a man passed here about dark, afoot and dressed in Yankee uniform?
41995We are all well, I believe,said the lieutenant, eyeing me closely;"what command do you belong to, sir?"
41995We only guessed at it; but what is the news?
41995Well, how is it,he asked,"that you are on foot?"
41995Well, no,he said; then turning to a man at his side he asked:"Is Jim B---- in town?"
41995Well, what do you want here, this time of night?
41995Well, what were you doing in my house this time of night; why did n''t you come to the house we live in; what did you go there for? 41995 Well,"he continued,"if your command is there, what are you doing here by yourself?"
41995What are you doing in my house at the dead hours of the night?
41995What are you doing in our country?
41995What captain?
41995What did our men do with the Yank?
41995What do you want me to do?''
41995What fellows? 41995 What is their nature generally?"
41995What is your Captain''s name?
41995What is your Captain''s name?
41995What is your Colonel''s name?
41995What is your name, and what are you doing here?
41995What is your name, then?
41995What is your regiment?
41995What part of Texas were you from?
41995What were you about to do to me?
41995What were you going there for?
41995What''s that?
41995Where are you from?
41995Where are you going now?
41995Where are you going?
41995Where do you live?
41995Where do you live?
41995Where is your command?
41995Where is your horse?
41995Where was that?
41995Who are you?
41995Who are you?
41995Who did he say he was?
41995Who is your friend?
41995Whose company is this?
41995Whose house were you left at?
41995Why did not the officers make the fort stronger?
41995Why do n''t yer put de roof on when it ai nt a rainen? 41995 Why do n''t you go over there to the camp, and get something to eat?''
41995Why do you wear it?
41995Why you no shoot''um?
41995Why, what in the name of God, does that mean?
41995Why,I asked,"have you not seen him yet?
41995Why,said she,"what do you want?"
41995Wo n''t bring''em to trial?
41995Yes, sir,I replied,"but I will call again; what time do you expect him back?"
41995You lie, you son of a gun; did n''t I just send a man after you, to tell you to come down here?
41995You live in Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky?
41995You say he went the''cut off?''
41995You think you will stick to your principles, when you get there?
41995ai n''t you a preacher?
41995( where are you going?)
41995( where do you come from?)
41995After I had made my report, the General turned to me and said:"How many rebels are there at Bridgeport?"
41995After having mounted, I rode down to the bluff and called out:"Madam, my name is Pike; what will you have?"
41995After he had left, an officer on the platform said:"Do you know who that man was?"
41995And then amid the confusion resulting from it, would it not be possible to give a little attention to the powder mill, and blow it to fragments?
41995As I reached our line again, I hailed a body of troops with:"What brigade is this?"
41995As soon as this was done, the captain turned to me and said:"Young man, are you a ship carpenter?"
41995But I had not proceeded more than a hundred yards before I was called back, and one of them said to me:"You say you are going home?"
41995But do you want any money, or disguise?"
41995But how?
41995But why add more relative to the horrors of this filthy pen?
41995But why enlarge upon facts patent to the world?
41995But, massa, what might I call you?"
41995Can you do anything to save it?"
41995Captain, allow me to ask what you are doing so close to the Yankee pickets, and_ alone_?"
41995Could I slip around and burn it?
41995Do you see that?"
41995Everybody and his son were after him, and why should n''t I go?
41995For a moment the squaw hesitated, and then lowering the club said:"If your name ai n''t Pike, what is it?"
41995He prefaced his remarks with the very pertinent question:"Is you from Texas?"
41995He raised his eyes, and seeing only a strange officer and soldier at his side, opened them wide and replied:"La, massa, how did you know dat?"
41995I demanded;"were you not in the act of shooting me?"
41995I had certainly not been indiscreet?
41995I well knew that at least a portion of our army was near them, or why the firing I had heard?
41995I wonder how they would have liked their men traveled on empty stomachs?
41995If the object was legitimate, it occurred to me, why this secrecy?
41995My first exclamation was,"Well, boys, I am glad to see you; how do you all get along, and what is the news from the army?"
41995One fellow, who was much closer to me than the others, bawled out at the top of his voice:"Who fired that shot?"
41995Seeing this the Lieutenant inquired:"What do you say, boys, shall we fight with them?"
41995She was eyeing me curiously now, and presently she asked:"Stranger; what is your name?"
41995Such were his meditations that he did not notice us till we addressed him:"Uncle,"I asked, after saying how dee?
41995Then turning to me, she said:"Stranger, what is your name?"
41995They eyed me several times exceedingly closely; and I asked myself: could there be any suspicion against me?
41995This party hallooed and Mrs. White asked:"Who''s there?"
41995This satisfied him, and he went into his tent; but an idle soldier bawled out:"Say, thar; what are you doin''in a Yankee uniform?"
41995Tindsley?"
41995Turning to one of the guard, I said:"Guard, will you untie my feet till I get through this place?"
41995Was I bewitched?
41995We put out guards; but what did they care, now that they had plenty of meat, and palatable water?
41995We started immediately for the town of Auburn, where the mill was located; when the Doctor looked anxiously around, and asked:"Where are your men?"
41995What now, I wondered; was there some scheme on foot against me?
41995What_ did_ bring you so close to the camp?
41995Where do such traditions originate?
41995Where do you want to go?"
41995Where is the sergeant of the guard?"
41995Who are they?"
41995Why are you not with your command?"
41995Without giving me time to answer, one of the armed men came up and addressed me with,"You was afraid to vote there, was you?"
41995Wood, you know, is a perfect dare- devil, and what do you think he proposes to do?
41995said the old woman;"Virginny, do you hear?"
41995she asked;"have n''t they got plenty over there?"
41995then what could that hurried manner, and those sidelong glances portend?
41995this is that Yankee, is it?"
41995what else did they desire?
31086All full?
31086And for the love of heavin, what would he be after doin''wid it? 31086 Any passengers?"
31086Are any cattle kept in here?
31086Are the Americans careful and cautious? 31086 Are you feeling my pulse?"
31086Are you hit badly?
31086Are you ready to take it?
31086Are you wounded?
31086But it is already on the way, and----"How do you go to the wood merchant?
31086But suppose we breathe it first?
31086Ca n''t you see it''s mules?
31086Came back pretty quick, do n''t you think so, Major?
31086Comment, monsieur?
31086Counter attack, hey? 31086 Did she carry cargo?"
31086Did that look all right?
31086Do I walk all right?
31086Do n''t move, you damn fool, you want to kill both of us?
31086Do they shoot and signal on every occasion? 31086 Do you know whether they were gas or duds?"
31086Do you mind your map of the Somme? 31086 Do you two think you are taking moon baths on the Riviera?"
31086Do you want to know the most popular publication around this place?
31086Else how could them German aviators have known that Battery A was on the road last night? 31086 Experience?
31086For Germain?
31086For the luva Mike, Tim,shouted an ambulance man,"do you call that a prisoner?"
31086Frank,I asked,"what do you think about the President of the United States?"
31086Have n''t you heard the orders against running your horses? 31086 Have n''t you seen everybody sitting along the roadside reading theirs and trying to keep up with things?
31086He wants to borrow one of me boots?
31086How are we to know if we are breathing gas or not?
31086How are you lying, on your face or on your back?
31086How can I take a full breath when you''ve got my lungs strapped down?
31086How did that look?
31086How did you get it?
31086How did you happen to find the machine gun?
31086How do you figure that, Corporal?
31086How does that look?
31086How the hell can you be all right if you are hit in the head? 31086 How''s it coming, old man?"
31086I guess there''s some sense in that, too,replied Shoemaker;"would n''t that been hell if I''d been on the other side in this war?
31086Is that that gun from Russia we heard about?
31086Is there a sailor or a seaman on board?
31086Is there a ship''s officer in this boat?
31086Iss der Captain in dot boat?
31086Looka here, boy,he enquired good- naturedly,"what can you all tell me about this here wah?"
31086Looks all right to me,replied Bailey;"what''s the matter with you?"
31086No, are you?
31086Nor the footstools?
31086Not bad, eh?
31086Now, you are absolutely sure I am YOUR officer?
31086Now, you just forget it and take deep breaths, and say, Charlie, did you see that case over in Ward 62? 31086 One Tommy says to one of my prisoners:''Kaiser no good-- pas bon, ai n''t it?''
31086Red Shannahan, are you there?
31086Red Shannahan, what work did you do before you became a United States soldier?
31086Rolled who off of it?
31086See that clump of trees way out there?
31086Sergeant, where is your helmet?
31086Storm troop?
31086Take it easy,would come a voice through pain- pressed lips;"for Christ''s sake, do you think you are driving a truck?"
31086That''s Kid Ferguson, the pug,English whispered to me, and then in louder tones, he enquired,"What''s eating on you, kid?"
31086Then when will we know it is time to adjust our masks?
31086They''re coming damn close,he said;"how is it with you?
31086Trying to get the boys coming back, hey?
31086Vot did she weigh?
31086Vot ship vass dot?
31086Vot?
31086Well, how''s that?
31086Well,the Major said,"is this the way you let us walk up on you?
31086What about your men''s shoes?
31086What are you doing here?
31086What are you doing way over here in France? 31086 What do you hear out of the air?"
31086What do you know about artillery?
31086What do you think are our chances of being torpedoed?
31086What do you think of the fighting capacity of the American soldier?
31086What does a pack of cards indicate?
31086What furniture?
31086What is it?
31086What is''so far so good''?
31086What paper do you represent?
31086What stuff?
31086What the hell is it to you?
31086What time is it, will you tell me?
31086What were they doing all that time?
31086What''s her address?
31086What''s that there?
31086What''s that?
31086What''s the countersign?
31086What''s what?
31086Where are you hit?
31086Where did you get your two wounds?
31086Where do you suppose we are going anyway?
31086Where does the Town Major eat?
31086Where is that report from?
31086Where is the telephone dugout?
31086Where was the wood bought?
31086Which direction are they in?
31086Which way shall we crawl?
31086Which woods?
31086Who got it?
31086Who is it addressed to?
31086Who was it?
31086Who''s got a knife? 31086 Who''s the officer in that boat?"
31086Why did n''t you write this in English?
31086Why do n''t you go up and ask the Captain?
31086Why in hell do n''t they come back at us?
31086Why turn him in as a prisoner? 31086 Why, that?"
31086Why?
31086Will somebody brain that skunk with a pin?
31086Will you translate it for me?
31086Wounded?
31086Yes, what time is it?
31086You''re pretty cute, old timer, are n''t you?
31086_ Avez- vous de bois?_asked the Captain.
31086_ Avez- vous de chevaux?_the Captain asked.
31086_ Avez- vous de voiture?_the Captain asked.
31086139-"aves- vous"to"avez- vous"( 3)( Aves- vous de chevaux?)
31086Ambush tactics and cunning?
31086And have you ever experienced the slight sideward shove when the boat rubs against the piling and comes to a stop?
31086Another one similarly burdened passed and, in a most serious tone, inquired:"Say, would either of you fellows like to buy another blanket roll?"
31086Are they noisy?
31086Are you bleeding much?"
31086Are you losing much blood?"
31086Are you on my left, or on my right?"
31086Are you ready to obey his orders?"
31086Behaviour on post during day and night?
31086But he replied:"Oh, you would, would you?"
31086CHAPTER XVI WOUNDED-- HOW IT FEELS TO BE SHOT Just how does it feel to be shot on the field of battle?
31086Can you hear''em?"
31086DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?"
31086Did n''t he go to heaven in a fiery chariot, or fly up on golden wings or something like that?
31086Did the first torpedo put the wireless out of commission?
31086Did you come by the Lincoln trench?"
31086Did you ever hear of"Swansant, Kansas"?
31086Do the posts hold their ground on the approach of a patrol, or do they fall back?
31086Do you think you can stick it out?"
31086Further advanced reconnoitring patrols?
31086Had our rockets been seen?
31086Happy little devils, are n''t they?
31086Has something gone wrong at the last minute?
31086Has the enemy happened to become aware of the plans?
31086Have I not this morning early seen with my own eyes the wood ordered?"
31086Have our men been deprived of the needed element of surprise?
31086Have you ever heard a team of horses and a farm wagon thumping and rumbling over such a bridge on the trot?
31086Have you ever stood on the deck of a ferry boat as it arrived in the slip?
31086Have you seen them?"
31086He noticed my silence and he said,"Gib, do you remember that game with the Indians on Thanksgiving Day?"
31086He returned to a consideration of me with the following remark:"All right, he''s under now; where''s the next one?"
31086He stood at respectful attention, saluted and said:"Did the Captain wish to see me?"
31086Holding one hand to his lips, he seriously enquired:"Say, do they let the enlisted men in the saloons here?"
31086Home in the field is where a soldier sleeps and after all, why not have it as comfortable as his surroundings will afford?
31086How about the arm?
31086How about the other eye?
31086How do I know this secret, Monsieur the wood merchant?
31086How do you know?"
31086How do you want me to drive?"
31086How much rougher seas could the boat weather?
31086How was I to find out if I was dead?
31086I heard later that at that stage some one said:''Major Sibley ordered that--''and another man said:''Where in hell is Sibley?''
31086I heard some one stop beside my stretcher and bend over me, while a kindly voice said:"Would you like a cigarette, old man?"
31086I recall feeling the urge to say something at least original, so I enquired:"What place is this, and will you please tell me what day and time it is?"
31086I recall now, with a smile, that the first things that passed through my mind were the threadbare bromides so often quoted"Where am I?"
31086If it had been able to operate, had anybody heard our S. O. S.?
31086If this is the fifth line, then that must be our fourth line in the village?''
31086Is there anything in it which the company has been ordered to omit mentioning?"
31086It was of an American make and the best number on its printed programme was"Are n''t you Coming Back to Old Virginia, Molly?"
31086It''s kinder funny to sit back here in quiet and listen in the war, is n''t it?"
31086Just what is the exact sensation when a bullet burns its way through your flesh or crashes through your bones?
31086Manner of challenging?
31086Now he slapped me on the back with this question,"Well, old Casus Belli,"he said,"is this your blooming overt act?"
31086Now how''s your watch?
31086She laughed prettily as she caught his meaning almost immediately, and she replied:"Doughboy, ware do you get zat stuff?"
31086Smell anything?"
31086Some of these women shouted"Hello,""Heep, heep, hourrah,""Good morning,""How are you, keed?"
31086The contents ran as follows:"Dear Sir: What are you doing for your country?
31086The document directed that data on the following questions be obtained:"Are sentry posts sentry posts or stronger posts?
31086The first recess in that note- taking came when I asked myself the following question:"Am I dead?"
31086The most common enquiry was:"What''s the name of this place?"
31086The numerous company and battery jesters did not refrain from imitative expressions of"Ahs"and"Ohs"and"Ai n''t it bootiful?"
31086Then he glared at me and enquired,"Did you write this stuff?"
31086Then the Tommy said:''Hindenburg dirty rotter, nacy pa?''
31086Upon meeting one another in the streets, our men would invariably ask:"Have you come across any of these FROGS that talk American?"
31086Vigilance?
31086Was the operation to be a serious one or a minor one?
31086Was there enough food and drinking water in the boat to last?
31086We followed the Major in time to hear his first remark:"Did n''t they get the rocking chairs out here yet?"
31086What are you doing to help win the war?
31086What do you say?"
31086What dy''e s''pose it was?
31086What is their behaviour during smoke screens?"
31086What''ll we do?"
31086What''s your aim in life-- hard labour in a German prison camp or a nice little wooden cross out here four thousand miles from Punkinville?
31086When he answered I shouted back to him:"Are you hit?"
31086Where do you get that experience talk?"
31086Where will we go?
31086Why ca n''t we keep him for the company mascot?"
31086Why do n''t you challenge me?"
31086Why was n''t there any sentry at that door?"
31086Will you tell me your name?"
31086Would I ever see again?
31086Would there be an amputation?
31086Would they have to operate on my skull?
31086Would they have to remove my eye?
31086Would you mind stepping to one side?
31086You remember that great big dairy out on the edge of the town in El Paso?
31086and"Is this France or England?"
31086replied the American sergeant,"do you know what we are?
7962''Are you game for putting something over on the Boches, and Old Pepper all in one?'' 7962 Does the straw bother you, mate?
7962I beg your pardon?
7962Then he turned to me and shouted:''Wilson, what do you think of it?
7962Think it''s going to rain, Sergeant?
7962We saluted, and were just going out the door of the dugout when the Captain called us back, and said:''Smoke Goldflakes?
7962A bullet did you say?
7962A question,"Who goes there?"
7962A soft chuckle from my mate brought me to my senses, and I feebly asked,"For God''s sake, what was that?"
7962A sort of"Good morning, have you used Fears Soap?"
7962Add to this the weight of his rations, and can you blame Tommy for growling at a twenty kilo route march?
7962After listening to this tirade, Lloyd, in a faltering voice, asked:"They are not going to shoot me, are they?
7962Are n''t you ashamed of yourself, a husky young chap like you in mufti when men are needed in the trenches?
7962As our section passed her I yelled out:"Hello, Flossie, Blighty-- What Hopes?"
7962But what was that mangled shape lying over there among the sandbags?
7962But what was that on his right?
7962But why was n''t I wet?
7962CHAPTER XXVI ALL QUIET(?)
7962Crossing the street, I accosted a Bobbie with:"Can you direct me to the place of damage?"
7962Did you ever see the like of it in your life?
7962Do n''t you know that your country is at war and that the place for every young Briton is on the firing line?
7962Do you think I''m a''goin''to?
7962He asked me,"What damage?"
7962He asked me:"Did you ever hear of the Royal Fusiliers?"
7962He looked at me in contempt, and grunted,"''Ow''s it a''goin''ter rain with the bloomin''sun a''shinin''?"
7962He looked up and greeted me with"I s''y, myte, want to tyke on?"
7962He said,"Oh yes, just outside of New York?"
7962He winked at me and I winked back, and then he asked,"How do you feel, smashed up a bit?"
7962I called to him,"Are you hurt badly, Jock?"
7962I eagerly asked,"What are they?"
7962I like a booby was crying, can you beat it?
7962I ran smash into our wire, and a sharp challenge"''Alt, who comes there?"
7962I turned to the man on my left and asked,''"What''s the noise, Bill?"
7962If I do, will I skin through the following one, and so on?
7962It is never"who is going to win"but always"how long will it take?"
7962My thoughts generally ran in this channel: Will I emerge safely from the next attack?
7962Next morning the telephone bell rang, and someone asked,"Are you there?"
7962Of course, I did n''t, did I?''
7962Oh, why had n''t he attended the machine- gun course in England?
7962Old Pepper must have heard the Sergeant speak because he turned in his direction and in a thundering voice asked:"What did you say?"
7962One very nice- looking, over- enthusiastic young thing, stopped at my bed and asked,"What wounded you in the face?"
7962Pretty soon from a far corner of the billet, three indignant Tommies accosted the Corporal with,"What do you call this, a loaf of bread?
7962She put this information down in a little book and then asked:"Where do you come from?"
7962The Captain dead?
7962The doctor came over and exploded,"What do you mean by bringing in a man in this condition?"
7962The girl on the seat turned around and in a sympathetic voice asked,"Poor fellow, are you very badly wounded?"
7962The reply came back instantly from the dark forms:"Shut your blinkin''mouth, you bloomin''idiot; do you want us to click it from the Boches?"
7962The sentry next to me challenged,"Halt, Who Comes There?"
7962Then to rub it in, they hoisted some more signs which read,"When are you coming over?"
7962Then, turning to me with a grim face, said:"How about it, Sergeant?
7962They called themselves"The Bow Bells,"and put on a sketch entitled''Blighty-- What Hopes?''
7962Tommy''s French for"Do you understand?"
7962Turning to me, in a loud voice, he asked,"Empey, are n''t you C. of E.?"
7962Understand?"
7962Understand?''
7962Well, I''ll be damned, where''s that blighter of a draft man gone to?
7962Well, tell me, I have always wanted to know, did it hurt worse going in or coming out?"
7962What were they waiting for?
7962What''s the matter, are you asleep?''
7962What''s the matter, getting the nerves?
7962What''s the use of having artillery if it is not allowed to fire?
7962When a stretcher- bearer arrives alongside of a Tommy who has been hit, the following conversation usually takes place- Stretcher- bearer,"Want a fag?
7962When his turn comes the paying- officer asks,"How much?"
7962Where are you hit?"
7962Where is the blood to come from?
7962While your mind is wandering into the future it is likely to be rudely brought to earth by a Tommy interrupting with,"What''s good for rheumatism?"
7962Who in''ell''s a''goin''to draw the water for the mornin''tea?
7962Why did n''t it open fire and save them?
7962Why did n''t"D"Company fire on them?
7962Why do n''t you join?
7962Why in''ell did n''t you use mud?"
7962Why not use the rafters overhead, call them boxes, and charge two francs for a seat on them?
7962Why not write a sketch and break Tommy in as an actor?
7962Why were they so strangely silent?
7962Will you come out of this war crippled and tied into knots with rheumatism, caused by the wet and mud of trenches and dugouts?
7962Wilson, did I give you any order for the Battery to open up?
7962With a roar he shouted:"''Which one of you is Cassell?
7962Yes?
7962only a bullet?
18794A previous speaker has referred to the help of the Lord, but who is able to fathom His counsels? 18794 And ought we not to be convinced that independence is now irretrievably lost?
18794Are you General De Wet?
18794Are you afraid of things like that?
18794Are you mad? 18794 But are we really justified in prolonging the struggle, and making still further sacrifices?
18794But has nobody on horseback crossed here?
18794But where is your gun?
18794Do baboons walk across?
18794Do you mean to tell me,he asked,"that you are going to give the English a free hand, whilst your men take their holidays?"
18794Do you want more of my reasons? 18794 General, when shall we come to the blockhouses?"
18794Has a man never ridden across here?
18794Have we not arrived at the stage of our history when we must pray,''Thy will be done''? 18794 How is it,"they would ask,"that we are not now free men?
18794Is that satisfactory?
18794It will be asked why, if we have kept up the struggle for two years and a half, can we not still continue to do so? 18794 Let every one consider this well: Is he prepared to sacrifice the nation on the shrine of his own ambition?
18794The question still remains, What are we to do? 18794 The sacrifice must be made; is not this also a trial of our faith?
18794There has been talk about fighting to the bitter end; but has not the bitter end already come? 18794 Those who wish to continue the war are influenced chiefly by hope; but on what is this hope founded?
18794What can be the meaning of this?
18794What do you mean by riding ahead like this?
18794What is there left to hope for? 18794 What was he like?"
18794What, then, is the prevailing feeling in the Orange Free State? 18794 Where is Veldtcornet--?"
18794Will you give us your word of honour,he asked me when he caught sight of the gun,"not to stir from your position till we have got ten miles away?
18794A year ago both parties had been inspired by faith, but what had been the result?
18794Again, could the war be continued when their commandos were so much weakened, and when food was so scarce?
18794And critical our condition certainly is; so that I am not surprised that some of us are asking,''What hope have we now in continuing the struggle?''
18794And has this brought us independence?
18794And how can we expect those not their own kith and kin to be willing to give up liberty for their sakes?
18794And how could it be otherwise?
18794And how do you imagine that this arrangement could be carried on?"
18794And should the commandos in time become so weak as to be forced to surrender unconditionally, what then would be the fate of the officers?
18794And the Boer women-- did they lose courage with this before their eyes?
18794And the abandoned tracts-- to whom will they belong?
18794And to the families in the camps?
18794And we?
18794And what could they hope to gain by continuing the struggle?
18794And what did that messenger say?
18794And what does the voice of reason say?
18794And what real advantage had accrued from his successes in the veldt?
18794And why?
18794And why?
18794Are our affairs darker now?
18794Are we going to say,''We will continue the struggle and leave these districts to their fate''?
18794Are we not to desist until every man of us is in captivity, in exile, or in his grave?
18794Are we to continue the war?
18794Are we to retain our independence by ceding a part of our territories?
18794Are you satisfied with this?"
18794At length the moment of decision came, and what course remained open to us?
18794At the same time they said,''We are anxious for peace; will you make other proposals?''
18794Breijtenbach( Utrecht) urged that a definite yes or no must be given to the question, Is the war to continue?
18794But I would ask another question:''What hope had we at the beginning of the war?''
18794But am I only to consider myself?
18794But could not the delegates continue to stand by one another, and make a covenant with the Lord?
18794But how are we to do so?
18794But how could it have been otherwise?
18794But how is it now with us?
18794But how shall we negotiate?
18794But how?
18794But if we go on with the war until we are forced to surrender, who will then take care of them?
18794But the question for us to answer is this: Are we going forwards or backwards?
18794But was it not, perhaps, prompted by a desire to make a fine speech, which would go down to posterity?
18794But what did I hear?
18794But what did it matter?
18794But what grounds for hope were there when the war began?
18794But what happened?
18794But what happened?
18794But what is''the bitter end''?
18794But what really happened?
18794But what tangible reason for hope was there at the beginning of the war?
18794But what was faith?
18794But what were the arguments against going on with the war?
18794But what were we to do now?
18794But why were they of this mind?
18794But would that be possible?
18794But, as it was, the burghers kept on asking:"Where shall I put this rifle, General?
18794By what right do you usurp that title?
18794CHAPTER XXVII Was Ours a Guerilla War?
18794Can it be right to sacrifice a nation which has fought as the African nation has done?"
18794Can we become faithless to the hundreds of killed and prisoners, who, trusting in our firmness, offered their lives and freedom for the fatherland?
18794Can we now-- when it is merely a question of banishment-- shrink from our duty?
18794Can you not see that the whole course of events was a miracle from beginning to end?
18794Commandant- General Botha:"Am I to understand that you mean that we are getting away from the point in discussion?"
18794Commandant- General Botha:"Are we to understand that our proposal is now altogether rejected?"
18794Commandant- General Botha:"Then I understand that you are going to be guided only by the Middelburg proposals?"
18794Commandant- General Botha:"Will not a Dutch translation be annexed?"
18794Could England then be considered to be annexed by the other nation, and could the enemy term the English"Guerillas"?
18794Could any one ever have thought before the war that the twentieth century could show such barbarities?
18794Could that be called encouragement?
18794Cronje''s pitiable condition confronted us, and we had but one thought-- could we relieve him?
18794Did I call myself a man?
18794Did it not realize that if the case of the Republic was hopeless in Europe the deputation would send word to that effect?
18794Did the money they brought ever do us any good?
18794Does it not show that He is minded to form us, by this war, into a nation worthy of the name?
18794Does not this prove that no other Government is willing to receive it?
18794For how could our diminutive army hope to stand against the overwhelming numbers at the enemy''s command?
18794For instance, if you come to the conclusion that we have exhausted every expedient, will you still continue the struggle?
18794For ten or twelve years?
18794For what has the gold done for us?
18794For what nation exists, or has existed, which has not a historical record whether to its advantage or to its disadvantage?
18794From which side should the attack take place?
18794General Smuts:"Is it your opinion that our proposal must be set aside?"
18794Had I then to go on from commando to commando, to undergo everywhere the martyrdom of beholding ceaseless surrenders?
18794Had the meeting lost its confidence in that deputation?
18794Have we not also one- third of our army left?
18794He had consulted his burghers and their women- folk; he had asked them,"What conditions of peace will you accept?"
18794How am I to explain the inexplicable?
18794How are we to transport it from one district to another?
18794How can I describe my feelings when I saw Bloemfontein in the hands of the English?
18794How could we have endured it?"
18794How did he use it?
18794How do matters stand now?
18794How many are there now?
18794How was it to be explained that two hundred and forty thousand troops had failed to exterminate two small Republics?
18794How would the delegates face their families on their return, after the sacrifice of independence?
18794How would they be able to meet their burghers with such an answer as that?
18794How, then, could we think of making a stand, with our tiny forces, against two hundred and forty thousand men, with three or four hundred guns?
18794I asked myself, and if so, why did I run away?
18794I heard burghers muttering:--"Suppose the enemy should aim those guns at us-- what will become of us then?
18794I pitied the poor"Tommies,"but what else could I do but order them to march with me?
18794I therefore ask, Is the difference so great that, in order for England to obtain her object, an entirely new status must be called into existence?"
18794I thought at first that it was only some cattle being shot for food, but all at once there were more shots, and what did we see?
18794I will answer this question by another-- who first broke the terms of this oath?--the burghers or the English military authorities?
18794If in two years we have been reduced from sixty thousand fighting men to half that number, where will our army be after another ten years of war?
18794If such has been the history of the past year, in what sort of condition shall we be at the end of the present one?
18794If the famous Cronje were captured, how could any ordinary burgher be expected to continue his resistance?
18794If the_ whole_ becomes annexed by us, how then can a_ part_ be ceded by you?"
18794If there is not a great deal going on in Europe which England wants to hide from us, why is she so careful not to let us see European journals?
18794If they had trusted in God at the beginning, why did they not continue to trust in Him?
18794If we reject this proposal, what prospects have we in the future?
18794If_ we_ are united, then will the nation be united also; but if we are divided, in what a plight will the nation find itself?"
18794In the second place, he would ask how it was they had not been allowed to meet their deputation?
18794In what position do you think you are placing Lord Kitchener and myself?
18794Is it not my first duty to look at the interests of my nation?
18794Is it possible?
18794Is it to come when all of us are either banished or in our graves?
18794Is not a loss such as this, in so short a time as two and a half years, a serious matter?
18794Is not this the bitter end?
18794Is there no sound of approaching footsteps?
18794It is not too late to save it now, but who can tell what the future holds in store for us?
18794It is possible that a war may arise in Europe from which we shall gain something, but what right have we to expect such a contingency?
18794It may be asked, however, why the deputation did not send a report of its own?
18794It might become necessary for the commandos to leave the district, and if so, what was to become of the families?
18794It was necessary to act-- but how?
18794It was there that General Piet de Wet came to me and asked if I still saw any chance of being able to continue the struggle?
18794It was, however, very tedious work, for how could any of us be sure that we were not placing the after- oxen in front and the fore- oxen behind?
18794Lord Kitchener:"Am I to understand by this that it is an unlimited amount, or does it come within the amount decided on by the Volksraad?"
18794Lord Kitchener:"Are you prepared to set aside your present proposal and to hand in another one bearing a closer resemblance to that of Middelburg?
18794Lord Kitchener:"Do you accept the annexation?"
18794Lord Kitchener:"Do you mean by your proposal that the Boers will become British citizens?"
18794Lord Kitchener:"Is it necessary to make a proposal about this?"
18794Lord Kitchener:"Is this the only point you wish to bring forward, or are there others in addition?"
18794Lord Kitchener:"Well, would two or three million be sufficient?
18794Lord Kitchener:"Will you then consider yourselves British subjects?
18794Lord Kitchener:"Would that meet your difficulty?"
18794Lord Milner:"Are we to understand that the Middelburg proposals are not according to the mind of your people?"
18794Lord Milner:"Do you wish us to refer your proposals to His Majesty''s Government?"
18794Lord Milner:"What is the good then?"
18794Lord Milner:"What is the next point you wish to raise?
18794Lord Milner:"You mean that one part would become a British Colony of the ordinary type, and another part a protected Republic?"
18794Meanwhile our friends(?)
18794Men as lovable or as valiant there might be, but where should I find a man who combined so many virtues and good qualities in one person?
18794Mr. De Clercq then addressed the meeting in the following words:"The question before us is, whether or not the war can be continued?
18794Must they still continue to shed blood?
18794Must we then not ask ourselves, What will be the best for the nation as a whole?
18794Nearly all with one accord sprang up and asked,"Who are you?"
18794Need I say that these men had to be captured?
18794Now, supposing that we can hold out another year, what should we gain by doing so?
18794On all sides one heard the question,"Where are we really going?
18794On intervention?
18794On our arms?
18794On what then?
18794One must ask: If the nation were here, what would it wish to be done?
18794Or can we lose faith in a just God, who has so wonderfully upheld us till now?
18794Or does it mean the time when the nation has fought until it never can fight again?
18794Or if we were all killed, what could we do for them?
18794Or that, if the war were to be continued, the people would gain any advantage which that proposal did not give them?
18794Rather, will it not enable the enemy to concentrate still more?
18794Shall such a nation perish?
18794Shall we make a new proposal?"
18794Shall we say continue the war, or shall we approach the enemy and make a proposal?
18794Should they then continue the war?
18794Should we serve their interests by continuing the war?
18794Some asked what were the chances of success?
18794Some of the delegates set their hopes on the European deputation, but what did that deputation say a year ago?
18794Some will reply,''Go on with the war,''Yes, but for how long?
18794The President concluded this very remarkable and powerful letter with the question:--"Are we again to leave the Colonial burghers in the lurch?
18794The burghers could not understand this, and began to grumble about it-- what could their General mean?
18794The district would have to be abandoned, and what would then be the fate of the families, which even now could only be scantily provided for?
18794The military authorities without any doubt; what other answer can one give?
18794The question now is, Is there anything further that we can do?
18794The question was,"Which way shall we go?"
18794The reader, perusing them, may well pause in surprise and cry out,"Can such things be possible?"
18794There were a large number of burghers in the veldt to continue the war-- what has become of our independence?"
18794To flee-- what could be more bitter than that?
18794To the question, What probability was there of their being able to continue the struggle?
18794WAS OURS A GUERILLA WAR?
18794Was it possible for one part of the nation to continue fighting without the other?
18794Was it that our Governments relied on foreign intervention?
18794Was not the aim in some cases that future generations might recall these speeches when they were told of the brave fight our men had made?
18794Was nothing on this earth then solid or lasting?
18794We are told that there is food here, and food there; but how are we to get at it?
18794We asked each other in wonder,"Is it possible?
18794We asked ourselves what we should do without the President at our meetings?
18794We think our cause a righteous one, but are we willing to die for it?
18794Were they again going to decide to continue their resistance?
18794Were they now to abandon these Colonists, and-- thinking only about saving themselves-- leave them to fight on alone?
18794Were they, then, to surrender unconditionally?
18794What advantage can there then be in persisting in the struggle?
18794What are we to do with them?
18794What benefit have they ever done us?
18794What can we have to do at Winburg?"
18794What could we do now?
18794What could we do now?
18794What grounds have we for expecting that we may yet be victorious?
18794What had followed on them?
18794What has the nation done to deserve extinction?
18794What have I to do with this horse?"
18794What have we gained since June, 1901?
18794What more, then, was there left for them to do?
18794What reason had they for wishing to prolong this struggle?
18794What right shall we have to intercede for these unfortunate ones when we have rejected the proposals of the English Government?
18794What right, then, had the delegates to give up the war on the basis of the proposal now before them?
18794What shall we gain by going on?
18794What then was I to do?
18794What was I to do?
18794What was I to do?
18794What was I to do?
18794What was our total strength when we began this war?
18794What was to become of them if the burghers, by refusing to come to terms with the enemy, should no longer be able to act as their mutual protectors?
18794What were we to do?
18794What will the world say of these young burghers?
18794What will then become of these families?
18794What would it be to have to give up that name for ever?
18794What would their progeny say of them if they were to persist in the struggle and thus lose everything they had possessed?
18794What, he asked, were the arguments in favour of continuing the war?
18794What, moreover, was to happen to the prisoners of war, if the struggle were to be continued?
18794What, then, is the answer to be?
18794What, then, is to be our judgment on this act of Prinsloo and of the other chief officers in command of our forces behind the Roodebergen?
18794When on the following night we were again in the saddle I heard from many a mouth,"Whither now?"
18794When the Kaffir came out to me, I pointed to the Magalies Mountains, and asked:--"Right before us, can a man cross there?"
18794When we had gone up about half- way we heard the challenge of a sentry:--"Halt; who goes there?"
18794Where is the''honourable peace''for us?
18794Which of them could say that he could have obtained better terms for the people than those contained in that proposal?
18794Who goes there?"
18794Why should we lose our trust in God?
18794Why then should Germany interfere in favour of the Republics, when she has everything to lose by such a course of action?
18794Why then should they argue any longer?
18794Why this sudden change in his plans?
18794Will not this make our remorse all the more bitter?
18794Will this make us stronger?
18794Will you give us your permission to adjourn for a moment in order to discuss the matter?"
18794Will you not continue fighting until you are relieved?
18794Would England then be entitled to call their antagonists"Guerillas"?
18794Would it not be better to come to some agreement with the enemy, while we have the opportunity?
18794Would they not lose everything, and be banished into the bargain?
18794[ 120]"What, then, are we to do?
18794[ Footnote 22:"How is it with you?"]
18794_ Weak_, did I say?
18794that is very surprising; but shall we retain this power long?
12185-Vous?_he said, when at length he found his tongue.
12185?
12185?
12185A friend of yours?
12185All the horses?
12185And Florentin and Cognac?
12185And I-- where shall I go?
12185And after that you think you''re going to get past us? 12185 And the war, Mademoiselle, do you know anything about what has happened?"
12185And the women?
12185And when can we meet?
12185And you, what on earth are you doing here?
12185And you-- Monsieur le Cure-- bow is it you are here?
12185And your women?
12185Anything new, George?
12185Are there no wounded there?
12185Are you Madame Huard?
12185Are you alone?
12185Are you really hungry?
12185At what time should we start, Madame?
12185At what time will they pass here?
12185Badly wounded?
12185Bouteron? 12185 But after they''re delivered-- what?"
12185But how did you come to be spared?
12185But how did you get here?
12185But the papers? 12185 But why Saturday?"
12185But why do you leave home?
12185But why on earth is she carrying frame, glass, and all? 12185 Can I be of any assistance?"
12185Can I be of any assistance?
12185Can I do anything for you, doctor?
12185Could I give them lodgings?
12185Did anyone see you come in here?
12185Did she think she could get up a little: long enough to take some dinner? 12185 Do n''t you want some milk?"
12185Do you know Cleveland?
12185Do you know a man named H.?
12185Do you know anything of Villiers?
12185Do you love him well enough to endure another sacrifice like a true wife and mother that you are?
12185Do you see that? 12185 Do you think Villiers was bombarded?"
12185Do you think we''ll be''home''in time to eat Christmas dinner?
12185Do you think you can tell''em what that is, sister?
12185Does Madame know that the_ fils Poupard_ is leaving by the four o''clock train--- and that Cranger and Veron are going too?
12185George-- where''s the old man?
12185Go?
12185Have you a good temperament?
12185Have you come for the wounded?
12185Have you ever yet had occasion to nurse a soldier?
12185Have you got an extra one?
12185Have you seen no one from down there?
12185Have you seen the chateau?
12185Hello, Louis, you here, too?
12185Hide them?
12185How did you come? 12185 How did your regiment come off?"
12185How do I know?
12185How do you know?
12185How does it happen that your motor was not at the station?
12185How long shall we be?
12185How many horses are you taking to Rozoy?
12185How many of you are there?
12185How on earth do you expect me to know? 12185 How, when, where?"
12185I beg pardon for the liberty I''m taking,''he said,"but might I ask where you''re bound?"
12185I hope you have n''t come for your tea service, Madame?
12185Is H.--?
12185Is he dead?
12185Is he dead?
12185Is he wounded?
12185Is it as precious as all that?
12185Is that all the plums?
12185Is the road clear? 12185 Is there a doctor here?"
12185Is there a doctor in the place still?
12185Is there any danger of its_ not_ going?
12185Is there any hope?
12185Is there anyone left to help me clean place to sleep in?
12185Is there anything particular you want me to say to this man for you?
12185It''s about time for the_ Grand manaeuvres_, is n''t it?
12185La Ferte- sous- Jouarre?
12185Leaving? 12185 Melun?"
12185Might I ask when you will release me?
12185No-- what?
12185Prisoners?
12185Really?
12185Say, you have n''t by any chance got a razor about you?
12185Seen what?
12185Shall I unbandage?
12185Shall we ever get through saying''good- bye''? 12185 Start where?"
12185Tell me where you''re bound for?
12185The twelve o''clock express-- what platform?
12185Then how in the name of heaven do you expect those people to dress and roll up their belongings in the dark?
12185Then what in the name of common sense sent you flying down here to scare us like that? 12185 Then where''s the nearest bridge across?"
12185Then why did n''t Poupard come back with you and Leon in the cart? 12185 War?"''
12185Was our horse taken? 12185 Was your husband good to you?"
12185We?
12185Well?
12185Were you in the battle?
12185What are they down here for?
12185What are you doing down_ here?_"I brought down a gentleman who was in a hurry. 12185 What are you doing here?
12185What can I do for you?
12185What can you see?
12185What do they say in Paris?
12185What do you mean?
12185What for?
12185What have you got there? 12185 What have you got to say?"
12185What is it?
12185What is the sense of alarming people so uselessly?
12185What makes you say that?
12185What on earth are they?
12185What on earth have you boys been up to?
12185What regiment do you belong to?
12185What regiments drove them out?
12185What time did you leave Rebais?
12185What time was it when H. gave you this?
12185What was the matter?
12185What would you advise us to do?
12185What''s in there?
12185What''s the matter with her?
12185What''s your message?
12185What?
12185What?
12185What?
12185What?
12185Where are you bound for?
12185Where are you going to hide your provisions now you''ve got them so beautifully tied up?
12185Where are you going with your cart?
12185Where did you pick him up?
12185Where do you live?
12185Where is he? 12185 Where is our nearest barracks?"
12185Where the devil did you get the light?
12185Where was he when you saw him?
12185Where was he?
12185Where''s Betsy?
12185Where''s our nearest barracks?
12185Where''s the nearest hospital?
12185Where''s your husband?
12185Where?
12185Wheren''t people furious?
12185Who are you?
12185Who says so, Madame?
12185Who''s with you?
12185Who?
12185Who?
12185Who?
12185Why does n''t one of you men relieve her of that heavy parcel she has strapped to her shoulders?
12185Why, Honorine, what''s the matter?
12185Why, Madame Huard,said the clerk in surprise,"you mean to say you are frightened?"
12185Why? 12185 Why?"
12185Why?
12185Why?
12185Will you do it gracefully? 12185 Will you give me ten minutes to arrange my affairs here?"
12185Will you take us as far as Charly?
12185Wo n''t you come in and rest?
12185Would you mind, Madame?
12185Wounded?
12185Yes, unless you will be good enough to inform these gentlemen who I am?
12185You are not afraid, Madame?
12185You do n''t really believe it''s serious, do you?
12185You''ve heard the news, I suppose, Madame?
12185You? 12185 You?
12185You?
12185_ Eh bien, Monsieur_, what news?
12185_ Parlez- vous anglais?_they fairly bawled, all three at once.
12185_ Pensez- vous? 12185 _ Vous?_""Yes-- why not?"
12185_ Vous?_"Yes-- why not?
12185_ What?_"Yes, gentlemen.
12185''Where are our Allies?''
12185A dog?
12185A year?
12185Already?"
12185And Betsy?"
12185And did I know of anyone I would care to have with me?
12185And my trip to Soissons?
12185And now, is n''t there something we can do for you?"
12185And what were their plans?
12185Are these boys with you?"
12185Are you going to let this boy stay and be finished by the Germans, or are you going to let me put him in your cart and drive to a hospital?"
12185Are you her servant?
12185But how and to whom should I offer it?
12185But how?
12185But our doctor and the pharmaceutical products?
12185But what cavalry?
12185But what on earth was father Poupard doing on the highroad at that hour?
12185But what to do?
12185But what was that in the semi- darkness ahead of me?
12185But why had they come away?
12185But why worry?
12185Can we go there?
12185Can you tell us that?"
12185Cavalry?
12185Could I promise it?
12185Could it be true?
12185Did I know anything?
12185Did I mind if she followed in our wake?
12185Did n''t he think he was safe here?
12185Did n''t he think me capable of doing so?
12185Did she think there was any possibility of nursing wounded in our hospital?
12185Did you approach them?"
12185Did you see him?"
12185Do n''t you think you could find room for me?"
12185Do you see that?"
12185Do you think they know anything more than we do?
12185Enough to fight?
12185Fourteen rooms?
12185From where and when would they arrive?
12185Go and abandon my post, with Yvonne still too ill to move, and all the others depending on my help?
12185Go on living like a hermit on that great big estate?
12185Go where?
12185Go?
12185Go?
12185Good God, what had happened?
12185Had I heard anything?
12185Have n''t you all had enough of this kind of traveling?"
12185Have n''t you seen our Red Cross flag?
12185Have you something entertaining to read on my way to the front?"
12185He drew his head up with a jerk, and turning on me with an almost furious look in his big black eyes, he snapped,"Are you married?"
12185Hein?_"Our door closed and the trainman whistled.
12185Here?
12185How and when would we all meet?
12185How and whom was I to thank?
12185How can one describe it?
12185How can we get to them now?
12185How could you?"
12185How far is it to Rozoy?"
12185How many of you are there?
12185How many wounded were there?
12185How?
12185I gasped a little in surprise and just as I did so a female voice from behind a distant desk called out:"What is your pleasure, Madame?"
12185I turned back and addressed myself to another:"What''s your hurry?"
12185It was too long to fit into the handlebars, besides how could I hold it there?
12185Masbrennier''s?"
12185May we come in?"
12185Might I ask where you come from?"
12185Might he turn his party into the drive and rest a bit in the shade?
12185Not in the least surprised by my audacity he asked,"Are you a nurse?"
12185On foot?"
12185Our comrade, Ballandreau?"
12185Ours?
12185Poor little chaps, it seemed a pity to wake them, but what was to be done?
12185Refugees?
12185Should I tell the villagers?
12185Some poor souls interred on my greensward; but why, since our little cemetery is but a couple of hundred yards up the road?
12185Souvenirs?
12185Stay on the other side and wait for my caravan or cross over and risk my chances alone?
12185Suppose the chateau should suddenly become the target for the German guns?
12185That I stop every passer- by and every vehicle?
12185That will you do if it lasts longer?
12185The Frenchman was rapidly gaining on the other, but would they come into combat before they vanished from our horizon?
12185Then the invaders had crossed the Marne?
12185They had no orders to stop, but hoped we would let them rest a bit before going further-- and could we give them something to eat?
12185They no longer possessed one, and who could tell-- the war might last a year or more?
12185They were all well and needed no beds-- would I let them sleep in the bay for a few hours?
12185Villiers?
12185Was it possible?
12185Was n''t there a Peace Palace at The Hague?
12185Was she still alive?
12185Well, and then what?
12185Were we not in the twentieth century?
12185What Bouteron?"
12185What could it mean?
12185What did this mean?
12185What do you mean by frightening Madame like that?
12185What does he say?"
12185What for?"
12185What had become of them?
12185What on earth are they doing down here?"
12185What on earth has happened?"
12185What to do?
12185What to do?
12185What was I to do?
12185What was required of me?
12185What was the use of trying to hurry?
12185When they had reached the spot where the road forked, which direction had he taken?
12185When will these departures cease?"
12185Where are the others?"
12185Where was my little troupe?
12185Where were we going?
12185Where?"
12185Who could tell?
12185Who''s going to bring in our crop?
12185Why not?
12185Why not?
12185Why?"
12185Will you have some-- my own brew?"
12185Would I help?
12185Would I let them come in?
12185Would I pay him and let him go?
12185Would he meet us in front of the_ Hotel du Soleil d''Or?_ He was delighted, and promised to be on time.
12185Would you mind waiting just a few moments?
12185You do n''t mean to say the scare has reached this place, too?"
12185Your husband?
12185wounded?"
35392And angry?
35392And food?
35392And is it true that you are trying to change your national flag because the Germans have been misusing it?
35392And so the Prince has shewed himself sympathetic towards the Allies?
35392And you, how are you going to get away?
35392And_ very_ surprised?
35392Are you sure it''s_ giving_?
35392But do you think I will ever get back from Liège to Antwerp?
35392But how on earth shall I ever get them again? 35392 But what about England?"
35392But what are you doing in this train?
35392But why are you so afraid?
35392But why did he speak with the Germans in the restaurant?
35392But why?
35392But would the Americans do that for a British subject?
35392But you are English?
35392But, do n''t you realise, ma''am, that to get into Brussels you have got to go through the German lines?
35392C''est moi,replied the driver, and his expression seemed to say,"Who on earth did you think it was?"
35392Can you give us something to eat?
35392Did he believe you?
35392Did he get the passport from his Consul?
35392Did he give you back my passport?
35392Did he want to know how I got away?
35392Did he_ look_ as if he believed you?
35392Do you mean to say that you have n''t warned her already not to tell him where I''ve really gone to?
35392Do you see that station over there?
35392Do you_ think_ he believed you?
35392Does not your master ever go towards the fighting?
35392Have you been wounded, Sir?
35392Have you heard the news? 35392 Have you seen the Germans?"
35392How are things in Brussels, Madame?
35392How are you going to get away?
35392How do I know,said he,"that you will restore it to the lady?"
35392How do you do?
35392How do you feel to us?
35392How far is Holland?
35392How long am I to stay here?
35392How long do you think it will last?
35392How much?
35392How much?
35392I am sorry I could bring you no food, but the Germans are up and down the stairs all day long, and I dare not risk them asking me,Who is that for?"
35392I do n''t know, what do you think?
35392Is gas escaping somewhere?
35392Is it not true, then, that the Dutch allowed German troops to pass through Holland?
35392May I fix that window for you? 35392 May I see your papers?"
35392No, because he said to me to- day,''Where is that mädchen who never spoke?''
35392Not_ pleased?_"Perhaps!
35392Perhaps he will ask Monsieur Claude where I am?
35392Perhaps he will ask Monsieur Claude''s sister?
35392Perhaps he will try and find me?
35392Shall I?
35392So you are going back at once to Brussels, Monsieur?
35392That is on the way to Louvain, is it not?
35392Then will you dine with us to- night at half- past seven, at the Hotel des Arcades?
35392Then you do n''t think he was speaking of_ me_?
35392Was he angry?
35392What about Aerschot and the church?
35392What about the little oil stoves the newspapers say you''re having?
35392What did you know about him?
35392What did you say?
35392What do you like most to receive?
35392What do you think I ought to do?
35392What has happened?
35392What is happening?
35392What is in that bag?
35392What is the use?
35392What is this you have done?
35392What made you send him up to me, François? 35392 What town is it?"
35392What will you do with them?
35392What''s the smell?
35392Where are we going?
35392Where are you staying in Dunkirk?
35392Where is he?
35392Who did he mean?
35392Who is this?
35392Would you like some more wine?
35392Wounded? 35392 Wurst?"
35392You are sure none of you have no correspondence, no newspapers?
35392You know,I said tentatively,"that rumour persists in attributing to Holland a readiness to do business with Germany?"
35392You''ll be shot for a dead certainty, Cherry?
35392_ Est- ce que la ville est prise?_It is months since then, but I still hear that perishing soldier''s voice, breaking over his terrific query.
35392_ Savez- vous_? 35392 _ Sur le Champ de Bataille!_"Where else would Albert be indeed?
35392''What can it mean?''
35392Ah, mais c''est triste n''est- ce- pas?
35392Am I dreaming?
35392Am I going to stay and see the Germans enter?
35392And I ask too why should I feel so frightened?
35392And again:"Have_ you_ heard the good news?
35392And am I in that danger now?
35392And inside?
35392And now-- what''s this?
35392And what did Holland do?
35392And what did it cost?
35392And what do you think she answers?
35392And why?
35392And why?
35392Are there more wolves in there, slinking ever nearer to the cities?
35392Are we?
35392Are you ready for the end?
35392As the soldiers crawled painfully into the little cart, I whispered to the elder one:"Do you know where your King is, Monsieur?"
35392But how are you going to get to Brussels?"
35392But shall we, too, be begging for bread some day?
35392But still we go on-- n''est- ce- pas?
35392But what has happened to it?
35392By whose hand was it fired, that shot that laid the monster at his victim''s feet?
35392C''est évident, n''est- ce- pas?
35392CAN I TRUST THEM?
35392CHAPTER XLIV CAN I TRUST THEM?
35392CHAPTER XXV DEATH IN LIFE What is it I''ve been saying about gaiety?
35392Ce sont les Allemands, n''est- ce- pas?"
35392Could I trust them?
35392Did you say going to Brussels?"
35392Did you see the dragon embroidered on their pouches?
35392Do n''t you know who they are?"
35392Do they come to the soldiers, thoughts like these?
35392Do you think I will ever get to Liège?"
35392Does she turn it upside down over a bucket of rubbish as they do in England, leaving the tea- leaves to go to the dustman when he calls on Friday?
35392Everyone is asking,"What do you think?
35392For sometimes the city seemed to shake all over, and as I lay in bed I wondered who was firing: Germans, Belgians, English, which?
35392François, and Lenore, Henri, Ada, and the little old grey- moustached man whistling like a bird, who were they?
35392Have other people been born with the same belief, I wonder?
35392Have you heard any news?"
35392How can they bear it?
35392How could one ever use such a word?
35392How do you see Tommy when a war photographer gets him?
35392How much?
35392I ask myself what is it?
35392I asked the maid who brought my coffee"Is n''t that firing very near?"
35392I begin to say to myself, with quite an excited feeling,"Shall I ever see her throw anything away?"
35392I guess you''re English, are n''t you, ma''am?"
35392In English he said,"I heard there was an English lady here who wants to get away from Antwerp?"
35392Is it bad?
35392Is it callous, indifferent, cruel?
35392Is it hard- hearted?
35392Is it that, bluntly put, we are lazy?
35392Is she really going to try and get him to Holland, I wonder?
35392Is this brutal?
35392It is the best asparagus in the world?
35392It was not long before I said to him:"Do you think it would be possible for an Englishwoman to get into Brussels?
35392Mile after mile the train passed through these ravaged areas, and I stood at the window with misty eyes and quickened breath?
35392Oh, the English will be good to them, wo n''t they, Louisa?
35392Or are we simply-- what?
35392Or was it the big guns that woke them, the canary, and the grey Congo parrot?
35392Shall we, too, be longing for the pieces we threw away?
35392That will be splendid, Madam, will it not?"
35392The American says:''How could you Germans destroy a beautiful city like Louvain?''
35392Then, dropping the subject of himself swiftly, but easily, the journalist begins courteously to ask questions; what am I doing here?
35392They''ve got to know the truth about the war, n''est- ce- pas?
35392Was it possible they were spies?
35392Were they still struggling and tramping and falling along the roads to Holland?
35392What are we doing?
35392What did he think, I wonder, to find me suddenly flown?
35392What do you think of that?"
35392What does it mean, I wonder?
35392What has happened?
35392What horror has seized upon it, turning it into the most hideous travesty of a church that the world has ever known?
35392What if they glanced down here and discovered_ me_?
35392What is it?
35392What is she going to do with these?
35392What is this?
35392What would happen to her little ones?
35392What would he be like?
35392Where do they get their heroism?
35392Where were we going?
35392Who could help it?
35392Who knows?
35392Who were they, these people?
35392Why did I do that?
35392Why do n''t you come with me?"
35392Why had I not gone with the rest of them?
35392Why waste an egg like that?
35392Why were they here among the Germans?
35392Why, then, did Jean look so agitated when we Went to the ticket office and asked for our tickets?
35392Will you give me your passport?
35392Would the English be kind to them?
35392Would they be safe in England?
35392You are brave n''est- ce- pas?
35392You have not gone with them?"
35392You recollect that German who leaned over the counter for such a long time when you were washing glasses?"
35392_ De Toestand Te Antwerpen Is Zeer Ernstig._ What does it mean?
35392_ I s''pose you have n''t seen a wolf, M''sieur, running about these parts?_"Nobody answers for a bit.
35392_ Trees!_ Were there really such things left in the world?
35392_ Want to go back?_ Good lor!
35392_ Zeer Ernstig?_ Is it good?
35392_ Zeer Ernstig?_ Is it good?
35392here?"
35392where am I going?
35392where have I come from?
4546Any chickens?
4546Any eggs?
4546Any flour or grain?
4546Any guerrillas?
4546Are you a member of the other House?
4546Are you the Governor of a State?
4546Certainly not"Have you ever had a vote of thanks by name?
4546Do you think you could become so interested in my conversation as not to notice the door- keeper?
4546Have you any meat?
4546Is anybody in the house?
4546Is it a good road, and how far?
4546Is it locked up?
4546Is no one about who can get in?
4546Now, where is the proper place to break it?
4546Well, ai n''t you on our side?
4546Well,said he,"did n''t you think it was the biggest shuck and the littlest ear that ever you did see?"
4546Well,said he,"did you see him take it off?"
4546Well,said he,"what do you want of me?"
4546Well,said he,"why do n''t you go into the gallery?"
4546What appointment?
4546What do you know of Uncle Billy?
4546What do you live on?
4546What is to be done with the freedmen?
4546What is your badge?
4546Where?
4546Why?
45461, but are in the immediate neighborhood, on their plantations?
45469:45 p.m."LIEUTENANT- GENERAL GRANT:"Would it not be well for Warren to go down with his whole corps and smash up the force in front of Sheridan?
4546A few days afterward the husband again appealed to his commanding officer( Taylor), who exclaimed:"Have n''t you got a musket?
4546After shaking hands all round, the Governor said,"Coleman, what the devil is the matter here?"
4546As I drew up by the party, Bismarck accosted me with,"Well, General, are n''t you hungry?
4546At every meal the steward would come to me, and say,"Captain Sherman, will you bring your ladies to the table?"
4546At this General Grant remarked:"Did he say so?
4546But it first became necessary to settle the important question of who should succeed General McPherson?
4546But what next?
4546Ca n''t you defend your own family?"
4546Can Grant supply himself from the Mississippi?
4546Can it be that such a resort finds root in any stratum of American opinion?
4546Can we whip the South?
4546Can you expedite the sending to Nashville of the recruits that are in Indiana and Ohio?
4546Could not such a camp be established about Pocotaligo or Coosawhatchie?
4546Could not such escaped slaves find at least a partial supply of food in the rice- fields about Savannah, and cotton plantations on the coast?
4546Could not your cavalry go back by the way of Stony Creek depot and destroy or capture the store of supplies there?
4546Davis, etc.?
4546General Blair simply asked,"Do you like it?"
4546General Grant remarked,"What is to prevent their laying the rails again?"
4546General Halleck had a map on his table, with a large pencil in his hand, and asked,"where is the rebel line?"
4546Governor of a State?
4546Halleck was present and spoke up, saying:"How would Sheridan do?"
4546Halleck''s telegram of last night says:"Who sent Smith''s division to Nashville?
4546Has any thing been heard from the troops ordered from Vicksburg?
4546Have any more troops arrived from Richmond, or are any more coming, or reported to be coming?
4546He asked me,"Where?"
4546He dropped out of the retinue with an orderly, and after we had ridden a mile or so he overtook us, and I asked him,"What luck?"
4546He inquired,"Why not both?"
4546He remaining mounted, spoke first to me, saying simply,"How are you, Sheridan?"
4546He said:"What is the use of your persevering?
4546He then asked in his quizzical way,"Are you a foreign embassador?"
4546He then said,"Have you any impudence?"
4546He turned to me and said,"Ca n''t you take your regiment up there?"
4546I answered, rather shortly,''How the devil do you know there is a masked battery?
4546I answered:"How can you go to New York?
4546I asked Deshler:"What does this mean?
4546I assured him with thanks that I was"first- rate,"when, pointing toward the village, he asked,"Is General Lee up there?"
4546I had on my undress uniform indicating my rank, and inquired of the sentinel,"Is General Fremont up?"
4546I presume that some one said to the Governor about this time,"Why do n''t you get Sheridan?"
4546I said I had come to see him on business; and he added,"You do n''t suppose that he will see such as you?"
4546I touched it and examined one or two of the larger pieces, and asked,"Is it gold?"
4546If Hood goes to the Alabama line, will it not be impossible for him to subsist his army?
4546If the rebel leaders were to arm the slaves, what would be its effect?
4546If you ca n''t get over, how can the rebels get at you?''
4546In that event, would it not be possible for you to become a citizen of our State?
4546MAJOR- GENERAL THOMAS, Nashville, Tenn. Is there not danger of Forrest moving down the Cumberland to where he can cross it?
4546Major Childs inquired,"Where is Coacoochee?"
4546Major W. T. Sherman: Will you accept the chief clerkship of the War Department?
4546Mason said to me,"What is that?"
4546Member of Congress?"
4546Mr. Lincoln, who was still standing, said,"Threatened to shoot you?"
4546Of parties claiming foreign protection?
4546Offering the flask to his uncle, he said:"You''ve had a hard day of it; wo n''t you refresh yourself?"
4546Often"Johnny"would call:"Well, Yank, when are you coming into town?"
4546Others say:"What are we to do?
4546Pausing awhile, and watching the operations of this man roasting his corn, he said,"What are you doing?"
4546Renick said,"What do you want with General Fremont?"
4546Sherman said to me:"Admiral, how could you make such a remark to McClernand?
4546Should his request be granted, who would you like as his successor?
4546Should we allow them to escape, etc.?
4546So that among the younger officers the query was very natural,"Who the devil is Governor of California?"
4546So that the only questions that remained were, would he surrender at Raleigh?
4546Some say:"I have such a one sick at my house; who will wait on them when I am gone?"
4546State in what manner you would rather live--whether scattered among the whites, or in colonies by yourselves?
4546State what you understand by slavery, and the freedom that was to be given by the President''s proclamation?
4546State what, in your opinion, is the best way to enlist colored men as soldiers?
4546The Governor knocked at the door, and on inquiry from inside"Who''s there?"
4546The next was,"What are WE to do?"
4546Then followed the question,"Is Fort McAllister taken?"
4546This being so, how is it possible for the people still here( mostly women and children) to find any shelter?
4546This feature was more than acceptable to the parents at times, for how else could they so thoroughly learn all the neighborhood gossip?
4546We then returned to Benicia, and Wool''s first question was,"What luck?"
4546What can I do for you?"
4546What signified the terms to them, so long as we obtained the actual surrender of people who only wanted a good opportunity to give up gracefully?
4546What was to be done with the rebel armies when defeated?
4546When ground is owned by parties who have gone south, and have leased the ground to parties now in the city who own the improvements on the ground?
4546When he did speak it was to ask:"Grant, how many wolves do you think there are in that pack?"
4546When houses are occupied and the owner has gone south, leaving an agent to collect rent for his benefit?
4546When houses are owned by loyal citizens, but are unoccupied?
4546When movable property is found in stores that are closed?
4546When parties owning houses have gone south, and the tenant has given his notes for the rent in advance?
4546When parties who occupy the house are creditors of the owner, who has gone south?
4546When the owner has gone south, and parties here hold liens on the property and are collecting the rents to satisfy their liens?
4546When the owner lives in town, and refuses to take the oath of allegiance?
4546When the tenant has expended several months''rent in repairs on the house?
4546Where are you?"
4546Who ever supposed they would come away down here in Alabama?"
4546Who have prompted him?
4546Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command?
4546Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command?
4546Why not attack at once?
4546Why was this, or why was all mention of any field of duty for the head of the army left out of the army regulations?
4546Wo n''t you speak your mind freely on this question of slavery, that so agitates the land?
4546said Mr. Lincoln,"how are they getting along down there?"
4546said a listener,"do n''t you know that old Sherman carries a duplicate tunnel along?"
4546where are they to come from?"
4546will you work?
39735Are these facts consistent with Earl Russell''s assertions? 39735 But how is it that at present the fields are left uncultivated and all agricultural business seems to be entirely neglected?
39735Colonel Sykes.--''By whom?'' 39735 To what case does this allude?
39735What, on the other hand, is the state of the country on this side of the Ta- tsing lines? 39735 _ Second._--Can the Ti- pings form a Government with which foreign Powers can treat?
39735''And what about those in the country?''
39735''Are there any special laws or commands connected with the dynasty?''
39735''But is not this the case with a great number of your adherents?''
39735''Can you read?''
39735''Can you repeat the doxology of the Heavenly Father?''
39735''Do you know the New Testament?''
39735''Have we ever broken faith with foreigners?
39735''How can you expect to go to heaven?
39735''In all the public offices is care taken to instruct the soldiers and civilians connected with them?''
39735''Now,''I said,''how is this command observed by you, seeing that so much cruelty and wickedness are practised by your brethren all around?''
39735''Was he not afraid of being wounded or killed?''
39735''Well, but suppose you should be killed, what then?''
39735''What book does he use?''
39735''What does he in the way of instructing his people?''
39735''What great work did Christ do?''
39735''What, notwithstanding their adherence to the dynasty, and fighting under the same banners as yourself?''
39735''When did you join the dynasty?''
39735''Who instructed you in these things?''
39735''Who is the Heavenly Brother?''
39735And if the disciplined troops do this with impunity, what can you think if the non- disciplined do it?
39735And where are these roads leading?
39735And who would be so oblivious of merit as not to do them reverence when they caught him?
39735As principle has nothing to do with the policy pursued in China, why should it elsewhere?
39735At this moment P---- hailed me:"I have covered the mandarin; shall I shoot him?
39735Besides, is not the vile pirate an enemy of all mankind?
39735But was there during the revolutionary struggle in France no mutual killing of the opposing parties of Frenchmen?
39735But what could these miserably armed men effect against the hundreds of perfectly equipped Europeans pouring over their shattered walls?
39735But what has been the course pursued by Russia with regard to that which is loosely and inaccurately termed the Ti- ping revolt?
39735Can anything more dreadful than the state of these unhappy patriots be imagined?
39735Can this be called a"blasphemous and immoral"basis of religion?
39735Did it prove that Cromwell was neither a general nor an administrator?
39735Did that prove that the English noblemen and gentlemen who first headed that rebellion were unfit to establish a government?
39735Do you ask how this our body Is to attain to length of years?
39735Does Colonel Gordon, R.E., call this"observing the rules of warfare as practised among foreign nations,"according to the proviso of Sir F. Bruce?
39735Does Sir F. Bruce, after the massacres at Wu- see, Kar- sing,& c., still term Gordon''s conduct"a service in favour of humanity"?
39735Edkins, John, Medhurst, Muirhead,& c., referred to and quoted in this work?
39735Have we ever retaliated the enmity of England and France?''
39735He asked the Chung- wang"why he had ventured within the limits of Consular Ports;"and received this reply:--"Why?
39735He wanted to know in what single instance had our treaty rights or our trade been in danger?
39735He will be very sorry to resort to force(?
39735He wished to know any instance in which either the property or the life of a British subject had been placed in danger?"
39735His name is most honourable, To be handed down through distant ages; Who was this Hwuy, That he dared to alter it?
39735His reward would be a sorry heart(?
39735How came it that General Brown was either ignorant of, or suppressed the fact?
39735How did Gordon learn that fact, or that story?
39735How did the fact come to be kept so secret from the public?
39735I said that I wanted to make the Imperialists and rebels good friends(?
39735I told him I was going to the Tai- hu; and he said,"_ Why not_ wait?
39735I told him I was going to the Tai- hu; and he said,''Why not wait?
39735In reply, I ask if it be so, in how far do the Taepings differ in that respect from the Russians, French, and Americans?
39735In what respect do you think the trade injurious to us in our relations with China?
39735Is it not a most shameful perversion of the American nationality?
39735Is not faithfulness bought and sold in''Vanity Fair,''and should that not be looked for in the conduct of a-- British soldier?"
39735Is not this a time for foreign governments to come forward and arrange the terms?
39735Is the peaceful and civil reception the English get from these nations the result of pure friendliness or of policy?
39735Is this British justice?
39735Is this not excellent?
39735Is this not the best plan?
39735Is_ this_ neutrality?
39735It was for such a state of things as this, was it, that Gordon gave his talents?
39735Let me ask you that before my Lord settled at Kiang- nan, could you get admittance into the interior?
39735Let us ask, whence these great and glorious changes?
39735Mr. Adkins goes on to say"that the impostor(?)
39735Shall the four hundred millions of China remain in their state of darkness and death,_ because of the worldliness and deadness_ of the people of God?"
39735The only other excuse of any moment is the"_ might_ injure trade"one; but is that to be considered a sufficient justification?
39735They did so, and were well paid for the affair; but is this neutrality?
39735Was it for this that English guns had been loaned by the representatives of the British people?
39735Was it for_ this_ that Englishmen fought?
39735Was it for_ this_ that the''first nation of the world''and the two_ Scotchmen_, Gordon and Dr. Macartney, had fought?
39735Was_ this_ neutrality?
39735We have seen that in the preceding debate Lord Palmerston plainly and frankly declared:--"We interfered in the affairs of China; and why?"
39735Well, why then do they persecute Christian converts so that their lives are in jeopardy?
39735What about the"immense loss"of the other version, in which they do such heroic deeds to capture the palace?
39735What are our Channel fleets, our fortifications, and our 150,000 volunteers for?
39735What can there be in_ British_ officers that they should be so repugnant to the Deputy Viceroy?
39735What course did he pursue?
39735What did they see?
39735What do the starving Chinamen above mentioned say?
39735What else have we got to look to for the re- establishment of a government having power to preserve order?
39735What is the duty of an elder brother''s wife, And what her most appropriate deportment?
39735What merit have you to get there?''
39735What sterling money do these 125,000 bales of silk represent?
39735What was his bidding?
39735What will the British public think of the following account of the behaviour of Captain Dew''s allies when re- established in the city?
39735What will those who falsely accuse the Ti- pings of devastating and destroying say to this?
39735What would such manner of warfare be denominated in Europe?
39735When the major returns to Scotland, will any of his''canny''countrymen ask impertinent questions as to the source of the''siller''?
39735When will all Manchoos, Morrill tariff men,& c., learn this lesson?
39735Where does Dr. Rennie get the interpolation from?
39735Whether circumcised or uncircumcised, Who is not produced by God?
39735Who can prevent us from committing such acts, if we choose?
39735Who has ever seen an Imperialist official do the like?
39735Who is responsible for all this misery and loss of life?
39735Who other than England?
39735Who then with common sense and natural patriotism would not strike his breast and weep?
39735Who, after this, shall talk of_ Ti- ping_ cruelties?
39735Who, then, proved to be the devastator and marauder; the uncivilized Chinese, or the civilized Christian?
39735Why did he not make it his business to see that the assurances which he had given to the Nar- wang were carried out?
39735Why did not Gordon mention this important circumstance in his letter to Sir Frederic advising His Excellency that he had again taken the field?
39735Why not interfere in America for the sake of trade and to prevent so- called rebels from collecting duties?
39735Why should a soldier of fortune not make a fortune?
39735Why was Major Gordon absent?
39735Would any_ other_ nation have borne these outrages for years, as we have done, without making reprisal?
39735Would they attack us if they felt sure they could do so with advantage?
39735[ 14] Did it grieve the philanthropic Admiral"much,"I wonder, to massacre them in his raids from Shanghae?
39735[ 73] How came it that Mr. Acting- Consul Markham in his letter to Sir Frederic announcing the reconciliation, was silent on the point?
39735_ The Hymn says_:-- The whole world is one family, and all men are brethren, How can they be permitted to kill and destroy one another?
39735how could one great man, without means, save a people, a sacred cause, and a city invested by 100,000 savage foemen?
41528And you do n''t know where he is?
41528Can you write?
41528Did he also tell you to wear ball and chain?
41528Do n''t you know me?
41528Do you know anything about the country around, and about the City?
41528Have you seen Col. Aiken; does he know you?
41528How do you do, Captain Coleman? 41528 How will you get across?"
41528How would you manage?
41528Is that all?
41528Sergeant, ca n''t you teach me how?
41528Sergeant, where is the man?
41528Well, how did you come out?
41528Well, you do n''t believe that I would swear to a lie?
41528What can I do for you?
41528What for, Colson?
41528What have you arrested him for?
41528What have you done for a living?
41528What is your name?
41528What will it be worth?
41528Where is the axe?
41528Who are you?
41528Who gave you the orders?
41528Who lives here?
41528Why did you not cut the wood?
41528Why do n''t you call the Corporal of the Guard, and get relief?
41528You know-- who did it?
41528--"What did you do it for?"
41528--"What is your name-- what Company do you belong to, and what is your regiment?"
41528--"You had your fun, am I not entitled to have some?"
41528A soldier on his way home?
41528After awhile my corporal came for the wood;"Where is the wood?"
41528After passing greetings of the day I asked,"Where are the folks?"
41528All right Tom, how are you?
41528And you have been fighting us for over four years and now come and ask me for a favor?
41528Are there any others behind?
41528Are you not from Emanuel county, Georgia?"
41528Barnes remarked"What in the world is that?"
41528By whose orders?
41528Can I get about five gallons?
41528Can you tell me how far it is from here to the enemy''s camp?
41528Did they stop at that?
41528Do I understand that you refuse to comply?
41528Do you know him?
41528Do you know where they carried him to?
41528Do you mean it as a challenge?
41528Do you think you can buy up provisions for the hospital?
41528Harvey?
41528Have you some money?
41528He answered, Did you not get three days rations?
41528He answered,"Well, what will you do?"
41528He exclaimed,"My God, why did you not kill him?"
41528He replied, What country are you from?
41528He said Yes, what will you have?
41528He said, Can you write?
41528He said, Do you know the penalty, sir?
41528He said, Have you a horse?
41528He said, How much can you pull at a load?
41528He said, What are you going to do?
41528He said, What is your name?
41528He said, Yes; what will you have?
41528He said,"Ike, what luck?"
41528He turned, saying, you speak to me?
41528Hines, being very intimate with him, I said, Bill, you want to have some fun?
41528How did he get here?
41528How do you like New York?
41528How far behind are we?
41528How far do you live from here?
41528How far?
41528How is it now?
41528How long had you been in this country before the war broke out?
41528How long have you been in the army?
41528How long since you have heard from home?"
41528How many of the First Georgia are here?
41528How so Bill?
41528How was that?
41528How would you like to wagon for me at$ 15.00 a month and rations?
41528I answered, Are you the commander of these troops?
41528I at once went to headquarters and met Lieutenant Howell and said,"Do you intend to make me finish the penalty you imposed on me?"
41528I certainly do; is it for this which I am arrested?
41528I finally applied at a shop where a dutchman was foreman, I was willing to work at any price for I had to live but do you know what they did?
41528I gave the military salute and started towards the door, when he called me saying,"Do you ever drink anything?"
41528I humbly remarked,"Will that do?"
41528I knew it was against the orders to have a fire at the outpost on vidette duty so I said,"Who told you to have a fire?
41528I knocked again when a lady''s feeble voice answered, Who is there?
41528I related what had passed between Lieutenant and I. William Harmon, then said,"Did you tell him that I helped you stick it up?"
41528I remarked, Are you the agent?
41528I remarked,"General, had I not better let them advance somewhat, so as not to waste too much ammunition?"
41528I said to him, What are they worth?
41528I said to him, What troops are those on the right hand side up the hill?
41528I said, Do you know the man; would you recognize him again if you were to meet him?
41528I said, Have you discharged the fellow who did it?
41528I said, How much will you give me for it?
41528I said, Is this the best you can do for me?
41528I said, Mr. Stroter have you any whiskey on hand?
41528I said, Perry, what are you doing?
41528I said, This is Governor Brown?
41528I said, What has happened?
41528I said, What is the matter with you, are you scared?
41528I said, Yes, would you like to have a drink?
41528I said, poor fellow, are you wounded badly?
41528I said, well, our arrangement suits me; what is the hotel keeper''s name?
41528I said,"Corporal, what is to be done?"
41528I said,"Haywood, do you know what he writes in that letter?"
41528I said,"Is it?"
41528I said,"Walker, would you leave your post to be court- martialed, and reported as a coward?
41528I saw Mr. Bothwell; after the usual greeting I said, What is cotton selling at?
41528I showed him the tree;"Is that all you have done?"
41528I still remained standing in the road, watching any move they might make, when one of them spoke, saying, Will you let me come to you?
41528I walked up to them, asking, What troops do you belong to?
41528In a brisk manner, said,"What is that you have taken?"
41528Is it a wonder that the men of the South became desperate and used desperate remedies to oust more desperate diseases?
41528Is this the hotel?
41528Major Roland addressed himself to me"What can I do for you?"
41528Mr. Lyons then spoke up,"Well, what are you going to do about it?"
41528My dear reader, do n''t you believe we were glad when day broke on us?
41528My first impulse was, can I make it across, or must I surrender?
41528Noting a keystone that I wore on my watch chain he said, I see you are a Mason?
41528On our way to the basement he asked me, What State?
41528On the first of May, 1862, Sergeant E. P. Howell came to me saying:"Herman, how would you like to help me make up an artillery Company?
41528On your way home?
41528Others took up the word all along the line of"How are you Bill Grimes?"
41528Presently one of the Federals hollered over,"Say, Johnnie, do n''t you want some coffee?"
41528Put out that fire, sirs, do n''t you know it is strictly prohibited?"
41528Recognizing me, he said,"Hermann, you here?"
41528Salter said, Hermann, what will you take for this horse?
41528She said to me,"Poor fellow, are you wounded?"
41528So he peremptorily said, What will you have?
41528The Colonel smiled and said,"What did you do with the axe?
41528The lady of the hotel came to me saying,"Are you wounded?"
41528The other one was silent, I remarked, what do you say?
41528There we stood, not a word was spoken above a whisper, when we heard a regular snarl close by, then Barnes said,"What is that?"
41528This is a good mule you have got; will you sell her?
41528Turning to Mr. Einstein, Do you know this man; can I rely on him?
41528Turning to me he said, You belong to Walker''s Brigade?
41528Turning to me he said, where are you going?
41528Well Ike, old fellow, how are you getting along?
41528Well did you not get it?
41528Well, what are you going to do?
41528Were you forced into the army or did you volunteer?
41528What brought you here, said he?
41528What did you do it for?
41528What do you ask?
41528What do you say?
41528What good would it do to implicate you?"
41528What is all this assemblage here doing?
41528What is the matter, Bill?
41528What is your name?
41528What kind of money?
41528What route are you going?
41528What time will the boat leave for Columbus?
41528What was in the letter, what did he say?
41528What will you give me?
41528What will you take for it?
41528What''s the matter I said, seeing everybody catching their horses?
41528When I told him that one of the men were sick, he said"You see that puppy, is he not the finest you have ever seen?"
41528When the same fellow called again, Hello you negro, I told you to come here, did you hear me?
41528Where are they?"
41528Where are we going?
41528Where are you going?
41528Where are you going?"
41528Which way?
41528Who told you so?
41528Who wrote them?
41528Who''s that you got there?
41528Why did n''t Jack eat his supper?
41528You say he is a good saddle horse?
41528You say that would not amount to much with what we have to oppose them?
41528You will also give me my dinner and fill my haversack with provisions to last me home?
41528[ Illustration:"Madam, have you spilled your vegetables?"
41528are you hurt?
41528says I?
41528what did you tell them?"
60315And the revolution there?
60315But if even such small improvements had not resulted from the Revolution,I argued,"what purpose has it served?"
60315But what can the Government do in the face of the food shortage?
60315Do you expect to get the documents out?
60315Has the Revolution given you nothing?
60315Have not their tactics and methods been imposed on the Bolsheviki by intervention and blockade?
60315Instinctive Anarchists?
60315Is not the theft of flour the cause of the strict surveillance?
60315Is there a recreation room, a place where they can eat or drink their tea and inhale a bit of fresh air?
60315Protest, to whom?
60315These people come to Russia just to look us over,one of the Red Army men said;"do they know anything about us or are they interested in how we live?
60315Thousands of Russian working women have no more, and why should I?
60315We have been compelled to mobilize an army to fight our external enemies why not an army to fight our worst internal enemy, hunger? 60315 Well,_ batyushka_, how is it with you?"
60315What am I to do?
60315What do you mean by morally defective?
60315What is this?
60315Where do these unfortunates come from?
60315Why have n''t you raised your voice against these evils, against this machine that is sapping the life blood of the Revolution?
60315Why should they not see the true state of Russia? 60315 Would not the Tcheka prefer to confiscate the goods of the big delicatessen and fruit stores on the Kreschatik?"
60315You know of the insurgent movement in America against our public school method of education, the work done by Professor Dewey and others?
60315You surely do not mean the American public school system?
60315You want to know my views on the present situation and my attitude toward the Bolsheviki?
60315And Shatov?
60315And his scheme-- was it the Revolution?
60315And our children?
60315And then, was not Lenin also guilty of the same methods?
60315And who will rest in these homes?
60315But how can they get more work out of us?
60315But what is this strange writing on the wall?
60315But what was I to tell them, and would they believe me if I did?
60315But, then-- had not Zorin told me that capital punishment had been abolished in Russia?
60315Could such a condition of affairs be avoided in a revolutionary period and in a country so little developed industrially as Russia?
60315Did I"intend to remain a free bird"was one of his first questions, or would I be willing to join him in his work?
60315Did he not fear I would report him?
60315Did not Zorin say that capital punishment had been abolished?
60315Did the American woman believe in free motherhood and was she familiar with the subject of birth control?
60315Did you see any shortage of food there?
60315Do the visitors know anything about us?"
60315Free speech, free press, the spiritual achievements of centuries, what were they to this man?
60315Had I misunderstood the meaning and nature of revolution?
60315Had the Red Dawn broken into the narrow lives of these ascetics?
60315Had the Revolution penetrated even the walls of superstition?
60315How can they be blamed?
60315How could they be guilty of the terrible things charged against them?
60315How did these things get to the markets?
60315How explain this astonishing lack of response?
60315How soon will the Revolution be there?
60315How, then, could the Bolsheviki maintain themselves in power?
60315I had never called upon the police before, I informed him; why should I do so in revolutionary Russia?
60315If the Revolution really had to support so much brutality and crime, what was the purpose of the Revolution, after all?
60315Is that what you mean?"
60315Is there any change in the world?
60315Look at the bread,"he said, holding up a black crust;"can we live on that?
60315Occasionally they sought to mask their killings by pretending a"misunderstanding,"for does n''t the end justify all means?
60315One of his first questions was,"When could the Social Revolution be expected in America?"
60315Or is it all an eternal recurrence of man''s inhumanity to man?
60315Or was it the political machine which the Bolsheviki have created-- is that the force which is crushing the Revolution?
60315Or was their great need of European help father to their wish?
60315Was I to join this tragic procession, submit to the political yoke?
60315Was it different in America?
60315Was not violence inevitable in a revolution, and was it not imposed upon the Bolsheviki by the Interventionists?
60315Was their judgment so faulty because they had been cut off from Europe and America so long?
60315Were not initiative and freedom essential?
60315Were the conditions I found inevitable-- the callous indifference to human life, the terrorism, the waste and agony of it all?
60315Were these really nuns?
60315What about persecution and terror-- were all the horrors inevitable, or was there some fault in Bolshevism itself?
60315What are the Workers''and Peasants''Soviets doing?
60315What did it mean?
60315What except moral defection could result from such a heritage?"
60315What greater service could one render the Russian people?
60315What had happened?
60315What is the Communist Government doing for these unfortunates?
60315What relation could there be between Tammany Hall, Boss Murphy, and the Soviet Government?
60315What was his opinion?
60315What was that machine?
60315Who defeated Denikin and the other counter- revolutionary generals?
60315Who directed its movements?
60315Who else but the people, the peasants and the workers, made it impossible for the German and Austrian army to remain in the Ukraine?
60315Who triumphed over Koltchak and Yudenitch?
60315Who was buying the finery of the past, and where did the purchasing power come from?
60315Why are we kept here?"
60315Why be surprised now?"
60315Why did Zorin resort to lies?
60315Why did not Shatov come to meet us?
60315Why did you come to starving Russia?"
60315Why had he been silent so long?
60315Why should one have to give up his freedom, especially in educational work?
60315Why should they have to gather in secret and in such a place?
60315Why should they not learn how the Russian people live?"
60315Why this shooting?
60315Would I have believed any adverse criticism before I came to Russia?
60315Would he see me?
60315Would it ever come to Russia?
60315Would she see me?
60315Would the watchmaker take fifty pounds?
60315Would we join in the work?
60315Zinoviev, Radek, Zorin, Ravitch, and many others I had learned to know-- could they in the name of an ideal lie, defame, torture, kill?
60315is that what we made the Revolution for, or was it to do away with masters?
60315who is it calls for such a luxury?"
5633All right, then, is there any reason why the news wo n''t wait for the weekly?
5633Americanized?
5633And it never happened-- any of it?
5633And the Eager Soul?
5633And the French officer de liason between the French army and the American ambulance, what of him?
5633And the ending-- will you have a happy ending?
5633Any of your relatives in the war?
5633Any one hurt, Singer?
5633Are n''t the visions of the young men, and the dreams of the old always happy? 5633 But Germany?"
5633Did you leave the shell hole?
5633For both?
5633Fried chicken, do n''t you suppose?
5633Has her hair slopped over yet?
5633Have n''t you heard-- haven''t you heard?
5633How much,he asked,"will these be?"
5633How much?
5633Hurt badly?
5633Liberties rather than privileges?
5633Liberties?
5633Mrs. Chessman-- this is practically her hospital]"Nice sort?"
5633My-- what?
5633On leave?
5633Only bran?
5633Say, will you interpret for us?
5633Sprecken sie Deutsch?
5633Then he did it"Not that fellow?
5633Well, how?
5633What is that music?
5633What odds are you giving now, Bill?
5633What part of the states do you Canadians come from?
5633What''s this land worth an acre?
5633Where were her voices?
5633Where you whistled the''Meditation from Thais,''in the moonlight?
5633Where( read this line with feeling and emphasis)"is the abri?"
5633Who was this Gilded Youth?
5633Who-- that man? 5633 Why,"asked Henry of an English speaking bystander,"do n''t you put that in your daily newspaper; why keep up the old custom?"
5633Why?
5633You mean our ambulance boy who came over on the boat with you-- the multimillionaire?
5633Your husband, there?
5633Allen?"
5633And Henry, still in pursuit of useful social information, insisted:"Well, are they as nice in the war zone as they are-- on the boat?"
5633And he asked,"Have you heard the news from the big base hospital?"
5633And is n''t she a peach; and does n''t she kind of warm your heart and make up for the hardship of your youth?"
5633And one child edged up to him in awe and asked,"O sir, were you indeed born in a manger?"
5633And when he thanked us for our trouble, Henry asked again:"Did she tell you that the Gilded Youth was there at her hospital?"
5633And who could make a currant tart without these?
5633Any children?"
5633As he cranked up his car he asked rather too casually,"Have you seen our friend from the boat-- the pretty nurse?"
5633Bill,"sighed Henry,"what would you give if you could talk like that-- again?"
5633Bill-- Bill, you wo n''t ever tell this in Wichita, will you?"
5633But from me, drowsily, came this:"Henry-- do you suppose she will get around to that slapping tonight she promised him on the boat?
5633But with the men all gone what shall we do when we want to be petted?"
5633But--"THE GILDED YOUTH:"Well, Auntie-- would you mind telling me how--?"
5633Did he make no warning sign?"
5633Did you ever have a red- headed sweetheart in those olden golden days, Henry?"
5633Do you suppose they are going to leave after the war?
5633Does that not make them stand by the shop instead of working against it?
5633For his wounded hand?
5633For the Prussians?
5633For their Babylonian philosophy?
5633From me:"Is Mr. Allen in his room?"
5633From the hall boy:"He is, sir; shall I go for him, sir?"
5633Have a cigarette?"
5633He likes to distinguish between himself and his wound and is likely to reply to the doctor any fine morning,"Me?
5633Her strong fine face lighted with something kind enough for a smile, as she answered:"Could n''t you go out and see him?
5633How can they make love in such a place?"
5633How did they record local history?
5633How do they know about the scandal?
5633How do they know how to vote?
5633How often do you fellows polish Fritzie off and clean up the trench?"
5633Is education expensive in England?"
5633Is n''t it a developed middle class feeling that accepts the shop as''their kind of people''now?"
5633Is n''t that so?''
5633It is told of a Canadian who came across a squad of Germans with their hands up that he asked:"How many are you?"
5633It makes you into somebody else... you''ve died so many times you''re like a walking corpse... isn''t that just how you feel?''
5633Looking casually at it Henry asked:"Shall we require one of those?"
5633My hand was on the elevator button jabbing it fiercely, and my lips replied,"Yes-- yes-- say-- Do you know whether Mr. Allen is in our room?
5633Shall I get him?"
5633She listened to us for a moment, then hopped aboard our talk like a boy flipping a street car:"Kansas-- eh?
5633So Henry asked:"You received your letter?"
5633So I cleared my throat and said:''Well Medill, do n''t you think we''d better excuse ourselves to his majesty and go?''
5633THE GILDED ONE:"But you never mentioned it to me?"
5633The points break off, or are worn off-- what difference does it make?
5633The supreme councils of the Allies-- what are they?
5633They both shouted,''Oh, is Madame an American?''
5633WE:"Now, boys, does that always happen?
5633WE:"Well, how often?"
5633WE:"What''s this story about you Canadians not taking any prisoners?"
5633What did he care for the war?
5633What if your house and mine had ten or twenty fine soldiers in it, and we were away and our wives and daughters were there alone?
5633What were gardens made for in this drab earth, if not for sanctuaries of lovers?
5633What would happen in Wichita and Emporia-- or back East in Goshen, New York, or out West in Fresno or Tonapah?
5633When it occurred to me to ask:"What does your husband do for a living?"
5633White?"
5633White?"
5633White?"]
5633Who do you think is in the trenches now... is the bourgeois class?
5633Why are you so loose in your discipline?
5633Why do n''t the Americans GET in it if they are going to?
5633Why do n''t you treat your officers with more respect?"
5633Why not then let the story of this war and its barbarities die with this generation?
5633Why ruin it?"
5633Why should I?
5633Why should we for ever breed hate into the heart of our people to grow eternally into war?"
5633You go ask Mrs. Ritz if she will furnish soap for twenty?"
5633[ Illustration with caption:"Col- o- nel, will you please carry my books?"]
5633[ Illustration:"What part of the States do you Canadians come from?"]
43124Ah, yes,I said, as though that was the place from which one naturally expected one''s friends to be arriving,"and what business took you there?"
43124And no doctors near?
43124And none in the village?
43124Any rooms available later, in case of need, in the inn?
43124But is there any alternative way of getting home?
43124But would we pay for it?
43124Can we see him and make arrangements?
43124Did n''t you mean to go with your column?
43124Have you no clocks or watches?
43124How deep is that snow? 43124 How do you do, Mrs. Stobart?
43124How much bread?
43124I never have anything the matter with me, and if a doctor passes me? 43124 Is n''t that wood?"
43124Ja, Maika?
43124May I rely on this being done?
43124Now, Colonel, where is it to be?
43124Should we be of more use here or at Jelendo?
43124Was there a large population who would be likely to avail themselves of the dispensary?
43124Were they asleep?
43124What does it say?
43124Who was in charge?
43124Why on earth,he asked at last,"are you all eating separately?"
43124Why wo n''t you take it? 43124 Yes, but how are we to know when it is four hours?"
43124Yes, by all means; first or second class?
43124Yes,I replied, also complacently,"and one day Gospodine Svesternik will come and ask,''where are my pigs?''
43124A broken leg, even a broken neck, more or less, of what consequence would such trifles be in the general havoc?
43124And do n''t you know that ours is the only column that has lost no men from desertion?
43124And then, at last, we saw ahead of us, lights-- of Medua?
43124And to the left of this, apart, a collection of lights like those from the cabins of a big vessel, and above, were those the mast- head signal lights?
43124And what about the nerve of the woman chauffeur?
43124And what about the water?
43124At this last moment was our equipment to be destroyed and our work to be stopped?
43124Autocratic government is giving place to democratic government, on earth; may not our view of an autocratic God also be doomed to disappear?
43124But could other words have added to the pathos?
43124But had they, I asked, at least, during their time in Berani, secured bread and hay for men and cattle?
43124But here we were now, and what should we do?
43124But how should I go?
43124But how were we to move the patients?
43124But is there glory on this bloodstained earth?
43124But the elder girl was already useful, and I wondered if the childless woman would keep a very vigorous look- out for that lost mother?
43124But was woman incapable of taking a responsible share in national defence?
43124But what form should woman''s share in national defence assume?
43124But what on earth was to be done with the spoon?
43124But why crave an all- powerful God?
43124But why should anyone fear responsibilities that come in the course of work?
43124Can anyone be all- powerful unless he exists without conditions?
43124Could I not hear that the Bulgarian guns sounded louder and louder as they drew nearer every hour?
43124Could the wisdom of Woman bring us to a worse abyss than this?
43124Could they, I wondered, feel that this was happening?
43124Could they, we asked, have a more practical proof of sympathy than that?
43124Could this be believed?
43124Could we dare to think of home, and of those we loved, from whom, during three long months, we had had no tidings?
43124Could we dare to think, for the first time, of rest from cold and hunger, treks and columns?
43124Could we help him in any way?
43124Could we-- that is, could the Army-- possibly escape?
43124Did n''t I know St. Ilyia?
43124Did they wish to make it more difficult?
43124Do you understand?"
43124Do you understand?"
43124For a moment I was in trepidation; what was coming next?
43124For what were our troubles compared to the sufferings of this driven nation?
43124Had I not come from afar to help their country, and would they be less patriotic than the stranger from another land?
43124Had these arrived too late?
43124Had we missed the road in the dark, and were we about to stumble into the Lake of Scutari?
43124Has there ever been a time during the last five hundred years when Serbia could rejoice with a light heart?
43124He asked the question which I always dreaded,"Where are the English?"
43124He was much enjoying his dinner, and the Colonel said,"I expect you would like to stay in this hospital half a year?"
43124He was very excited, and asked why in the name of-- I think he said Heaven-- we had encamped in this place?
43124How could I help asking myself where, in all this hell, is God?
43124How could I help loving these men?
43124How could I help sharing some of this grievous load of sorrow?
43124How could even their enemies have painted these simple- minded, clean- living peasant soldiers, as fierce, fighting- loving savages?
43124How could he have transported them, and where could he have taken them?
43124How could mountains be beautiful which enclosed such sorrow?
43124How could their air invigorate, when it carried, not the scent of flowers, or the breath of the sea, but the stench of the unburied dead?
43124How much did he want?"
43124How much hay have you found?"
43124How would the staff and their baggage then be carried?
43124How, then, could I doubt?
43124However desperate the remedy, must not the help of woman be hailed, to save life from the abyss?
43124I asked who was St. Ilyia?
43124I wondered what they were going to do, and I tried to remember the Serbian words for"What''s your business?"
43124I would often stop her and ask hopefully,"Any grievances to- day?"
43124In such drab surroundings, where did it get that colour?
43124Is it a wonder that the Serbian peasant forgets to see the hand of God in all his suffering?
43124Is it a wonder?
43124Is man jealous of God, that he destroys God''s handiwork, and spares his own, when he runs amok?
43124Is the God who withholds them-- is the God who is now permitting our European holocaust-- is He, in fact, all- powerful?
43124Is there any school building handy in case of emergency weather in the coming autumn and winter months?"
43124Is war perhaps another extravagant device of Nature; or is society, which encourages war, blindly copying Nature for the same end?
43124Laughing, singing, acting, reading, playing cards, flirting, quarrelling-- how many were doing these things for the last time?
43124Major Protitch explained our intention, and asked if there was much sickness amongst the people?
43124Man has failed, but may not this be because the force required for the extinction of the flame, is not physical, but spiritual?
43124May not all- powerfulness have to go the way of jealousy, anger, and all the other human attributes with which primitive man endowed his deity?
43124May not the germs of human evolution be within the human soul, for us to develop or to neglect at will?
43124Might the staff not enter this Land of Promise while I saw the Consul?
43124Mrs. Stobart, why are you so late?
43124Must I dip my fingers in it or drink it?
43124No?
43124Of all these doctors, nurses, orderlies, administrators, chauffeurs, interpreters, how many would return?
43124One day we found a mouse''s nest, and a woman who heard us talking about it, asked us eagerly what we had done with the young mice?
43124One should be taken and the other left?
43124Or was heaven quite shut out by earth?
43124Or was there another alternative?
43124Or were the Albanians taking this easy opportunity of attacking convoys?
43124Ought I to put it into the glass of water?
43124Strange that when men symbolise religion they adopt the garb of women?
43124The absorbing consideration still was,"should we meet the French and English before the Bulgars caught us up?"
43124The priest then wanted to know if English clergymen might marry two wives?
43124The priests thought it very strange that a clergyman should be a chauffeur; they asked if he was married?
43124Their nation and their Army were impoverished by previous efforts; would it not now be wise to save their country from further devastations?
43124Then came an exciting moment; were we to go towards Prizrend or Montenegro?
43124There was no one to say"Poor dear, are you hurt?"
43124To whom does it belong?"
43124Towards what fate were each and all being borne?
43124Up to now they had a splendid record of behaviour; would they not keep it unsullied to the end?
43124Was anyone going to translate the speech for us?
43124Was it a wonder that men also were lying dead, and dying, in hundreds by the roadside?
43124Was it a wonder?
43124Was it only we who were moving?
43124Was my task an easy one?
43124Was not the history of a gigantic crime against his nation revealed in that one word?
43124Was our position, I wondered, another of the glories of war?
43124Was she waiting for me to take another spoonful of jam?
43124Was this the Serbia of which such grim accounts had reached us?
43124Were the Bulgars closing in upon us in front?
43124Were there still such things as stars?
43124Were these also lost to him when Nish was captured by the enemy?
43124Were they all dead?
43124Were we after all to be beaten by that beastly"Nema"?
43124Were we, as adjuncts of the Serbian Army, sailing to life or death, to victory or defeat?
43124What fate would befall us, and those who were left behind, before we met-- if ever-- again?
43124What has now become of them?
43124Where did camp fires end and stars begin?
43124Where else could I put it?
43124Where was now the carpet- making industry?
43124Where were the French and English troops?
43124Where, he asked, could they go?
43124Where, we asked each other, were the French and the English?
43124Which of the two was the more truly civilised?
43124Who could say that there was no woman''s movement in Serbia?
43124Who would tend her, and the others, if she contracted the disease?
43124Who''d be an archangel?
43124Why are they withheld?
43124Why should Turkish coffee, the only coffee that is invariably good, be always served in thimble- sized cups?
43124Why should not the Serbians have acted as the Bulgarians had acted?
43124Why should they not save their country from further invasion, avoid further conflict, and come to terms with Austria?
43124Why should they?
43124Why then talk of death as though it were an ending?
43124Why"Allelujah!"?
43124Why, and for whose benefit, should their beautiful land and their heroic people be further sacrificed?
43124Will the day ever come, I wondered, when"the arrogance of the proud shall cease and the haughtiness of the terrible be laid low?"
43124Will the time ever come when Serbian swords can be beaten into ploughshares, and their bayonets into pruning hooks?
43124With"Dobro"on the tip of the tongue-- every tongue-- Serbian and English tongues alike, how could there be"confusion of tongues"?
43124Woman has hitherto protected the concrete life of individuals; must she not now, in an enlarged sphere, also protect the abstract life of humankind?
43124Woman may be less heavily handicapped in an attempt to understand it?
43124Would Kievo ever come in sight?
43124Would bread follow, or must I now take a spoonful of jam?
43124Would he very kindly write a note for us to the Prefect?
43124Would it soon be broken by a murderous sound echoing through the valley?
43124Would our priest- chauffeur, who was sure to marry some day, be allowed to marry again if his first wife died?
43124Would the Lord God not also condemn our practice?
43124Would the lights of San Giovanni de Medua never come in view, and what should we find when we arrived?
43124Would this also be deserted?
43124Would this place also be evacuated, or should we be able to buy some much- needed articles of clothing here?
43124Would you like a biscuit?"
43124are they ill?"
43124sent the order by you now, or given you a message?"
43124would like to see me now?
59489''And where is Rougeau?''
59489''And you,''I said--''what is the matter with you?''
59489''And, after all,''said the Adjutant- Major,''where could he go, in the midst of the enemy?
59489''Before I tell you, have you a bit of something to eat about you?''
59489''Do you remember,''he said,''the day of the Battle of Eylau, when we were on the right of the church?''
59489''For whom?''
59489''How do you think I am to give you a hand?''
59489''How is that?''
59489''How the devil do you remember their names?''
59489''I am not mistaken,''she said, addressing me by name--''_mon pays_, is it you?''
59489''Is it possible?''
59489''Is that all?''
59489''It passed you,''said the Vélite,''and yet you did n''t see it?
59489''No, no; not at all.... Do n''t you see it is that brute of a General Roguet striking at everybody with his baton?
59489''Now I do,''I said;''but what can you do with him?''
59489''Then this is not fat, is it, rascal of a Spaniard?''
59489''To me?''
59489''Well, what is it?''
59489''Well,''said the good fellow,''which way now for us?''
59489''Were you very frightened, poor fellow?''
59489''What do you mean?''
59489''What do you mean?''
59489''What is that firing?''
59489''What, Russians?''
59489''Where has my cart got to?''
59489''Where the devil do you come from, comrade, that I have n''t met you while I''ve been walking all alone?''
59489''Where?''
59489''Where?''
59489''Who told you anything about her?''
59489''Who?--I?''
59489After seeing nearly everything, the Colonel said:''And what about the non- commissioned officers?''
59489An infantry soldier, the sentinel, called out:''Who goes there?''
59489And what about feeding her?''
59489And where the devil have you come from?
59489And where''s your_ queue_?''
59489And you?
59489At last, breaking the silence, I asked in rather a trembling voice:''Are you a Frenchman?''
59489But an instant afterwards:''Why, my dear fellow, is it you?
59489But do n''t you recognise Mouton?
59489But hardly was I inside, when I heard the click of a musket, and a deep voice said:''Who goes there?''
59489But several began questioning them, in particular the old Chasseur, who said:''How is it you are on horseback, and dressed like a Cossack?
59489But what could we do?
59489But what is to become of me?''
59489But where could I get wood to relight the fire?
59489But where is she?''
59489Combien sont- ils?
59489Combien sont- ils?
59489Combien sont- ils?
59489Could I have spent 315 francs?
59489Do n''t you see it, too?''
59489Do you not think he would be able to bring down his man?''
59489Do you remember when we embarked at Toulon on our way to Egypt?...''
59489Do you understand, sir?''
59489For sole answer, Marie sighed, saying,''How can you chaff an unhappy woman like me?''
59489Have n''t I been with him nearly five years, ever since the Battle of Eylau, and I''m not married?
59489Have you been in the rear- guard?''
59489Have you forgotten it, Picart?''
59489Have you met some of our men behind?''
59489He went on:''Did you notice how he looked at us?''
59489Hearing nothing more, I began to think my senses had deceived me, and I called out as loud as I possibly could:''Where are you?''
59489How is it that you are alone?
59489How many cartridges have you?''
59489How''s this?
59489I remember an old officer of this battalion, as he went forward, singing Roland''s song:''Combien sont- ils?
59489I said:''It''s I you are looking for, is n''t it?''
59489I went up to him, and, taking him by the arm, I said,''What is the matter with you, Picart?''
59489In our present dreadful circumstances, how could such music have been possible-- and, above all, at such an hour?
59489Is n''t that a column of troops?''
59489Is n''t that like Picart?''
59489Is that you?
59489Just then an officer galloped up, and, addressing the prisoners in French, he said:''Why do n''t you walk faster?''
59489Of what company is he?
59489On all sides we heard cries of''Who has seen my horse?''
59489One of them said to me,''Sergeant, suppose we put one of these guns into the hands of that peasant there who is trembling beside the stove?
59489Recognising me, he said:''Well, what are you doing there?
59489Several of them, on seeing me, began to call out,''Who would like 100 francs for a twenty- franc piece in gold?''
59489The Adjutant- Major, Roustan, ran to me and, seizing me by the arm, said:''My poor Bourgogne, are you wounded?''
59489The Colonel instantly said:''Sapper, you are wounded?''
59489The nearer I got to it, the better I seemed to recognise it, and at last I cried:''Is it you, Béloque?
59489Then, dragging me behind a bush, he said in a low voice,''Do n''t you see?''
59489To guard against a surprise, I drew my sword, and, advancing towards the man, I cried,''Who are you?''
59489Two of them spoke to us; one cried,''Comrades, are you going to kill the horse?
59489We had not been resting an hour, when we heard a shout,''Who goes there?''
59489We placed the Chasseur as comfortably as possible, and then left him to his melancholy fate; what else could we do?
59489What brought you here in the middle of the night?''
59489What do you say to that, Marie?''
59489What do you say, Marie?''
59489What do you want?''
59489What else could one do?
59489What have you been doing?
59489What in the devil''s name do you do with those queer customers, and where did you find them?
59489What is it?''
59489What object could these men have, almost dying as they were, in telling us this story, if it were not true?
59489What were we to do?
59489What will become of me?''
59489Where are they?''
59489Where are we?''
59489Who wants some?
59489Why, then, did we not leave a town where there were no houses to shelter us, and no provisions to feed us?
59489You remember that when we were leaving Moscow you entrusted me with a parcel?
59489[ 34] As I ate I said:''Picart, have you any brandy?''
59489[ Footnote 13:''Combien sont- ils?
59489_ From a sketch made at the time by an officer of Napoleon''s army._]''And the woman?''
59489he answered, as if only just awake,''is n''t the Emperor inspecting us?''
59489he exclaimed;''what is the good of that?
59489he said;''it is n''t you, Bourgogne?
59489he said;''that''s why I remind you of it, and ask you if a little patience and industry would not have mended your pan?''
59489is that you, Mother Gâteau?''
59489said the Marshal;''and why should you do it?
59489what will become of all these brave young fellows?''
50807Alas, what more can we do than beg you to bear up?
50807And you are still alive?
50807Anything in sight?
50807Are the stretcher- bearers coming?
50807Are you a submarine officer?
50807Are you as much troubled as ever by spies?
50807Are you going out to be strafed at?
50807But how was it that your guns were firing at a farm which you were occupying?
50807But my wife? 50807 But why did you love him so?"
50807Did any one see a German nurse in the house or yard?
50807Did it make you sick?
50807Do n''t you think, Sister Madeleine, that in one respect-- my unkempt appearance-- I shall not make a bad substitute?
50807Germans?
50807Has there ever been a fight between two submarines?
50807Have YOU any superfluous hair?
50807How did you get to the upper story?
50807How do I feel?
50807How far away can you use a torpedo?
50807How far is it to the nearest port, captain?
50807How many German submarines are there in the Mediterranean?
50807How old are you?
50807How will our chap get back to us now?
50807How? 50807 I wonder if we could capture those guns?"
50807In that event what would happen to you?
50807Is he delirious or what?
50807Is there an age limit?
50807Is there any fresh water around these parts, sir?
50807Is this life better than on a battleship?
50807Ja?
50807Ja?
50807My passports?
50807Never less?
50807Our guns?
50807Suppose I crouch down and run the risk of them passing without seeing me?
50807Vy did n''t you stop before?
50807Well, laddie,he said,"how are you?"
50807Well,answered the Junior Subaltern,"did I not say that there was such a thing as justifiable killing of the wounded, for us as for the Germans?
50807What can be done?
50807What could be wrong, Doctor?
50807What is it-- bombs?
50807What is it?
50807What makes it better?
50807What on earth do you mean?
50807What was the worst part of that service?
50807What wife? 50807 Where am I?"
50807Where are we going to?
50807Where are you going?
50807Where is the luggage of this woman?
50807Where is the wife?
50807Who are you?
50807Why did you quit it?
50807Wonder what they are waiting for?
50807You have been wounded?
50807You remember when we took Bouchavesnes? 50807 You''re the North Shavli crossing- keeper, are n''t you?
50807Your passports, madame? 50807 _ Ja?
50807_ Ja? 50807 *** And what difference does it make to them whether you shoot them or throttle them? 50807 ***What else could we do?"
508072"Did you ever go over the top?"
508073"Did you ever go over the top?"
50807And then----""You are n''t going to surrender, surely?"
50807Any news?"
50807Are n''t we,_ mes vieuz_?"
50807Are we together in heaven?"
50807Are you inclined that way?"
50807Are you ready?
50807Are you still there, North Shavli?
50807Are you still there, Shavli?
50807Are you there, Shavli?"
50807As a child which one of us has not stood at the grave of some unknown hero of forgotten days, thrilling with rapturous, fearsome awe?
50807But I can tell you a little of the experience I had last Wednesday week, the 15th, the time we had the pleasure(?)
50807But are you certain the_ Virgen del Socorro_ is in the market?
50807But does he groan and lament over it?
50807But what else can you do?
50807But what was to be done with the prisoners?
50807But who is Ludendorff?
50807But why did she go up?
50807But would she reach us in time before the pirates sent us to the bottom?
50807But, thought I, was it at all certain they_ were_ in pursuit?
50807Had our men been made prisoners?
50807He said to me:"''Do you know what has happened to that woman-- Susanna Raynal?''
50807He was going to look up at me and say,"Ja wohl?"
50807How can any one say prayers for a world which is at war, or for himself that is a part of it?
50807How did she come here?"
50807I am asked:"How did I arrive at the firm resolution to live only for the people?"
50807If I bought the baby, what could I do with her on a trip through Germany?...
50807If that is not so, what of the indiscretions of his clerk Hermann Fischer?
50807In need of help, are you?
50807Is that Shavli?"
50807Men come in that were sounding the marsh?"
50807One of our covering trenches must have given way, but which?
50807Otto, is that you?
50807Rudyard?"
50807She murmured in perplexity:"Dream, death?
50807Should they, the Prussians, be beaten by New Army men?
50807Somebody was shouting"Fetch the stretcher- bearers, you fools: are you going to leave me here?"
50807The bag was examined and what could they find in it but maps and proclamations?
50807The question is, how are we going to do that?
50807Was Delville Wood worse than High Wood?
50807Was he dreaming?
50807Was it because of the success of the first gas attack at Ypres that they now placed such reliance in gas shells?
50807Was it not clear that, indirectly, she had indicated a means of escape?
50807Was she to blame?
50807Were they really riding off?
50807What could I say to the old boy to persuade him?
50807What happened afterwards?
50807What lesson shall we extract from this titanic struggle?
50807What moral is pointed by Hill 196, whose every inch of ground was ploughed by bullets and soaked with our dearest blood?
50807What of the convincing evidence of the hotel and lodging- house keepers of Vigo who, all unknowingly, harbored the fugitives?
50807What of those of the intermediaries through whom the Vice- Consul got possession of the_ Virgen del Socorro_?
50807What on earth for?
50807What was happening?
50807What was it he said?
50807What was it that made every beardless boy a hero, made the oldest man in the"Landwehr"forget his age and the privations he was enduring?
50807What was this monster that was smashing men?
50807What were the underlying causes that contributed to our victory?
50807Whence had the band of marauders who had struck them down come, and how had they managed to steal into our lines without being seen?
50807Where are your passports?"
50807Where in civil life can be found any emotion so fine and strong as those?"
50807Where is he?"
50807Where is she?
50807Why do n''t you buy her?
50807Why must such suffering be?
50807Why not down?"
50807Why not?
50807Why should we be downhearted?
50807Why was he there, and what was the mystery surrounding his birth?
50807Will she come through the ordeal a stronger and nobler character or will she break down under it?
50807Would they not, in that case, have come on with a rush?
50807You have sent for help?
50807You know, I suppose, that the_ Virgen del Socorro_ is for sale?
50807[ 4]"Please, Herr Direktor, may I write a letter?"
50807_ 9th October_:_ Twenty minutes to four, two kilomètres from Estaires, scouting amongst beetroot fields._--Has the supreme moment come?
50807_ C''est compris?_ But if we''re to get there and back before light we must be off.
50807became an inquiry in the mess on the order of"Are you going to take an afternoon off for golf to- day?"
50807he said,"Did you ever go over the top?
50807he said,"Did you ever go over the top?
50807he said,"Did you ever go over the top?
6764''Say, sir?'' 6764 ''What shall I say?''
6764Am he a buckra[ white man]?
6764Captain----,said Montgomery, courteously,"would you allow me to send a remarkably fine turkey for your use on board ship?"
6764Come along, come along, And let us go home, O, glory, hallelujah? 6764 Daddy,"said the inquisitive youth,"do n''t you know mas''r tell us Yankee hab tail?
6764Den I go up to de white man, berry humble, and say, would he please gib ole man a mouthful for eat? 6764 Den I say,''Good Lord, Mas''r, am dey?''"
6764How many soldiers are there on the bluff?
6764How you do, aunty?
6764How you find yourself dis mor- nin'', Tittawisa( Sister Louisa)?
6764Huddy( how d''ye), Budder Benjamin?
6764I hab lef my wife in de land o''bondage; my little ones dey say eb''ry night, Whar is my fader? 6764 In de mornin'', In de mornin'', Chil''en?
6764Is it not Sunday?
6764Know what dat mean?
6764Lieutenant----,said Major Corwin,"may I ask your acceptance of a pair of ducks for your mess?"
6764O, must I be like de foolish mans? 6764 What care I how black I be?
6764What make ole Satan for follow me so? 6764 Who am dat?"
6764Who has the countersign?
6764Woffor Mr. Chapman made a preacher for?
6764& c. And I ax her, How you do, my darter?
6764& c. And I ax her, How you do, my mudder?
6764& c. And I ax him, How you do, my sonny?
6764& c."Do you tink she will be able For to take us all home?
6764)_ And she''s,& c. And how you know dey''s angels?
6764)_ And she''s,& c. Good Lord, Shall I be one?
6764)_''Fore we done sufferin''here?
6764And I remember that, on being asked by our Major, in that semi- Ethiopian dialect into which we sometimes slid,"How much wife you got, Jim?"
6764Are you going to let me and the children be killed, John?"
6764At best, might not a man in the water lose all his power of direction, and so move in an endless circle until he sank exhausted?
6764Besides, the pass itself permits her to bring necessary baggage, and is not a baby six months old necessary baggage?"
6764Besides, they would be in sight of the enemy, and who knew but there might, by the blessing of Providence, be a raid or a skirmish?
6764But how provide for the multitude?
6764But is the Government itself an irresponsible recruiting officer?
6764But what business had rushes there, or I among them?
6764Can not even the fact of their being in arms for the nation, liable to die any day in its defence, secure them ordinary justice?
6764Did n''t I keer for see''em blaze?
6764Do n''t you hear de trumpet sound?
6764Do n''t you hear de trumpet sound?
6764Do n''t you hear de trumpet sound?
6764Do n''t you hear de trumpet sound?
6764Do n''t you hear de trumpet sound?"
6764Do n''t you love God?
6764Do n''t you love God?
6764Do n''t you love God?
6764Do n''t you love God?
6764Does it not naturally suggest the most cruel suspicions in regard to us?
6764Florida Again?
6764For instance, a voice just now called, near my tent,--"Cato, whar''s Plato?"
6764How can I ever describe the charm and picturesqueness of that summer life?
6764I said, pointing to his lame arm,"Did you think that was more than you bargained for, my man?"
6764In de mornin'', In de mornin'', Chil''en?
6764In view of what they saw, did they still wish we had been there?
6764In what respect were the colored troops a source of disappointment?
6764Is it customary, I ask you, to help to tenderloin with one''s fingers?
6764Is there to be no limit, no end to the injustice we heap upon this unfortunate people?
6764Is this a school for self- sacrificing patriotism?
6764Jesus set poor shiners free, Way down in de valley, Who will rise and go with me?
6764M----''s prediction was fulfilled:"Will not---- be in bliss?
6764My brudder, how long, My brudder, how long, My brudder, how long,''Fore we done sufferin''here?
6764Napoleon ought to have won at Waterloo by all reasonable calculations; but who cares?
6764O, have you got your ticket?
6764O, is your bundle ready?
6764O, wo n''t you go wid me?
6764O, wo n''t you go wid me?
6764Of course my pride was up; for was I to defer to an untutored African on a point of pronunciation?
6764One of them was heard to mutter, indignantly,"Why de Cunnel order_ Cease firing_, when de Secesh blazin''away at de rate ob ten dollar a day?"
6764Sammy, what you''s doin'', chile?"
6764That having been the case, why should not the Government equally repudiate General Saxton''s promises or mine?
6764The single question which I asked of some of the plantation superintendents, on the voyage, was,"Do these people appreciate_ justice_?"
6764Too ole for come?
6764Was the economy of saving six dollars per man worth to the Treasury the ignominy of the repudiation?
6764Way down in de valley, Who will rise and go with me?
6764What ever are we to do for spoons and forks and plates?
6764What for use?
6764What was the use of insurrection, where everything was against them?
6764What were those black dots which everywhere appeared?
6764When some of them saw me they seemed a little dismayed, and came and said, beseechingly,--"Gunnel, Sah, you hab no objection to we playin'', Sah?"
6764Where is that faith of the Government now?
6764Who''s go dar?"
6764You tink you''s brave enough; how you tink, if you stan''clar in de open field,--here you, and dar de Secesh?
6764are we free?"
6764early in de mornin''; And I ax her, How you do, my darter?
6764what is the fun of fiction beside thee?
44970''You were? 44970 A shade- tail,"said he, meditatively,--"how should I know?
44970About what? 44970 And it''s nearly all white, and would make an excellent mark for some Johnny to shoot at, eh?"
44970And what would you do if you were?
44970Andy, do you think that fellow''s gun went off by accident, or was the rascal trying to hurt somebody?
44970Andy, what is a shade- tail?
44970Are those your orders?
44970Auntie, you''ve got a good many little folks to look after, have n''t you?
44970Beautiful night, Johnny, is n''t it?
44970Boys, it begins to look a little dubious, do n''t it? 44970 Boys, what are you trying to do?"
44970But is n''t it rather large?
44970But where are your cartridges?
44970By what right or authority, sir, do you presume to tell me that a pig is like an oyster?
44970Can you shoot?
44970General, shall we unsling knapsacks?
44970Harry, for pity''s sake, have you any water?
44970Harry, would n''t you like to go out on picket with us to- morrow? 44970 Harry,"said Lieutenant Dougal,"I have n''t any tin cup, and when you get your coffee cooked, I believe I''ll share it with you; may I?"
44970Has any of you fellows back there some coffee to trade for tobacco? 44970 How in the name of the American eagle is a man going to fight the battles of his country in such a uniform as this?
44970How''s Bony this morning, Andy?
44970I asked whether you could tell me what a shade- tail is?
44970It_ was_ a fowl trick, after all, Harry, was n''t it?
44970Major, you do n''t expect us drummer- boys to turn out, do you?
44970Rather a warm day for work in a cornfield, is n''t it, Joe?
44970Rather late in the morning to make such an offer, is n''t it? 44970 Say, Captain, tell us where are we going?"
44970See that hole? 44970 Well, Johnny?"
44970Well, what in the mischief''s up now?
44970Well, where is he? 44970 Well, your fifers have fifes, have n''t they?
44970Well,said Andy,"and what if he does?
44970Well,said I,"we caught those pigs, anyhow, did n''t we?
44970What are you going to do with that bottle?
44970What would you get at? 44970 What''s he doing down there in that hole?"
44970What''s up, fellows?
44970Where are we going, Pompey? 44970 Where are we going?"
44970Where did you get that chicken, Corporal?
44970Where is he?
44970Where''s my cap?
44970Where?
44970Who''s afraid of the Louisiana Tigers? 44970 Why did n''t they let us fight?
44970Why, Harry, is that you? 44970 Why, Smith,"said I,"is this you?
44970Why, do n''t you see? 44970 Why,"said the lieutenant,"what are you crying for, you big baby, you?"
44970Would you enlist, Andy, if your father would consent? 44970 You see the commissary yonder?"
44970_ Meat_ jumping around here? 44970 ''And if I might be so bold as to ask-- how did you generally kill them?'' 44970 ''I want dis yere water for Gen''l Grant; an''ai n''t he a commandin''dis yere army, or am you?'' 44970 ( You remember Warrenton? 44970 ***** And-- Andy? 44970 About the spring- fever, or about the war?
44970And I, too, looked; but where was Andy?
44970And beneath the starry flag We shall breathe the air again--""What''s that?"
44970And do n''t you remember how excited_ you_ were when the news came about Fort Sumter last spring?
44970And do n''t you think it''s pretty nearly time we should pay him back?
44970And how many do you think there were?
44970And the daughters, where were they?
44970And where in the world is the regiment?"
44970And why not, my boy?"
44970Andy and I thought, as we were driving in our tent- pins:"That''s pretty hard now, is n''t it?
44970Anybody know where Jim McFadden is?"
44970Are_ you_ there?"
44970Ay, the position is saved; but where is our corps?
44970But the wars of Cæsar and the siege of Troy, what are they when compared with the great war now being waged in our own time and country?
44970But what is to be done for a sick man whose only choice of diet must be made from pork, beans, sugar, and hard- tack?
44970But where have you been?
44970But where is he?
44970But where shall I get water to make the coffee with?
44970But, on consideration, I believe I would say,''Gentlemen, will you have a cigár?''"
44970Coming up quietly behind him, I laid my hand on his shoulder with:"Andy, old boy, have I found you at last?
44970Could n''t we somehow get a shelter and something to eat for the poor souls?"
44970Did he get cross?
44970Did he wish this cruel war was over?
44970Did n''t I watch your feet?
44970Did n''t you shoot just now?"
44970Did they steal his goods?
44970Did ye hear whar dey is now?''
44970Did you never eat frogs?"
44970Didn''I say better git off''n dat dar mule o''mine?
44970Do n''t you see?
44970Do n''t you see?
44970Do you ask how?
44970Do you remember the words well enough to repeat it?"
44970Do you see that?
44970Does he know me?
44970Ever had this, that, and the other disease?"
44970Every time you come up to this end of your beat, speak to me, will you?
44970Eyes good?
44970For the winter is past; the sweet breath of spring comes balmily up from the south, and the whole army is on the move,--whither?
44970Going to join the cavalry?"
44970Had he children at home, may be, in the far- off South?
44970Home?
44970Homesick?
44970How could he after so bold a dash into the horse- market?
44970How did we spend our time in winter quarters, do you ask?
44970How is it, now?
44970I fell to wondering, as I watched him, what sort of man he was?
44970I knew very well where McFadden was, for was n''t he lying right beside me in the grass?
44970In the midst of the excitement, father came in from the field and greeted me with,"Why, my boy, where did_ you_ come from?"
44970It concerns a question of emphasis, or rather, perhaps, of inflection, and it is this: Would you say,''Gentlemen, will you have a cigár?''
44970Just you keep an eye on my horse, will you?"
44970KILLED, WOUNDED, OR MISSING?
44970KILLED, WOUNDED, OR MISSING?
44970May I inquire what may be the question under discussion?"
44970Night set in, and we began to wonder, in all the simplicity of new troops, whether Uncle Sam expected us to march all night as well as all day?
44970Now that was rather hard, was n''t it?
44970Now why could n''t we catch and tame a shade- tail?"
44970Or a father and mother?
44970Or, may be,_ you_ had the spring- fever then?"
44970Shall we strike up a tent, or bunk down here under the pines?"
44970So there was not going to be any battle after all, then?
44970That would n''t be nearly so nice, would it?"
44970That''s fair and square, is n''t it?"
44970The case is-- let''s see; what''ll we call it?
44970The sutler seldom enjoyed much respect, as how could he when he flourished and fattened on our hungry stomachs?
44970Upon which up comes the corporal of the guard on a full trot, with his gun at a right- shoulder shift, and saying,--"Well, what''s up?"
44970Was it the moonlight so wondrously flashing?
44970We had no water for thirty- six hours, and, of course, no coffee; and what is life to a soldier without coffee?
44970Well, Major, did you ever kill anybody?''
44970Well, one man came up to me, and says he:"''Major, you were in the war, were n''t you?''
44970Were the sons in the war?
44970Whar you goin''dar?
44970Whar you gwine wid dat dar mule o''mine?
44970What cared we for bounty?
44970What do you mean?
44970What in the name of General Jackson did you come to the army for, if you ai n''t a- going to obey orders?"
44970What is a shade- tail?"
44970What they saw was only this-- that they wanted somebody to raid, and who could be a fitter subject than the sutler?
44970What was to be done?
44970What would they do with a mere boy like you?
44970What''s to hinder him?"
44970What''s up?"
44970Where are you hurt?"
44970Where are you hurt?"
44970Where is Jimmy Lucas?"
44970Where were the boys who, but a week before, had marched with us through those same fragrant fields, blithe as a sunshiny morn in May?
44970Where_ did_ it get to, anyhow?
44970Which will you do?"
44970Who are you?"
44970Who goes there?"
44970Who goes there?"
44970Why did not the officers punish the men for doing this?
44970Why did we not build winter- quarters, do you ask?
44970Why what do you mean?"
44970Why, where in the world are we going this time of year?
44970Why_ will_ he make me all this trouble?
44970Will you do it?"
44970Young or old?
44970_ Wo n''t_ you let me go?
44970and an oft- repeated"What do you think of this, boys?"
44970and gets his arm around my neck, is it any wonder?
44970and the"Star- Spangled Banner,"and"Away Down South in Dixie,"and-- in short, what in the world was a poor boy to do?
44970and would they ever come back again and set up their household gods in the good old place once more?
44970exclaimed I,"what in the name of all conscience do you want with a horse?
44970or''Gentlemen, will you have a cigàr?''"
44970said Andy, wiping the perspiration from his face,"what shall we do now?
44970said I, peering through the bushes,"is that you?"
44970was it the night- wind that rustled the leaves?
44970what do you think of this?
44970where did_ you_ come from?"
48229A game?
48229And Attila?
48229And the Territorials?
48229And you shot him?
48229Are you Lieutenant Capart?
48229Are you settled?
48229At least, you have done your bit for France by giving her''little St. André''s,''_ poilus_ and sturdy like yourself?
48229By the way, you have never told me-- do you know how to use a tooth brush?----"To shine the brass?
48229Can you read German, Capart?
48229Commandant?
48229Confess you here? 48229 Did not someone ask you if Captain Capart had returned?"
48229Did they not welcome you as they should?
48229Did you advance?
48229Did you spend a nice vacation?
48229Do you know Charles Dubois?
48229Do you know this territory well?
48229Fort Souville----"What are you doing?
48229General, it''s for the filth----"For what?
48229Good morning, St. André-- that you? 48229 Have you been under fire?"
48229He has been killed----?
48229Hey,I shouted, addressing them,"what would you say if you had a beautiful Parisian Princess in that box?"
48229How far is he?
48229How is it,I said,"that you are not at your post where you should be, or in the dugout in safety?"
48229How many Germans have you killed?
48229I know this sector better than anyone----"How is that?
48229I was going to ask the same question?
48229Not very good? 48229 Officer?"
48229Our post,they replied, stupefied,"our post-- what post, lieutenant?"
48229Perhaps you know someone there? 48229 Pretty hot up there?"
48229Several escaped?
48229Since you are fighting near him-- what is_ he_?
48229Sit down-- what have you to say to me?
48229The filth?
48229The password?
48229The password?
48229The saddest? 48229 This morning----""Where is he?"
48229Those cutthroats over there have done everything: they have violated women, young girls----"And the priests?
48229What are you doing there? 48229 What are you doing?"
48229What are you laughing at?
48229What is that you are reading?
48229What is the matter with you?
48229What trenches----?
48229What was that you said? 48229 What would I say,"returned an old corporal,"what would I say?
48229Where are the trenches?
48229Where are they?
48229Where are you going?
48229Where are you going?
48229Where do you come from?
48229Where have you been?
48229Who are you with?
48229Who are you?
48229Who goes there?
48229Who plays chess here?
48229Who told you that story?
48229Why were you crying a moment ago when I came up on you? 48229 Yes, I''m a K. C.""_ Cassé!_[23] Who is it that is hurt?"
48229Yes, what can I do for you? 48229 You are not married?
48229You remember me?
48229You replied?
48229_ Nom de Dieu_, do n''t you know_ our_ 75''s?
48229*****"And the portrait?"
48229?
48229?
48229?"
48229A man, aside from the others, had listened closely without speaking-- the others turned toward him:"And you,_ le vieux_, what would you say?"
48229And turning toward the young girl who served him, he added,"Mademoiselle, will you place another cover for the lieutenant?
48229And you,_ poilu_,"he added, turning toward my sapper,"to what religion do you belong?"
48229Are they the Old Guard and our_ poilus_, our brave_ poilus_?
48229Can I kill him?"
48229Can they no longer stay at home, the pigs?
48229Can this be the happy little fellow of the night before?
48229Can you imagine a woman in such a place?
48229Coming outside, a_ poilu_, with an undefinable accent, says:"Then they''re going to spring it to- night?"
48229Commandant de Jonquières without rising from his chair cries out:"Anybody hit, men?"
48229Do you believe all those who have survived this horrible December winter, at Eparges, are martyrs?
48229Do you want to be elected?
48229Fortunately he continued in French:"Lost the road----""Where are you going?"
48229Gunther, where did you unearth this marvelous stuff?"
48229Have you got a comb?"
48229He can not enjoy himself and laugh like the others?
48229How did it happen?"
48229How is it going?"
48229How long was all this going to last?
48229I find a group of Marines seated on the ground chatting and I listen----"What is the saddest thing you have seen, you?"
48229I lowered my voice and said:"Look, sergeant, what is the matter with that_ poilu_?
48229Is it too hot?"
48229Is that clear?
48229Is there anything wrong?"
48229It hit them hard so suddenly-- poor people----""And you, Pierre, what''s the saddest tale you know of?"
48229It is well that our_ poilus_ see that we are at their side-- are they not our brothers?
48229It wo n''t bother you if I have something to eat here-- sardines, a box of_ singe_ and some_ pinard_--you''ll have a portion?"
48229Judge my astonishment on reading the pamphlet, I cried:"They are absolutely crazy, both of them?
48229Of what was she thinking?
48229One of the men, gone completely mad, shouted:"Where are they?
48229Perhaps I interrupt you?"
48229Shall I replenish it?"
48229That''s a strange idea-- and why?"
48229That''s not it?
48229The means?
48229The music kept on playing-- the throng went wild-- was this not a beautiful dream after that horrible nightmare?
48229Then he murmured:"She will not arrive too late?"
48229Then she became impatient-- Why did she not come?
48229They fully apprehend now the return-- what will become of them?
48229They suffer?
48229War?
48229We landed easily on the ground, but our"cuckoo"broke a hidden telephone wire----"_ Hein!_ what do you think about it, Capart?"
48229We need many things badly, and, above all, miss you-- When is it all going to be over?"
48229We will have violaters, pillagers-- incendiaries----""In what category do you want to be, Father?"
48229What could be the matter?
48229What did you do?"
48229What must I do?
48229What would he have done if he had had airplanes?
48229When you get there what will give you the greatest pleasure after all the hardships you have endured?"
48229Where did he get it?
48229Where did you go?"
48229Who goes?"
48229Why has this accursed war broken out?
48229Why him and not us?"
48229Why is this wooden bridge called the"Brick Bridge"?
48229Would n''t you like to come in our home where it will be more agreeable than in the road?"
48229You are English?"
48229You believe my story to be ended?
48229You heard then that we recovered his body?"
48229You see that bridge?
48229You will find them in the basket that came from Bar- le- Duc with the provisions-- Where was I?"
48229You will remain and have lunch with me?
48229fortunately all goes well, practically no losses-- that right, Delage?"
48229he''s shot to hell-- but-- what about her?"
48229how good of you to come-- let me offer you a drink: some Turin, whisky and soda, Pernod, or Cassis-- which do you want?
48229there you are,_ mon gros_, why are you all dressed up?"
48229yes----""What''s the matter?
48663''Where is your father?'' 48663 And Pétain?"
48663And afterwards?
48663And how will Germany manage that?
48663And what of little Poli-- the beautiful Dragoon with the sky- blue coat?
48663And where shall I find the car?
48663Any casualties?
48663Anybody hurt?
48663Are you struck, Goliath?
48663Beg pardon, sir, where shall_ I_ go now?
48663But how do you manage to get those papers?
48663But where are the Main Headquarters?
48663By the way, had any more trouble with Minnie?
48663Did she do much damage?
48663Good, but how am I to get there?
48663Have you an entrenchin''tool?
48663Have you located her?
48663How can you believe these wild stories? 48663 How do you propose to go, Jerry-- by private balloon?
48663How does any ship go anywhere? 48663 How is Germany going to manage it?"
48663How many, Bobby?
48663How was that, General?
48663How?
48663Is that_ my_ boy-- is that_ my_ boy?...
48663Look here, my man,said Ayling,"do you, or do you not, know where you are?"
48663May I suggest an explanation?
48663Oo are yer?
48663Oo are yer?
48663Really? 48663 Seein''anything?"
48663The Emperor?
48663The name of the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army, General Moltke, does not impress you?
48663Then what the devil made them go there? 48663 They did n''t expect you to believe it, I hope?"
48663Up workin''?
48663Well, doctor, what''s she suffering from?
48663Well, it is a long journey,she said,"why should he take all that trouble when he could get your money in some other way?"
48663What about our chipping in with a one- fifty- five turn-- half a dozen H E shells into Minnie''s dressing- room-- eh? 48663 What about the British Navy on the way?"
48663What are you all laughing at? 48663 What are you doing?"
48663What do you think this is, a summer resort?
48663What is official?
48663What is the matter with your wounded man?
48663What is your profession, Bill?
48663What trenches wass you seeking?
48663What''s the matter?
48663What, Francesca, you arrive in tears at K----?
48663Where can we lodge for to- night?
48663Where did they tell you that?
48663Where have you been?
48663Where is the Red Cross Bureau?
48663Where is the hotel?
48663Where is your boy?
48663Where''s that?
48663Where?
48663Which Kaiser, Marischa?
48663Who can that be?
48663Who is he?
48663Why did they put Delcassé''s son in prison in the first place?
48663Why should he kill me?
48663Why-- would the German boats go near the British Navy?
48663Why?
48663Wo n''t you have to return to Göding and join your regiment now?
48663Wot matter whether I spend it on cards, wine, or women? 48663 Yes, am I not?"
48663Yes, battles_ are_ dangerous, are n''t they?
48663You do n''t think, then, that the Russians may break into Galicia?
48663You surely can scarcely imagine that any country could take such an ultimatum lying down?
48663''Where are the French that passed here?''
48663*****"Well, what am I going to do-- stay here for the rest of my life?"
48663A popular joke in the city then was:--"Was ist der Dreibund?
48663A truly peaceful atmosphere-- what?
48663Ai n''t yer got none?"
48663Am I not right?"
48663And I?
48663And this meant:"Life?
48663And what would you say the conversation was about?
48663Any German prisoners I see I always give them a cheery,"_ Wie gehts?_"and some of them answer"Good morning"in English.
48663Any casualties?"
48663Are his city and his home invaded?
48663Battles are so interesting, are n''t they?"
48663Besides, who would shoot that pair?"
48663But England wo n''t fight, so why should we break our heads about it?"
48663But the captain, how was the company to get on without him?
48663But what is that sudden disturbance in the front- line trench?
48663But who asserted that there were no Belgian soldiers left?
48663But you''ll take care of yourself now, wo n''t you: and not get killed?
48663But-- what is that light haze hanging over the enemy''s trenches?
48663By what wonderful organisation of the commissariat are these men housed and fed?
48663Ca n''t you really see that Germany is committing a crime in going through Belgium like that?"
48663Can it be----?
48663Could a king worthy of the name have acted in any other way?"
48663Death?
48663Do n''t you think one may be allowed to say that without being stamped as cruel and merciless?
48663Do you know what I long for more than anything else?
48663Do you remember how you laughed at my army shoes because they were so heavy?
48663Have you anything to say?"
48663His poor hand remains pressed to his brow and his eyes, doubtless to protect them against the baking sun, and I ask:"Why did you not cover his face?"
48663How could France declare war on any country when she was herself, as the whole world knew, so little prepared?
48663How do they lie?
48663How does roast beef, tomatoes, brown gravy, butter, tea, jam and apple dumplings sound?
48663How is it that there is no atmosphere of sadness about this half- empty town?
48663How many of them are there?
48663How the devil do they expect me to get my harvest in, if they take my men away?
48663How would he act now?
48663Humble child of our countryside, brief little life, what is he dreaming of, if he is still dreaming?
48663I can only say to all those who have asked me,"What of France?"
48663I said to a fellow,"Are you going up to the guns?"
48663I told her we had had no trouble at all, and she said:"What did you do?"
48663I wonder what difference you will find in us when we come home---- IV-- A NIGHT SCARE AT THE FRONT Do you know what a night scare is?
48663If one were not informed in advance and accustomed to them, could one divine what they can possibly be?
48663In what stage of decomposition?
48663Is it a wonder the people call him:_ Unser Hindenburg_?
48663Is it never permissible to shoot a prisoner?
48663Is n''t he a rotter?...
48663Is there anybody who knows how to caress like a mother?
48663Is there anything in the world that holds such rapturous joy?...
48663Most of the women tried hard to keep cool, and except for occasional screams of"Where is my husband?
48663Now, what about breakfast?"
48663Only a score of months ago who would have imagined such a face of things?
48663Or is he dreaming of the farm garden that held his earliest years?
48663Perhaps of his kerchiefed mamma, who wept happy tears every time she recognized his childish writing on an envelope from the front?
48663Shift him over, will you?"
48663Some experience between those two lines, eh?
48663Some section we have, have n''t we?
48663Something must be done, but what?
48663Telephone orderly, there?"
48663The Army commander, hearing the tale of the tunnel and the observation post, had remarked:"Sound gunner, is he?
48663The Princess quickly recovered and said----"Why do you worry about it, Jerry?
48663There was a frantic dash from the starboard entrances to the port side and from below women were shouting,"What shall we do?"
48663This I reduced and splinted, and in a short while Frank asked,"Is there a funny paper on the boat?"
48663To sit in the Kiel Canal, perhaps?"
48663Waddell, if I give you a shilling, will you take it over to the German trenches and ask them to drop it into the meter?"
48663Was it a heavy attack on our lines?
48663We shall sing"Where''s yer girl?
48663What can one do if one is so poor and so divided as we are?
48663What do you suppose Willy built his Dreadnoughts for?
48663What do you want?"
48663What does all this signify?
48663What does it matter?
48663What if at that moment the enemy should sight us?
48663What kind of man was it, then, whom the invisible powers of evil were employing to precipitate this insensate struggle?
48663What more could a man ask?
48663What right have I to stand above them, to buy glory with the shedding of their blood?...
48663What''s this?"
48663Where are the shells coming from?"
48663Where is my child?"
48663Who are you?"
48663Who can believe it?
48663Who can, even in Germany, be blind to the inevitable consequences of the events we are now witnessing?"
48663Who tells the story?
48663Who will say then that our dear France has lost her Faith?
48663Who would have thought that such deep, and also such solemn, notes could come from so small a steeple?
48663Why should I be chosen to represent an ideal?
48663Why should just I be the symbol?
48663Will the French not give up from sheer exhaustion of strength?"
48663Would you like to know what the German Crown Prince, the Crown Prince of Prussia, eats for supper?
48663X--"I CAN NEVER FORGET THOSE FACES"So many people have asked me, I had asked myself, the question before I went to France:"Are they not weary of it?
48663_ We shot him._ Was it honourable and just?
48663and if she did go out on the Wilhelm Platz and I shot her-- that would be her fault, would n''t it?"
32051A bit draughty, is n''t it?
32051About fifty in two days-- bit tough, eh?
32051All right; do you understand your orders?
32051Been attacked, then?
32051But ca n''t you find a better place than this, and with more room? 32051 But what are you doing in there?"
32051But what are you men doing here?
32051But what do the English people really think about the cause of the war?
32051But what happened after they left?
32051By the way, what about my orderly? 32051 By the way,"I shouted after him,"what is our destination?"
32051Ca n''t have any, then?
32051Ca n''t you forget it?
32051Captain, you are quite blind?
32051Come along, first man, what''s your regiment?
32051Comfortable?
32051Did the American Consul ever visit the lager?
32051Did they ever use them?
32051Does anybody know?
32051Excuse me,he said,"but were you in charge of the train last night?"
32051Fritz there?
32051Front line, sir?
32051Had n''t you better get yours, too?
32051Had n''t you better go to him, sir?
32051Has there been another battle in the North Sea, sir?
32051Have you any friends in either of them?
32051Have you been to the front yet?
32051Heard about Bill? 32051 How can you help it?"
32051How do you know that, sir?
32051How long have you been in the army, Septimus?
32051How many men have I charge of?
32051How so?
32051I do n''t know-- who?
32051I say, though, where does one sleep?
32051I''ve got orders to take half the battalion bombers from you; where are they?
32051I''ve got to report to him; will you tell him I''m here?
32051If every one felt the same way, who do you think is going to carry on the war?
32051In what way do you mean?
32051Is dot usual? 32051 Is there anything you want?"
32051Like it?
32051Like me to go and find it?
32051London must be full of soldiers?
32051My dear Cotton, when will you learn to gather information from your rations by a method of deduction?
32051Only one-- how many have you?
32051Quick, Arnold, my right pocket-- feel in it; some papers there-- a secret code-- take them out-- tear them up-- quickly; tell me have you done it?
32051See no light-- nothing, no?
32051Sergeant, excuse me, but is this the beastly hole where B Company is to be found?
32051Shall I have a go at them?
32051Six ounces of jam for the 19 Canadians; how much is that?
32051Then, I shall have to cross over the lower trench; is n''t that occupied, sir?
32051Well, but how does one keep order?
32051Well, did he know you had never been down to the station before?
32051Well, do you think when the war is over there will be any hard feeling? 32051 Well, had a good rest?"
32051Well, what does one have to do?
32051Well, what have you come here for?
32051Were you free to make any complaints to him if you wished?
32051What about ammunition and water, sir?
32051What about the blockade?
32051What are the trenches like, sir?
32051What are you doing here?
32051What are you filling your water- bottle for?
32051What are you fussing about for? 32051 What are you going to put it in?"
32051What camps have you got?
32051What do you usually get?
32051What for?
32051What happened?
32051What regiments do they belong to?
32051What''s up, D''Arcy? 32051 What''s up?"
32051When do you think the war will be over?
32051When is zero hour, sir?
32051Where do you buy such goot boots?
32051Where is Mr. Chislehirst, then?
32051Where is Mr. D''Arcy and Corporal Brown?
32051Where''s the Boche?
32051Which is the way to headquarters?
32051Why not, Cotton? 32051 Why, Septimus, is that you?"
32051Why, what is all this about?
32051Ye- s,he drawled,"but a demned overcrowded one-- what?"
32051You do not get the same rations at Osnabruck as private soldiers? 32051 You have dem give you, yah?"
32051Your billet? 32051 Your health, vot, is your health goot-- yah?"
32051A voice from somewhere behind me said:"This is death; will you come?"
32051Am I not better off, after all, than he who was born blind?
32051And what after?
32051And what are my feelings?
32051And what is taking place in England to- day?
32051And what of my wound-- how much longer must I go before it was attended to?
32051And what was happening to it all this time?
32051And where was Falfemont Farm?
32051Anxiously I glanced back toward the wood; why did they not come?
32051Any whisky and soda?"
32051Are the people left behind in England suffering hardships uncomplainingly, and gritting their teeth like you are?
32051Are we not on an island?
32051Are you taking us the right way?"
32051But are they the real heroes of the war?
32051But do we think of it enough, or have we forgotten it?
32051But even if we got there, how long could I hope to hold out with such a handful of men?
32051But how much do you get?
32051But those who wait at home-- what of them?
32051But what did this uncanny silence mean?--Arnold, where was he?
32051But what were those peculiar stumps to the left of our trenches?
32051But where was I?
32051But where were Septimus and the corporal?
32051But you are the guide, are n''t you?"
32051C Company will be in the wood on your left; and A Company will be on your right-- understand?"
32051Can I have one as my personal attendant?
32051Could we hope to accomplish the double task?
32051Did other people understand what life was?
32051Do I look starved?
32051Do you get_ all_ that?"
32051Do you happen to know?"
32051Do you know that for months past we''ve been digging a new line, a straight line between Lille and Verdun, which will shorten our line by half?
32051Do you mean to tell me that you are not sure of the way?"
32051Do you mean you sleep here?"
32051Do you think things will settle down, and we shall be able to live there again as we did before?"
32051Getting peppered pretty hot, are n''t you?"
32051Good morning; you relieve the---- Battalion, London Regiment, already-- yes?"
32051Got any water?"
32051Had I not made up my mind it would come?
32051Had I passed away, and was this the next life?
32051Has my kit arrived?"
32051Has the ammunition arrived yet?"
32051Have we not a barbed wire supplied by nature completely surrounding our country?
32051Have you ever experienced the feeling?
32051Have you ever had such a problem as that?
32051He spoke fairly good English:"You quite blind?"
32051He would sometimes sit by my bed for a chat:"Where were you wounded, Captain?"
32051His words came painfully:"The ammunition-- is it-- safe?"
32051Horror, anxiety, success, failure, mutilation, death; which was it to be?
32051How can I choose?"
32051How can I keep order in a train half a mile long with men I know nothing about?"
32051How could they stand it with such calm and determined indifference?
32051How do you pay?"
32051How long would I be left here unattended?
32051How many of those lying around, silent companions of their thoughts, were thinking the same as I?
32051How many wheelwrights''shops are there in England which could do to- day with one of the wheelwrights we are keeping idle behind barbed wire?
32051I could hear no guns-- a bed?
32051I was unarmed and helpless; what need to answer such a call?
32051I whispered to him:"What is that noise?"
32051I wonder if the other man is still drawing overtime, and wearing a war- service badge?
32051If Falfemont Farm got blown to smithereens like that, what chance did I stand?
32051If I were to crawl, which way should I go and where should I find myself?
32051Is it really true that some men in England are unable or unwilling to share the nation''s peril-- are even threatening to strike?
32051Is it really true that women in England are dressing more extravagantly than ever?
32051Is that the thing to do?"
32051It''s hell, is n''t it?
32051No?"
32051Passing along the line, I overheard two men talking in an undertone:"How do you like it, Timmy?"
32051Rather uncomfortable-- what?"
32051Seventy- nine pounds of cheese for the Manchesters; does any one know what seventy- nine pounds of cheese looks like?
32051Shall we do these things for a penny an hour?
32051Shall we do these things so that we can stand up for these so- called rights in England?
32051Shall we leave unprotected those desperate men across the valley, who are hanging on tooth and nail to those last trenches gained?
32051Shall we stop those guns for a penny an hour?
32051Surely I did before I started?
32051Surrender?
32051The man was taking off my boots:"Dese very goot boots, yah?"
32051Then he would speak, and each would find some word to make the other understand:"Cigarette, Capitaine?"
32051Unearthly row; devilishly dangerous place, this-- what?"
32051Uninteresting spot this-- what?"
32051WEEKS OF MOURNING Meanwhile, what was transpiring at home?
32051Was I not shot through the head and left to die?
32051Was it the ambition of a nation, guided by the despotic direction of a tyrant?
32051Was it then to come to this, after all?
32051Well, who cares?
32051Were our preparations to be nipped in the bud, after all?
32051What camp would you like to go to?"
32051What could it mean?
32051What did anything matter?
32051What did that mean?
32051What do they call it now?
32051What had been my suffering to theirs?
32051What had destiny in store for us?
32051What has happened?"
32051What have you brought with you?"
32051What if I should be lost all night?
32051What information did that man''s employer gain by the way the work was done?
32051What interpretation had been put upon my absence?
32051What is their quarrel to this?
32051What mercy could I hope from him?
32051What physical pain could compare with such anguish as theirs?
32051What strange wonder was this?
32051What time had I to make new plans and explain to each man his new task?
32051What time was there?
32051What was I to do next?
32051What was happening over there?
32051What was happening over yonder where those shells were dropping?
32051What was happening over yonder, where the iron of England''s anger was falling, bursting, tearing, killing?
32051What was that droning, whistling noise far overhead?
32051What was that?
32051What was the future?
32051What was the meaning of it all?
32051What was to be done?
32051What were a few bullets compared with the pluck and silent self- sacrifice of the women of Britain, who were untrained to bear such shocks?
32051What were they up to?
32051What will England think of this?
32051What would they think?
32051When would we get back, and how many of us?
32051Where are you off to?"
32051Where did he go?"
32051Where then could I be?
32051Where was the German line, and where was the British?
32051Where were the supports?
32051Where were we going?
32051Where''s the captain?"
32051Who are the true heroes of the war?
32051Who are those fellows creeping along that trench?"
32051Who detailed you?"
32051Who do you think is in there?"
32051Who ever heard of Leuze Wood before?
32051Who is there?"
32051Who told you that?"
32051Who would return in glory?
32051Whose power was it to transform these lives so ruthlessly from the habits of peace to become instruments of war?
32051Whose was the hand which plucked us from homes and families, to hurl us into the caldron of hell?
32051Why do n''t you strike at this critical moment?
32051Why should he want to talk to me?
32051Why were they biting their pencils and thinking so hard?
32051Why?"
32051Will the world ever know what these men faced and fought against-- these men of the City of London?
32051Will you form up farther to the left?"
32051Would it be a bullet or a bayonet thrust; and where would it strike me?
32051Would it be a sudden rush; a desperate hand- to- hand fight?--and then, what then?
32051Would we receive a similar reply?
32051Yet, who is there to tell their deeds if they fall?
32051You''ve lost, let us say, 700,000 men, and we have lost, say 500,000; and how far have you got?
32051You, who are being coddled under the protection of these guns, what is your quarrel to this?
32051and how was it possible to sit down quietly and digest those three pages of new orders and understand their meaning?
32051any news?"
32051looked up without turning a hair:"Any one hurt?"
32051what did that silence mean?
34973A secret organization?
34973Ah, a younger brother?
34973Ah?
34973All right,said Webster, immeasurably relieved,"but how do we manage it?"
34973An''dat young leddy am gwine to meet somebody, mebbe her husband, at de landin''?
34973An''you cum frum Richmun''dis mo''nin?
34973And if I am,said Scobell,"what do you want?"
34973And what if he is in the Federal army? 34973 Are you quite sure of that?"
34973Are you still keeping mum?
34973Are you subject to fits?
34973Are your names Lewis and Scully?
34973Arms? 34973 Bill Zigler, what are you doing here?
34973But about the authorities--I asked--"is there no danger to be apprehended from them?"
34973But how can that interfere with the election?
34973But what can we do?
34973But what crime has the stranger committed, that he should thus be taken into custody?
34973But where are you from?
34973But,said I,"have all the plans been matured, and are there no fears of failure?
34973Captain,said Mr. Scott, addressing him,"will you give me the particulars of the arrest of this man?"
34973Did he ask anything about me?
34973Did you come from the Yanks?
34973Did you ever see it done?
34973Did you see any one last evening who is inimical to the cause of the government?
34973Did you speak to me, sir?
34973Do n''t offer to touch me, Dan McCowan, or I''ll----"What would you do, now?
34973Do you know anything about the hotels there?
34973Do you know anything of McClellan''s plans for an advance?
34973Do you know this man, and that he is all right?
34973Do you know whether your mistress writes to any one besides her husband?
34973Do you suppose,added Webster,"that Kentucky will allow the Northern army to march through the State without showing fight?"
34973Drivers? 34973 Great G-- d, Webster, how did you manage to get away from the Yanks?"
34973Have the objects of the league been fully explained to him?
34973Have you arms enough for all of them?
34973Have you no more sense than to reveal yourself_ here_? 34973 His name?"
34973How did that occur?
34973How did you get through the Union lines?
34973How did you manage to get inside the camp?
34973How do the men who operate the machine manage to attach the magazine to the vessel they design to destroy?
34973How do you account for General McClellan''s''masterly inactivity''during all these months that his army lay at Washington?
34973How far is it to Wilson''s landing?
34973How often do you meet?
34973I am ready now, Major,said he, cheerily,"have you any further commands?"
34973I am, eh?
34973I can readily believe that,said the detective,"but if it is so dangerous here, how am I going to deliver these letters?"
34973I dun spose you''s on de way to Yu''ktown?
34973I thought you would come to your senses at last; but when did you come down here?
34973I understand; but who is this John Hart you mention-- can we trust him?
34973I want to telegraph to the_ Herald_,said the second correspondent--"what is the use of obtaining news if we can not utilize it?"
34973In Washington, sah,replied Uncle Gallus;"don''you remember you saw me at Majah Allen''s, when I was dah libin wid Missus Morton?"
34973Is Mrs. Morton in communication with her husband?
34973Is it a conspiracy to betray me into the hands of the enemy?
34973Is it a success?
34973Is n''t that a little severe?
34973Is the landlady all right?
34973Is there a new sensation this morning?
34973Is there no way of getting over about here at all?
34973Is your name John Hart?
34973It does not look very favorable for my reaching Washington to- morrow, then?
34973May I ask where you are from?
34973May I see him before he is taken away?
34973Names?
34973No doubt of it, Doctor; but how do you expect to get two hours''notice?
34973No, I do n''t remember you,said Webster, determined to ascertain whether the old darky did know him;"where have you ever seen me?"
34973Now,he exclaimed, turning to Curtis,"What is your business?
34973On the word and honor of a gentleman?
34973See heah now, is yure name John?
34973Severe? 34973 So soon?"
34973So you want me to take you to Fredericksburg, do you?
34973The gentleman is up- stairs in my room,said Earl;"will you go up now and see him?"
34973Then you do n''t want to be free?
34973This is bad news about Lewis and Scully, is n''t it?
34973This is infamous,exclaimed Webster;"what can Winder mean by arresting this woman, and what am I charged with that renders your orders necessary?"
34973To go where?
34973Under arrest? 34973 Was he an officer?"
34973Was the landlady looking for us too?
34973We heard you had been taken prisoner-- how did you get out so soon?
34973Well, John,said Webster at length,"what is the prospect for crossing the river to- night?"
34973Well, then,smiled Webster,"I suppose I will have to wait his pleasure; but ca n''t a fellow get a little whisky and cigar?
34973Well, uncle,said Webster, as the old man caught up to him--"did you speak to me?"
34973Well, what is it, Miss Harcourt? 34973 Well,"said Webster,"will you be kind enough to send for Mr. McPhail, and ask him to telegraph to Major Allen, and inquire if Tim is all right?"
34973What Major Allen is that?
34973What crime have I committed?
34973What do you desire?
34973What do you mean, sir?
34973What do you mean, you scoundrel?
34973What do you mean?
34973What does this mean?
34973What for?
34973What has become of your assailants?
34973What has happened to frighten you so?
34973What have you got to sell?
34973What is his name?
34973What is it?
34973What is the matter, Jem?
34973What is the matter?
34973What is your business?
34973What is your hour of meeting?
34973What is your name?
34973What is your name?
34973What is your name?
34973What is your native State, Uncle Gallus?
34973What is your society called?
34973What makes you think so?
34973What makes you think that?
34973What regiment does he belong to?
34973What''s this?
34973When did this occur?
34973When do you propose to let us out?
34973When will your next meeting be held?
34973Where do you live?
34973Where from?
34973Where to?
34973Which is which?
34973Which way is he going?
34973Who do you want to see there?
34973Who is he?
34973Who is it?
34973Who should assume the task of liberating the nation of the foul presence of the abolitionist leader?
34973Whom have you here?
34973Why could n''t I go, too?
34973Why did n''t you tell them that, when they called out to you before?
34973Why do you think so?
34973Why do you think so?
34973Why, Mr. Pinkerton, what are you doing here?
34973Why, Webster, how do you do? 34973 Why, Webster, is that you?"
34973Why,I interrupted,"what can they know about Lincoln?"
34973Why,replied his friend, laughingly,"have n''t you heard of the subterranean headquarters?"
34973Yes,said Scobell;"but how do you know these things?
34973You are a Northern man?
34973You are going to Humboldt?
34973You do n''t tell me that you took the oath, Sam?
34973You have been a slave all your life, I understand?
34973You have news for me,said Webster, impatiently;"what is it?"
34973You l- licked''em like the d- d- devil at Williamsburgh, d- d- d- didn''t you?
34973You will not tell him what you know of Webster, and his connection with this matter, will you?
34973You''ll come back?
34973You''se de man dat I''dressed, sah-- done you know me?
34973Your age and weight?
34973Your mistress intends to return to the South, then?
34973Your name is Gallus?
34973After a few minutes a window was raised and a voice inquired angrily:"Who are you, and what do you want?"
34973After waiting a short time, and hearing no response, he added:"What''d you say?
34973Ai n''t them your s- s- sentiments?"
34973And another voice, further away, cried:"Who''s there?"
34973And who is the man who arrested him?"
34973As he entered the cell where Webster was reclining upon his couch, he roughly accosted him:"Webster you have sent for me; what is it that you desire?"
34973At these words, Scobell stepped forward and said in a low voice:"Do you belong to the League?"
34973At this point the question might be asked, whose plan should have been followed?
34973Bingerdon?"
34973But how will I get there?"
34973Can you attend to this?"
34973Catching the drift of the conversation, Webster stepped forward and said:"I beg pardon, sir; will you permit me to ask one question?"
34973Could it be that they were Webster and his faithful attendant Mrs. Lawton?
34973Did he suspect them?
34973Do n''t you see I''m rounding to?"
34973Do n''t you see that in another moment you''ll have us beached?"
34973Do you know gentlemen, I suspected you were all wrong from the start, and you were not keen enough to impose your story upon me?
34973Do you know where he is?"
34973Do you think you can manage it for them?"
34973Feeling alarmed lest the helmsman was not attending to his duty, my son yelled:"Captain, what under heaven do you mean?
34973Filled with curiosity as to the identity of the man, Webster carelessly observed to the landlord:"That fellow seemed a little nervous, does n''t he?"
34973Has anybody been here to see you?"
34973Have you any objections?"
34973Have you heard the news?"
34973How am I going to do it?"
34973How to intercede in their behalf?
34973How, therefore, to arrange his plans, so that these papers would be intercepted and the ambassador detained without arousing his suspicion?
34973I am glad to see you; when did you get back to Baltimore?"
34973Immediately a guarded voice on the inside was heard:"Are you white?"
34973Linkum am a- comin''by''m- bye; Did you ebber see a niggah gal dancin''in de moonlight?
34973May I ask your name, sir?"
34973On nearing Gloucester Point, they were hailed by a sentinel, with the usual challenge:"Who comes there?"
34973On one of these occasions Governor Owens eyed his companion sharply a moment, and then asked:"Can I trust you, sir?"
34973Presently he heard a shrill whistle from his conductor, which was replied to from above with the query:"Who comes?"
34973Raising himself to his full height, he exclaimed:"Rome had her Brutus, why should not we?
34973Seward?"
34973Some one in the party remarked:"Are there no other means of saving the South except by assassination?"
34973Stepping directly up to Price Lewis, he addressed him:"Do n''t you remember me?"
34973The absorbing and exciting question in the South was:"Would the South submit to a Black Republican President and a Black Republican Congress?"
34973The driver suddenly pulled up his horses, and then the soldier, in a tone of authority:"Who are you, and where are you going?"
34973The gruff- voiced speaker then said:"Mr. Webster, is it your desire to become a member of this knightly band?"
34973The question to be decided this evening was:"Who should do the deed?"
34973The work is light-- now what do you say?"
34973There seemed to be several persons here, and a voice, that was evidently meant to be tragical and impressive, demanded:"Whom have we here?"
34973These questions were properly answered, and as the clerk was noting them he asked,"Might I ask what was the gentleman''s good luck?"
34973They were about to take these from him, when Webster inquired:"Who was the man who arrested me this morning?"
34973This answer seemed to infuriate the man, and striding up to Webster, he asked, with an air of impertinence:"Are you a Southern man?"
34973Wallace?"
34973What then?
34973What was to be done?
34973What, then, is your true name?"
34973Where had he met this darky before?
34973Who can blame this man?
34973Who can tell the thoughts that thronged through their brains, as the slow moving hours advanced toward the dawn?
34973Who comes there?"
34973Who, that has stood before the frowning scaffold, and with a free world before him, can utter words of censure?
34973Will there, now, eh?"
34973Will you drink her health with me?"
34973You are not in earnest, Major?"
34973You know stages are robbed out this way?"
34973You noticed that man standing in the hall when we came in, the same one now sitting at the desk?"
34973You''re_ here_, are you?
34973and if so, by what means had he discovered who they were and what their destination was?
34973exclaimed Lawton, as they came up,"are you hurt?"
34973he continued,"and what is the news from the Monumental City?"
34973how are you?"
34973said the clerk, driving away with his pen;"will you be so good as to ask Mr. Mallory to step this way?"
34973you were afraid of them, were you, and ran away?"
51451Are you a soldier?
51451Are you?
51451But how about the dogs? 51451 But suppose they come after us now, wo n''t they find us?"
51451But, Major, is there not another house nearer the line? 51451 But,"said I,"have you no compunctions about making a business of hunting down human beings this way?"
51451Certainly it does, or how could I draw rations for the dogs?
51451Colonel, the First Wisconsin Cavalry is camped here, is it not?
51451Dat gun? 51451 Halloo, boys, is that you?"
51451How about rain?
51451How long is it since your master trusted you with a gun? 51451 How would it be in a running stream?"
51451I am a Yankee officer, escaped from a Rebel prison, and I am trying to reach the Yankee army,I replied; and again I asked,"Will you betray me?"
51451Reck''n that''s a pretty tough yarn to believe, now, ai n''t it?
51451Then the Confederate government recognizes the use of hounds for this purpose as legitimate warfare, does it?
51451Umph?
51451Well, do you suppose I am a woodchuck? 51451 Well, what do you want here?
51451Well, who are the Home Guard?
51451What are you doing with that gun?
51451What is this, Major?
51451What kind of a ration?
51451What pay do you draw?
51451What regiment do you belong to?
51451Where are they?
51451Where are who?
51451Where did you make your escape?
51451Who are these men around you? 51451 Who are you, anyhow?"
51451Who are you?
51451Who are you?
51451Who do you belong to, then? 51451 Who in hell are you?"
51451Who is you?
51451Who, in God''s name, do you take us to be?
51451Whose gun is that?
51451Why did n''t you answer when I challenged?
51451Why did you do that? 51451 Why do you halt?"
51451Why?
51451Why?
51451Wondah what dat shot foh?
51451Would those dogs have bitten us, if you had not called them off?
51451Yes, and you found three of them, eh?
51451You do n''t pretend to say that you have come all the way from Charleston, right through the Reb country?
51451You do n''t pretend you are a slave?
51451_ Know them?_ I should rather think I did. 51451 ''Pears like ye was holler all de way down, do n''t it, honeys?
51451Are you a Union man?"
51451At length he asked,"Is you Jordan''s men?"
51451At length the Major challenged,"Who comes there?"
51451Bringing his carbine to bear on us, the fellow called out:"Well, Yanks, do you surrender?"
51451But what has become of it?"
51451But what was the matter with the trees?
51451But who is you?
51451Can we reach it in time?
51451Could it be that there was a picket line here, so far away from the contending forces?
51451Could the beasts follow us through the water?
51451Did n''t I talk wid dem, an''did n''t dey talk Yankee?
51451Did n''t we starve together in Rebel prisons?
51451Did you know him?"
51451Do you hear it?
51451Do you hear that?
51451Do you hear them?
51451Do you know any of the members of that regiment?"
51451Do you know where Gordon''s brigade is?
51451Do you think I can fly?"
51451Had they been intercepted and taken prisoners?
51451Hare only laughed at them, asking them what they supposed he cared for life, with one leg gone?
51451Hatcher must be got over the stream in some way, but how?
51451How do you suppose I know which two men you mean?"
51451If we do, will it be under the Stars and Stripes, or within the walls of a prison pen?
51451If we had lost the battle, what was the reason we were not shipped to Libby and Belle Isle?
51451Immediately after our examination was closed, one of the men came up to us and said,"Did you uns stop at a house back here, this morning?"
51451Is dat so?
51451Is there not a possibility that we may be attacked even here?"
51451Must we stop here?
51451No hope of exchange, I suppose?"
51451Not a word was spoken until the picket challenged,"Who goes there?"
51451Now you wo n''t betray us, will you, when you know we''re trying to help you and your people, and to give them their liberty?
51451On-- yes, but in what direction?
51451One motherly old woman, after peering into our faces, asked:"W''en did ye hab anyt''ing to eat las'', honey?"
51451Only five miles to liberty?
51451Or had they voluntarily cut loose from us, and taken this method of doing it?
51451Or was it that the country had been notified of our escape, and that the inhabitants were out looking for us?
51451Or would he be faithful to his race, by succoring their recognized friends?
51451Ought we not to feel grateful to our Southern brethren for the sumptuous manner in which they entertained us?
51451Our conversation, as my memory serves me, was substantially as follows:_ Yankee._ Well, boy, where are you traveling so late at night?
51451Reckon you uns mus''be hungry, ai nt ye?
51451Rising to his feet, he exclaimed:"Who is you?"
51451Run now, while we had a chance, or wait and fight?
51451Shall we ever meet again?
51451Shall we run?
51451Some one inquired,"Why?"
51451Spencer, a good singer, gave them the song,"Who will care for mother now?"
51451That''s on the railroad, is n''t it?
51451The natural inquiry will arise: What became of the dirt?
51451To my astonishment, he exclaimed in startled tones:"Who is you, Mars?"
51451Walking up to him, I placed my hand on his shoulder and looking him in the eye, asked:"Old man, if I place my life in your hands, will you betray me?"
51451Was he watching to get a shot at us?
51451Was it a guerilla party out on a scout?
51451Was it an outpost of the enemy''s cavalry?
51451Was there more than one person''s step?
51451Wat de mattah now, ole boy?
51451Wat for you asks such queer questions?
51451Wat ye got, dat scars ye so?"
51451Were the negroes building a fire for fun?
51451Were they after us?
51451Were they after us?
51451What could it mean?
51451What could it mean?
51451What do you want to deceive us for?"
51451What is that?
51451What is that?
51451What is this?
51451What should we do?
51451What should we do?
51451What should we do?
51451What was it best to do?
51451Where is Captain Clinton?"
51451Where is Colonel La Grange?"
51451Which way are they heading?
51451Which would succeed?
51451Who and what are they?"
51451Who comes there?"
51451Why do you ask?"
51451Why should a fire be kindled in the road?
51451Why were you frightened at our approach?"
51451Will they be able to discover our retreat?
51451Wot ken I do?
51451Would he be true to the interests of three unknown men, simply upon the statement that they were Yankees?
51451Would it not be safer to get as near the line as possible?
51451Would not the education of a lifetime of slavery teach him to side with the strong against the weak, as a matter of policy?
51451Your master''s in the army, I suppose?
51451_ Know them?_ Did n''t Kellogg and I dig tunnels together?
51451_ Know them?_ Did n''t Kellogg and I dig tunnels together?
51451_ Negro._ Who is you, Massa?
51451_ Prisoners Again_ Would our ruse be successful?
51451_ Yank._ In which direction did they go?
51451_ Yankee._ Now, supposing you found a man on his road to liberty, that had been a slave or prisoner, would you help him, or would you betray him?
51451_ Yankee._ Suppose we tell you; suppose we put our lives in your hands-- will you betray us?
51451_ Yankee._ That''s his plantation about a mile down this road, is n''t it?
51451_ Yankee._ Well, boy, what do you think of the war now going on?
51451_ Yankee._ Where does your wife live?
51451_ Yankee._ Whose boy are you?
51451_ Yankee._ Would you rather be free or would you rather be as you are-- a slave?
51451_ Yankee._ You know that the Yankees are trying to make you blacks all free, do n''t you?
51451he rejoined;"but how did you live?"
12013Against us?
12013And call it a draw?
12013And how did the Germans act?
12013And is America next on the programme?
12013And the noise of it to you aloft, spotting the shots?
12013And then?
12013And who are our clerks? 12013 And will ye look at this and take it home to give your pro- German Irish in America, to show what their friends are shooting at the Irish?
12013And your Legion of Honour?
12013And yourself?
12013Any shelling?
12013Anybody out?
12013Are all the population here as usual?
12013Are all these men and women who are living together married?
12013Are n''t you going to have dinner with us?
12013Are you an Englishman?
12013Are you learning to think in big numbers?
12013Are you ready? 12013 At what?"
12013But do n''t you love your Kaiser?
12013Did one in five German shells hit at that range?
12013Did you get any shells in your neighbourhood?
12013Did you get any?
12013Do n''t you ever worry about aerial raids?
12013Do n''t you get lonesome?
12013Do n''t you know who they are? 12013 Do the men in the trenches worry about them?"
12013Do the men like to become bombers?
12013Do you mean that I am to speak without regard to personal sympathies?
12013Do you think that we shall starve the Germans out?
12013Does everything go well?
12013Does it look to you like an opening in the branches of that tree-- the big one at the right?
12013Frightened?
12013Has anyone asked him it yet?
12013Have we permission to go out and bury them, sir?
12013Have you ever been hurt in your handling of bombs?
12013Have you ever been to Paris?
12013Have you had enough?
12013Have you heard anything?
12013How are things going on over your side?
12013How can they when they ai n''t over the Balkans yet?
12013How could we, sir?
12013How do they feel in the States?
12013How do they fight?
12013How do you like it?
12013How do you like this kind of war?
12013How does it go?
12013How is J------? 12013 How is it?
12013How soon after we leave the trenches may we cheer?
12013I suppose I''d get a little if I stood up on the parapet?
12013If it were a German flag?
12013In case of a submarine you do not want to lose any time; is that it?
12013Is n''t that boy pretty young to handle that big shell?
12013Is that fuse out?
12013Is that what they think at home?
12013It''s a case of how little water you can wash with, is n''t it?
12013May I have this confiture?
12013Need a stretcher?
12013No farther?
12013Not yet? 12013 Now, which is my house?"
12013Ours or the Boches''?
12013Probably they are hating the French to- day?
12013Quite cosy, do n''t you think?
12013Shall we go on or shall we go back?
12013So it''s you, is it, right from America?
12013Still, you would like the war over? 12013 The food was just as good, was n''t it?"
12013Then you''re pretty well fed?
12013Those guns that I hear, are they firing across the frontier?
12013Using the sling?
12013Was it like what you thought it would be after all your training for a naval action?
12013Well fed, is it? 12013 Well, shall we go back?"
12013Were you here during the fighting?
12013What are you going to do in America? 12013 What do you do when there is shelling?"
12013What do you think I am? 12013 What good would it do to hate them?
12013What if I have n''t a chill in my bones?
12013What if a German shell should strike your storehouse?
12013What if we had been seen?
12013What if you should shout at Tommy in the German fashion?
12013What is that for?
12013When did you enlist?
12013When?
12013Where is it?
12013Which might include the communication trench?
12013Who are you? 12013 Who are you?"
12013Will they do it?
12013Will you have a shot, sir?
12013Wo n''t you strafe a little for us?
12013Would the guard hit a Frenchman in that way?
12013Would you like a Boche helmet for a souvenir, sir?
12013You are not doing much firing these days?
12013You could tell?
12013You hate to see him go?
12013You too hate, then?
12013You were not frightened? 12013 You would n''t deny them their fireworks, would you, sir?"
12013A blooming traffic policeman?"
12013A common question that, at the front,"Did you get any?"
12013A shortage of the long, white- leafed chicory that we call endive in New York restaurants?
12013After the retreat and after the victory of the Marne, what was England''s position?
12013Also, Would the French and the British arrive in time to help you?
12013And how make sure that those who had money should pay for their bread, while all who had not should be reached?
12013And the Germans were saying, What if we should not win all that we are entitled to?
12013And the Kaiser?
12013And the gun- layer?
12013And their health?
12013And then?
12013And was this all of the greatest naval force ever gathered under a single command, these two or three lines of ships?
12013And what happened inside?
12013And who if not men in the trenches was entitled to cake, I should like to know?
12013Are you for us or against us?
12013Are you for us?
12013Boulogne, which two weeks before had been cheering the advent of"Tommee Atkeens"singing"Why should we be downhearted?"
12013But as time wore on into the summer and autumn of the second year, some of them began to think, What was the use?
12013But does not outside influence play a part?
12013But eighteen thousand-- was accuracy possible at that distance?
12013But how does it know that the armour of the turrets is good, or that the guns will fire accurately?
12013But then, how many Americans have been to Mount Vernon and Gettysburg?
12013But was it still ours?
12013But where had the shell entered?
12013But who worries about shells?
12013But, considering the law of chance, what about the surviving one out of an original ten?
12013Could it bring the fullness of its strength into the first and perhaps the deciding shock of arms?
12013Did n''t he need the crop?
12013Did n''t the sound seem a little nearer?
12013Did you hear about the big French peasant soldier who captured a Prussian eagle in Alsace?
12013Do n''t you go to war to win?
12013Do n''t you think that''s kind of ridiculous, sir?"
12013Do you hate them?"
12013Do you see it?
12013Do you seek team- work, spirit of corps, and smartness in this theatre of France, where all the old glamour of war is supposed to be lacking?
12013Does a débutante go to sleep at her first ball?
12013Enlist in the army?"
12013Go away?
12013Had the Germans succeeded in"strafing"us out of it yet?
12013Has he been maimed for life?
12013Have n''t we waited forty years for this day?
12013Have you had any strikes here?"
12013Have you your rubber boots?"
12013Hit badly?"
12013How about it?"
12013How can we be?
12013How could I when the Lord''s work had come to me?"
12013How could he sit so calmly under shell- fire without marmalade?
12013How could such a shy, peaceful- looking array send out broadsides of twelve and thirteen- five and fifteen- inch shells?
12013How could such apparently unwieldy monsters, in such a slippery element as the sea, be made to obey their masters with such fine precision?
12013How get the bread to the hungry mouths when the Germans were using Belgian railroads for military purposes?
12013How had it been able to inform this lone sentry of that flying ray which disclosed the line of a coastal road to anyone at sea?
12013How long had the plugman been on his job?
12013How long would it last?
12013How many destroyers has the British navy?
12013How many more had the British navy caught young and trained to such quickness of decision and in the art of imparting it to his men?
12013How many more?
12013How many soldiers would it take to enforce the regulation that no Belgian was to wear the Belgian colours?
12013How much farther had we gone?
12013I suppose you have the same kind of a society in New York and would turn to it for help if the Germans occupied New York?"
12013I thought of the lid of a cauldron raised to let out a burst of steam as she asked"When?"
12013If I stayed during the fighting and when the Germans were here, why should I leave now?
12013If an American had a lump in his throat at the thought of what it meant, what might it not mean to an Englishman?
12013If hates help to win, why not hate as hard as you can?
12013If so, why do n''t the Germans widen it?
12013If they had n''t, how could we have accomplished that?"
12013If you go as a stranger into the trenches on a sightseeing tour and says,"How are you?"
12013If you, a well- behaved citizen, have ever been arrested and marched through the streets of your home town by a policeman, how did you like it?
12013In succeeding days the question up and down the lines was,"Have we still got that trench?"
12013In ten years, what will be the Germans''attitude toward this war and their military lords?
12013In the prince''s eye I noted a twinkle, which as much as said:"Well, why not?
12013In twenty?
12013Is His Majesty''s army becoming illiterate?
12013Is he a good man?
12013Is he a great man?
12013Is it normal to have your sons, brothers, and husbands up to their knees in icy water in the trenches, in danger of death every minute?
12013Is n''t it better that way?
12013Is not that what England and France are fighting for?
12013Is not that what all the speeches in Parliament are about and all the editorials and the recruiting campaign?
12013Is the clock about to strike twelve or not?
12013Is the sport of war dead?
12013It being in the nature of submarines to sink, how does the hunter know when he has struck a mortal blow?
12013It is the sort of thing that makes headquarters ask:"What is the matter with you over there, anyway?"
12013It was:"Why do n''t you stop singing and bury your dead?"
12013It would require some time to organize team- play, would n''t it?
12013It''s stuffed we are, like the geese that grow the paty- what- do- you- call- it?
12013Monsieur, would you have America judged by the White Way?
12013Must one remain for ever in Paris, screened from any view of the great drama?
12013Need more be said about the physical standard of the crews of the fighting ships of the Grand Fleet?
12013No wonder, then, that the old Landsturm guards, used at home to saying"Wie gehts?"
12013Only one suggestion quite frees the mind from the omnipresent theme: Will the Channel be smooth?
12013Or an Englishman?
12013Or in ten?
12013Or was it that he, too, did not know what he was going against?
12013Otherwise, how could the British navy have entrusted him with so important a task?
12013Painful now?"
12013Painted airships and a painted summer sky?
12013Pitiful, that sweep over those mountain walls and through the passes?
12013Pitiful, was it?
12013Probably the Englishman would say,"I think that the fleet is all right, do n''t you?"
12013Shall I call the general in chief command General X?
12013Singular mental phenomenon, was n''t it?"
12013Some mascots, eh?"
12013Star boarders, eh?
12013Struck in that way, could one fail to strike back?
12013The French were saying, What if we should lose?
12013The question on that day was not, Are you brave?
12013The question was put into the recesses of the ambulance:"Would you prefer to spend the night here and go on in the morning?"
12013Their children were born in the same way; they bled from wounds in the same way-- but why go on in this vicious circle of thought?
12013Then all together: When do you think that the war will be over?"
12013Then my friend asks,"How does it make you feel?"
12013Then one asked, What if a summons to battle had come?
12013There''s one with U.S.A. What paper is that?"
12013They had n''t very far to go, had they?
12013They wanted to know, What for?
12013To show what a beautiful hand we had at printing?"
12013Was Calais to be saved?
12013Was Paris alive?
12013Was it possible that he wore some kind of cloth which shed mud spatters?
12013Was it to be''70 over again?
12013Was n''t he going"out there?"
12013Was n''t it his wheat?
12013Was n''t it the way of the ancestors in the scarlet coats and the Merrie England of their day?
12013Was our advance still continuing?
12013Was the French army ready?
12013Was the fleet really held prisoner by fear of submarines?
12013Was the turret gear put out of order?
12013Was this real, or was it extravaganza?
12013We asked this question as often in our mess in those August days as, Will the Russians lose Warsaw?
12013Were all the commanders of destroyers up to his mark?
12013Were we never going to reach the battle- line, the magnet of our speed when a French army chauffeur made all speed laws obsolete?
12013What did his wound matter?
12013What did the Germans expect after the way that they had invaded Belgium?
12013What do you think we put it up for?
12013What do you think when you are climbing up a rope whose strands are breaking over the edge of a precipice?
12013What do you think, sir?"
12013What does this war mean to you?
12013What else was there for he hothouses to do, though the export of their products was impossible?
12013What feature of the nightmare had held most vividly in Sister Julie''s mind?
12013What has the White Way to do with the New York of Seventy- Second Street or Harlem?
12013What hopes?
12013What if Boers had been in the Belgians''place?
12013What if there were no bread to be had for work or money?
12013What if they had seen the whole German army?
12013What kind of a home has he, this private soldier?
12013What mattered the ruins of her home?
12013What might not happen?
12013What quarrel could France and Germany have?
12013What the deuced right has anybody to pass?
12013What was going to happen?
12013What was the force which could win them to cross the seas to fight for England?
12013What was there to say?
12013What were we doing there and speaking English-- English, the hateful language of the hated enemy?
12013What would happen before he reappeared there for a gala performance?
12013What would happen when the war was over?
12013What would the world be without French civilization?
12013What would you?"
12013What''s the matter of a pair of mountain ranges between you and me, Bill?
12013When again, in the shuffle of European politics, would the audience see the Tsar of Russia or the King of England by the Kaiser''s side?
12013When should I be next in Brussels?
12013When there is a difference, what is the beginner to do?
12013When were the Allies coming?
12013When were the English coming?
12013When would the Allies come and turn the Germans out?
12013When would the Allies come?
12013When would the Allies come?
12013When you see the one borne past, if there is nothing else to distract attention you always ask two questions: Will he die?
12013When?
12013When?
12013When?
12013Where next?
12013Where the drillmasters for the new army?
12013Where the leaders?
12013Where was the British army?
12013Where was the French army?
12013Where was the man who had kept the shop with a few letters of his name still visible on a splintered bit of board?
12013Where were the scars from the wounds?
12013Where were they?
12013Where will aerial progress end?
12013Who deserves a good meal if not the officer who comes in from the front?
12013Who knew how to carve?
12013Who knows this better than the aviator?
12013Who was at war?
12013Who were our little party?
12013Who were we and what business had we prowling about on that hill?
12013Who would carve?
12013Why deny it?"
12013Why do n''t you go home?''"
12013Why not?
12013Why not?
12013Why should n''t tartmakers go on making tarts and selling them?
12013Why should n''t we share some of their dangers?
12013Why should not Belgium come into the German customs union?
12013Why should not Belgium make the best of her unfortunate situation, as became a practical and thrifty people?
12013Why should not Roberts and myself come along?
12013Why should not the soldiers help the farmers whose sons are away at the front and perhaps helping farmers back of some Other point of the line?
12013Why stop now, only to have another terrible war in thirty or forty years?
12013Why talk about it?
12013Why was anyone at war?
12013Why was it not attacking at the opportune moment when Germany was throwing her weight against Russia?
12013Why were a lot of people paying so much attention to him for doing his duty?
12013Will the next war be fought by forces that dive and fly like fishes and birds?
12013Will this change after the war?
12013With the whole telephone apparatus blown off the wall, as it were, how did he communicate?
12013Would I send them one?
12013Would n''t I have a souvenir?
12013Would not he strike in red anger, without stopping to think of consequences?
12013Would not the parents prefer it that way?
12013Would the gun try to fire back?
12013Would the peasants be able to get in their crops, with all the able- bodied men away?
12013Would they have attempted guerrilla warfare?
12013Would you or I want to bring destruction on neighbours in a land without any rural fastnesses as a rendezvous for operations?
12013XXIX On The"Inflexible"What Englishman, let alone an American, knows the names of even all the British Dreadnoughts?
12013XXVIII Ships That Have Fought But was that really it-- that spread of greyish blue- green dots set on a huge greyish blue- green platter?
12013XXXIV British Problems Throughout the summer of 1915 the world was asking, What about the new British army?
12013You asked who had trained them; who had fashioned the brown clay into resolute and loyal obedience which stood the test of a Flanders winter?
12013You did not think of going away?"
12013You do n''t happen to know where that is, sir?
12013You''d like to go home?"
12013and,"Are you comfortable?"
12013and,"Are you going to Berlin?"
12013but, Do you know how to fight?
12013or, Are you against us?
12013that only the German general knew?
58509''Are you whole, my boy?'' 58509 ''Where is the Major?''
58509And do you believe such tales?
58509Are we both of the same mind?
58509Are we going to the assault?
58509Are you suffering much?
58509Ask your mothers who are waiting for you, over yonder, in the deepest anguish, where they go in their sorrow and suffering? 58509 But, are you not aware that the Germans may enter the town from one minute to another?"
58509Can I have my wounds dressed, Lieutenant?
58509Do you know that Château- Thierry has been occupied to- day by the Germans, and that they have now left the town?
58509Do you see them?
58509Doctor, Doctor, am I going to be left here?
58509Go to the darkest nave of a church, at a moment when the crowd is not bidden to the traditional exercises of worship, and what do you see? 58509 Have you been informed that some Belgian troops are coming to Soissons to- morrow to take the train?"
58509Hi there, what are you doing? 58509 How long do you think the war will last?"
58509I have done my duty, Major,he said,"have n''t I?
58509Is Collyns still there and can I count on him?
58509Is anyone hit?
58509Is it you, Hubert?
58509Is that you M----?
58509Is there nothing more to be done then?
58509Just at this moment,said the latter,"a German officer shouted:''What must we do with the prisoners?''"
58509Let''s go then, shall we?
58509Lieutenant, can we go out on patrol round the N---- Farm and have a look to see whether there''s any Boches inside?
58509Lieutenant, could I have my arm seen to?
58509Lieutenant,he began,"if we could just have a look in at the little farm over yonder?"
58509News of the assault?
58509On patrol... in a boat you mean?
58509Shall we give up the General?
58509The farm? 58509 We are through with it, are we not, Doctor?"
58509Well, d''Ursel,I said,"how do you feel?"
58509Well,I said,"are you not proud to take part in the firing?
58509What about the 53rd?
58509What am I going to do,he asked,"for I can not sit down again?"
58509What are you telling me?
58509What are your orders, Lieutenant?
58509What do you propose doing?
58509What for?
58509What is the matter?
58509What is the meaning of this joke, Colonel?
58509What is the meaning of this? 58509 What''s the matter?"
58509What''s the news?
58509Where are the others?
58509Where are you going?
58509Where can I find some civilian''s clothes?
58509Where is it to be found?
58509Where is it?
58509Who goes there?
58509Who is hit?
58509Who is to do it?
58509Who sent you?
58509You mean a sacrifice?
58509''Why should my life be cut in two by this mutilation?''
58509''Why should my youth come to an end half way?
58509..."What happened?
58509And of what use is all that blood poured out obscurely in the trenches?''
58509And what is left now of all this?
58509Are you all of the same mind still?"
58509Are you satisfied with me?"
58509As soon as it was daylight, my first idea was to try to get a map, but how was I to find it in a town that was asleep?
58509Before he had even opened his eyes, he answered:"Ah, it is you, Major?"
58509Can I count on a reinforcement?"
58509Can the glory that surrounds you with its halo not cover the remains of your poor profaned bodies?
58509Could our army possibly resist these endless assaults?
58509Cross that frontier?
58509Do you remember this, General?
58509Every minute we could hear someone asking:"Where is the Major?"
58509From time to time, I called out to the men who were firing haphazard:"What are you aiming at?
58509Had he been hit at the last hole?''
58509Had he been hit, we wondered?
58509Had he come up from underground or had he fallen from the skies?
58509Had the Germans really followed that itinerary and had they managed to come unseen across the waste land of the Vignes and so enter the town?
58509Had they made off?
58509He wondered why the telephonists did not arrive, and whether the poor wretches had been shot down?
58509How am I to describe Frentzen?
58509How many men were under the ruins?
58509How should we ever escape?
58509How were we to rejoin the Belgian army, when we did not know where it was?
58509I said to the young cyclist:"How much did you give for your map?"
58509I wondered what this meant?
58509Is there no one to help him?"
58509Just then a voice called out:"What fool has opened the door, letting in the cold?"
58509May I have the honour of taking views of your motor- car in fighting position?"
58509Ought I to return to our fortified position of Liége or stay and defend the passages of the river?
58509Our retreat was obligatory, but the question was, Could the destruction of the Battalion be avoided?
58509That one?
58509The idea was good, but the question was how to communicate with the Fort?
58509The march was long, the horses exhausted, the temperature very high, and the Uhlans sometimes very near indeed, but what did all that matter?
58509The question is who will go and take the information?"
58509The question now was would he reach the top of the ladder or not?
58509The question was would they have strength enough to start again and to continue their march as far as Couthuin, where the 28th had gone?
58509The question was, Where did this firing come from?
58509They were certainly Boches, but what were they doing there, as their own shells were falling near them?
58509They would stand by him to the very death and his greatest pride was to be able to reply to the General''s question:"Are you sure of your men?"
58509To cross that frontier meant the end for the time being of our resistance.... What would be done with us there?
58509To- day I was here and, as I watched him coming in, I was just beginning to cry out:''Sergeant, what are you doing?''
58509Was he killed, or had he only disappeared?
58509Was it a man that had been flung into the air?
58509Was it fatigue or torpor?
58509Was it possible?
58509Was my mission ended, as the bridges no longer existed?
58509Was their nightmare over?
58509Was this the one?
58509Was this to be the end of everything?
58509We began to wonder where the French army was, or whether a French army existed?
58509We began to wonder whether our line had been broken?
58509We wondered what would happen?
58509We wondered whether this could be a trap for us?
58509Were these men Alvensleben and his friends?
58509Were they really not dreaming now?
58509What did I now see, though?
58509What drama was hidden under the contact of these two bodies?
58509What had become of the gunners?
58509What had become of the troops which had charge of the defence of the bridge?
58509What had happened to our brave Colonel Jacques, to Captain Philippron, and to their comrades?
58509What had these troops come to do here?
58509What happened to him?
58509What is the matter?"
58509What is the reason of all this suffering?
58509What pen can ever faithfully depict the havoc that seventeen months of war have made of the exquisite Flemish city we had all known and loved?
58509What was I to do?
58509What was going to happen next?
58509What was going to happen?
58509What was happening?
58509What was the meaning of the disorder?
58509What was the meaning of this wonderful silence?
58509What was to be done?
58509What was underneath all that?
58509What were we to believe?
58509What would be the outcome, we wondered?
58509When we were trying to avoid a stream about three yards wide, a German asked:"Is that the Yser?"
58509When would the hour of deliverance ring out for them and for all of us?
58509Where are they?
58509Where were we to go though?
58509Which of the two had lived to see the other die?
58509Who goes there?"
58509Who volunteers?"
58509Why are you here sick and wounded, with your arm or your leg amputated, scarred for ever in the beauty and prime of your early manhood?
58509Why is all this?
58509Why should I be doomed to drag out a miserable existence?
58509Why?
58509Would they--?
58509he called out, and then, in a lower tone, he added,"They have crossed the frontier, we are alone.... Have you any men?"
58509is everything ready?"
58509we suddenly exclaimed"and what about the man we picked up and put at the back of the motor- car?"
30285Any news?
30285Any news?
30285Any news?
30285Are you from London?
30285Are you going over?
30285Are you going to give me a good show? 30285 Are you going to take any more scenes?"
30285Are you ready?
30285Are you the Kinema man?
30285Are you the''movie''man? 30285 Are you the''movie- man''?"
30285Are you the----?
30285Brother Bosche will shortly have a rise in life?
30285Busy day for you?
30285But you''re not coming after us with that affair, are you?
30285By the way,I said to the pilot, as we went off to tea,"how long were we up there altogether?"
30285Ca n''t Bosche let you alone here?
30285Can you get away in the morning, Malins? 30285 Can you see them on your right?
30285Can you tell me, sir, if there is a machine- gun position hereabouts? 30285 Captain----, I presume?"
30285D---- and---- who are you? 30285 Did you get me in that last scene?"
30285Do n''t cheer me up, will you?
30285Do n''t you think it''s a good idea?
30285Do you get many cases like that?
30285Do you know it?
30285Do you know that I was the chap who filmed that scene? 30285 Do you know the exact time?"
30285Do you know what time the King is due?
30285Do you think it will be too early for me-- so far as the light is concerned?
30285Do you think the bridge will take the weight of my car?
30285Do you want to get it?
30285Doing_ what_?
30285Gad, sir,he said,"are you the kinema man?
30285General---- told me you were coming; what do you want?
30285General----, sir?
30285Go easy, wo n''t you?
30285Go?
30285Has Fritz been sending you these souvenirs very often?
30285Have they been shelling the avenues much?
30285Have you a life- belt?
30285Have you been successful?
30285Have you been to Bovincourt?
30285Have you cleaned this place out?
30285Have you come to film our show?
30285Have you got a trench map? 30285 Have you got any corpses here?"
30285Have you seen''Jacob''s Ladder''?
30285How about getting round to have a look at it?
30285How are things going?
30285How are things going?
30285How close is this to the town?
30285How do you like it?
30285How far is that from the Bosche front line?
30285How have you got on?
30285How many miles is she doing?
30285How much more?
30285How''s the head, old chap?
30285How''s your section, sergeant? 30285 Hullo, Malins,"he said,"still about?
30285Hullo, what''s up? 30285 Hullo,"I said to one passing through on a stretcher,"got a''blighty''?"
30285I say, Malins,he said,"did you find your handle?"
30285I say,he called out,"come into my dug- out to- night, will you?
30285I want to get on further, is there any other village near by?
30285I will guide you with my lamp-- by the way, where are you going?
30285If the weather improves ever such a little it will pay us for waiting, and of course it will suit you much better?
30285Is Fritz strafing there much?
30285Is everything ready?
30285Is it possible to film actual events with the French troops in the Vosges and Alsace?
30285Is it possible to go any lower?
30285Is it the King?
30285Is it urgent?
30285Is n''t there a place in our front trench?
30285Is that gun ready?
30285Is that official?
30285Let me know how you get on, wo n''t you? 30285 My dear chap,"he said,"are you serious?"
30285Oh, by the way, sir, what time does the mine go up?
30285Ready?
30285Serious?
30285Shall we go higher? 30285 Take me on, too, will you?"
30285That''s been done by our guns in five days; some mess, eh?
30285The password, if you please?
30285This is an extraordinary state of affairs, is n''t it? 30285 Too high, eh?"
30285Vraignes, of course, is quite clear?
30285Was there some hitch in the arrangement?
30285Well, what''s the news? 30285 Well, what''s the next move?"
30285Well, which way do I take?
30285Well,I said, with a grin,"do you think this car of mine would look like an armoured car at a distance?"
30285Well,said he,"what about the height?
30285Well?
30285Were they unable to come for me?
30285What an extraordinary place; how deep is it?
30285What are we now?
30285What are we waiting for?
30285What do you say? 30285 What do you think of that?"
30285What do you think?
30285What do you want, monsieur?
30285What if I do n''t come back?
30285What in the world am I lying here for?
30285What in the world''s up?
30285What is it?
30285What is the distance from Bosche lines?
30285What news? 30285 What time does the barrage start?"
30285What time is zero hour?
30285What time is zero- hour?
30285What would the morrow bring forth?
30285What''s funny?
30285What''s the height now?
30285What''s the height?
30285What''s the matter?
30285What''s the matter?
30285What''s the programme now?
30285What''s up? 30285 What''s up?"
30285What''s wrong?
30285What''s wrong?
30285What?
30285When are you going to''blow''----?
30285Where do we go?
30285Where do you propose to take it?
30285Where for to- day?
30285Where have you heard that term used?
30285Where is Bosche?
30285Where is L----?
30285Where is the attack taking place, and at what time?
30285Where the deuce am I?
30285Where the deuce is your outfit?
30285Where the devil have you been?
30285Where the devil is that fellow?
30285Where''s Bosche?
30285Where''s he hit?
30285Where''s----?
30285Who are you taking?
30285Who''s coming?
30285Whose mine are they blowing?
30285Why?
30285Will this do for him?
30285Will you let me have a man to help me with my tripod?
30285Will you take us, sir? 30285 Would your Majesty stand over there?"
30285Yes,I said,"I suppose you''ll spiral down?"
30285Yes,he said;"come in, will you?
30285You are the''movie''man, eh? 30285 You quite understand, do n''t you?
30285You''ve pulled through?
30285''Ave yer passed a dead''orse?
30285--And Try to Discover What It Is-- A Wonderful Night Scene-- Dawn Breaks and Reveals a Marvellous Monster-- What Is It?
30285--And Try to Discover What It Is-- A Wonderful Night Scene-- Dawn Breaks and Reveals a Marvellous Monster-- What Is It?
30285A great many asked me as they came through:"Was I in the picture, sir?"
30285Actinic conditions improved considerably, and I was just congratulating myself on my good fortune when----"What''s that, sir?"
30285All fit?"
30285Always on the go, eh?
30285An officer came forward and said in astonished tones:"Where the devil have you fellows come from?"
30285And what do you think I found there, sir?"
30285And yet why should they?
30285Any news?"
30285Anything doing here?"
30285Anything doing?"
30285Anything wrong?"
30285Anyway, whether they are called the''Hush Hushers''or''Tanks,''what the dickens are they?
30285Anyway, you can make your own arrangements, I suppose, about views?"
30285Anyway, you''re all right for''Blighty,''"and to cheer him up I continued in a bantering strain:"You knew how to manage it, eh?
30285Apparently he was held up a minute or two later by some one else, for in the distance I heard a voice,"Do you know where---- Company is, sir?"
30285Are there any dug- outs at the battery?"
30285Are you fitted up?"
30285Are you game?"
30285Before leaving, the Major wished me success, and asked me whether I was prepared to wait until a"blow"came off?
30285Bloody?
30285But are you_ militaire_?"
30285But why recount the horrors of the scene?
30285But, seriously, are you really going to film''The Day''?"
30285By the way, are you leaving your car there?"
30285Can you hitch two or three of your horses on and help me out on to the road?"
30285Can you let me have a guide, to show me the quickest and best way?"
30285Can you realise what my thoughts were at that precise moment?
30285Can you see it there?"
30285Cawn''t yer see, mate, I''m taking up company rations?
30285Did I care to accompany him?
30285Did I know that I had drawn the enemy''s fire, which was very nearly an unpardonable offence?
30285Did you realise till you saw it what this vast battle- front was like?
30285Do come, wo n''t you?
30285Do you know where---- Company is?
30285Do you notice whether he is coming nearer?"
30285Does that suggest possibilities to you?"
30285Feel all right?"
30285From the corner some one shouted:"Tell brother Fritz if he gets out of''the limits,''wo n''t you?"
30285General Burstall was there, and as soon as he saw me he came up and said:"Hullo, Malins, you here?
30285Got a drink on you?"
30285Had the Bosche seen it?
30285Has it justified itself?
30285Have a cup of tea at my canteen, will you?"
30285Have you a light, Monsieur Andrew?"
30285Have you one to spare?"
30285Have you really come to photograph''The Day''?"
30285How about food?
30285How did he know I was coming here?
30285How much?"
30285How the devil did you manage it?
30285How would you like to go?"
30285How''s Brother Bosche?"
30285How''s the time going?"
30285Hush!''?"
30285I asked myself;"why should n''t I run the remaining distance?"
30285I stopped the car and asked an old man who, by his ribbons, had been through the 1870 war:"Where is the Mayor?"
30285I was told by the interpreter afterwards that he was glad I did not do so, as they would have been very wrath?
30285I went up to her and explained in my best French that I had brought bread and sausages for the people, would she share them out?
30285Is this war?
30285Lend me your torch, will you?"
30285Man?
30285Now?"
30285Same terms, eh?
30285Shall I follow the trenches directly overhead or a little to one side?"
30285Shall I get there about eleven o''clock and fix up?"
30285Shall we take some to the villages?"
30285Suddenly a voice echoed from the depths:"Will you come down, sir?"
30285That is Villers- Carbonel, is it not?"
30285That those who came back wounded and broken still had that smile?
30285Then suddenly,"What are_ you_ doing here?"
30285This remark,"Had I heard something?"
30285Those going in to take their places: were they gloomy?
30285Turning to the Captain, I said:"Will you give me an orderly?
30285Was he British or Hun?
30285We are going to give the village an intense bombardment this afternoon, at 4 o''clock; perhaps you would like to obtain that?"
30285We cursed and swore about it; who would n''t?
30285Were they coming into the village?
30285What about blankets and grub?"
30285What can I do, monsieur?
30285What do you want now?"
30285What effect did it have upon you?
30285What guns are you using?"
30285What had happened to them?
30285What has happened?"
30285What in the world was it?
30285What is a tolerably safe height over''Bosche''?"
30285What is it?"
30285What time does it come off?"
30285What was Bosche up to?
30285What was he?
30285What was it?
30285What will be the result?
30285What''s our speed?"
30285What''s wrong?"
30285When on earth did you arrive in the village?"
30285When?
30285Where are you going?"
30285Where did these Bosches come from?"
30285Where were they?
30285Where''s the other man?
30285Who could imagine anything more wonderful, more fantastic?
30285Who on earth could live in it?
30285Who told him?"
30285Who, if they could see him now, could ever have any doubts as to the issue of the war?
30285Why could n''t Bosche put that shell a little nearer?
30285Why does n''t he play cricket?
30285Why does n''t it go up?
30285Why?"
30285Why?"
30285Will monsieur sit down?"
30285Will our advance patrols constitute the official photographers for the future?
30285Will this height suit you?
30285Will you be on the quay at Boulogne to- morrow morning by twelve o''clock?
30285Will you come?"
30285Will you help me?"
30285Will you let us introduce the doctor?
30285Will you share a snack with us?"
30285Would I like to film the scene?
30285Would it go up before I had time to reload?
30285Would nothing ever happen?
30285Would our men rush the crater and occupy it?
30285Would they reach him?
30285Would you care to come?
30285You are prepared to stay up there, of course?"
30285You are''Movies,''are n''t you?
30285You can imagine what it would be like over there, ca n''t you?"
30285You know the trenches round here: where can I see the village to the best advantage?"
30285[ Illustration: THE STATE OF THE TRENCHES IN WHICH WE LIVED AND SLEPT(?)
30285came the reply,"who is it?"
30285he said,"if so would you mind putting it on?
30285you got clear then?"
50001A girl? 50001 Ah, no; how could I be?
50001And is this all?
50001And whose cows are those?
50001And you are leaving him?
50001And you have really come to apply for the position?
50001Are you all crazy?
50001Ca n''t you all see that it is my child?
50001Come, come, my little man, what is the matter?
50001Dat hawss? 50001 De nex''Sunday I goes ter Miss Sally''s house, en she axes me''Howdy?''
50001Dear Mother, where are you?
50001Dear''ittle birdie!--birdie dot a Dod?--birdie dot a soul?--''ittle birdie sings praises to Doddie?
50001Did I say that?
50001Did people have tobacco- cloth as well as tobacco- money in those days?
50001Do n''t you know the story?
50001Do n''t you think I know your voice, my dear, from Captain Bright''s?
50001Dr. Minnegerode was n''t a soldier like you and our papa, was he?
50001Go without you? 50001 Good- bye?
50001Good- bye? 50001 Hast thou a nurse-- one that thou call''st trustworthy?"
50001Have you had any experience in teaching?
50001He was in the war, though, was he not?
50001How could I have a gold piece? 50001 How did it happen?"
50001How did you break your heart?
50001How do you know what the Lord knows, Mary Hutchins? 50001 How soon will you be able to go back?"
50001I''m not a bit afraid, and if I were do you think I would let Pickett''s men see me run?
50001I?
50001Is dat Miss Lizzie''s chile? 50001 Is n''t that beautiful?"
50001Is not that monument one of the oldest in Virginia?
50001Is that in England?
50001Is the keepsake in it?
50001Is this the house that Jack built?
50001Lawd, Marsa, whar you been all yo''life not ter know dat wile ducks is dey own ducks?
50001May I ask where you were educated?
50001May I say my prayers with you, too, my boy, and ask the Lord to make us both well and bless us?
50001Mr. Sims, why is it that these terrapin are of such different markings?
50001Nurse, why do you not take the child to its mother?
50001Oh, uncle, may I go?
50001Once, too, I----"You have relatives in Baltimore?
50001Our mama,said Corbell, after Mr. Davis had gone,"what has Mr. Davis got in his throat that makes his talk sound so music- y?"
50001Shall I say grace, Mr. Davis, or will you?
50001She does not know, Lassie; ah, who will tell her? 50001 So de Sunday atter dey moved down I goes''roun''to Miss Lizzy''s house en she axes me''Howdy?''
50001That''s poetry, is n''t it?
50001Then, why do n''t you quiet the child, if you are, and find out what is the matter with it?
50001To whom do those mules belong?
50001What are officers?
50001What are those dark specks, Soldier; are they crows?
50001What can I do for you?
50001What do you mean by putting such notions into that innocent child''s head? 50001 What do you think of this?
50001What do you think would be the effect upon the negro, Mr. Corbell,Colonel Lee asked my father,"if we should be compelled to hang John Brown?"
50001What do you wish?
50001What does this mean?
50001What have you in your bag for me?
50001What is expense?
50001What will you have of me?
50001What''s the matter with you, Johnnies, over there?
50001What''s your hurry? 50001 Where is he now?"
50001Where were you from this morning?
50001Whose chickens are those in the yard?
50001Whose ducks are those?
50001Whose horse is that?
50001Why did n''t you wait for me, you impertinent little rascal?
50001Why do you call me differently, dear?
50001Why do you call me''Tisement?
50001Would I not better ask the Doctor?
50001Yes, that is true; but did you lose your husband in the war?
50001You have been there before, I suppose?
50001_ Where_ is he?
50001''Would I?
50001A lunatic asylum?
50001And you, Miss Lassie-- why should you throw yourself away on the infantry?
50001Are n''t you glad?"
50001Are n''t you the lady?
50001Ca n''t we help?
50001Can I do anything for you?--anything?
50001Could there be light on the pathway that led him from me?
50001Den she say,''Ai n''t you hongry?''
50001Den she say,''Uncle Tom, do n''t you want a dram?''
50001Den she say,''Uncle Tom, do n''t you want sump''n to eat?''
50001Den she say,''Uncle Tom, wo n''t you hab a toddy?''
50001Den when I comes''long back she say,''Uncle Tom, did you he''p yo''se''f plent''ful?''
50001Did you ever see her wipe her nose?"
50001Did you- all have no pillows nor no laps to fotch de po''li''l lamb home''pon widout puttin''her in a settin''-aig- basket?
50001Do you remember how Cæsar commences?"
50001Do you remember how Thomas laughed at me the next day when I told him about it?
50001Do you think that Aunt Mary Christ would have spoken to her little boy Jesus like that?"
50001Father Jansen, who had come from Richmond to see him, asked,"Do you want to see me alone?"
50001Going into Price''s dry- goods store in Richmond she asked in her most dramatic voice:"Have_ ye_ any prints?"
50001He often asked me,"Do n''t you think flowers can feel?"
50001Holes in your pocket and your marbles and knife all dropped out?''
50001How are you, Sister Pickett?"
50001How could anyone so immaculate and so beautiful to look upon have really fought and killed people?
50001How could we live on the rim of a volcano if we could not dance around its crater?
50001How funny I was when I was young, was n''t I?
50001How much do you get for them, and where do you sell them?"
50001How you- all know dat some misforchunement ai n''t gwine to come''count er projickin''wid her lak dat?
50001I cotch Miss firs'', didn''I, Marse?"
50001I remember you did come on board just as the whistle blew; but was there not another passenger who came on with you-- a gentleman?"
50001I stopped for a minute and looking up at her said,"And little Sara, too, please, marm?"
50001If you please, sir, will you get me my stateroom and ticket?
50001Is dat we- alls li''l missis?"
50001Is it tobacco- cloth?"
50001It was so unusual that after Mrs. Davis had greeted me she looked in astonishment at my costume and said:"Child, where did you get these clothes?"
50001Jackson?"
50001Judge Joynes, of Petersburg, asked,"How old is Mrs. Moncure, Judge?"
50001Little George asked:"How about a cat''s?"
50001Looking at them for a few seconds he said:"Boys, what does all this mean?
50001Mammy looked and seeing only my leafy and blossoming cover, ejaculated scornfully:"Aigs?
50001May I kiss her, Pickett?
50001May I see the professor?"
50001Mr. Haxall replied:"Jack, old man, what for?
50001My little Corbell asked her:"What is the use of acting?
50001My, would n''t I make it fly?"
50001Niggers, you- all hyer dat?
50001Now, please, Doctor, excuse me, but wo n''t you all go and leave me alone with my wife?
50001Of course Mr. Davis far outranked my Soldier in that war, but when Corbell asked,"Were you in papa''s Company, Mr. Davis, or was he in yours?"
50001Oh, God, would I?''
50001One soldier rushed to Colonel Phillips shouting,"Say, Colonel, say; ca n''t we do something?
50001S----?"
50001The professor, taking no notice of my confusion, went on to say:"And so you were graduated there?
50001Then I whispered to my grandmother as she carried me away,"Do angels want little children for keepsakes?"
50001Then he asked:"May I order something for you here?"
50001There is a reason; what is it?"
50001This baby, sir?
50001Turning to the General, smiling, Mr. Davis asked:"Where did you get the little lady in the clothes?"
50001Was I in the land of fairies, and was the gentleman with the familiar face the prince of fairies, as he was the prince of lovers?
50001Was that pale, pinched face shrouded in crêpe mine?
50001We were received with fraternal hospitality, our host shaking hands with us solemnly, saying,"How do you do, Brother Pickett?
50001What are you doing here, and where are you going?"
50001What do you mean?
50001What do you suppose she will come to when she grows up?
50001What is all this trouble about?
50001What is it for?"
50001What makes you ask?"
50001What of it?
50001What you thinkin''''bout?
50001When he came in I drew up a chair for him, but he said:"May I not sit on the bed beside our sick boy?"
50001Where is he?"
50001Where is the General?
50001Whether the child needed"the rod withal?"
50001Who in such a position could?
50001Who knows but perhaps somewhere there are belonging to him little ones like ours?"
50001Why do n''t you be it-- just be it?"
50001Will you please be so good as to get my ticket?
50001With a bit of a jealous feeling for my own Soldier I asked:"Did you want to do that to General Pickett?"
50001Wo n''t you let me hold him while you go down and eat something?"
50001You are; do n''t you remember me?"
50001You knows, dey''lowed dat gal to play on de spinet of a Sunday mornin''s?--En dance chunes, at dat?
50001You stop in Baltimore long?"
50001You understand, my son?"
50001You would never leave me now when I need you so?"
50001an''sure an''phwat''s to become of me widout the baby an''leastwise, phwat''s as bad an''worse, phwat''s to become of the baby widout me?"
50001no b- e- a- n- s?"
60629A tall dark man, who sometimes rides a white mule?
60629Allen, do you see anything?
60629And has no officer or friend been with them?
60629And he told you himself?
60629And will we be furnished with food?
60629And your mother?
60629Any officers?
60629Are you alone here?
60629Are you badly hurt, Major?
60629Are you from the Obion?
60629Bischoff,I called, in a suppressed tone,"where are you?"
60629Can anything be done?
60629Captain,says the doctor from the ambulance,"must you go back?"
60629Could n''t you let me go now, sir? 60629 Did Edward Ashby see them himself?"
60629Did they anticipate such a death and such a burial when they came from distant pleasant homes to serve in the great army?
60629Did they die during the night?
60629Did you hear that barking?
60629Did you know him?
60629Did you see anything of my men?
60629Do n''t you know you are violating military law, and are liable to be arrested?
60629Had you a pass through our lines?
60629Hamelder,I cried,"what have you done with my horse?"
60629Has everything been quiet in this house?
60629Have you reported to any of our officers, or taken the oath?
60629Have you seen or heard anything?
60629Have you the government permits to buy goods?
60629Have your neighbors guns and powder?
60629How could you doubt it?
60629How did this information reach them?
60629How far is it back to Farmington?
60629How far is it from Caledonia to Paris?
60629How is Leonard?
60629How many men for guard and picket, captain?
60629How many of my men have come in?
60629How sick?
60629I presume,I continued,"you have not seen Captain Nott''s little book, describing his visit here, and his adventures in these parts?"
60629Is Captain Mitchell in this house?
60629Is Mrs. Reynolds at home?
60629Is anything the matter?
60629Is that a fire, captain?
60629Is the adjutant in?
60629Is there any reason for their coming down this road?
60629Sam,says one of the men,"do you remember the fight on the Obion last spring?"
60629Sergeant, what do you think of it?
60629Shall I halt them?
60629Shall I order the men to fall in?
60629Shall I throw my pistol after it? 60629 Thank you, doctor; is there anything left in yours?"
60629The Southern army?
60629Then you are really Union soldiers? 60629 Was it Memphis?"
60629Well, captain, any more order?
60629Well, uncle,said the little girl,"are you running away again from the rebel soldiers?"
60629What are you galloping for?
60629What can it be? 60629 What does that mean?"
60629What does that mean?
60629What indeed shall we do?
60629What is it?
60629What is that, sergeant?
60629What is the matter with that poor man?
60629What kind?
60629What name, sir?
60629What,I ventured to ask,"is your husband''s name?"
60629When did he leave it?
60629When we get there, will you let us go?
60629When will they be buried?
60629When will your squadron be ready?
60629Where are you from?
60629Where is your father, my boy?
60629Where were these goods bought?
60629Where will you put our horses, Bischoff?
60629Where?
60629Which way were they going?
60629Who has got any matches?
60629Whose children are these? 60629 Why did you not go?"
60629Why, boys,he said,"what on earth are you doing here this time o''night?"
60629Will there be another?
60629Will your mistress be back to- night?
60629Will your officers let me write to tell them I am alive?
60629Yes,I answered;"and what are you?"
60629_ Will you see the body?_said the superintendent.
60629Against such goodness and patriotism, who could raise objections?
60629And, now, what do you tell me?
60629As I approach, he wheels sharply round and challenges,"Who comes there?"
60629As I was thus seated the question arose, What should I do?
60629As the black boy loiters round, I say to him,"Well, Dick, have you seen any soldiers before this?"
60629Ashby''s?"
60629But one of the first questions put to me was,"When will the major and the rest of the party be here?"
60629Clokes?"
60629Did he continue delirious?
60629Do I see a light?
60629Do you know, sir, whether trade will be opened soon with the North: our hand- cards are nearly worn out, and I do not know where to look for others?
60629Doctor, I say, did you hear that?"
60629Four-- five-- six miles, and they ask:"Do you mean to take us to Como?"
60629Gentlemen, ca n''t you do anything for my son?"
60629He tells me it is about eight miles, and says:"So you are going to Boydsville, are you?"
60629I asked;"who could have brought it?"
60629I therefore hasten to announce myself by saying,"How are you, Mrs. Hurt?
60629I went up to the next patient and whispered my question,"Did you know the young man who died this morning?"
60629Indeed-- why what did they do to her?"
60629Instead of saying,"How early did you_ get up_ this morning?"
60629Is our old friend false to us?
60629It is very easy to say_ wait_, but how are we to_ wait_?
60629It puzzled me at first; then I whispered to the sergeant,"Is this Sunday?"
60629Mitchell?"
60629Perhaps you will ask,"What is a picket?"
60629Shall we keep on?
60629She partly opened the book, then stopped, and looking deliberately at me, said,"Well, sir, what_ must_ I play?"
60629Should I crawl to some barn or stack, and take the chance of their not searching it?
60629Should I go to Paducah?
60629Should I remain hidden in the woods, trusting to their leaving in a few days?
60629So, marching up, he said,"Miss, will you be so kind as to give me a chew of your tobacco?"
60629So, recollecting all this, I said to Dick:"Well, Dick, what did your missus say about the Union soldiers?"
60629Suddenly Mr. Hurt sprang up and said,"What are those men?"
60629Suddenly, close behind us, and in a very startled tone, came"Who comes there?"
60629The cousin looked toward the woods; the little schoolmaster asked if he might not stay with his child just this one night?
60629The question, What shall be done?
60629Then came the painful questions: Who have come in?
60629Was the man on horseback a picket, and will there be a troop clattering down on us in a few minutes?
60629What do they send salt beef to the army for?
60629What have we done that we must suffer so?
60629What shall we do?"
60629What_ shall_ I do?
60629When she returned, I inquired:"Is your husband at home?"
60629Where did they say they were going?"
60629Where does K''s family live?
60629Where would you prefer my putting the horses?"
60629Who are missing?
60629Who knows anything of that one?
60629Who last saw this one?
60629Who would have dreamt of the colonel playing us such a trick?
60629Will he dare to come here?"
60629Would my strength hold out if I went on?
60629Yours?"
60629and did he wish for some fond hand to support his head, some kind ear to receive his parting words?
60629and who will write to tell them how he fell?
60629and would the fractured bone, that I felt under my coat, and the growing pain in my side, do without the surgeon''s care till I could make my way out?
60629are you the man with the oxen?"
60629do those mules plough all day and gallop home in this way at night?"
60629how so?"
60629how we trusted them then; and how faithful we found them?
60629or was he conscious through those last lonely hours?
60629they asked;"how far off is the enemy now?
60629they would say,"How early did you_ arise_?"
60629where did she see them?"
49099''And the captain?'' 49099 And the youngest?
49099And who are you? 49099 Are we downhearted?
49099Been wounded?
49099Can you see anything?
49099Did you see that last rocket?
49099Do n''t you know a man from your own company?
49099Do n''t you see that Miss----''s chair and book are on the floor?
49099Do n''t you wish you were in London now, Gal?
49099Do you not feel well?
49099Do you not know that I''ve broken your arm?
49099Do you want anything?
49099Do you want to go on bomb throwing detail this afternoon?
49099Have you any money?
49099Have you no money at all?
49099Hey,he said,"you come from the United States, do n''t you?"
49099How are things going down there?
49099How far forward do you wish to go?
49099How have you lived? 49099 How long were you at the front?"
49099I do n''t suppose you come from a part of the world that''s any better off?
49099I''ve got salt and pepper,I said,"but how are you going to cook it?"
49099Is there any woman to embrace me?
49099Is there anybody here?
49099Is your pain worse, maybe?
49099It''s the same with you, eh, comrade?
49099May I beg leave to tell my men they will not be shot?
49099No sign of the malady coming out in them?
49099Perhaps according to present ideas in England I am old- fashioned? 49099 Sure,"he answered;"does a duck want to swim?"
49099What do you think of the news from the Western front?
49099What do you want?
49099What hit me?
49099What is a gentleman''s duty-- I mean pleasure-- when a lady drops anything?
49099What is all the excitement?
49099What is it, then? 49099 What is it?"
49099What is it?
49099What is it?
49099What is the use?
49099What line?
49099What nationality?
49099What the hell is the matter?
49099What was the excitement?
49099What''s an inspiration?
49099What''s that for?
49099What''s that, nurse?
49099What''s that?
49099What''s the excitement?
49099What''s wrong now?
49099What? 49099 Where did you get it?"
49099Where do you come from?
49099Where have you come from, and where are you going?
49099Where is the ship?
49099Who are you?
49099Why could n''t they keep him when they had him? 49099 Why did n''t you tell me?"
49099Why did you not stop and salute me?
49099Why do n''t you come with me,he said,"instead of digging another place?"
49099Why, of course we will, wo n''t we, lads?
49099Will you take me to the Russians?
49099Would you like to go to the front?
49099Yes,I said;"what do you want to know that for?"
49099Yet, if I''m the one who does not, will_ you_ take command of the fellows?
49099You are English?
49099You are a friend of the English?
49099You do, do you?
49099_ Qu''est- ce que vous aves fait pour mériter tout cela?_Three medals across that narrow chest!
49099''Where for?''
49099( Are you crazy?)
49099A phonograph grinds out the ancient query"Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle?"
49099An escaped Russian?"
49099And Dadvisard said:''Why, is that all there is to do-- just to go out and attack them there?
49099And Morillot?
49099Back came the reply:"What''s the sense of risking a bearer''s life to transmit unnecessary messages?
49099But I hope you are not English enough to be a suffragette, Miss----?"
49099But how was I to get there?
49099But there are so many that I can not prolong, and will not-- what is the use?
49099But what about the seven subalterns?
49099But what do we see over there?
49099But what is the use of moralizing?
49099But what position was I to select?
49099Can that be merely a coincidence?"
49099Captain B---- turned and asked,"What next?"
49099Did he understand what worried me?
49099Do n''t you know an aviator''s supposed to look_ chic_?"
49099Do n''t you wish you had some of this?"
49099Do not his words recall those of the brothers of St. Francis?
49099Do you hear the others cry?"
49099From time to time, whenever a fresh bit of shelter is reached, without looking back, I called out to Pierrat:"Keeping on?"
49099Had I not lived it before?
49099Had it been placed there, by arrangement, by the Slovack?
49099Have a smoke?"
49099Have they already broken with everything of earth, these Sisters, lifted themselves for good above the most pardonable frailty?
49099Have you been long abroad?
49099Have you ever kicked into an ant hill?
49099He asked to see the soldier immediately:"''Tell me-- the commandant?''
49099He hesitated for a second, took another look at me, and then answered, resolutely,"Why not, sir?"
49099He, too, is all right?"
49099How can she come to see him?
49099How had he reached our trench?
49099How many of my fellows would live to cross that bullet- swept road?
49099How many?
49099How much are they offering?"
49099I recalled the remark of a friend who, on hearing of my appointment, asked:"After all, what do you expect to do?
49099I wonder when we shall really learn to know the true character of the German?
49099I''d give you the stuff if I got it to cook, but I do n''t get it, do I, Corporal?"
49099In how many days, with how many changes, will the public read these bits of news?
49099Is it possible?
49099Is n''t that strange?
49099Is there such a place?...
49099It gives one a horrible heartache and one is overwhelmed with depression.... Great God, how long is this war going to last?"
49099My home?
49099My wife?
49099Not many nights ago one of the pilots remarked in a tired way:"Know what I want?
49099One, I remember, asked,"Well, how do you like the German- West, old chappie?"
49099Out of curiosity I ask:"Why are you so fond of him?"
49099See?
49099Sometimes the peasants would look him up and down and ask him,"_ Osztrak?_"("Austrian?
49099Sometimes the peasants would look him up and down and ask him,"_ Osztrak?_"("Austrian?
49099That was bad enough in itself, but what about food?
49099The Belgian, surprised, exclaimed"Zijt gij zot?"
49099The mother clasped her hands together, turning to me:"The operation was successful, was n''t it, madame?"
49099The part for passengers was too exposed-- only fit for express despatch into the other world-- but what of the goods department?
49099The silence lay between us for a little, till the dying man asked,"What o''clock is it?"
49099Then turning to me, she said:"Before night- time would n''t you like to play a game of dominoes with this good boy?
49099They met mine, and something in them made me shout in German,"Do you surrender?"
49099This is chiefly rum, and it makes one feel,"Why wait any longer?
49099Want it?"
49099Was ever attack so strong or resistance more determined?
49099Was he spy or madman?"
49099Was he, then, surrendering the lot as well as himself?
49099Was not one of the Kaiser''s sons familiarly known in Berlin as the"Duke of Brittany?"
49099Was this not worth my whole trip?
49099We must get them out, eh?''
49099We sent a shell in her direction, and I heard the captain ironically inquire:"What did you shoot at?"
49099Well, where?
49099What could the last few survivors hope to accomplish?
49099What has he ever done to be crucified like this?
49099What is your profession?"
49099What more natural than that he should sympathize with the prisoner and agree to help him to regain his liberty?
49099What were we doing at Aix- la- Chapelle?
49099What would introduce novelty into the situation?
49099What would the next moment bring us?
49099What, however, was to be done with the four English officers, twenty sailors and marines, and the hundred and sixty passengers on board the_ Appam_?
49099When she was sufficiently near, we hoisted the signal,"What is your name?"
49099When was he going to see that there were only four men, one N.C.O., and my anxious self on the premises?
49099When we reached his office he was overwhelmed with work, but he rose from his chair and said kindly,"Have I not seen your face before?"
49099When will she come to see him?
49099When will she come?
49099When you think of the ones who stayed down there, ought you ever to groan?
49099Whence am I to get the money to pay for this journey?"
49099Where are the brutes?
49099Where are we going to?
49099Where did you get it?"
49099Where did you get water?"
49099Where have I already beheld a scene like this?
49099Where is von X----?"
49099Where were the beggars?
49099Where would those poor people go and what could they do without food or shelter for all those little children?
49099Who are you, and where are you going?"
49099Who could describe the feelings that overcome a man in the first hail of bullets he is in?
49099Who goes there?"
49099Who is able to explain these men to those for whom they have been fighting for more than a year?
49099Who knows, besides, how much their desire to live may have dwindled down after their tragic voyages to the frontier?
49099Who was he?
49099Whose was it?
49099Why did I do it?
49099Why did n''t they shoot, though?
49099Why do n''t you dress yourself?
49099Why is that?"
49099Why is the regiment bivouacking here?"
49099Why should we have been made to fight each other?"
49099With whom was he still communicating?
49099Wo n''t you tell me?"
49099Would n''t there have been a hullabaloo if somebody had guessed what thoughts were passing through the poor brain inside that stern figure?
49099Would these madmen never surrender?
49099You or I. I?
49099what is this coming down on us?
49099you are blind, then?
49391Age?
49391Ah,_ bon!_ Why are you here then?
49391And what about those others''là- bas?''
49391And why did you leave them?
49391And you''re a German, I suppose?
49391And your mother?
49391And,inquired the interviewer,"was there no period during the incident that you felt that the proposition was too big for you?"
49391But where are your parents-- your father?
49391Can you see the gun mounted forward of the bridge?
49391Did you hear how he circled around over us?
49391Do they want killing or what?
49391Do you hear it? 49391 Even the Boches?"
49391Father,he said, in a weak voice,"Father, am I going to die?"
49391France, Russia, or Engländer?
49391Have I been ill?
49391Have a smoke?
49391Have you a doctor, Captain? 49391 Have you any children?"
49391Have you any papers to prove your identity?
49391Have you had your dinner?
49391Have you seen what is happening with the Russian soldiers, taken prisoners?
49391House to house? 49391 How about the Rue Jeanne d''Arc?"
49391How can you swallow all that stuff?
49391How many are you?
49391How many more are there down the dug- out?
49391How so? 49391 May I go to the engine- room, Herr Captain- Lieutenant?"
49391Now take a look at her stern-- right by the second mast-- what do you notice there?
49391Shall we meet again?
49391Since you wish to enter an ambulance, it''s to work there?
49391Well, well-- um-- how can you be sure? 49391 Well,"said I,"what''s it to be?
49391What about it?
49391What do you say if we let''em have a bit?
49391What do you think of the case of Miss Edith Cavell?
49391What has that to do with it?
49391What in the world is straw fixed up that way for?
49391What is the trouble? 49391 What religion are you, Max?"
49391What''s your name?
49391What''s your name?
49391When shall we meet again?
49391When we came aboard the raider,the officer from the late_ Voltaire_ continued,"one of the Germans said to me:"''Where were you?
49391Where are all those prisoners?
49391Where do you come from?
49391Where does he come from?
49391Where have you come from?
49391Where?
49391Who?
49391Why did you leave Monaco for Belfort?
49391Why not?
49391Why''Todger''?
49391Why, Colonel,said I to the other,"are n''t you going to have a nap with your friend?"
49391Wo n''t that fill the bill?
49391You are married?
49391You know they''re no use?
49391You should have seen him, eh? 49391 You''ve come here, then, to enlist?"
49391_ Guten Tag._"_ Guten Tag, meine Schwester-- Hier habe ich quartier._"Are you not afraid of typhus?
49391_ Non, mon capitaine._"Are you French?
49391''Why, mother?''
49391***** From Morcourt in the department of the Somme on the seventh of November, 1914:"Shall we ever return?
49391-> Would the village we were holding be spared?
49391A captain of Alpini said to me:"France and Italy are one-- is it not so, sir?"
49391A close shave, what?
49391And did my children want war?
49391And may I tell you how the ever- present contrast came in here?
49391And over there?
49391And what are you going to do?
49391And who can say that his act was cowardly?
49391And who''ll volunteer to put them on?
49391And would they ever return?
49391Are you so dull and faint- hearted that it does not echo within you?
49391At last he said:"You are wounded?"
49391At what hour?
49391But is it the enemy?
49391But that evening I was not"begged"(?)
49391But what was that?
49391But where should I take the cart, which had to keep to the road?
49391Can I get out and have a packet at them?"
49391Can it be wondered that the Duke of Brunswick, who witnessed the tragedy, has since been reported as hopelessly insane?
49391Can you hear the 75''s singing?''
49391Can you hear the melodious song from below, you weakling nerves?
49391Carrying Wanda upstairs, trying to still her; heartbroken myself, what could I tell the little creature?
49391Come now, will you have some?"
49391Could he hold out till then?
49391Did I tell you that I was a bomber?
49391Did you ever breathe air foul with the gases arising from a thousand rotting corpses?
49391Dirt?
49391Do I think about honor and success?
49391Do you hear it?"
49391Do you not know the stimulating power which the thin metal voice below can inspire within you?
49391Do you remember the winter, five years ago, that I passed in Switzerland?
49391Do you think though that it was necessary to be mobilised in order to do what we are doing?
49391Do you want to be killed or taken prisoners?
49391Do you wonder that I am still proud that I fought there-- proud of the French Canadians?
49391Fit game for a Nero, was n''t it?
49391Food?
49391For Germany?
49391For a second my heart stood still-- where was my boy?
49391For my brickyard?
49391Gas?
49391Gloom?
49391Hardly had I crossed the threshold than one of them exclaimed:"What do you want here, boy?"
49391Have the heavy clouds which have obscured the night broken at last and will the sun appear?
49391Have you ever been in a bombarded town?
49391Have you ever seen a thousand men hurled to atoms by a giant blast?
49391Have you ever stood by the gate to the trains and watched the men come up to go back to the front?
49391He will ask, over and over again,"What time is it?"
49391He--""Do you believe that I am a loyal Russian?"
49391How can you assure me?"
49391How many did I rake in?"
49391How many did you rake in yesterday?"
49391I leant over him, and said with the instinctive gentleness which compassion inspires one with:"You are suffering, my child?"
49391I said, and he replied,"What do you mean?"
49391I said:"Will you kindly get a flask out of my pocket?
49391I wondered who the workers were, when what do you think I saw?
49391Is n''t that the very soul of France?"
49391Is the little girl ill also?"
49391Is there really typhus?"
49391It is gay the war,_ n''est- ce pas_, madame?"
49391It was then that an officer caught sight of me and cried out:"What''s that boy doing there?"
49391My dander was up, and I shouted to the officer,"What do you think of that, sir?"
49391Need I describe my home- coming?
49391Oh, what is then-- Lieutenant who?"
49391Old Gott and I had our telephones on and he said:"What about it, Lieutenant?"
49391One of the first things he said to me when the record was read was,''How the dickens did you do it, Jones?''
49391Or do you think that I intend to circle around those two rascals for hours?"
49391Or shall we not go home?
49391Or,"Only three o''clock?"
49391P. 96: Would our village we were holding be spared?
49391Presently he came back, and said,"Are you ready?"
49391Rats?
49391Should I make a clean breast of it and drag the mask from the rascal''s smiling face, or spring at his throat and shake the life out of him?
49391Stench?
49391Suddenly she asked:"Mammy-- why does God sleep?"
49391Surely there was nothing worse to come?
49391Tell me, why are we fighting?"
49391Tell me, why are we fighting?"
49391The professors did not believe he could live to finish the course, so why waste the time with him?
49391To be kept there with those men when my baby needed me every minute, but what was there to do?
49391Was it England after all instead of France?
49391Was it sufficiently deep to accommodate us?
49391Was it, too, a mass of dust and stones?
49391Were they put to bed like ordinary babies?
49391Were we to be shut out even as the gates of Paradise seemed to be opening to us?
49391Were we to have had all our toil in vain?
49391What about it?"
49391What am I going to do with this little lot?"
49391What am I searching for in the cold, dark night?
49391What answer could I make?
49391What chance had a prisoner to escape?
49391What could have happened?
49391What did I expect?
49391What did you ever read of the rats in the trenches?
49391What do you know of it, you people who never heard earth and heaven rock with the frantic turmoil of the ceaseless bombardment?
49391What does it matter?
49391What does one reply to such men?
49391What for?
49391What is this Russian doing here?"
49391What new plan of campaign could I evolve?
49391What soldiers ever fought more valiantly?
49391What was to be done?
49391What?
49391What?
49391What?
49391What_ are_ you?"
49391When the sergeant had gone he took me aside and said:"Have you eaten?"
49391When will this war end?
49391When will we go home again?
49391When?
49391Where do you come from?"
49391Where was the mother whom he had left there in the house they called their own?
49391Where were we going to?
49391Who am I?"
49391Who ever gave their lives in a noble cause more gladly?
49391Who ever met certain death more steadfastly and unafraid?
49391Who has experienced the horrors of Milton''s terrible vision or the slow tortures of Dante''s inferno?
49391Who would n''t have been disappointed at seeing a scheme that had arrived so near fruition come toppling down like a house of cards?
49391Why accuse me for no other reason than that I am a Russian?"
49391Why did we stop there?
49391Why does my eye stare so steadily into the dark?
49391Why?
49391Why?
49391Will you surrender?"
49391Would the village we were holding be spared?
49391You have seen the ice wagon dripping on a warm day?
49391You''re a Belgian, are n''t you?"
49391and say,"Only eleven o''clock?"
49391young man, you do n''t belong here?"
34827''And is he gone?'' 34827 ''Is he an Englishman-- does he look like an Englishman?''
34827''Who is this Burden?'' 34827 Are there many Yankee ships passing the Rock now?"
34827But what have Congressmen done in their individual capacity? 34827 But what''s the news from Rio?"
34827But, Captain, ca n''t we arrange the matter in some way? 34827 Can you make out the nationality of the ships in tow?"
34827Have any of them struck us?
34827How is that?
34827How so?
34827I suppose you''ll charge something for bringing these gentlemen on board?
34827It would not pay me, then, to cruise in these seas?
34827Now, in view of the above statement of facts, what has Congress done? 34827 That may do very well for the murder,"I now rejoined,"but what about the desertion?"
34827The d----l she is,said I;"how many shots has she fired at us?"
34827What does she look like?
34827What does this mean?
34827What is that?
34827What is the news?
34827What ship is that?
34827What ship is that?
34827What ship is that?
34827What,said I,"do they come on deck?"
34827Whence cometh the wind, and whither goeth it?
34827Why should I not, sir?
34827You are rather hard upon us, my friend,now rejoined the boarding- officer;"why should you take such an interest in the Confederate cause?"
34827You surprise me,rejoined the Captain;"how is that?"
34827''Have you ever seen him?''
34827Adjudication presupposes something to adjudicate; but if there was no contraband of war, on board the_ Trent_, what was there to adjudicate?
34827And if not, why not?
34827And if so, in what does the difference consist?
34827And if so, what business had his pennant, any more than his ensign, to be flying?
34827And in what does the supposed proceeding differ from the one in hand?
34827And is there any difference between escaping to the shore, and to a neutral flag?
34827And that steamship, what flag did she bear?
34827And then, as I stated to you, in my first letter, is not the honor of the French flag involved?
34827And then, where was the Congress, and the Massachusetts legislature, and Mr. Secretary Welles, and all the"plate,"and all the"resolutions"?
34827And what did Mr. Secretary Welles do?
34827And what is the consequence?
34827And what think you, reader, was the excuse?
34827And when the Constitution was formed, to whom was it submitted for ratification?
34827And why this transference from American ships to British ships?
34827And why would she not have complained?
34827And yet, how could I very well run away, in the face of the promises I had given my crew?
34827And, then, what about the necessity for_ protecting the machinery at all_?
34827As a mere general, he would have abandoned the hopeless task long ago, extricating his army, and throwing it into the field, but_ cui bono_?
34827Be frank; was, or was not, the transfer of your ship a_ bona fide_ transaction?"
34827Besides, who shall judge them?
34827But does not that officer forget that treason is made up of acts of war; and is it not apparent that you can not try me for an act of war?
34827But has a captor the right to destroy before adjudication?
34827But how does he affect the currents?
34827But how is it now?
34827But if the prizes can not be sent either into the ports of the Confederate States, or into neutral ports, how can this verification be made?
34827But in what direction is the atmosphere now moving?
34827But supposing the States to have been equally represented in those schools, what would have been the result?
34827But the cloud-- how came it there, why does it remain so faithfully at its post, and what are its functions?
34827But what becomes of this lighter globule of water, which has arisen to the surface, because it has been deprived of its solid matter?
34827But what was I to do with it?
34827But what was I to do with the prize?
34827But, does it follow that I may be tried for treason?
34827But,"what smoke is that we perceive, coming down the river?"
34827By the way, has the reader ever remarked that land is scarcely ever antipodal with land?
34827By what process was any portion of this allegiance transferred to the Federal Government, and to what extent was it transferred?
34827Can this be the ultimate design of the Yankee?
34827Come when it will-- we snatch the life of life; When lost-- what recks it-- by disease or strife?
34827Could they have parted with it, without consenting to a merger of their sovereignty?
34827Could this be the_ Alabama_?
34827Did Dupont send her back to Ingraham?
34827Did he not surrender his ship to me?
34827Did it result from their forms of government, and must democrats necessarily be vulgarians?
34827Did not each State, on the contrary, call its own convention?
34827Did the North follow this example set her by the South?
34827Did the captain mean to drown them?
34827Did these States send three fourths of the students to those schools?
34827Did they part, with the right of secession?
34827Did this time correspond with the known rate of travel of the circles?
34827Did we need other incitement on board the_ Alabama_, to apply a well- lighted torch to the enemy''s ships?
34827Disturbed for what?
34827Does any one wonder that the_ Alabama_ burned New England ships?
34827Does he see rebellion and treason lurking in the conduct of these States?
34827Does the fact of my prize being in British waters, in violation of the Queen''s proclamation, give it this right?
34827Had Mr. Seward forgotten, when he wrote the above, the case of Dr. Franklin''s ship, the_ Surprise_?
34827Had he forgotten the"Naval Bureau"which was conducted in France, by Dr. Franklin and Silas Deane, who were"stationed agents"of the Colonies?
34827Had, then, the Southern States the peaceful right to dissolve the compact of government under which they had lived with the North?
34827Has Congress agitated the subject at any time, in any manner, looking to a trial of the cases referred to?
34827Has Congress passed any law directing how the rebels shall be tried?
34827Has Congress passed any resolution requesting the President to order a military court for the trial of Davis& Co.?
34827He guarded them as he would the apple of his eye, for had he not a prize which might make him Consul for life at Tangier?
34827Here is the article:--"WHY DON''T CONGRESS ACT?
34827His name?
34827How are we to account for this?
34827How could we respect it, in such a connection?
34827How did it cease to exist?
34827How did the Convention vote on this proposition?
34827How is it possible to reconcile this short, explicit, and unambiguous provision with the theory I am combating?
34827How we should be astonished?
34827I asked if I was to be put in irons?
34827I came within easy speaking range-- about seventy- five yards-- and upon asking,"What steamer is that?"
34827I said to him,"Captain, your boats appear to me, to be rather deeply laden; are you not afraid to trust them?"
34827If A strikes B, is it lawful to interfere to preserve the peace, and if B strikes A, is it unlawful to interfere for the same purpose?
34827If a ship might be violated, why not territory?
34827If the_ Sumter_ were only in Bahia, where the_ Florida_ afterward was, how easily and securely the kicking might be done?
34827If these were straight winds, blowing contrary to the trades, why should they not blow steadily like the trades?
34827If they can not send them into neutral ports, where are they to send them?
34827If we are beaten in this war, what will be our fate in the Southern States?
34827If we could not defend ourselves before Richmond, could we defend ourselves anywhere?
34827In the meantime, the inquiry naturally presents itself, Where is the Yankee?
34827In what proportion did the States contribute it?
34827Is he too busy with his internal dissensions and politics?
34827Is it a bargain?"
34827Is it because the two particles, as they have gyrated around their respective poles, have received a repulsive polarity?
34827Is it not a fact, on the contrary, that the vote of eleven States did_ not_ bind the other two?
34827Is our Government a mere rope of sand, that may be destroyed at the will of the States?"
34827Is the miserable faction which has ruled the country for the last seven years determined to destroy all its prosperity, foreign as well as domestic?
34827Is this consistent with the supposed wisdom of the political Fathers, those practical, common sense men, who formed the Federal Constitution?
34827May it not be the same law which rides on the whirlwind, and directs the storm?
34827May not this arrangement have something to do with the currents, and the water- carriers, the winds?
34827Might it not be, that, after all our trials and sacrifices, the cause for which we were struggling would be lost?
34827My first lieutenant now approached me, and touching my elbow, said,"Captain, had we not better throw this howitzer overboard?
34827No wonder that Mr. Lincoln when asked,"why not let the South go?"
34827Now what is the result?
34827Oh, who can tell?
34827On what ground can you undertake to make this decision?
34827Or was it that the whole North had been wearing a mask, and that the mask was now no longer available, or desirable, to hide their treachery?
34827Our question, then, will be reduced to this, Was she commissioned by a sovereign power?
34827Sentinel:--"Who comes there?"
34827Shall that name be tarnished by defeat?
34827Shall we, too, become mongrelized, and disappear from the face of the earth?
34827Should, now, a French traveller, landing in Morocco,_ in itinere_, only, from a French ship, be subject to a different rule?
34827Such an export would indicate unparalleled wealth, but what is the fact?
34827The Government may not supply me with powder-- why?
34827The act still remaining to be atoned for, what was there to be gained, by sending the vessel in?
34827The next question which presents itself for our consideration is, Was the_ Alabama_ properly commissioned by a sovereign power?
34827The prisoners-- what did we do with them?
34827The question now is, who formed the Constitution, not what was formed by it?
34827The question now was, in what direction should we steer?
34827The ships would be hundreds of miles away from the land, and where could this dust come from?
34827The true, and the only just and fair criterion, is, was the act for which the arrest was made an act of war?
34827The"Where- away?"
34827The_ Alabama_, said he, was burning everything, right and left, even_ British_ property; would the Lion stand it?
34827This is a very questionable assertion; for why did Captain Winslow confide in that Englishman?
34827Under such circumstances, what think you, reader, was the subject of Mr. Gibson''s discourse?
34827WAS SECESSION TREASON?
34827Was I, under these circumstances, to plunge into the water with my sword in my hand and endeavor to swim to the_ Kearsarge_?
34827Was Secession Treason?
34827Was it not more natural, that I should hurl it into the depths of the ocean in defiance, and in hatred of the Yankee and his accursed flag?
34827Was the_ Kearsarge_ an exception?
34827Was there any convention of the people of the United States in the aggregate, as one nation, called for the purpose of considering it?
34827Was this one of the results which our ancestors designed, when they framed the federal compact?
34827Was this the sort of experiment in government, that our forefathers supposed they were making?
34827Was this the way he designed to punish them for mutiny, instead of hanging them at the yard- arm?
34827We captured the_ Tonawanda_, and the question immediately presented itself what should we do with her?
34827We repeat the question with which we commenced, and which is echoed by the people everywhere,''Why do n''t Congress act?''"
34827What a descent have we here, from the Plantagenets to Mr. Milner Gibson?
34827What can be the uses in the animal economy to which this immense quantity of oil in the head of the fish is applied?
34827What could have become of Banks, and his great expedition, and what was this squadron of steam ships- of- war doing here?
34827What could the fellow mean?
34827What could the_ Sumter_ effect against such odds?
34827What could this mean?
34827What is a diplomat fit for, unless he can be a little cunning, upon occasion?
34827What is the subtle influence which produces this wonderful result?
34827What is to prevent it?
34827What monstrous sophists we are, when interest prompts us?
34827What more could a monarch do?
34827What says the reader?
34827What scenes does not the very sight of this refectory present to the imagination?
34827What was best to be done in this changed condition of affairs?
34827What was expected of me under these circumstances?
34827What was to be done?
34827What wonder that I felt a lover''s resentment?
34827When they would talk to me about private property, I would ask to whom their ships belonged-- whether to a private person, or the Government?
34827When_ will_ naughty England pay that little bill?
34827Whence came the fund for the establishment of these schools?
34827Whence can such a conclusion be drawn?
34827Whence comes it?
34827Whence this difference?
34827Where was Mr. Welles''officer, that he did not come to demand it?
34827Where was that great constituency, composed of the people of the United States in the aggregate, as one nation, all this time?
34827Who could look into the horoscope of this ship-- who anticipate her career?
34827Who could tell which these nine States would be?
34827Who shall pronounce on which side the right or wrong lies?
34827Who shall say that the civilized man is a greater philosopher, than the savage of the China seas?
34827Why did he implore his interference, calling out,''For God''s sake, do what you can to save them?''
34827Why do n''t Congress act?
34827Why might she not have been taken into some other neutral port, for this purpose?
34827Why not?
34827Why was this disruption of the old government regarded as a matter of course?
34827Why, then, may not the Government supply me?
34827With a Yankee Mandarin on board, and a good supply of opium, and tracts, what a smashing business this little cruiser might have done?
34827Yes; here were my"forces,"but where, the d----l, was General Lee, and how was I to join him?
34827_ They never returned_, and I submit to the decision of the Department, whether they are not our prisoners?"
34827_ where then shall we get our revenue?_"This system of spoliation was commenced in 1816.
34827and did not some of the States accept it, and some of them refuse to accept it?
34827and if so, on what principle?
34827and secondly, Was there sufficient ground for this dissolution?
34827and, secondly, Was there sufficient reason for such dissolution?
34827have we no government capable of preserving itself?
34827or was it the_ Hydaspes_, from India, or the_ Lady Jocelyn_ from England?
34827that thou shouldst be mindful of him?"
34827what was done with the"old flag"?
34827what was to be done?
34827what was to become of her, and her vow?
40792An excellent canvas, is it not?
40792And how many men on an average are in the trenches?
40792And meanwhile?
40792And now,he said,"we go to Augustowo,"adding with a tantalizing smile,"Do you wish?"
40792And the fields too?
40792And when will that be possible, Professor?
40792And when will the end be?
40792And you?
40792And, Your Majesty, after the war?
40792Any wounded?
40792Are n''t you coming with us, Captain?
40792As the national feeling grows,I asked him,"will not the goal for peace become always more remote?
40792Back to Lille?
40792But how can they get through the German lines?
40792But your accent?
40792But, Captain,I urged,"is n''t there some place from which we could see an artillery position?"
40792But, Professor,I asked,"does not traffic and industry breed war; what caused this war?
40792But,I argued,"they ca n''t expect what they get at home, can they?"
40792Can we not go back by some other road,Poole suggests,"a longer way, making a detour?"
40792Christian, eh?
40792Colonel,says Poole, pointing at the wall behind me,"what did you do, have those windows boarded up so that the light would n''t be seen?"
40792Could they come down this road?
40792Did you capture any American ammunition?
40792Did you get it?
40792Did your artillery harass their retreat?
40792Do they always run, Rittmeister?
40792Do you hear them?
40792Do you know,I said feeling cold,"that we''re exposed to the French trenches?"
40792Do you really mean it?
40792Do you wish?
40792Do you wish?
40792Fine, is n''t it?
40792Has your house been burned?
40792How do you know?
40792How far off is that shooting?
40792How high is his fever?
40792How is it possible?
40792How long do we remain in Lille?
40792How long were you drilled?
40792How long,I asked him,"were the Russians here?"
40792How many in a patrol?
40792How many rockets, Colonel, do you send up in a night?
40792How much?
40792How old are they?
40792How,I asked Tzschirner,"did they miss the dead we saw along the road?"
40792I do talk a bit English, do I not? 40792 Is it time for the concert?"
40792Is n''t this amazing?
40792Is there no one else you can recommend?
40792It''s on me, what was that girl speaking?
40792Mr. Fox,he said,"you know how to use German rifle, do you not?"
40792Ober- Lieutenant,I remark with a smile,"will that young lieutenant wear his monocle if there''s a battle?"
40792Please, Madame,the Rittmeister asked her,"why did you make the sign of the cross when you saw us?"
40792Pretty soon we had the whole village on fire, did n''t we, Max?
40792Rittmeister,I asked suddenly,"were many men killed here?"
40792Rittmeister,I asked,"did German soldiers follow the Russians down this road?"
40792Say,he said,"you''re a baseball fan, are n''t you?"
40792So that''s it, eh?
40792So you got up the road all right?
40792So you think, Your Majesty, that we are safe from war?
40792Sure,he grinned; and then he put to me that everlasting question:"What do Americans think now?
40792Tell me,he begged then,"Walter Johnson did n''t sign up with the Feds, did he?
40792Then the French observer can see us?
40792Then you also think he''s English?
40792Then you fellows are the new recruits that were sent over there?
40792This is our operating room,smiled the doctor;"you never saw one like it before, did you?
40792This religion,he said,"makes it pleasant among the Frenchmen, and then when I get home-- well, how can I be a good Mohammedan without this?"
40792Three days and how many lives?
40792Want to have a look at it?
40792War?
40792Was I long?
40792Well, boys, how do you like it here?
40792What are you doing here?
40792What are you still wearing that thing for, then?
40792What did you do in the war?
40792What did you do, commandeer quantities of it?
40792What else? 40792 What is it?"
40792What is that for?
40792What should I have done?
40792What was that lieutenant so excited about?
40792What were you before you entered the army?
40792What''s the matter with that chap?
40792When do we reach Lyck?
40792Where are the Russians?
40792Where are you going?
40792Where is it?
40792Where is the American Hospital?
40792Where is the American Hospital?
40792Where were you captured?
40792Where,I finally asked,"is the Great Headquarters located?"
40792Where,asked the Rittmeister, returning the salute,"are the Russians?"
40792Who can say?
40792Who is he?
40792Why do n''t your men open fire?
40792Why not sing?
40792Why not?
40792Why,said Tzschirner gently,"do you fear us?"
40792Why?
40792Why?
40792Wild?
40792Will you return to headquarters with us for tea?
40792You believe then, Professor,I asked,"that the day will come when there will be no war, when fighting actually will be done with ink?
40792You do not believe there will be an attack?
40792You like to hear bullets?
40792You see those houses over there?
40792You think it''s terrible, do n''t you?
40792You would like to see?
40792You would like to see?
40792You would wish to see?
40792You''re a regular, are n''t you?
40792You''re an American, are n''t you?
40792You''re not hurt?
40792Your engineers changed the course of the road, bending it around that burning bridge, in one hour?
40792_ Aus wo fahren sie?_called Tzschirner.
40792_ Chausee nach Raygrod?_cried the Rittmeister to the sentry by the Kommandant office.
40792_ Ist der Weg frei?_"_ Jawohl! 40792 _ Ist der weg frei?_"called Tzschirner.
40792_ Viele Russlanders tot!_"Do they get back the results so quickly?
40792A tired officer of the Hussars came in as we left and I heard him say to Von Stietencron,"So their officers were here, were they?"
40792And how can any one be uneasy or frightened when every one else seems as though the very safety of their existence is torturing them to death?
40792And if the whole world burns, what can the workers for peace do?
40792And with his white hands you saw the boy lunge as though already he could hear the ripping steel.... What if you were his father?
40792Are they ill or well treated?
40792Are they more friendly than when I left?"
40792Are they not allies?"
40792As we were going out, one of them whispered to me,"See if you can get us our Christmas packages, wo n''t you?"
40792Because they are men of air as well as of earth, have these soldier- fliers strange powers?
40792But the courier and I?
40792But was it not written that He suffered so that a world might be saved?
40792But why?"
40792By the way, how long ago was that; not more than twenty minutes?
40792Ca n''t you help us?"
40792Can the Germans come up fast enough?
40792Carnegie''s?"
40792Did we wish to climb up to it?
40792Did you have in mind a Germany whose mission would be to shepherd the people of the world?"
40792Do you consider international peace a friend or an enemy to robust normal manhood?
40792Do you think that war cleans out degenerate tendencies of peaceful civilization?"
40792Do you wish?"
40792Do you wish?"
40792Every conceivable thing that a modern army should know about a future battleground the British army knew.... How do I know this?
40792Expecting he would follow this up by saying he was an American I looked inquiring and when he sought to turn the subject I asked:"Neutral?
40792Had I been careless with the electric torch?
40792Had the Ober- Lieutenant told them that darkness would bring the Russian attack?
40792Had the Saxonians been told they were to be sent to the trenches?
40792Had we been seen?
40792Hals was shouting something; finally I guessed what it was--"Want to go down?"
40792Have a cartridge?"
40792Have the French attacked?
40792Have you got a chapel here for these fellows?"
40792How can, for instance, the Russian peasant ever understand the customs and personality of say, the poor man in England?
40792How close were they now?
40792How close were we now?
40792How could any intelligent man believe them?
40792How do I know that?
40792How do you explain it?"
40792How far from the French would we be in the trench?
40792How was Manship?
40792How, if something be marked for destruction in this war, can it escape?
40792I asked,"what then?
40792I could see a black wisp of smoke curling from a red brick chimney, but where were the French?...
40792I had talked with decent women of all classes about the war; what of the women whose hectic lives had destroyed real values?
40792I wonder what''s back of it?"
40792I wonder where that other man is?
40792In the fields?
40792Into what?
40792Is it a success or a failure?
40792Is it to be the last war of the world, so terrible that humanity will not tolerate another?"
40792Is n''t there some way I could go back home without going through the English Channel?
40792It was the Lyck greeting-- friend or foe?
40792It''s enough for two pints of bad champagne, is n''t it?"
40792Might not even now the enemy be after us?
40792Nerve?
40792Not bad, eh?"
40792Noticing a wagon loaded with barbed wire, I said to Tzschirner:"What will you do, make this position at Tauroggen permanent?
40792Now it would be a rotten Christmas if a chap did n''t get those, would n''t it?
40792Now, had Hals known that the shell was from a battery just getting into action?
40792Of what could Downing Street be thinking?
40792Or had they telephoned their own aeroplanes to put up after us?
40792Plow furrows?
40792Prisoners of war?
40792Self?
40792Stark foolhardy courage, or did a secret commission from Downing Street make this the merest commonplace of duty?
40792Stories?
40792Suppose after the peace treaty was signed that Germany decided to keep Belgium, would the Empire ever be able to assimilate the new people?
40792Suppose that day comes, will it be a good thing?
40792Suppose we were to judge America by some of the things published there?"
40792That''s why you came over to fight, is n''t it?"
40792The Germans are not bothering to reply, only with spasmodic shots, I think of the black winged birds; has the noise frightened them away?
40792To silence the stories of ill- treatment that official press bureaus intermittently produce, why not apply a remedy?
40792Wait for what?
40792Was I not really under his orders?
40792Was it not better than trudging off in the morning to the blowing of a whistle?
40792Was not commercial jealousy between England and Germany one of the vital causes of the war?"
40792Was that roar a cheer?
40792What country?"
40792What did they do with themselves during the day?
40792What did they look like?
40792What did they want?
40792What do I think of this war?
40792What if the two lancers who rode as a rear guard did recognize the officer in our car?
40792What is he saying?
40792What news have you got?"
40792What of America and war?
40792What other grounds are there worth while talking about when a nation is in a war for its existence?
40792What sort of a man was he?
40792What time is it now?
40792What was he doing?
40792What were the real emotions of these subjects of Germany; had the war genuine thrills for them?
40792When would it open to admit the police spy?...
40792When would peace be declared?
40792Where are the Russians?
40792Where are the Russians?
40792Where are they?
40792Where could the German general and his staff have their headquarters?
40792Where did they come from?
40792Where had I found them?...
40792Where was the courier?
40792Where were the French?
40792Where were the dead?
40792Where were they?
40792Where?
40792Why bother with outposts?
40792Why did he have to whisper?
40792Why do n''t the others hurry, so that we can move faster, too?
40792Why had the soldier hurried towards him; what was the old man saying?
40792Why not standardize the prison camps?
40792Why the speed that Hals evidently deemed necessary?
40792Why were they not sent?
40792Wild?"
40792Will it ever be for them?
40792Will you excuse me, please, a moment?
40792Will you, as one of its hardest workers, give some message to the people of America, on the status of international peace to- day and in the future?"
40792Wonderful?
40792Would they hit it?
40792You can not tell me how long I may have to wait for them?
40792You do n''t mind, do you?"
40792You mean they have your papers?"
40792You wish?"
40792You wish?"
40792_ Krieg?__ Krieg ist schrecklich!_ War is terrible!"
40792do they keep it up all night?
40792that will be the state of Europe in times coming''--What did you mean, Professor, by that phrase''One shepherd and one herd''?
48941''And what became of him?'' 48941 ''Does the end justify the means?''
48941And Morand?
48941And what do I owe you for that, doctor?
48941And what if they had?
48941And you?
48941Are you going to leave me to die here?...
48941Are you not hiring people?
48941Are you so fond of von Papen that you want to do him a favor? 48941 Are you the executioners of the German Government?"
48941But what became of''Whitening''?
48941But your accent?
48941Do you mean to say,he exclaimed,"that they did n''t take your letters?"
48941Do you really mean it?
48941Goin''to take all week to get ready?
48941Got a cigarette, mate?
48941Has he been losing heavily again?
48941Has he escaped?
48941How not possible?
48941I do talk a bit English, do I not? 48941 Is it you, Letty?"
48941Little father, where can we get any sugar? 48941 Our dead,"he murmured reverently, and then briskly,"Shall we move on?"
48941Said?
48941Shut up, ca n''t yer?
48941So you shot_ him_?
48941The Government? 48941 Then you think he''s English?"
48941Things going well? 48941 Von Papen is a very clever man-- are you going to let him take you in?
48941War?
48941What do you think you''re going to do?
48941What else? 48941 What was the battle like?"
48941What would I not do to oblige Princess M----?
48941Where are you going?
48941Where''s T----?
48941Who is it?
48941Who is it?
48941Who''s down this time?
48941Why are you fighting?
48941Why have you arrived here without the prisoner?
48941Why not sing?
48941Why this pains with a dead man?
48941Why was it issued?
48941Why?
48941Yes, but before that what did he say to you-- when you looked so serious? 48941 You have come to make me a prisoner?"
48941You think the Germans are getting through this time?
48941*****"What is it you want?"
48941....?"
48941....?"
48941And if so, where were they hidden?
48941And the machine- gunners?
48941And what if you were to sell the horse and go farther?"
48941And why?
48941And you are certain he is still infatuated with the lady?"
48941Another groaned audibly as he raised himself to ask:"Have more of my brothers fallen than of the Austrians?"
48941Are butchery, frightfulness, pillage, and destruction inevitable?
48941Are they going to stand by and see me knocked out?''
48941Are you someone from the Government or a Relief Committee?"
48941Beginning to feel alive once again, eh?"
48941Behind the crest of the cliff?
48941But surely you know of that last winter''s affair of his?"
48941But the courier and I?
48941But was there real cause for surprise?
48941But what of the Archduchess Valeria?
48941But what were my unfortunate friend''s thoughts in this prison?
48941But why not?
48941But why?"
48941But will he do it?
48941But without a horse, what sort of a being should I be?
48941Could I leave him alone any longer?
48941Could any creation of the imagination equal this?
48941Could it be that we had taken the Turks by surprise?
48941Could they deposit their jewels in the Embassy vaults?
48941Did you say that?
48941Do you know that check?"
48941Do you think he was fool enough not to realize that those papers would be seized?
48941Do you wish to buy?"
48941Do you?
48941Eh?"
48941Expecting he would follow this up by saying that he was an American I looked inquiring and when he sought to turn the subject I asked:"Neutral?
48941Fifteen rubles not good money?
48941For who killed you, you two German soldiers?
48941Hard luck on the Battalions was n''t it?
48941He finally approached me, saying in English of a most perfect and pronounced British accent,"Are you an American?"
48941He spoke of his home in Syria, and then we got talking about prisoners----""But what''s all this to do with me?"
48941How are you?
48941How could any intelligent man believe them?
48941How could my mental attitude be otherwise when I sat down and calmly compared the early weeks of the war with the existing situation?
48941How did I feel on taking a human life?
48941How do you like me?
48941How does it hold?
48941How long do you estimate this tunnelling will take?"
48941How many thousands of soldiers are surging down upon us then?
48941How many were there there?
48941How reckon up the sufferings?
48941I asked him:"Is that B.?"
48941I could just catch the words:"... German patrol... one... chap wounded.... What''s that, sir?...
48941I had talked with decent women of all classes about the war; what of the women whose hectic lives had destroyed real values?
48941I leave it to you,_ are_ you proud?
48941I parried a thrust with the stock of my rifle, but what sort of defence could I put up, seeing that my weapon was much shorter than his?
48941I replied,"Yes, are you a police officer?
48941I thought to myself:''What''s all this about?
48941I wonder what''s back of it?"
48941I wonder whether the men from whom we took them walked barefooted through the mud merely for pleasure?
48941I-- HOW OUR ENGLISH COUSIN TELLS ABOUT THE BATTLE Eh?
48941IV-- STORY OF THE PEASANT''S HORSE MARKET"_ Panitch!_ Do you want horses?
48941If so what of?
48941In the scrub?
48941In the street you are stopped by people, saying:"Are you not in need of workmen in your village?"
48941In the streets fugitives stop you and ask,"Friend, where can I buy any salt here?
48941In trenches cut on the beach?
48941Is he still at the aerodrome?
48941Is his madness infectious?
48941Is such a thing to be had, I wonder?
48941It makes me feel altogether too"scattered"( compris?)
48941It was hard to leave them, but what could we do?
48941Little by little the weight forced my knees down into the mud; the water rose almost up to my hands: how was I to refill my magazine?
48941MY DEAR EMMA, Do you realise that I have n''t written to you_ once_ in four months away?
48941Mouth organ solo,"Who Were You With Last Night?"
48941My Son- bird, how are you?
48941Nasty smelly trick, is n''t it?
48941Nerve?
48941Of what could Downing Street be thinking?
48941Or were they simply lying low and playing a waiting game?
48941Out of what was all this put together?
48941People tell you various enormous numbers.... How many drops of water are there in the river?
48941Sad enough, indeed, is it not?
48941Self?
48941Song,"Are We All Here?"
48941Stark foolhardy courage, or did a secret commission from Downing Street make this the merest commonplace of duty?
48941Still jumping, I said to myself:''What in the name of glory are those asses right and left fooling about?
48941Sunset?
48941That is the way to carry on, what?
48941The sequel?
48941There is going to be war, is n''t there?"
48941To know:--What further orders have been given?
48941To the town:--To seek salt?
48941To what kind of a shell, swift and growling, must it have belonged?
48941VIII-- LETTER TO HIS SON ON"SWANKING"Vallie you villain what''s this I hear about your visit to Brighton?
48941WHY were passports necessary?
48941Was Paris safe?
48941Was this a sandstorm?
48941Was this farce never going to end?
48941Well, my friend, then I take it the scheme is agreed upon?
48941Were passports necessary?
48941Were there many Germans about?
48941Were there_ any_ Turks there waiting to oppose us at all?
48941Were they serious enough to warrant a visit to the field- dressing station and a possible return to England?
48941What country?"
48941What do I think of this war?
48941What do you say,_ amici_, if we try and convert the Col di Lana into an artificial volcano?"
48941What happened?
48941What power on earth could stop such men?
48941What should I be?"
48941What should I do?
48941What then?
48941What was"the government"going to do about sending them home?
48941What were the real emotions of these subjects of Germany; had the war genuine thrills for them?
48941What will the next one be, I wonder?
48941What, he asked, did I claim to have information about?
48941What?
48941When would it open to admit the police spy?...
48941Whence had so many come?
48941Whence had they come to Roslavl?
48941Where and when have these peasants of yesterday learnt so quickly to build dens and dwelling- places from any sort of rubbish?
48941Where had I found them?...
48941Where had the spy come from and how had he got there?
48941Where have I heard this melancholy, hopeless tone, these very words of humiliation?
48941Where to?
48941Where was the courier?
48941Whither should they go now?
48941Who are you, Mister?
48941Who can tell us what ritual we can perform to allay the anger of God and wipe out the traces of so much blood?
48941Who made that talk?
48941Who shall dare to judge them, dying as_ they_ died?
48941Whom do you think-- to the infinite satisfaction of a man yearning for congenial society, no less than to his great surprise-- they included?
48941Whose, however, is the fault?
48941Why ca n''t he write to me?
48941Why should I have?
48941Why soda in the middle of the night?
48941Why?
48941Will you see to this?
48941With a wicked glance towards us, he cries aloud to the Boche:"Is it not true, you pig, that you are a good pig?"
48941Wonder how many of the boys will go under?
48941Wonderful?
48941Would there be immediate attacks by Zeppelins?
48941Ye do n''t want to ride the sentries down, do ye?"
48941You can not tell me how long I may have to wait for them?
48941You dipped into the pot ahead of me, an''I said,''How''s a bloke goin''to love his neighbour when that neighbour pinches half his rice?''
48941You do n''t mind, do you?"
48941You go into a baker''s shop and ask:"Have you any white bread?"
48941You know what a job it is to parry, when you can no longer feel your own fingers?
48941You mean they have your papers?"
48941You remember Jack the cook?
48941You remember our practice stunts at home?
48941You say that you have never done any climbing in the Dolomites?
48941You?"
48941_ Krieg?
48941and I cried as I thought of my son: Where is he?
48941and has it spread to his Army?--or are these massacres due to the brutes being drunk?
48941and-- but this was inevitable and unvaried-- had we found many diamonds?
48941but is sand, disguised as Irish stew, lunch?
48941is the reply,"said?
48941or drunken magic?
48941or"Did we take the trench, my General?"
48941so that''s it?
48941there?"
48941were they never going to show themselves----?
48941where are you?
44865''Live, sir? 44865 And had more comforts?"
44865And now, Johnson, after doing all this for you, you wo n''t forget us, will you? 44865 And the third?"
44865And you would obey orders, then?
44865Are you going home through Washington?
44865Are you going to fight?
44865Are you not afraid of starving, up here among the Abolitionists?
44865Are you one of the prisoners?
44865As you please, madam; what do you call them?
44865But,I asked,"will not war also unite the people of the North?"
44865But,suggested Mr. Snodgrass,"suppose there are two mobs?"
44865By- the- way,asked Burns, mischievously,"do you ever read_ The Tribune_?"
44865Ca n''t you find him out?
44865Ca n''t you get me an opportunity to see him for one moment?
44865Can you conceal us here to- day?
44865Can you give us supper and lodging to- night, and breakfast in the morning? 44865 Did he treat you kindly?"
44865Did you ever hear of Old John Brown?
44865Do n''t you wish you may get it?
44865Do you know what I was doing there?
44865Do you think so? 44865 Do you think so?"
44865Does he ever go home?
44865For how much?
44865General,asked the President,"you do n''t know what''poke''means?
44865Ginger,replied the officer,"have I not often told you that it is very wicked to steal?"
44865Gordon,he asked,"how are your men?"
44865Hatterscheit?
44865Have you any business with him?
44865Have you not seen it often enough to know by this time?
44865He?
44865How are times in the North?
44865How are times in the South? 44865 How did you get away?"
44865How did you hear?
44865How far are you going?
44865How far is it to his house?
44865How far is it?
44865How long shall I stay?
44865How many were there?
44865How strong is it?
44865How will that do, Rousseau?
44865I reckon you have, in all, about seventy thousand men, and three hundred cannon, have n''t you?
44865I suppose you know it is rather precarious business?
44865I wonder if they will call us fancy soldiers and kid- gloved boys any longer?
44865In this room?
44865Is he in town?
44865Is he probably at home?
44865Is it possible?
44865Is it true,she inquired, very sadly,"that your army has been hunting and returning runaway slaves?"
44865Is your wound serious?
44865John,asked one of the correspondents,"does your master really think he is alive?"
44865Just from Vicksburg?
44865More than a mile?
44865My friend,said he, in his deep bass tones,"do you know that you are on very perilous business?"
44865On what do you base your opinion?
44865On your way to Mexico, were you not?
44865Paid for it, did you?
44865Powers-- Powers,said the merchant;"what does he do?"
44865Rather close work, is it not?
44865Southern or Union?
44865This is capital news; is it not?
44865True; but do you suppose they could stand for a single week against the popular feeling which war would arouse?
44865Well, John,asked one of them beside me,"how many regiments like that do you think one of ours could whip?"
44865Well, Uncle,I asked of a white- haired patriarch, who was tottering along the road,"are you a Rebel, like everybody else?"
44865Well, it''s just as easy as rolling off a log, is n''t it?
44865Well, sir,answered Hooker,"have n''t we got as many batteries as they have?
44865Well, uncle, have you joined the army?
44865Were you as well clothed as now?
44865What are you doing down here?
44865What are you, Southerner or Union?
44865What are you, anyhow?
44865What can I do about it?
44865What do you know about the Proclamation?
44865What do you mean?
44865What do you think of the prospect?
44865What do you want?
44865What do you want?
44865What field shall I occupy?
44865What is it?
44865What is your name?
44865What regiment is that?
44865What regiment is this?
44865What was the matter with your battery, Tuesday night?
44865What young lady?
44865When are you coming over?
44865When do you think he left?
44865When may I start?
44865Where are all your soldiers?
44865Where are you from?
44865Where are you going?
44865Where did it strike?
44865Where did you get that turkey?
44865Where do you get your leather?
44865Where do you get your lumber?
44865Where do you procure the birch for pegs?
44865Where is General Tilghman?
44865Where''s your flag of truce?
44865Who are they?
44865Who calls_ me_ an Abolitionist?
44865Who is he?
44865Who is that?
44865Why did n''t you run with them?
44865Why did n''t you say so before? 44865 Why did you expect protection?"
44865Why did you expect us?
44865Why so?
44865Why?
44865Would you come again, knowing what hardships were before you?
44865Would you not have done better to stay at home?
44865You do not remember me, do you?
44865Your workmen, I presume, are from this city?
44865''Why not?''
44865''s name''s Brown,''sn''t it?
44865----?"
44865A black woman, whom we encountered on the road, was asked:"Have you run away from your master?"
44865After a little pause, the surprised Rebel replied:"How in the world did you know me?
44865After pouring his sorrows into the sympathetic ear of the correspondent, he suddenly asked:"What are you here for?"
44865After we exchanged greetings, his first question was--"What did you honestly think of Secession while in New Orleans?"
44865Again and again, leading journals, which were called reputable, asked:"Is there no Brutus to rid the world of this tyrant?"
44865And now I am offered only eight hundred-- eight hundred-- eight hundred-- eight hundred;_ are_ you all done?"
44865Are you Union or Secession?"
44865Are you fond of the marvelous?
44865Are you going to New Orleans?"
44865Are you the Home Guard?"
44865Assisting her to the shore, we asked:"Will you tell us where Ben Hanby lives?"
44865At Upperville, the next day, I inquired of a woman who was scrutinizing us from her door:"Have you seen any Rebel pickets this morning?"
44865At the close of the interview, he asked anxiously:"General, you wo n''t send me back, will you?"
44865At what hour will you come?"
44865Before he had been in our room five minutes one of the sub- wardens entered, asking:"Is there anybody here who has''greenbacks?''
44865Being asked with great gravity the extremely Bohemian question,"_ Which_ of them?"
44865But afterward it began to ask:"How is this?
44865But do you want to know when I gave him up?
44865But how to tell what''s old or young-- the tap- root from the sprigs, Since Florida revealed her fount to Ponce de Leon Twiggs?"
44865But what d''you elect that---- Abolitionist, Murphy, t''th''Leg''slature for?"
44865But who_ is_ that Abolitionist you''lected here?
44865By the way, to- morrow is Sunday; why ca n''t you go home and take a quiet family dinner with me?"
44865Can any of us live to accomplish it?"
44865Can you not see that they never receive any accessions?
44865Commodore Foote asked him:"How could you fight against the old flag?"
44865Davis here, ai n''t you?"
44865Do they expect to conciliate our people in this manner?"
44865Do you know how long you_ will_ stay?
44865Do you understand?"
44865Do you?"
44865Frequently prisoners asked us, sometimes with tears in their eyes:"What shall we do?
44865Had he been a Philadelphian or Bostonian, would not his friends have deemed him a candidate for a lunatic asylum?
44865Have you heard Prentice''s last, upon the bursting of the Rebel bubble that Cotton is King?
44865He made few assertions, but merely asked questions:"Is not this true?
44865He shook hands cordially with his visitor, and asked, in great glee:"Rousseau, where did you get that joke about Senator Johnson?"
44865How can they avoid it, when you refuse to give them proper information?
44865How did you learn to read?"
44865How should he paint the mother of mankind but in----"The flowing gold Of her loose tresses,"as a blonde-- the distinctive type of northern beauty?
44865I asked her:"How do you live and support your family?"
44865I asked him the other day:''Wo n''t you kill some of them before you are ever captured?''
44865I asked him:"Did you work as hard for your old master as you do here?"
44865I asked:"Can you direct me to the widow----?"
44865I have never encountered that mythical entity in my travels; but''tis a fearful thing to think of-- is it not?
44865I looked steadily in his eye, and inquired:"Do you think so?"
44865I supposed we had traveled three miles, when Davis fell back from the front, and said to me:"That young lady rides very well, does she not?"
44865I ventured to ask:"Are we near the top?"
44865If such a picture were exhibited in Boston, would those who clamor in our ears about negro equality ever permit us to hear the last of it?
44865If you admit that fact, is not this induction correct?"
44865In the confusion caused by our evolutions in the eddies, I had quite lost the points the of compass, and asked:--"In which direction is Vicksburg?"
44865Is it not equally absurd to anathematize every man of my profession for the sins of a few unworthy members?"
44865Is n''t that it, boss?"
44865Is not this the very ecstasy of madness?
44865Looking earnestly into his eyes, I asked him:"Are you a Union man or a Secessionist?"
44865Need I add that it is a Yankee invention?
44865Now, when you get home to New York, ca n''t you ascertain who he is, and let us know?"
44865Of an Ohio regiment, lying upon the ground, he asked:--"Boys, do you see that strip of woods?"
44865On being asked by a member--"Did you vote for the Secession ordinance several weeks ago?"
44865Once, while his star was in the ascendant, some one asked Mr. Seward:"Will Judge Douglas ever be President?"
44865One day I asked my New Orleans friend:"Why have you raised all this tempest about Mr. Lincoln''s election?"
44865One of his judges and would- be executioners asked him:"Well, sir, what have you to say for yourself?"
44865Powers, of New Orleans?"
44865Presently a Chicago reporter inquired of him:"How do you spell your name, General?"
44865Presently we again inquired:"Will you be good enough to accommodate us, or must we look farther?"
44865Recognizing the plate, I asked the intelligent young Baltimore negro who brought it:"Is my friend waiting below?"
44865Revolutions ride rough- shod over all probabilities; and who has mastered the logic of civil war?
44865Senator Wade once asked him,"How long were you at the Military Academy?"
44865Should we never leave them behind?
44865Suggesting that I might have interfered with such an attempt, I asked:"Do you think you could hit him?"
44865That German from Leavenworth was also with us-- what was his name?"
44865The Rebels now ceased firing, and shouted--"Have you no boats?"
44865The general''s manner changed from Indian summer to a Texas norther, and he asked, in freezing tones:"Have you not come to the wrong place, sir?"
44865The sentinel stopped me with his musket, demanding:"Have you a pass, sir?"
44865There, over the bayonet of the sentinel, this whispered conversation followed:"We hope to get out to- night; can we find refuge in your house?"
44865Three or four days later, Colburn asked him--"Were you ever under fire before Sunday night?"
44865Turning to Clayton, he asked:"What troops are these?"
44865Two questions they invariably asked:--"What are you going to do with us, after you have subjugated us?"
44865Unable to recognize him, I asked:--"Who are you?"
44865We all gathered around him and asked--"General"( that was his_ soubriquet_ in the prison),"what does this mean?"
44865We would hear the opening door and stealthy footsteps upon the barn- floor; then a soft voice would ask:"Friends, are you there?"
44865What can I do?
44865What do you know about a gambler?"
44865What does he care about our rights?
44865What does it all mean?
44865What exile from his country Can flee himself as well?
44865What forecast or augury could tell?
44865What is the news, Treadaway?"
44865What route was he going to take?"
44865What should I be a Rebel for?
44865When I asked one of them--"Where are all the white people?"
44865When I handed her a twenty- dollar Rebel note, she inquired--"Have you nothing smaller than this?"
44865When a subordinate asked the post- Commandant, Major John H. Gee,"Shall I give the prisoners full rations?"
44865Where is he?"
44865Where is the best one?''
44865Where is your place?"
44865Where should he place the Garden of Eden but in the tropics?
44865Where would it end?
44865Which of the boys had I better send?"
44865While I was pleasantly engaged in a whist- party in the cabin, this fragment of a conversation between two bystanders reached my ears:"A spy?"
44865Who can be***** Loyal and neutral in a moment?
44865Who could resist such a feminine appeal?
44865Who shall deliver us from the body of this Black Republican flag?
44865Whose servant are you?"
44865Why did they not think of all this before?
44865Why do you call them Rebels?"
44865Why, then, should one go to Germany, unless, indeed, like Bayard Taylor, he goes for a wife?
44865Will you have a cigar?
44865Wo n''t you go and haul me a load of wood, as a Christmas present?"
44865You do n''t take me for a fool, do you?
44865You do n''t, do you?"
44865You wo n''t send me back, will you?"
44865_ En passant_, do you know what a Black Republican flag is?
44865_ Friday, January 13._ My poor steed gave signs of approaching dissolution; and I asked the first man I saw by the roadside:"Would you like a horse?"
44865_ Wednesday, January 11._ As we drowsed upon the pine leaves, I asked:"When shall we join the footmen?"
44865and,"What will you do with the negroes, after you have freed them?"
44865he replied,"you do n''t suppose I''m a fool, do you?
44865talked to us incessantly in a low tone:--"How are you, Yanks?
44865why did you-- how could you do this?
44865you have a revolver right here in your belt, have n''t you?
44865|Freedom.--|| 29|business?''
44865|Tribune?"
44865|business?"
44865|| 123|Tribune?
18113Above all,said he to him,"no pillage?
18113And what is the end of so many exertions? 18113 And what would he have had to fight?
18113And who contests your power?
18113And with what means? 18113 And you have no wish to be a prisoner of state?"
18113But France,said the Emperor,"what would France say?"
18113But why employ this stranger? 18113 But why, in the absence of orders from Napoleon, had not that precaution been taken by the commanders, all of them kings, princes, and marshals?
18113But,said he to him at last,"has your church been burned?"
18113Can you not see,said he to them,"that as I was not born upon a throne, I must support myself on it, as I ascended it, by my renown?
18113Did he wish to know the opinion of the army? 18113 Do you hear, soldiers?"
18113Eugene and the army of Italy, and this long day of baffled expectation, had they then terminated together?
18113From Wilna to Moscow what submission, what point of support, rest or retreat, marks his power? 18113 Had he not already in some measure quitted Europe?
18113Had the Russians anticipated him? 18113 Had the coldness of the Lithuanians infected him?
18113How could it be expected that with twenty- eight thousand men he could so long keep sixty thousand in check? 18113 How was it possible, moreover, to avoid seeing that in this war every thing was to be feared, even our allies?
18113If provisions failed at Witepsk, what would be the case farther on? 18113 Is Napoleon unwilling to allow that Kutusoff''s attack may be bolder and more skilful than his own had been?
18113Is it then a battle?
18113Then I suppose I am in your way?
18113To sum up all[11], what would be the result of so many conquests? 18113 Was it not notorious, that all the elements protected these countries from the first of October to the first of June?
18113Was the danger then so pressing? 18113 What do you require more?
18113What had brought him to Wilna? 18113 What is war?
18113What say you?
18113What then do you expect from our zeal? 18113 What, then, should he wait for at Witepsk?
18113What, then, was the object of this war? 18113 Who are you?"
18113Who were they? 18113 Why were they to be kept back?
18113Will any one believe that he wished to give time to the artillerymen to shoe their horses against the ice? 18113 --What do I hear?"
18113--"What signifies my brother?"
18113--"What then is to be done?"
18113And for what reason?
18113And in fact did not he share the common danger?
18113And then, when war was kindled in all quarters, how was it possible to avoid it?
18113And who would wish to grow old with it?
18113Are the circumstances still the same?
18113Are they a property of which she has reason to be proud?
18113Are we not still the soldiers of Austerlitz?
18113Are you not mistaken?
18113As soon as he saw him he called out to him,"Whether shall we retreat by Zembin, or go and beat Wittgenstein at Smoliantzy?"
18113As to the weakness and disorganization of the Russian army, nobody believed it; but what could be urged in reply?
18113At that critical moment, Murat ran up to him, and seizing him by the collar, exclaimed,"What are you about?"
18113At the same moment a Russian sentinel called out to them to halt, and demanded who they were?
18113Besides, where was he to stop in a retreat?
18113Both facts and men spoke sufficiently; but what could they teach him?
18113But Napoleon only replied to it by an exclamation of contempt:"Does that man believe himself to be so necessary?
18113But as to Alexander,--who was there to counsel him?
18113But as to Napoleon, what did he owe to him?
18113But should he arrive there in time?
18113But superfluous wrong was committed as well as necessary wrong, for who can stop midway in the commission of evil?
18113But what had they gained by this movement?
18113But what kind of battle?
18113But what would Paris say?
18113But where were its living remnants?
18113But why had he placed his Emperor between him and the enemy?
18113But why not make an appeal to the provinces of the south?
18113Can not that subdue it in its turn?
18113Could that be called conquering it?
18113Could we imagine that we had either tied them up, or paralysed them, by opposing to them the Austrians in the south, and the Prussians in the north?
18113Did he doubt his good fortune, or was he unwilling to contract, in the face of Europe, engagements which he was not sure of being able to fulfil?
18113Did he not already hear the murmurs of his own troops?"
18113Did he pretend to resist him?
18113Did he want the means of wreaking the most horrible retaliation?"
18113Did it become the ambition of Napoleon to denounce the ambition of Alexander?
18113Did not Napoleon hear their discontented kings murmuring that they were only his prefects?
18113Did not the sun of France seem to have followed him to Russia?
18113Did not this tell us that a numerous cavalry was joining them from all quarters, while ours was gradually perishing?
18113Did they imagine he made war from inclination?
18113Do you see that man?
18113Does he despise my alliance?"
18113Does he expect to teach me?"
18113Does he fancy then that I have need of him?
18113Does he prefer the English to me?
18113Does she delight in displaying them?
18113Does she then believe us to be degenerated?
18113Does there exist a creature ever so diminutive, on every side of which the sun, great as is that luminary, can shine at once?
18113Exchange them?
18113For, in fact, on what more favourable ground could Barclay make a stand?
18113Had Davoust sworn the destruction of the army?
18113Had I at that time accomplished the decrees of fate?
18113Had a single letter from Alexander yet reached him?
18113Had he not used sufficient expedition in that march, the object of which was to pass the left flank of Kutusoff?"
18113Had he then hesitated to follow him, to leave Gallicia, his point of departure, his magazines, and his depôt?
18113Had not all his preparations been dictated by the most clear- sighted foresight?
18113Had not her armies been seen in all parts of Italy, in Germany, and even on the Rhine?
18113Had not one hundred and fifty dragoons of his old guard been surprised and routed, by a number of these barbarians?
18113Had not the winter in Russia been foreseen?
18113Had the retreat of the Russians disconcerted him?
18113Had they lost their way?
18113Had they not had time to spike them, or at least to spoil their ammunition?
18113Had they re- ascended the Düna?
18113Has not his envious and perfidious inaction already betrayed the French army at Auerstadt?
18113He asked Rapp if he thought we should gain the victory?
18113He concluded thus:"Do you dread the war, as endangering my life?
18113He demanded why Napoleon had placed him in such a dangerous and false position at Wagram?
18113He interrogated them: Did their captains take care of them?
18113He would not stop at Paris; how could he then retreat at Wilna?
18113How came it, amidst the noisy acclamations of Europe, that his anxious ear could hear the few solitary voices which disputed his legitimacy?
18113How could men be roused to insurrection, for the sake of a liberty whose very name they did not understand?
18113How is it possible to stop short in the midst of so glorious a career?"
18113How many years''service?
18113If I retreat, what would the Emperor say?
18113If it was necessary to drag every thing along with them, to transport France into Russia, wherefore had they been required to quit France?"
18113If the rest retreated in such good order, proud, and so little discouraged, what signified the gain of a field of battle?
18113If we wanted assistance, there could be none expected by waiting for it; we must go and look for it; but on which side?
18113In such extensive countries, would there ever be any want of ground for the Russians to fight on?
18113In that situation, if Tchitchakof stole a few marches on him, was it at all wonderful?
18113Is it against nature that that aggression should be successful?
18113Is it rather, that after the desire of knowing them, her first wish is to impart her sensations?
18113Is it then the fate of the South to be vanquished by the North?
18113Is the emperor, then, to be no more than a spectator of this expedition?
18113Is the soul, also, proud of her deep and numerous wounds?
18113Is there another coalition preparing?
18113It is true, that all did not stop at that; but when one disorder is authorized, how can others be forbidden?
18113It was not his fortune then that had failed him, but he who had been wanting to his fortune?"
18113Moreover, when the history of great men relates even their last moments, how can I conceal the last sighs of the grand army when it was expiring?
18113Moscow was the general rallying point; how could it be changed?
18113Must he repay a fidelity which had been so cruelly tried, by an act of treachery such as that of taking Norway from her to give to Sweden?"
18113Must the glory of it devolve on Davoust?"
18113Next day, when the emperor reviewed that regiment, he inquired where was its third battalion?
18113Ney listened:"Is this Davoust at last,"he exclaimed,"who has recollected me?"
18113Ney''s officers here interrupted their narrative to inquire in their turn what had passed?
18113No doubt his influence over his men was great, but could it extend beyond nature?
18113Now that the war has returned back to the same spots, will the Russians, whose movements are much more free than ours were then, imitate our error?
18113Of what was he ignorant?
18113On which the Emperor remained for some time in a profound silence; then with a more serious air:"Are all the reports of my ministers burnt?"
18113Ought he to allow Russia time to arm herself entirely?
18113Release them?
18113Shall we stay where we are, or advance?
18113Shall we then recede, when all Europe is looking on and encouraging us?
18113Should they march thither by Kalouga, Medyn or Mojaisk?
18113Should we not have all desired, at that time, to be the heroes whose real or fictitious history we were perusing?
18113The Emperor resumed:"Do you see, sir, this devastated country, these villages in flames?
18113The Lithuanians, it was said, desired our presence; but on what a soil?
18113The emperor rejoined,"Did they take him for a madman?
18113The emperor, uttering an exclamation of sorrow, said to him,"You have heard the news, do you wish to retire?"
18113The service of these men would be, it was said, only temporary; but who could ever wish for their return?
18113Then pointing to a still serene sky, he asked,"if in that brilliant sun they did not recognize his star?"
18113They asked our officers,"if they had not, in their own country, corn enough, air enough, graves enough-- in short, room enough to live and die?
18113They did not even pity them; for, in short, what had they lost by dying?
18113They even went further, and awakened some of his dormant fears:"Was it not Davoust who, after the victory of Jena, drew the emperor into Poland?
18113They first supplied them with clothes and provisions, and then asked them where were their_ corps d''armée_?
18113They had approached nearer to the fire, and could neither retreat nor remain where they were; and how were they to advance?
18113This was no doubt a barbarity too; but what could we do?
18113To feel, and to excite feeling, are not these the most powerful springs of our soul?
18113To what then must we attribute this delay, when famine, disease and the winter, and three hostile armies were gradually surrounding us?
18113To which Napoleon replied,"And if there should be another battle to- morrow, where is my army?"
18113To whom are these disasters to be charged?
18113To whom were complaints to be addressed?
18113True, we had come up with the Russian rear- guard; but was it that of their army?
18113Up to that time, were they not indebted for their wealth to war, which caused all the commerce of France with Europe to pass through their hands?
18113Was he afraid of Austria?
18113Was he still undecided as to the destiny he should bestow upon them?"
18113Was he then going to precipitate himself and his army beyond all those nations whose wounds, for which they were indebted to us, were not yet healed?
18113Was his manoeuvre thwarted?
18113Was it not more likely that Barclay had fled towards Smolensk by way of Rudnia?
18113Was it not rather a method of rendering the Poles and the French, who were mixed with these dangerous allies, entirely useless?
18113Was it our artillery and baggage that had caused this tardiness?
18113Was it possible that at Moscow he should have less ascendancy over Alexander?
18113Was it right to leave the enemy''s fires to destroy what might be saved?
18113Was it that Napoleon, accustomed to the active intelligence of his soldiers, had reckoned too much upon their foresight?
18113Was not Napoleon fleeing?
18113Was not the constant importunity of his letters, and his continual solicitations sufficient?
18113Was not the contemporary, the comrade, the rival of Suwarrow yet living?
18113Was not the fatal moment arrived when this Colossus was about to surround us with his threatening arms?
18113Was not the road to Malo- Yaroslawetz open but the preceding day?
18113Was not the term of Napoleon''s destiny already irrevocably marked?
18113Was the army always to put up with their leavings; and in order to obtain them, was it always to wait till they had glutted themselves?"
18113Was there ever so great a military achievement?
18113Was there not the Russian army, which, as they were told, still numbered four hundred thousand men, to defend them?
18113Weak and famished as they were, how could they support a long and terrible shock?
18113Were the Russians determined to conquer or die?"
18113Were the Russians gone to Smolensk?
18113Were we not leaving our wounded and a multitude of prisoners at his mercy?
18113What are they doing above, then?"
18113What business had we in the burnt and ravaged Smolensk, but to take a supply of provisions and proceed rapidly onwards?
18113What business has the emperor in the rear of the army?
18113What chief could be responsible for the crowd of officers and soldiers who were scattered through the country in order to collect its resources?
18113What chief had ever before so many means of power?
18113What could be said to him, which he had not himself said and written a hundred times?
18113What could be taken from them?
18113What did he care for England?
18113What did he care for the anger of the emperor, and for his decision?
18113What did the Emperor of Russia want with him?
18113What has every one been reckoning upon?
18113What influence could be obtained over a people almost savages, without property, and without wants?
18113What motive then could be so just and so powerful as to inspire him with such astonishing confidence?
18113What necessity was there for his remaining at the head of a routed army?
18113What need had he of him?"
18113What other name would have any attraction?
18113What signified his rank?
18113What signified one unpleasant night?
18113What signified the menacing attitude of the Russians and their impenetrable woods?
18113What spirit of infatuation is it that has seized the whole army as well as its leader?
18113What then urged them into this roving and adventurous life?
18113What vanity could resist a charm of so great potency?
18113What was he going to do; and whatever might be his plan, whither would he direct his steps, without a guide, in an unknown country?
18113What was his reply to the news of the offer of several Swedes, when he himself waited upon him to inform him of it?
18113What was now to be done?
18113What was the cause of the general discouragement?
18113What would Europe think?
18113What would be the effect of this barbarity on the enemy?
18113What would be thought, if it were known that a third of his army, dispersed or sick, were no longer in the ranks?
18113What would they think?
18113What would you do singly by yourselves, and without me?
18113When he exclaimed, therefore,"Is it possible that I have left this man so large a territory?"
18113When his arrival was announced to the emperor, the latter grew angry, and at first refused to see him:--"What did this prince want of him?
18113When they, all of them, only waited a suitable occasion in order to turn against him, why run the risk of giving that occasion birth?"
18113When will its gates at length open?
18113Where are they?
18113Where could they ever halt, in the midst of these level plains, divested of every species of position fortified by nature or by art?
18113Where were now the rapid movements of Marengo, Ulm, and Eckmühl?
18113Where were they?
18113Wherefore communicate those terrible impressions which harrow up the soul?
18113Wherefore do each other useless injury?
18113Wherefore lay waste fresh provinces?
18113Wherefore so many precautions?
18113Which of them all risked so much as he?
18113While I support you, I do myself an injury in the eyes of the people; for what am I but the king of the_ tiers- état_: is not that sufficient?"
18113While boasting of his good fortune, was it not evident that he was insulting their misfortunes?
18113While the French armies covered all Europe, how could the Russians be reproached for increasing their army?
18113Whither, then, must we pursue the Russians, in order to compel them to fight?
18113Who could persuade them to interrupt it, to retrace their steps, and return once more into the darkness and frozen deserts of Russia?
18113Who is there amongst us who, in his early years, has not been fired by the perusal of the warlike exploits of the ancients and of our ancestors?
18113Who is there that can fancy that the great struggle between the North and the South is at an end?
18113Who is there that would not have rushed forward, replete with joy and hope, and disdaining an odious and scandalous repose?
18113Who suffered the greatest loss, in this disaster?
18113Who then was there to defend her?"
18113Who was to punish?
18113Whom had he to oppose to him?
18113Why did he come again to persecute him with his presence?
18113Why did he prefer the union of the three northern crowns on the head of a prince of Denmark?
18113Why did not they send Frenchmen and Poles there?
18113Why had he been trifled with, by sending him bulletins made to deceive the idlers of the capital?
18113Why had we been obstinately deaf to her voice?"
18113Why keep proceeding northward?
18113Why should he seek to_ purchase_ of Fortune what she was so generously giving him?
18113Why so much precipitation to overtake the enemy, with an army panting, exhausted, and weakened?
18113Why so slow and drawling a march on such a critical occasion?
18113Why then did they come so far from home to throw away their lives and to fatten a foreign soil with their blood?"
18113Why then remain around them to perish by battalions, by masses?
18113Why was not that liberty offered to them in 1807?
18113Why was such respect to be paid them?"
18113Why-- when in our rear Borowsk and Vereïa would lead us without danger to Mojaisk-- why reject that safe route?
18113Will not the cutting off Augereau and his brigade upon that road open his eyes?
18113Will they keep in our rear when they can so easily place themselves before us, on the line of our retreat?
18113Will you answer for that?"
18113With what could they be tempted?
18113Would he allow him even to get beyond the frontiers of Russia proper, which loudly called for the sacrifice of this great victim?
18113Would he, Davoust, defend it?
18113Would not the duration of the enterprise augment its danger?
18113Would not the eastern departments profit most by that event?
18113Would not the meditated departure leave her solitary, deserted, without a ruler, without an army, accessible to every diversion?
18113Would these serfs, habituated to the irregularities of war, bring back their former submission?
18113Would they station liberty so near slavery?
18113and is the frightful result of our invasion a fresh proof of it?
18113and knowing that Dodde had just come from the latter position, he asked him if it was approachable?
18113and of what use is the example of the past, in a world where there never were two men, two things, or two situations exactly alike?
18113and why are time and space denied me to relate them?
18113but what need have I of you?
18113desired to know his wishes, exhibit so much indifference?
18113do n''t you see that we belong to the corps of Ouwarof, and that we are going on a secret expedition?"
18113exclaimed he,"do you believe they would dare?"
18113exclaimed the Emperor, clasping his hands,"are you sure you are right?
18113for his having given them wives, if he made them widowers by a continual absence?
18113for when, indeed, are these masters of the world ever entirely masters of themselves?
18113had their unfortunate comrades fallen?
18113had they received their pay?
18113he exclaimed in astonishment,"_ Te Deum!_ Dare they then lie to God as well as to men?"
18113how force a passage through the waves of this ocean of flame?
18113how many campaigns?
18113in the midst of what peculiar manners?
18113in what a climate?
18113or rather, did he dread the explosion of a patriotism which he might not be able to master?
18113rejoined the officer;"and wherefore do you come into Russia?"
18113retorted Napoleon;"does one give away a kingdom like Spain?
18113said he,"and are_ you_ not inflamed by this idea?
18113said he,"does this monarch dare neither to make peace nor war?
18113they replied.--"What do you want?"
18113to allow him to escape with his victory?
18113to what corps did they belong?
18113to what was he to attribute the jealous anxiety to weaken his eulogium in the journals by artful notes?
18113was he likely to leave them motionless now, when, instead of striking him mortal blows, we had been struck ourselves?
18113was it for her that he was fighting?
18113was it the victorious Russian army they were about to meet?
18113was not the next day to decide every thing?
18113were they in want of any requisite?
18113were they then to be left to the mercy of Kutusoff?
18113were they too late?
18113what exploits?
18113what had they left behind them?
18113what had they to gain by remaining by their colours?
18113what had they to show for it?
18113what have they been doing for the last three weeks that they have not heard from me?
18113what have they to give you?
18113what is that to me?
18113what position would he determine to dispute?
18113what shall we do?
18113what was Junot about?"
18113what would be said by France, by the army, by Europe?
18113what would they do there?
18113what wounds?
18113where are their twenty days''provisions?
18113why go to meet winter, to provoke and to defy it?--it was already too near; and what was to become of the six thousand wounded still in Moscow?
18113why had he exposed himself to be cut off?"
18113why had the cannon been abandoned to the enemy untouched?
18113why the report of that victory had been so unfavourable to him?
18113why then stop him and force him to conquer?
19710''Ad''e a finance? 19710 ''Ave yer got a fag to spare?"
19710''Ave yer? 19710 ''E is, is''e?"
19710''Eard that?
19710''Oo are you?
19710''Oo''s there?
19710''Ow d''ye feel?
19710''Ow much were yer rushed for it?
19710''Ow?
19710''Ows Spud?
19710''Urt?
19710A fresh what?
19710A good one?
19710A hundred and what?
19710A mine blown up?
19710A safe road?
19710A what?
19710After me she came and round to her side I''opped----"Who was on the other side now?
19710Always?
19710And the war started because it had to be? 19710 And you, Pryor?"
19710Any Donegal men in the battalion?
19710Any blisters?
19710Any more of the Section going out?
19710Any others struck?
19710Any volunteers to help to carry out wounded?
19710Any word of Mervin?
19710Anybody hurt?
19710Anything fresh from the seat of war?
19710Anything to report? 19710 Are ye dry?"
19710Are you Pat MacGill?
19710Are you going back to the trenches again?
19710Are you struck, Goliath?
19710Are you sure you''ve got everything you want?
19710At you?
19710Ay, and I sent him five back----( p. 237)"And did n''t do him in?"
19710Badly?
19710Bill,I called to the Cockney, who came by whistling,"what are you doing?"
19710Bill?
19710Blimey, what a stink,muttered Bill,"Why do n''t ye bury them up?"
19710But d''yer know what the stick was for? 19710 But did you ever fire it, son?"
19710But have we?
19710But what does it matter? 19710 Can we go out on the road?"
19710Certainly, what are the others doing, Bill?
19710Could we pot one?
19710Did I think three years ago that I should ever be a soldier?
19710Did they cross on the boats?
19710Did yer''ear''i m yell? 19710 Did you capture the trench?"
19710Did you hit it?
19710Did you not hear it?
19710Did you see the wild ducks to- day?
19710Digging trenches?
19710Do any of you fellows know Marie Redoubt?
19710Do you believe in God?
19710Do you hear the message?
19710Do you know where Bill is?
19710Do you know where the London Irish is put up here?
19710Do you think that God can allow men to go killing one another like this?
19710Do you want to kill men?
19710Do you wear two pairs of socks?
19710Do you work here?
19710First time up this way?
19710For my own part I am more afraid of----"What?
19710For what?
19710Going to bathe, Stoner?
19710Going to have a kip, Pat?
19710Going up to the slaughter line, mateys?
19710Gone?
19710Got him?
19710Has the trench been captured?
19710Have another drink, Bill?
19710Have the Germans come this way?
19710Have the working parties come up yet?
19710Have you a ha''penny?
19710Have you an entrenchin''tool?
19710Have you any water to spare, chummy?
19710Have you been in the dug- out yet?
19710Have you been long out here?
19710Have you been long out here?
19710Have you come through the calf- age?
19710Have you ever been in a bayonet charge?
19710Have you ever shot any living thing?
19710Have you got permission from your captain?
19710Have you got the water already?
19710Have you seen him?
19710Have you seen many killed?
19710How are you, Jock?
19710How did it happen?
19710How did you get along in the fight?
19710How did you get it?
19710How did you get on last night?
19710How did you like it?
19710How do you like the trenches, Jock?
19710How do you like these trenches?
19710How goes it, matey?
19710How is that?
19710How many casualties have we had?
19710How much have you got?
19710How?
19710Hungry? 19710 I did n''t know you had fallen in love with the girl,"I said"How did it happen?"
19710I do n''t know why, but I feel strange,I said,"When did you come( p. 179) to this village?"
19710I was busy with Ginger----"Ginger Weeson?
19710I wonder whether we''ll have much bayonet- fightin''or not?
19710I''m gettin''more afraid of these things every hour,he said,"what is the war about?"
19710I''m''ere, old Sawbones,said Bill,"wot d''ye want me for?"
19710In a coal- mine?
19710Inniskillings?
19710Irish?
19710Is it better to be a living coward, Or thrice a hero dead?
19710Is it? 19710 Is that so?"
19710Is that what you fear most?
19710Is the army going to supply it?
19710Is the pantomime parapet manned?
19710Is there something to drink?
19710Is this not a night?
19710Is this the firing- line?
19710It is madness to remain here,she was told, and she asked"Where can I go to?"
19710It''s not that----"Did she answer your letter saying she reciprocated your sentiments?
19710Killed any one yet?
19710Killed?
19710Killed?
19710Killed?
19710Long over?
19710Looking for trouble, mate?
19710Made it well?
19710Madham mosselle,he said, lingering over every syllable,"I get no milk with cawfee, compree?"
19710Many hurt?
19710Much hand- to- hand fighting?
19710Much hurt, old man?
19710Much hurt?
19710Mulligatawny?
19710New''ere?
19710No casualties?
19710No stand- to at dawn?
19710Nobody struck?
19710Not sleepin''?
19710Now I''ve got''dog,''who has''maggot''?
19710Now that I am, can I kill a man; run a bayonet through his body; right through, so that the point, blood red and cruelly keen, comes out at the back? 19710 On the marshes?
19710Oo are yer?
19710Oo are yer?
19710Oo''s''Ughie what dy''e call''i m of that place?
19710Oo?
19710Ool give it?
19710Out in a field behind Dead Cow Villa; I''m off; coming Pat?
19710Ow''s you?
19710Pat?
19710Quiet here?
19710Quiet?
19710Reliefs?
19710Right?
19710Saw her crying?
19710Saw the woman of the_ cafà ©_ in church?
19710Seein''anything?
19710Seen some fighting?
19710Seven o''clock,I said,"Is it as bad as that?"
19710Shall I begin now? 19710 Stoner, going in?"
19710Stopped a packet, matey?
19710Stretchers?
19710Territorials?
19710That''s done it,he exclaimed,"what the devil was it?"
19710That''s why ye did n''t join it then, is it?
19710The high jump?
19710The night of all the world?
19710There, what''s that?
19710They were?
19710This the way to the firing line?
19710Thumb nail?
19710To rest yer weary''ead on?
19710Up already?
19710Verminous, Bill?
19710Village?
19710Was he a nice fellow, the doctor?
19710We never''eard the blurry things come, did we?
19710Well?
19710What about the Cup Final?
19710What about the chances for the Cup Final?
19710What about the gun that sent this over?
19710What about_ Uncle Joe_?
19710What am I here for?
19710What are the few more things that you did not mention, Bill?
19710What are you going to do after the war?
19710What beastly stuff is this trickling down? 19710 What d''ye mean?"
19710What did you fire at?
19710What do you fear most, Goliath?
19710What do you mean?
19710What do you think of it, Stoner?
19710What do you want here?
19710What does he say?
19710What does shouting the odds mean?
19710What for?
19710What happened to him?
19710What has happened?
19710What have you to say?
19710What is it?
19710What is it?
19710What is that for?
19710What is your ideal of a perfect woman, Pryor?
19710What is your profession, Bill?
19710What kind of poetry do you want me to make?
19710What sort of disease is Pyraxis?
19710What the devil--''oo are yer?
19710What was it like?
19710What will I do?
19710What will it be like out there?
19710What will it be like, but above all, how shall I conduct myself in the trenches? 19710 What''s a bomb?"
19710What''s for breakfast?
19710What''s that?
19710What''s that?
19710What''s the calf- age?
19710What''s the difference between shouting the odds and shouting the blurry odds?
19710What''s this?
19710What''s up?
19710What''s wrong here?
19710What''s wrong, Bill?
19710What''s wrong?
19710What''s your temperature?
19710What?
19710When that shellin''was goin''on?
19710Where are we going to bathe?
19710Where are you going?
19710Where did you get them?
19710Where do you get water?
19710Where does the sergeant- major hold out?
19710Where does the sergeant- major stick?
19710Where is he?
19710Where is he?
19710Where is the sergeant- major?
19710Where will the people be?
19710Where''s Bill?
19710Where''s Mervin?
19710Where''s Z----?
19710Where''s yer mess- tin, Mike?
19710Where?
19710Who is he?
19710Who is he?
19710Who is he?
19710Who''s Big Jock?
19710Who''s there?
19710Whose face do you refer to?
19710Why did n''t ye give it to us?
19710Why did n''t yer carry the rooty yourself?
19710Why did you join?
19710Why do they keep shellin''the church?
19710Why do you say''Chummy''when talking to a wounded man, Stoner?
19710Why?
19710Why?
19710Will it be a mine blown up?
19710Will it?
19710Will ye have a wee drop of tay, my man?
19710Will yer? 19710 Will yer?"
19710Will you lead me to the place?
19710Will you?
19710Worse than that,he answered with a smile,"''Ave yer a cigarette to spare?"
19710Wot will we do for tea?
19710Wot''s that yer''ve got?
19710Wot''s wrong with it?
19710Would one of us not carry it?
19710Would yer write me one, just a little one?
19710Yer write songs, do n''t yer?
19710Yer''aven''t''eard it?
19710Yes?
19710You can see the crosses, white wood----"The same as other crosses?
19710You know Omar?
19710You were there then?
19710You''re in the village at the rear?
19710You''re safe?
19710You''ve fallen in love?
19710You''ve seen that bird at the farm in Mazingarbe?
19710''Ool foller me?''
19710''Why do n''t ye bury yer sausages, Hans?''
19710''Wot gime?''
19710''Wot''s yer gime?''
19710( p. 096)"Is it true, Bill, are they''ere?"
19710( p. 170)"Did you think I was a shell?"
19710( p. 189)"That''s it, is it?
19710( p. 242)"Quiet?"
19710( p. 266)"Souvenirs?"
19710Albans?"
19710And you never got a scratch?"
19710Any news?"
19710Are her eyes bright?
19710Are her teeth pearly white?
19710Are they the brutes the papers make them out to be?
19710Are you from Chelsea?"
19710Are you going to destroy the London Irish root and branch?"
19710Are you just new out?"
19710Are you the orderly?"
19710But you''ll take care of yourself now, wo n''t you: and not get killed?
19710CHAPTER IX( p. 116) THE DUG- OUT BANQUET You ask me if the trench is safe?
19710CHAPTER XXI( p. 292) IN THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT"What do you do with your rifle, son?"
19710Can we make the same proud boast?
19710Can you put an edge on the scythe?"
19710Did you see X. of---- Company coming out?"
19710Do they use dum- dum bullets?"
19710Gentlemen, are your glasses charged?"
19710Got me?"
19710Had I any cigarettes?
19710Had I seen the mine explode?
19710Had Mervin got clear, I wondered?
19710Had all been killed and were all those I had met a few days before in the garret when the shell landed on the roof?
19710Has she a fair brow?
19710Have another drop of tay?"
19710How are we goin''to sleep this night, Pat?"
19710How came I to be here?
19710How is your regiment getting along?"
19710How''s yer hoppin''it?"
19710I am not angry with them; I know little of the race; they are utter strangers to me; what am I to think, why should I think?
19710I belonged to the company holding the Keep, did I not?
19710I do n''t care for soldierin''as a profession?"
19710I have a brother----""The same bruvver?"
19710I queried,"what''s that?"
19710Is Bill Teake there?"
19710Is it quiet here?"
19710It might be our turn next, as we might go under to- day or to- morrow; who could tell when the turn of the next would come?
19710Let it come, blow me to atoms, tear me to pieces, what did I care?
19710My nerves were on edge and a coldness swept along my spine.... No, I was n''t struck...."All right, Pryor?"
19710Nark( confound) it, I say, Mad- ham- moss- elle, voo( what''s"give,"Mervin?)
19710Now and again he spoke and his question was always the same:"Are we near the dressing station yet?"
19710Of the glory or the horror of the war?
19710Of their friends whom, perhaps, they would never see again?
19710Of their journey and the perils that lay before them?
19710Ready?
19710See that woman?"
19710Shall we take them?"
19710The head cook copped it in the legs, both were broken, and Erney, you know Erney?"
19710The mine has done no damage?
19710Then round to the other side went I----""Which side?"
19710Then you''re comin''?
19710Then''e arst me:''''Ave yer seen much war?''
19710This was not the way out; why had we come here?
19710Was he asleep?
19710Was it Mervin?
19710Was it because you were alone you felt so very frightened?
19710Were they afraid of something?
19710Were we going back again?
19710What are you doin'', Feelan?"
19710What caused the German gunner, a simple woodman and a father himself perhaps,( p. 259) to fire at that moment?
19710What demon guided the shell?
19710What did it hold for us all?
19710What did it matter where a shell hit me now, a weak useless thing at the bottom of a trench?
19710What did it matter?
19710What did they dream of lying there?
19710What had happened?
19710What was I to do?
19710What was happening?
19710What was the history of that house and of the officers who sat down to dinner?
19710What were they going to do?
19710What would Bill think of him?
19710What would they say?
19710What''s the way back?"
19710When we meet he says,"What about the Caly, Pat?"
19710When''s sick parade?"
19710Where did she come from?
19710Where did the cries come from?
19710Where had I seen him before?
19710Where is here?"
19710Where were yer?"
19710Who am I that I should do it; what have they done to me to incur my wrath?
19710Who are you?"
19710Who can say?
19710Who had been struck?
19710Who likes it?
19710Who shall give an answer to the question?
19710Who was he?
19710Who was she?
19710Who were we?
19710Why did n''t ye have something better than water in yer bottle?''
19710Why did n''t ye take it then?"
19710Why did the men under the coffin walk so slowly?
19710Why did they not use a stretcher?
19710Why did they run so quickly?
19710Why do you say it?"
19710Why do you think of such a thing?"
19710Why had they kept us waiting?
19710Why was that horse allowed to remain loose in the stable?
19710Why were we here holding a line of trench, and ready to take a life or give one as occasion required?
19710Why were we there?
19710Why?
19710Why?
19710Will the tragedy ever be told?
19710Would any of us see the dawn?...
19710Would the dawn see us alive or dead?
19710Would they fall into the trench?
19710Would they speak?
19710You ask me if the trench is deep?
19710[ Illustration: Menu of the dug- out banquet]( p. 123)"Wot,"muttered Bill,"wot''s wrong with it?"
19710and I answer,"What about the Sou''West, Jock?"
19710asked questions:"Do your boots pinch?"
19710cried Bill, then asked,"What was the most wonderful thing you ever seen, Mervin?"
19710had the officer in front taken the wrong turning?
19710tell me Shan O''Farrel; tell me why you hurry so?"
19710that the Irish?"
19710who goes there?"
19710who goes there?"
19710will they ever stop this damned caper?
7851Is----- under any engagement?
7851To- morrow, did I say? 7851 Would it be agreeable to you that----- should make overtures?"
7851''But what did the rascal,''continued he,''state to be the purport of the letter?''
7851''s being out of the question, is there nothing in this line to be found in South Carolina?
7851A. or Joseph A.?
7851About two o''clock, as the public well know, he expired--"Incorrupta fides-- nudaque veritas Quando ullum invenient parem?
7851After you get through the book you are now reading, which I think is Anacharsis, or is it Gibbon?
7851Again, are they citizens of the United States, or can Congress make them such?
7851Ah, my husband, what can be pleasure to your Theo., unassisted by the charms of your presence and participation?
7851Ah, my husband, why are we separated?
7851And do you, indeed, miss your Theo.?
7851And is not Reubon in a way to be coquetted, with his eyes open?
7851And what does all this prove?
7851And what in particular were the contents of such letters or letter, or communication?
7851And what took you to Darien?
7851And whether a copy of it can be procured?
7851Are you a good girl?
7851Are you content?
7851But when or where, I pray, are we to meet?
7851But you bear it charmingly; do you think this courage will last, or is it only a spasm?
7851Can any thing place the charge in a more ridiculous point of view?
7851Can as much be said in favor of his great competitor on that occasion?
7851Can you imagine what are Miss C.''s occupations and arrangements?
7851Can you make little_ chose_ drink the water?
7851Did he not communicate to you that the said David A. Ogden had been requested to see the plaintiff for the purposes aforesaid?
7851Did he or any other person( and if so, who?)
7851Did not the said house ballot for the president several times before a choice was made?
7851Did the conduct of the said Aaron Burr correspond with the declarations contained in the said letter?
7851Did you ever communicate with the plaintiff, or he with you, on the subject?
7851Did you ever know them to countenance a man of talents and independence?
7851Did you receive any letters from the said Aaron Burr after the said equality of votes was known and before the final choice of a president?
7851Did_ he_, the said Aaron Burr, know thereof?
7851Do yon recollect the second daughter of Mr. Barclay, of Philadelphia, the sister of Nelly?
7851Do you drink the waters, and bathe, and ride, and walk?
7851Do you ever hear from Natalie?
7851Do you know Miss Joanna Livingston?
7851Do you know any matter, circumstance, or thing which can be material to the defendant in this cause?
7851Do you know any person who did communicate with him?
7851Do you know that any measures were suggested or pursued by any person or persons to secure the election of Aaron Burr to the presidency?
7851Do you know the parties, plaintiff and defendant, or either and which of them, and how long have you known them respectively?
7851Do you know the present boundaries of the French republic?
7851Do you know who such members were?
7851Do you know, or have you been informed( and if so, how?)
7851Do you not think we may safely enter the house then?
7851Do you or do you not know Aaron Burr, late vice- president of the United States?
7851Do you or do you not know Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States?
7851Do you really feel a vacuum in your pleasures?
7851Do you really find happiness indissolubly blended with her presence?
7851Do you think this trait ominous of a coward?
7851Do you, my husband, think as frequently of your Theo., and wish for her?
7851Does he yet know his letters?
7851Does our friend Doctor Blythe still reside at Georgetown?
7851God bless you; you have my prayers always; and who dare say they are not as good as a bishop''s, or any member of a Presbyterian synod?
7851Had I any thing so much at heart as to render him happy?
7851Has he not informed you, or have you not understood( and if so, how?)
7851Have our enjoyments for that period been worth the trouble of living?
7851Have you any commands to town, madam?
7851Have you any rice on hand yet?
7851Have you enough of_ gampy_ now?
7851Have you forgotten the mad project of going to England?
7851He added a fourth, to wit: What would be Mr. Jefferson''s conduct as to the public officers?
7851Heavy business, is it not?
7851How am I to judge of the degree intended?
7851How can Mr. Alston, consistently with his views of business, leave the state for five or six months, as you have proposed, for your Northern tour?
7851How could I omit Celeste and her sisters, whom I saw several times?
7851How could you be sure that even this opinion had exceeded the bounds which you would yourself deem admissible between political opponents?
7851How do you account for the apathy of the public on this subject?
7851How do you like this essay?
7851How does your election advance?
7851How else could he have been questioned with any propriety?
7851How far are you from Natalie?
7851How is General Vaughan?
7851How is it that I have not a line from_ Mari_, in answer to several letters which I wrote him from New- York?
7851How long are you to stay in Charleston?
7851How was this to be effected?
7851How, then, could I refuse him one day?
7851I asked Alston,''Would you wish to see my notes of what passed between Duane and me?''
7851I have not asked the price, but not exceeding_ eight hundred dollars!_ Did you take away"The man of Nature?"
7851I then thought so, as you will readily believe; because, why should I deceive my dear little Theodosia?
7851I went to a wedding supper at Mrs. Moore''s, whose daughter has married Willing-- could any one suppose she was_ unwilling_?
7851If I leave Richmond Hill, however, had I not better buy in town, that you may have a resting- place there?
7851If so, which state or states, and what was the reason or reasons of such belief?
7851If the cabals of the day be not speedily arrested, where shall our political bark be anchored?
7851If yea, what was the tenour of such letter?
7851If you have any, had you not better send it?
7851If you mean it for a residence, what avail its intrinsic value?
7851In Charleston, Sullivan''s Island, or Clifton?
7851In what case it was taken?
7851Is L. N. coming to live with you?
7851Is it, then, criminal that a person of mature age should converse on a subject most highly interesting with the friend most likely informed?
7851Is my wife, too, taken from me?
7851Is not that good Irish?
7851Is not that industry?
7851Is this right?
7851It is so long; how long is it?
7851May not the same be the case with noxious vapours?
7851Might I safely travel through your low country at this season?
7851Montesquieu says he writes to make people think; and why may not Theodosia?
7851Now, how much wiser or better are we than this time last year?
7851Now, ma Minerve, is not this a very ridiculous posture for so grave an affair?
7851Now, what are your plans?
7851One letter may contain the name, and another the comment--_"Car ou l''arreter?_"is rather too mystical.
7851Or how shall I annex any precise idea to language so indefinite?
7851Pray can it be true that she was engaged to a young man whom we knew and valued, and who lately died in your country?
7851Pray how do you advance?
7851Pray shake your little noddle, to give the brains, if any there be, a little action; but who can do two things at once?
7851Pray what have you been doing?
7851Pray, have you lived altogether on pepper?
7851Pray, madam, do you know of what consist the"Republic of the Seven Islands?"
7851Resume, I pray you, this confidence, so flattering to me, so consoling to yourself, may I add, so justly founded?
7851Shall I exchange?
7851Shall I or shall I not investigate this point?
7851Shall I write to her to- night, or omit it till to- morrow?
7851Taking lessons of Wisdom from your Minerva?
7851The mother I cherished with so much pride?
7851The next question was, Of whom shall the assembly ticket for the city be composed?
7851The question--_When shall we meet_?
7851There; is not that little incident related in the true heroic style?
7851This phenomenon( what shall I call it?)
7851To this junto you have twice sacrificed yourself, and what have you got by it?
7851Was you a member of the House of Representatives of the United States, at Washington, in the session of 1800 and 1801?
7851Were there any letter or letters written communicating such an intention?
7851What are L. N.''s?
7851What care you for all that?
7851What co- operation or aid the plaintiff could or would afford towards securing his own election to the presidency?
7851What conduct he would pursue in respect to certain cardinal points of federal policy?
7851What does Mr. Jefferson mean by the declaration that he had formed a cabinet, of which Mr. Burr was to be a member?
7851What have we left?
7851What in the name of love and matrimony can this mean?
7851What man under heaven ever before discovered an analogy between a moscheto and his mistress?
7851What more could she do?
7851What of that?
7851What would you bet that La G. is not in a kind of quandary just now?
7851What''s the matter I do n''t write to Natalie any more?
7851When the heat shall be intolerable here, shall I set my face towards the sun?
7851When were these communications made?
7851When, when will that month come?
7851When, when will the month of October come?
7851Where is Hampton all this while, that you say nothing of him?
7851Where now was the boy?
7851Where will you be from the 10th to 15th May?
7851Which_ Maria_ did your husband go for, the biped or the quadruped?
7851Who will be appointed?
7851Why have you not already done it?
7851Why may not Papa Alston be weaned as well as Papa Burr?
7851Why may not this be done again?
7851Why, then, expose my person?
7851Will not the same pertinacity and precipitation endanger the better-- the opposite cause?
7851Will the reader examine the deposition, especially what relates to Mr. McLean and Mr. Latimer?
7851Without enjoyment, without distinction?
7851Would Charles Lee accept the place of secretary of the Senate?
7851Would Mr. Alston be willing to go as secretary to Chancellor Livingston?
7851Would it be an intolerable labour, if, precisely at half past nine o''clock every evening, you should say,"I will now devote an hour to papa?"
7851Would you think it?
7851Yet wherefore?
7851Yet would not a permanent residence in town for some, for many, for all reasons, be better?
7851Yet, on second thought, would it not be better that he break his?
7851_ Interrogatory on the part of the plaintiff_.--Do you know of any matter or thing that may be beneficial to the plaintiff on the trial of this cause?
7851_ It leaves a chasm in my arrangements_ which can not be adequately filled up?"
7851and if so, what did he say?
7851for what am I reserved?
7851if so, how many times?
7851if so, were such letter or letters forwarded to him through the postoffice by any person, and who?
7851if so, what were their names?
7851if so, who were such person or persons?
7851is she to wear out her youth and beauty, dissipate her talents, and exhaust her spirits without an object in life or a place in society?
7851or flying after the Atalanta''s of Virginia, more swift than their celebrated racers?
7851that he was apprized that an attempt would be made to secure his election?
7851that the plaintiff declared, as to the first question, it would not be expedient to enter into explanations, or words to that effect?
7851the anxiety and misery it cost us for some days?
7851what sacrifices do you make, and to what end?
7850MY VERY DEAR FRIEND,Be you yet alive?
7850Was it philosophy that supported you in your trials? 7850 When and where shall I see you again?"
7850Who can view the works of nature, and the productions of art, without the most sublime and rapturous emotions? 7850 Why, Major Burr,"says he,"you are not going?"
7850_ Plus que jamais à   vous_,dost thou recollect it?
7850_ Question._ Ought the votes of Clinton to be canvassed?
7850----Where can----- be?
7850--I rose up suddenly from the sofa, and rubbing my head--"What book shall I buy for her?"
7850Am I dreaming, or do you leave home again before you go to Philadelphia?
7850Am I to blame Strong?
7850And can you really hope, my Theodosia, with all your ingenuity, to convince me that such a being will enjoy equal happiness in marriage with me?
7850And do you find that you converse with more facility in the French?
7850And do you regret that you are not also a woman?
7850And have you not as much philosophy as I have?
7850And tell me what is laudanum?
7850And what are its effects?
7850And when we enter on the theatre of the world, why not act our parts together?
7850And who can be a judge of these consequences but myself?
7850And why he did not retreat with the army?
7850Are authority and compulsion then the only engines by which you can be moved?
7850Are the Wadsworths with you?
7850Are the wagons you mentioned some time ago returned?
7850Are there any, or very pressing calls at the office?
7850Are you afflicted with any of your old, or with what new complaint?
7850Aristotle says"that a man should not marry before he is six- and- thirty:"pray, Mr. Alston, what arguments have you to oppose to such authority?
7850As you are likely to make considerable use of it, would it not be worth while to have a few days''work done on it?
7850Better or worse?
7850But even supposing I should fail in this-- where is this sad reverse of fortune?--this lamentable change?
7850But pray, when you have got up to two hundred lines a lesson, why do you go back again to one hundred and twenty, and one hundred and twenty- five?
7850But what has become of poor Alpha Beta?
7850But what necessity for enumerating all these circumstances?
7850But when that love is real, what can amuse, what engage the mind, to banish, for a single instant, the object of its delight?
7850But why am I requested to"_ say nothing about obligations_,"while you continue to load me with new ones?
7850But why do you diminish their value by carelessness?
7850But why need I advise a person of better judgment than myself?
7850But why need I confine myself to these?
7850But why should I desire you to do what I know your own heart will dictate?
7850But why should we connect ourselves with any of them, so as to interrupt our studies?
7850But why these questions, to which I can receive no answer but in person?
7850But why this to you, who know me better than I know myself?
7850But, allowing both these objections their full force, may there not be a single case that they do not reach?
7850Ca n''t you lug a scrap from him now and then, apropos, into your letters?
7850Can interest repay the sacrifice?
7850Can it be that you have still in memory the vagrant Burr?
7850Can you excuse, sir, the overflowing of a heart that knows not where to stop when on a subject so interesting?
7850Can you form an idea of a more happy mortal than she will be when seated on the throne of Constantinople?
7850Can you leave Mr. Osmer without injury?
7850Coquetting for admiration and attracting flattery?
7850DEAR SIR, His excellency desires me to inquire whether you have received any information of the enemy''s movements, situation, or design?
7850Did he know the printed orders?--was she sold conformable?
7850Discouraged?
7850Do I read right?
7850Do n''t you see that this sentence would have been perfect and much more elegant without the last_ it_?
7850Do you continue to preserve Madame De S.''s good opinion of your talents for the harp?
7850Do you discover a symptom of it?
7850Do you mean that the forty lines which you construed in Virgil were in a part you had not before learned?
7850Do you think that 8 would be induced from any motive to vote for him?
7850Do you want the pity of such?
7850Does Theodosia employ herself ever in the same way?
7850Does it not drop through your tent?
7850Does young Mr. Broome attend?
7850For friendship?
7850Four pages in Lucian was a great lesson; and why, my dear Theo., ca n''t this be done a little oftener?
7850General Knox presented himself, and Burr( then called Major Burr) asked the general what he did there?
7850Has she a soul framed for love?
7850Has some earthquake, some sudden and dreadful concussion of nature, ingulfed you?
7850Has the God of heaven, in anger, here changed the order of nature?
7850Have my directions been pursued with regard to her Latin and geography?
7850Have you done running up and down stairs?
7850Have you ever ratified the vows she made in your behalf?
7850Have you not been tormented with some embarrassments which I wickedly left you to struggle with?
7850He was turned round and round by each of the company: was asked where he got that very neat bag, and the valuable locket?
7850Hence arose a question, whether this was not a_ personal trust_, which could not be legally performed by deputy?
7850How could I write to you How divine your residence?
7850How could we forget Latimer?
7850How do you live, sleep, and amuse yourself?
7850How have you borne it?
7850How is it possible you can write me such short letters, having so much leisure, and surrounded with all that can interest me?
7850How is it possible you had nothing more to write?
7850How is this?
7850How is your health?
7850How many sergeants''parties have you?
7850I have a thousand questions to ask, but why ask of the dumb?
7850I set out for camp the last of this week; may I expect letters from my friend?
7850I should doubtless be happier if I enjoyed perfect health and the society of a friend_ like you_; but why do I say like you?
7850I would give, what would I not give to see or know even your most trifling actions and amusements?
7850If he was not sheriff, can the votes sent by him be legally canvassed?
7850If you finish your causes before court is over, can not you look at us, even should you return to the manor?
7850If you were half as punctual or as fortunate( which shall I call it?
7850In plain terms, can you spare me the amount of it?
7850Is Chevalier still punctual?
7850Is it because each revolving day proves thee more deserving?
7850Is it not a very easy matter to fix on another time, and write you word by T. Edwards?
7850Is it owing to ignorance or prejudice that I have not yet met a single person who had discovered or would allow the merit of this work?
7850Is it possible my affection can increase?
7850Is that right?
7850Is the language and spelling your own?
7850Is this the promised protection?
7850Laid aside for the present?
7850Let me know whether you are yet suited with horses, and how?
7850Lo Alexander and Cesar, the fabled heroes of antiquity, to what lengths did passion hurry them?
7850MY DEAR SIR, Will you allow me that appellation, who have so long neglected to inform you of the situation of your affairs left in my hands?
7850May l expect to see you here in the spring?
7850Might it not be of service to draw a line, if but for a few days, from Bronx to Rye, or Mamaroneck?
7850Must I attribute it to the fatality which has already separated us, and, I fear, is determined to put an eternal bar to our junction?
7850Need we a proof of this?
7850Never enjoying, always hoping?
7850Now, say you, what has this to do with the introduction of a correspondence?
7850Oh, why did n''t you bring her?
7850On the 24th of June, 1778, the commander- in- chief propounded to the general officers the question,"Will it be advisable to hazard a general action?"
7850Or are you so angry as not to think I merit an answer?
7850Or, why should I be denied the common privilege of every liberal mind, that of acknowledging the obligation which I have not the power of cancelling?
7850Ought the votes of Tioga to be canvassed?
7850Ought they to canvass those sealed in the box, and reject the others?
7850Pray why have you neglected to answer my letter by Colonel Wadsworth?
7850Pray, do you recollect the opinion which Judge Candour solemnly pronounced upon us both, in a court of reason held at the Indian King?
7850Pray, from whom did you learn that he was angry?
7850Pray, in what consists the pleasure of a familiar correspondence?
7850Pray, say you, what is it to me why you have not been in the army?
7850Quoi faire?
7850Run off and leave him?
7850Shall I add, their love also?
7850Shall I guess again?
7850She promised to give you now and then a lesson on the forte- piano; is she as good as her word?
7850Stiff with cold, how must his papa have fared?
7850Supposing he should come here the 13th of April, what could I do?
7850Tell me truly, did you write it without assistance?
7850Tell me, Aaron, why do I grow every day more tenacious of thy regard?
7850That you are not numbered in that galaxy of beauty which adorns an assembly- room?
7850The cheerfullness of all around me led me to ask why all animated nature enjoyed its being but man?
7850The handwriting of the letters various; very good, very bad, and middling; emblematic, shall I say, of the fair authoress?
7850The happiness of my life depends on your exertions; for what else, for whom else do I live?
7850The inquiry was then made--"What are we to do?"
7850The reason, indeed, is obvious; for what more necessary to be learned and accurately understood?
7850Till that time, my dear friend, can you keep me above water, and do justice to yourself?
7850To whom am I indebted but to you, my friend, for this unmerited favour?
7850Under such circumstances, am I not only warranted in these remarks, but imperiously called upon to make them?
7850Was Richard R. Smith the sheriff of the county of Otsego when he received and forwarded the ballots by his special deputy?
7850We stared, and asked one another-- How could Burr know that?
7850What brighter mark-- what stronger evidence need we of a God?
7850What can be the reason of the great delay in forwarding letters by the post?
7850What can have exhausted or disturbed you so much?
7850What greater blessing can await me?
7850What is all this says my friend Aaron?
7850What is become of the rifles?
7850What is the exchange with you?
7850What language can express the joy, the gratitude of Theodosia?
7850What other mode remained to set the public mind at ease?
7850What shall I do with the other articles, a small parcel of glassware and rum, and the money arising from the sales of the vessel''s sea- coat,& c.?
7850What then will be your substitute?
7850What think you of this alteration in the plan we settled?
7850What thought suggested my assent?
7850What will you think of the taste of New- York when I shall tell you that Miss Broadhurst is not very generally admired here?
7850What would I not give to have but those four small words from thee?
7850What would be your conjectures in such a case?
7850What would you say if I should tell you that----- had absolutely professed love for me?
7850What-- can neither affection nor civility induce you to devote to me the small portion of time which I have required?
7850Where and how made?
7850Where are the promised letters?
7850Where did it loiter so long?
7850Where is Miss Burr?
7850Who are so naturally our friends as those who are born such?
7850Who can view the miseries of others, without being dissolved into compassion?
7850Why are you so cautiously silent as to our little Sally?
7850Why are you still in town?
7850Why did I consent to his departure?
7850Why did I hesitate to decide?
7850Why did you undertake that very laborious task you mention?
7850Why do you delay it so long?
7850Why do you neither acknowledge nor answer my last letter?
7850Why, Burr, all this negligence?
7850Why, then, will you expose my weakness by ascribing to me imaginary excellences?
7850Will it not advance the service to send you down some biscuit?
7850Will it not be possible for you to meet me at Trenton, that we may travel together to New- York?
7850Will not these continued rains deprive us of the pleasure of the promised visit of the W.''s?
7850Will you be able to extricate me from the difficulties attending this bill?
7850Will you be abroad any, and what part of the summer?
7850Will you speedily supply the deficiency?
7850Will your health permit you to join the army?
7850Wo n''t she come up this winter?
7850Would he believe, still further, that it was drawn by an American?
7850Would not these evils be in some measure remedied by sending me a parcel of shoes?
7850Would not this be truly satanic?
7850You are not contented, my dear Burr, and why are you not?
7850You ask how Miss P. walks?
7850You say nothing of writing or learning Greek verbs;--is this practice discontinued?
7850You sigh for New- Jersey, and why do you not return?
7850_ Qu''a- t- il_, Alexis?
7850and why?
7850and, therefore, what more proper to engage the attention?
7850can aught on earth compensate for his presence?
7850from what unfriendly cause does this arise?
7850frown?
7850has Heaven more to grant?
7850or the postmaster?
7850or whom?
7850what more near and interesting?
51206''_ Wer ist da?_''we hear again. 51206 After the war you going to Mokka, Johnnie?"
51206And the British?
51206And to the Irishman?
51206And what are you in private life?
51206And where are you going to drive them?
51206Any of you blokes speak English?
51206Are you quite sure? 51206 Art thou there?
51206Baas, have you a flask?
51206Been havin''a sing- song?
51206Bread? 51206 Buddha, Johnnie?"
51206But yet-- but yet----Why does he feel that way about it?
51206But you?
51206D''ye ken it''s been my life''s dream to see yon London? 51206 Do n''t you see, Little Brother?"
51206Do you know what we shall do with them-- with all these patriots?
51206Do you know where we are?
51206Do you remember when they called the 1917 class a year ahead of time? 51206 Does''e bite?"
51206German?
51206Get him? 51206 Get the idea?
51206Gunga, Johnnie?
51206Has he changed his mind?
51206Have n''t I?
51206Have you ever seen a_ tir de barrage_? 51206 Have you found out yet?"
51206Have you reflected? 51206 Ho, that?
51206Ho,_ are_ they?
51206How about Winnipeg?
51206How can anybody go through that and come out sane?
51206How is it changing them most?
51206How is it that he has found so much favor in the eyes of his commander as to be sent as a parlamentaire to the enemy?
51206How many?
51206Is he goin''to waltz in and take that redoubt on his ownsum?
51206Is it a conundrum, Kentuck?
51206Is that so, Little Brother?
51206Is there any reduction for a return?
51206It is sad, monsieur, is n''t it?
51206Lost?
51206Mahomet, Johnnie?
51206May I not have a little pastry, perhaps?
51206Mecca?
51206Might I hope to hear you repeat it, if there is time before the train starts?
51206Mon,I says,"I''m not fashing maself about Berlin, but if I go in the Army shall I go to London?"
51206My lad,says he,"do n''t you wish to serve your King and Country?"
51206No go Indee?
51206Ought n''t you to''ave''i m on a leadin''string?
51206Ought n''t you to''ave''is muzzle on?
51206Prussians at Martagny?
51206Prussians in the Forêt de Lyons? 51206 Sure, wo n''t the ould mother be glad to see me?"
51206Tell me, madame, we will get to their country, wo n''t we, wo n''t we?
51206The other one?
51206W''y do you suppose they makes the dugouts open at one end?
51206Want the Bank, Sandy?
51206Well, Hias,I said,"what can we do?
51206Well, wot abaht it? 51206 Wha- what is it?"
51206Wha- what, monsieur le Baron?
51206What are ye wanting?
51206What are you doing here?
51206What could I do?
51206What d''yer say, sir?
51206What did he do?
51206What do you estimate the strength of the attacking force in our section to be?
51206What do you know about the war?
51206What do you mean?
51206What do you want with me? 51206 What is it?"
51206What is this?
51206What''s that?
51206What''s the matter with you, my child? 51206 Where are those seven Austrians?"
51206Where are your rifles? 51206 Where is your weapon?"
51206Who are you? 51206 Who has any better right?
51206Why did n''t I think of it before? 51206 Why did you do that?"
51206Why do n''t you take these too?
51206Why should I lose a day? 51206 Why were you not back in time?"
51206Why?
51206Will you have a_ vin blanc_, old chap? 51206 Wo n''t you permit me to go?"
51206Wot''s all the buzz about be''ind us?
51206Wot, nothin''at all?
51206Yes;--you go Indee, sergeant?
51206You been to France, Johnnie?
51206You blokes just takin''''i m out for an airin''?
51206You ever hear of Rabindranarth Tagore, Johnnie?
51206You go Benares, Johnnie?
51206You know Kashmir, Johnnie?
51206You live in Kashmir?
51206You remember, monsieur, the sand dunes by Blankenberghe and Knocke on the Belgian coast? 51206 You understand, Baas?"
51206_ Eh bien!_ How have you been getting on at Verdun lately?
51206''Are they numerous?''
51206''Have we exterminated them all?''
51206''What can this mean?''
51206( They had their reward off the Dutch coast, eh?)
51206*****"What is the war doing to the soldiers?"
51206A little bit of all right, eh?"
51206After death is there only nothingness?
51206After that---- Oh, is that your train, mon?
51206Ai n''t you got no sooverneer?"
51206All those sublimities: how can they be explained without losing their soul, without taking away their value, which is of mystery and miracle?
51206Am I really in jeopardy myself?
51206Am I really killing men day by day?
51206An''at''ome they''re a- s''yin'',''W''y do n''t they get on with it?
51206And did you destroy the enemy''s guns?
51206And he replied,"Is there anny wonder, Sir, wid that scrap o''paper there?"
51206And in front, whither should they go?...
51206And was I really the budding novelist in New York?
51206And would your Honor hide in the forest like them-- like the Germans?"
51206Armentières is called"Armenteers"; Balleul,"Ballyall"; Hazebrouck,"Hazy- Brook"; and what more natural than"Plug- Street,"Atkinsese for Ploegsteert?
51206At last the Englishman can keep silent no longer and asks:"Will they treat us very severely?"
51206Black bread?"
51206But can one demand that of the others?
51206But did he not instruct you to return to Berlin?"
51206But he asks aloud:"Finished?"
51206But it is nothing to us, eh?
51206But of what avail were cupboards to a jam- loving and jam- fed British army living in open ditches in the summer time?
51206But suppose he should be greeted, before ever he can introduce the topic himself, with the genial inquiry,"And how are your stanchions lasting?"
51206But the men?
51206But when will these barbarians be entirely driven away?
51206Can I be of any service to you?
51206Can you imagine that a person as peaceable as I could find it possible to drive a horse to death with whip and spurs?
51206Can you imagine what that meant to me?
51206Can you picture that?
51206Captain Herail went into the next room and addressed his wife:"You have heard what he has said?
51206Could it by the furthest stretch of imagination be considered as giving information to the enemy?
51206Could there be any harm in granting me those favors?
51206D''ye hear thot?
51206D''you remember the birthday three years ago when we set the victrola going outside your room door?
51206Did one ever hear of such tyranny?
51206Did such attractive girls still come in and sing and dance as those whose pictures stared at him out of the pages of the last number of the_ Nida_?
51206Do they get paid by the minute?
51206Do you say to yourself that"this terrible war"has robbed me of all my estimable"woman''s weaknesses?"
51206Do you shudder when I write to you of these things?
51206Do you think so?
51206Does it please you to remain here?"
51206Does one see more truly life''s worth on a battlefield?
51206Everybody in France remembers the sad question of the little girl who asked her mother,"Will Santa Claus bring me back my hands for Christmas?"
51206First of all, where are you from?"
51206From the side where the firing comes from, beyond and to the right, they are yelling at us, both in German and Russian,''What''s the matter?
51206Have they then altered the text of the Holy Books?
51206He ran away a month ago, you say?"
51206He then murmured:"Why are you so good to us, madame?
51206He was taken to the sick bay and after drinking his tea, he turned to his commander and said:"Why should n''t we get into these cots, sir?"
51206Hear anything?"
51206How do these and the many other brave men who have been reported in the present war compare with the heroes of antiquity?
51206How long would it take the Burgomaster to produce the money?
51206How?"
51206However, I remembered Hindenburg''s injunction:"Tell Cämmerer to be kind to him,"so what did I care for a mere captain?
51206I said:"Not near, my boy?
51206I shook him up with,"Why, what''s the matter that a French soldier makes such a face?
51206I turned toward the child:"Who gave you that?"
51206I was taking heavy risks, but what else could I do?
51206I-- TRAGIC STORY OF A NIGHT FIGHT"We were creeping across the snow, when we hear a frightened''_ Wer kommt da?_''"''Hold on, Germans!
51206I-- WHO IS THE BRAVEST MAN IN THE WAR?
51206II-- HIS MAJESTY''S LAND SHIP--"WE ARE HERE""An''wot''s the next item o''the program, I wonder?"
51206II-- WAS HE GOING TO BAYONET HER?
51206In a tone of voice that left no chance for the familiar War- Office question:"Have you an appointment, sir?"
51206Is it no?"
51206Is the contempt that is hourly shown for life the real standard of life''s worth?
51206It speaks well for an English watch, does n''t it?
51206Just the same, I will never in my life forget his first words in Russian, as he asked us, by order of the officer:"Who are you-- brothers?"
51206Man, is it no fine?"
51206Maybe the day- shift''s having breakfast and not started yet?"
51206Not a bad trick, was it, madame?"
51206Not as easy as all that, but why?
51206Not bad, wot?"
51206Not one of them will escape, Moreau?"
51206Our question to them was always the same,"Where are the Germans?"
51206Shall I find a soul left?"
51206Shall I send one on whose face are the imprints of all the Devil''s ten fingers?
51206Shall he return to the camp?
51206Should not this thought alone be sufficient to dry your tears and to fill you with unspeakable joy?
51206Staff- Surgeon Sawdy came up to me, after Dr. Martin had procured me a lifebuoy, and said,"Shall I come with you, Padre?"
51206Stain his hands, too, with the blood of these innocents?
51206The following are some of the captain''s questions, and our answers:"Where were you men?"
51206The surgeon approached then, and leaning over the now visible palpitating lung murmured:"What can be done?
51206Then the Colonel asked:"Who will go to work?"
51206Then the Colonel came and asked in Russian:"Why do n''t you want to work?"
51206Then thou wilt be happy again, eh?"
51206They asked,"How did the General die?"
51206They do n''t move, or are they pretending?''
51206This general, instead, would say:"Are there two men who would like to come with me to- night and inspect the enemy''s barbed wire entanglements?"
51206V--"THEY ARE ALL DEAD NOW"What have I seen?...
51206VII--"THE CHILDREN WHO ARE MUTILATED"But they-- what are they doing with our little children?
51206W''y do n''t they smash through?''
51206Was he going to kill her?
51206Was it a sort of hint, one wonders, that"the pen is mightier than the sword"--that the soldier''s reign would be a brief one?
51206Was it imagination?
51206Was it still going so comfortably back in Petersburg( he stopped suddenly and substituted Petrograd) with those rascals of civilians and war cripples?
51206We must rise above that too delicate conscience which says:"Speak?
51206Wearied of my efforts at conversing in a foreign tongue, I went over and said:"Do you really speak English?"
51206Well, have you any such''steed of God?''"
51206Well, what was it to us?
51206What are you doing here?"
51206What could one answer?
51206What did I see in this camp?
51206What do the soldiers do, I wondered, when this is happening?
51206What do you think?
51206What good was my letter of introduction from the General''s dear nephew?
51206What good will it do?
51206What happened to your uniforms?"
51206What was he going to do to her?
51206What?
51206When we had gone on a little way he said:--"Ai n''t it a proper beauty parlor?
51206When will words be found simple enough and infinite enough to tell of so much heroism, so much sorrow, so much beauty, so much terror?
51206When would they see those homes again?
51206Where are you?''
51206Where the devil do they come from?''
51206Who is the bravest man that the war has produced?
51206Who would have thought that they would consent to be commanded by a woman?
51206Why did n''t I think of it before?
51206Why did n''t the French take him away?
51206Why did they not get O''Leary, who was running out alone ahead of his companions?
51206Why had I come to Lötzen?
51206Why is he allowed to run around without any guard in particular?
51206Why should the six centuries of European history be destroyed because of the acts of a few patriots acting under the impulse of terror or indignation?
51206Why should these individual deeds have been visited on thousands of innocent and inoffensive people?
51206Why should those deeds have been visited on monuments of brick and stone?
51206Why should treasuries of learning and shrines of religion be destroyed?
51206Will those people over there shoot down their own subjects?"
51206Will ye give us a hand with these straps, laddie?"
51206Wo n''t you look me in the face and make me a nice smile?"
51206Would I condescend to wait?
51206Would I prefer to wait here or come in his office, where the stove was lit?
51206Would it not be better to surrender?''
51206You are the man General von Schlieffen telephoned about yesterday?
51206You do n''t know him?
51206You mean to s''y you ai n''t got any graybacks?"
51206was the rejoinder;"and where did_ you_ learn it-- in the Tottenham Court Road?"
44263''Ave a Ruby Queen, matey?
44263''Ear that, Joe?
44263''Ere, Bill, wot was that?
44263''It? 44263 ''Oo are we?"
44263''Ow are ye, Ninty?
44263''Ow do I know but what the blighter''s usin''insultin''words to me?
44263Ai n''t none of you blokes firsty?
44263Ai n''t''arf blinkin''sloshy''ere, ai n''t it, Fritz? 44263 All''s well, is it?
44263And what did you think next?
44263Any of your blokes like to go in a raffle for this watch?
44263Blimey, oo''s neck?
44263Blimey,exclaimed Alf,"would yer blinkin''well believe it?
44263Blimey,he said,"ca n''t you see I''ve lost me blooming fly whisk?"
44263Brummy,our battery humorist, shouted to the red- cap:"''Ullo, Bobby, what are yer clinkin''those poor old blokes for?"
44263Ca n''t you sleep?
44263Call this a shelter?
44263Cheerful? 44263 Cooty"was heard to say,"Look''ere, oo''s_''it_--you or me?"
44263DarkieWebb, of Poplar, always cheerful and matter- of- fact, looked across at the speaker and said,"''It the train?
44263Did he speak English?
44263Did n''t you ask him in?
44263Do n''t yer know us?
44263Do you give them any vegetables?
44263Do you think they are up there?
44263Funny, is n''t it?
44263Got a cushy job these''ere artillery blokes, ai n''t they? 44263 Got a light, Jock?"
44263Had any casualties?
44263Hear that?
44263How are the gunners going on, boy?
44263How did it happen?
44263How do, corp?
44263If Jerry sends one over and it''s got our names on it, why worry? 44263 It''s me chest, ai n''t it, mate?"
44263K.R.R.s?
44263Lor'', mum,came the reply,"yer did n''t think as''ow we was a- goin''ter run with them there Germans up there, did ye?
44263Lumme, mate, what did''e say? 44263 Luv us, Smiffy, how did you get away?
44263Macsaid:"I wonder if they''ll give us anything else beside the medal?"
44263Me?
44263Oo are yer?
44263Perhaps you speak Russian?
44263Piccadilly, eh? 44263 Seen any Queen''s pass this way?"
44263Smudger,seeing something moving about in the dark, crept up, and muttered,"Wot, yer loose again, yer blighter?"
44263Stumpyshot a quick glance at the general and then blurted out,"Well, sir,''t''aint the sort of plice you''d bring your Jane to, is it?"
44263Sufferin''smoke, sir,he said to me, with a twinkle,"wherever was you flyin''lars''night--_through the milky way_?"
44263Take the food aht of a poor bloke''s mouf, would yer?
44263Taken my leg off? 44263 Then how do you speak to each other?"
44263Time?
44263Vous compree Allah?
44263Well, boys,said our major,"looks as if it''s all up with us, does n''t it?"
44263Well, d''yer see that shell-''ole over there''alf full o''water?
44263What abaht it?
44263What about it? 44263 What are we going to do with Darby and Joan?"
44263What are we stopping for, mate?
44263What do you take us for,said the lad from Battersea;"do yer fink we all want the sack fer overcrowdin''?"
44263What for?
44263What part of the Village do yer come from?
44263What the''ell are you sprawling over them bombs for?
44263What''s happened here?
44263What''s happened, Webb?
44263What''s the matter?
44263What''s the number of your water- cart?
44263What''s them hills, sir?
44263What''s this?
44263What''s wrong with you? 44263 What,_ me_ Lord Mayor?
44263Whatcher grousin''about?
44263When''s old Fritzie coming over? 44263 When''s someone going to tell us We can''Stand- to''as before?
44263Where are the others?
44263Where are you going with that, Williams?
44263Where did you get him from, Simmonds?
44263Where did you leave it,''Smiler''?
44263Where''d you get to, Bill, when he dropped his eggs?
44263Who are you grinning at?
44263Who are you?
44263Why are n''t you wearing your gas helmet?
44263Why did n''t you run?
44263Why the dickens did n''t you get down?
44263Will it put paid to your comedy act, Sammy?
44263Wot yer fink ov''i m, mate?
44263Wot yer grumblin''at?
44263Wot, no matches? 44263 Yes, Jack,"I answer,"are you all right?"
44263Yus,replied"Tich,""do n''t yer fink a bloke can read''is own writing?"
44263_ Dushman kahan hain?_--"Where are the enemy?"
44263''Ai nt yer got enough customers?"
44263''Oo goes there?"
44263''Ow am I goin''ter light me fags, miss?"
44263''Ow did yer learn it?"
44263''Ow the''ell do they expect yer to fight on stuff like that?"
44263''Tain''t''arf a life, ai n''t it?
44263), 15 Canterbury Road, Colchester, Essex._"Peace?
44263), 26 Maidenstone Hill, Greenwich, S.E.10._"Any more for the''Skylark''?"
44263), 4 Mapleton Road, Southfields, S.W.18._"Why ai n''t the Band Playing?"
44263: What is your name?
44263: You are Number----?
44263:"Well, Brown, what are the names of your mules?"
44263A brand- new officer came around the trench, saw the damage, and asked:"Whatever caused this mess?"
44263A burst of firing greeted our attempt, and when we succeeded, a Cockney who had a flesh wound caused a smile by saying,"Go back?
44263A kindly disposed staff officer happened to come along, and seeing the man thus engaged, said,"Having a wash, my man?"
44263A member of the outgoing company, observing a pal of his with one of these sheets on his head, bawled out:"''Ullo,''Arry, what''cher doing of?"
44263A visit was expected from the King, and the Tommies kept asking Tich what he would say if the King said,"Have you had frost- bite?"
44263A. T. Greenwood, Wallington, Surrey._ Where''s the Milk and Honey?
44263ADJUTANT(_ anxiously_): Anything salved?
44263After a little while a Cockney voice from the rear of our party said,"''Ave you ever met Jellicoe, mate?"
44263After a while I asked him,"Where did you catch it, old fellow?"
44263After hailing the boat someone on our destroyer shouted,"Why did n''t you get some more oars out?"
44263After the trumpeter had finished, the O.C., with a look of astonishment on his face, gasped,"What''s that?
44263After they had all passed, a gunner from Clerkenwell said:"Would yer believe it?
44263Ai n''t you goin''to look for''i m?"
44263An hour at dawn and one at dusk, Lor''blimey, who wants more?"
44263And who''d have thought of seeing the b---- vicar too?''"
44263And, believe me or believe me not, that is what the haughty one and his men did.--_"The Ancient Mariner,"Sutton, Surrey._"A Blinkin''Paper- Chase?"
44263Another Cockney went up to him and said"''Ello, matey,''urt?
44263Another Cockney( from Battersea) replied:"What abaht what?"
44263As I knelt by his side to comfort him he softly whispered,"Say, mate, has Jerry knocked the blinkin''smile off?"
44263As a shell exploded anywhere near us Teddy would shout,"Are you all right, sarge?"
44263As they were filing out one of the relief party said to one of those coming out,"Who are you?"
44263As we galloped off he gasped,"Blimey, do n''t they put new life in yer?
44263As we lifted him up my friend said to him,"You did n''t get your blue- bottle that time, did you?"
44263At this critical stage I overheard one sailor remark to another,"I say, Bill, do n''t you think it is about time we put those blinkin''umbrellas up?"
44263B. Fuller, 146 Rye Road, Hoddesdon, Herts._"Salvage?
44263By the time we reached our destination we were just about all in, and on being challenged"Halt; who goes there?"
44263Can any man think of any point which we have overlooked?"
44263Compree cushy?"
44263Compree guerre?"
44263Compree sloshy?"
44263D''yer fink I''m a hoctopus?
44263Dandelions?
44263Deadly silence, and then out of the darkness came the voice of our Battersea bunting- tosser--"Anyone got six pennorth o''coppers?"
44263Did that sniper get your bucket?"
44263Did the sergeant wring his hands or say to the officer,"Mon Capitaine, je vous en prie, etc."?
44263Did you spot anything?"
44263Does the General really know?
44263Evans, 24 Russell Road, Wood End Green, Northolt, Greenford._"Oo''s''It-- You or Me?"
44263Eventually someone clutched me, saying,"Is that you, Charlie-- are you all right?"
44263F. Chanter, 16 Atalanta Street, Fulham._ The First Twenty Years It was round about Christmas 1917, and we were resting(?)
44263F. Green, 14 Alma Square, St. John''s Wood, N.W.8._ So Why Worry?
44263Feeling nice and comfortable?"
44263Finally,''Erb, who was holding the coil of wire, said to him,"Ca n''t yer stop that bobbin''abaht?
44263G. Harrap( 23rd London Regiment), 25 Renfrew Road, S.E._[ Illustration:"D''yer fink we wants ter be scalded ter death?"]
44263Got a fag?
44263Got the wind up?"
44263Had n''t you better try and get to the dug- outs?"
44263Had your rum?"
44263Has he got away all right?
44263He greeted our sergeant with the words,"Wot time does the dance start?"
44263He looked down and said,"Hello, my lad, soon got tired of the dance, eh?"
44263He passed the word back,"What''s the matter?"
44263He stopped and asked me,"Is there a dressing station down there, mate?"
44263He then dived gracefully and swam to a lifeboat.--_Bobbie George Bull( late Mercantile Marine), 40 Warren Road, Leyton, E.10._ Wot Abaht Wot?
44263Hearing a splash and some cursing in a familiar voice, I called out,"Are you all right, Tubby?"
44263Hearing the commotion, the Commandant put his head out of his bivouac and shouted,"What the dickens do you mean galloping through here?"
44263Hi, wot yer done wiv it?
44263Higson, Lancashire._"Compree''Sloshy''?"
44263His Majesty at once noticed Tich was legless, and said in his kind way,"Well, my man, how are you getting on?"
44263How long are you going to be?"
44263How much?
44263Hurt much?
44263I held my breath as it passed the girls-- would they shoot them in passing?
44263I rushed to him anxiously and said,"Are you hurt?"
44263I said,"Hello, Jim, what''s the matter?"
44263I said:"What have you lost, Tubby?"
44263I turned anxiously to Nobby and asked,"What is it?
44263I was feeling a bit gloomy myself, and Tom, seeing this, said:"What''s the matter with you, Jimmy?"
44263I was feeling pretty bad with the swaying, and said to my companion,"Is n''t this the limit?"
44263I''ll write all right,"said Reynolds, and then, suddenly,"''Ere, wot d''yer fink I am, a blinkin''acrobat?
44263If he were asked,"Have you had frost- bite?"
44263If the latter, why worry?
44263If, however, he was asked,"Were you wounded?"
44263In spite of his pal''s attempts to restrain him, he overtook the general, shouting"I did serlute yer, did n''t I, guv''nor?"
44263Is this the way aht?"
44263It is too much for one soul, and a Cockney voice calls out:"''Ere, wot price this fer Margate?"
44263Just for something to say I called out to the chap in the next shell- hole-- a Brentford lad he was:"What d''you think of it, Alf?"
44263Just outside that town he was met by the Adjutant, who said,"Hullo, driver, what''s happened-- where''s cook''s cart with the kits?"
44263My pal, a Cockney, weighing about 18 stone, found it hard to keep up with the others, and the commander angrily asked him,"Where is your station?"
44263No rest, no beer, blinkin''leave stopped-- er, got any fags?
44263Officer''s inspection, any complaints?"
44263Officer:"Any change to- night, corporal?"
44263On seeing our weed- covered chum he stopped and said,"What''s the matter, Johnson?
44263One of our men yelled,"Hi, Tich, carn''t yer read?"
44263One of our troop addressed the rider thus:"Many up there, mate?"
44263One of the platoon, not seeing the officer, thought the remark was a joke, so he replied,"Yes, why ai n''t the band playing?"
44263Our captain was in a rage and shouted down from the bridge to the officer of the watch,"Is there anyone on board who can speak German?"
44263Peering into the blackness, I called out,"Where are you?"
44263Picquet officer( appearing from a corner of the trench):"What''s the meaning of all these feathers, Brown?"
44263Presently there was a lull, and the American officer was heard to ask,"Say, boys, where is the front line in these parts?"
44263Rank, name, and regimental number were given, and then the orderly asked,"Which division are you from?"
44263Returning to the game, I said to my chum,"Whose move, Joe?"
44263See that?
44263Seen Nobby Clark?
44263Shall I see if I can get him for you?"
44263Sister returned( she was the right stuff) and said:"Hello, what''s happened here?
44263So I just_ wo n''t_ die, to spite yer, see?"
44263Springing smartly to attention, and with a pained look upon his face, old Billy replied:"This''ere, sir?
44263Stores:"You all right, Bill?"
44263Suddenly he stopped, lifted his uninjured arm at the Germans and shouted,"Blimey, wot yer all firing at me for?
44263Ted-- wot d''ye reckon they done it wiv?
44263Tell the colonel, what was it?"
44263Ten minutes later came the same voice:"Is Sergeant Fossell down there?"
44263The C.Q.M.S., not knowing the extent of Brown''s injury, inquired,"What''s the trouble, Brown?"
44263The Tommy replied:"Wot''s the good of making that leg strite w''en the uvver one''s bowed?"
44263The company officer was inclined to be cross with him, and asked him,"But what made you go so far as the enemy position?"
44263The first time I went to see him, he said,"What do you think of it?
44263The jolting of the cart apparently jerked a little life into him, for he asked me,"Got a fag, mate?"
44263The officer said:"Where did you find them?"
44263The officer, becoming annoyed at the delay, sent back the message:"Who''s the fool who lost his gumboot?"
44263The usual form of inquiry was:"Hullo---- what have you got?"
44263Then the padre asked the wheel driver in a very small voice,"My man, can I do anything to assist you?"
44263There came from the line a sergeant, who shouted,"Why do n''t you lads duck?"
44263To the Greek he said,"Hi,''oo the dickens d''you fink you are-- the Lord Mayor?
44263To which a Cockney voice replied,"Blimey, sergeant, where''s the landing stage?"
44263Tommy:"Sitting room inside, mate?"
44263Upon reaching a hatchway leading down to the stokers''mess deck, he called down:"Is there any water coming in down there?"
44263Voice from passing infantryman, in the unmistakable accent of Bow Bells:"Where y''goin'', mate?
44263W''y do orficers lose their third button?"
44263W. Owen( late Corporal, Desert Corps), 9 Keith Road, Walthamstow, E.17._"Parti?
44263Waiting a few minutes, the corporal again passed a message back:"Have n''t you got him out yet?
44263Walters( late Cpl., Royal Fusiliers), 20 Church Street, Woolwich, S.E.18._ When In Greece...?
44263Was the bomb going to burst in the gun and blow us all to bits?
44263We got him out and he stood on dry(?)
44263We shouted down to him,"Where are we, mate?"
44263We were naturally anxious to know what it was like"up there,"and the following conversation took place in passing:"What''s it like, mate?"
44263What have we got?"
44263What next?"
44263What was to be done?
44263What would you do?
44263What''s happened?"
44263When I asked if I could do anything for him, he said:"Are there many hurt?"
44263When he arrived abreast of us he shouted in very good English:"It''s a long way to Tipperary, boys, is n''t it?"
44263When he saw me he called out above the row going on:"I''opes yer do n''t mind me''aving come to the garden party wivout an invertition, sir?"
44263When the bearers came to his stretcher, one said to the other,"What''s it say on his ticket?"
44263When they reached us one of our young officers shouted out:"Are you looking for the hounds?"
44263Where is it?
44263Where the''ell are yer goin''wiv that gun?
44263Where''s the girl in the tights wot rides the''orses?"
44263Wherever''ave yer bin, me old brown son?
44263While we were endeavouring to find the meat at the bottom of the spoilt water we heard a voice say:"Any complaints?"
44263Whilst I was thus engaged he said to me in a weak voice, but with a smile on his face:"How much did yer say it would corst to take them tattoos orf?"
44263Who''s coming with me?"
44263Why ai n''t yer singin''''Let the Great Big World Keep Turnin'',''eh?"
44263Why not, my good man?
44263Why?
44263With a feeble smile he said,"Blimey, sir, this''as been a short week- end, ai n''t it?"
44263With a weary sigh, as if a great truth had dawned upon him, he said pathetically:"Lumme, that do bring the war''ome to a bloke, do n''t it, miss?"
44263Wood, D.S.M., 19 Gracechurch Street, E.C.3._"Wot''s the Game-- Musical Chairs?"
44263Wot abaht this''un?
44263Wot d''yer fink I am-- a blinkin''tiddler?"
44263Would he be spotted by snipers?
44263Would he have to lie out in No Man''s Land all day?
44263You can imagine what a comical sight it was, but the climax came when he was challenged by the corporal,"Where the devil have you been?"
44263You fink I''m goin''ter die?
44263You_ would_ choose just''ere to land, would n''t yer, and give the bloomin''show away?"
44263[ Illustration: Poilu:"Allumette?"
44263[ Illustration:"''Oo''s neck?"]
44263[ Illustration:"''Ow d''yer spell''delightful''?"]
44263[ Illustration:"''Ow long''ave you bin a partner in the firm?"]
44263[ Illustration:"Ai n''t nobody a- goin''ter kiss me?"]
44263[ Illustration:"Do n''t yer understand yer own langwidge, yer kitten?"]
44263[ Illustration:"Do yer stop aht all night in''er?"]
44263[ Illustration:"Where''s your station?"
44263[ Illustration:"Wot d''yer fink I am-- a blinkin''tiddler?"]
44263[ Illustration:"Wot price this fer Margate?"]
44263[ Illustration:"Wot, yer loose again, yer blighter?"]
44263[ Illustration:"Would you mind trekkin''off up the road?"]
44263_ Russell_?
44263as he returned to his bully beef.--_Lady Lawford, London, S.W.1._"In Time for the Workman''s?"
44263asked,"How are things going this morning?"
44263broke in the corporal,"you with yer fawncy tyles of Inja?
44263gasped a little Cockney platoon chum squatting beside me,"did yer see that lot?
44263he exclaimed,"did yer_ work_ once, Corp?"
44263he said,''who''d''ave fought of seein''the b---- vicarage in the front line?''"
44263j''ear that?
44263said Ginger,"so yer speak English, do yer?"
44263there, drifterofsky, do yer savvy?"
44263who goes there?"
44263yer speak our lingo?"
34985And I, what am I to do?
34985And in my room?
34985And the girl I am engaged to, will she marry me?
34985And then, look behind that stack-- two, three, five dark forms... they are people, are n''t they?
34985And up there?
34985Are we to run away, then, and wander about like the Belgians? 34985 Are you aware that the Germans are unwilling invaders?
34985But at what did they fire?
34985But how long are we going to stay here?
34985But tell us, dear cousin, who are all these people we see gathered in your domain?
34985But who will drive Mouton?
34985But why am I arrested?
34985But why should the Germans take charge of us? 34985 Do n''t you know that everything belongs to the Germans?
34985Do n''t you think we might nurse a few wounded soldiers in our house?
34985Do you know that deserters are said to have escaped near Morny?
34985Do you know that the Germans took three hundred prisoners yesterday?
34985Do you think I will fly before the Prussians again? 34985 Do you think we shall have them here?"
34985Do you think,the women of the village whispered,"that they are going to take you to France?
34985Do you want anything?
34985Grandmother, what is the matter?
34985Has your house been carefully searched?
34985Have you seen,he would say,"have you seen our splendid Imperial Guard?
34985Have yours decent manners?
34985How much have you?
34985I had forgotten this; I am not in the habit....What did I say?
34985If we are invaded, what shall we do?
34985In the garden with Colette, digging holes...."Is he? 34985 Is my window all right?"
34985Is that what you want, sir?
34985Is the old Rouen jug buried? 34985 Is your piano dumb?"
34985Lieutenant Bubenpech?
34985Madam, madam, have you heard any news? 34985 No Prussian is to be seen?
34985No papers, no letters?
34985No? 34985 People, animals, or things?"
34985That piano which the_ garde- voies_ had? 34985 The Route des Dames... you know?...
34985The young ladies who lately were arrested at the level- crossing live here, do n''t they?
34985This black mass here, lying on the wayside, is it a dead body? 34985 To lend us your kitchen and your dining- room?
34985Up there? 34985 Was it?
34985We are retreating? 34985 What are we to do if the hens lay no eggs?"
34985What do they want? 34985 What do you advise us to do?"
34985What does this unexpected halt mean?
34985What has happened? 34985 What if we placed our ears to the ground?"
34985What is it?
34985What is that?
34985What is the cannon,I asked,"which thunders day and night in the south?"
34985What is the matter?
34985What shall I do now?
34985What were we going to do?
34985What will Barbu say,we wondered,"if, when he holds out his large paws, we put our hands behind our backs?
34985What?
34985When you reach France you will tell the French you have been leniently dealt with, wo n''t you?
34985Where are the Germans?
34985Where do they come from? 34985 Who will go?"
34985Whom will they harm to- day?
34985Will there be any room for us,we wondered,"no matter where, so long as we can rest?"
34985Will these do?
34985Will they come here? 34985 Will they go by without worrying us?"
34985Will you put a smiling face at the window?
34985You get a lot of bread, do n''t you?
34985You get good soup, do n''t you?
34985You will come later on, wo n''t you, madam?
34985Yvonne understood,''Do you speak English?'' 34985 A moment after a murmur was heard:What does it mean?"
34985An army always goes along valleys, does it not?
34985And do n''t you know that the potatoes belong to the Germans?
34985And my daughter, aged fourteen years?
34985And my yellow tea- set?
34985And our departure?
34985And suppose the old maiden lady had shouldered the ancient gun?
34985And tea?
34985And the many cushions necessary to uphold his person?
34985And then you ask yourself: How long?
34985And then:"May I take a photograph of your house?"
34985And there, those white spots, are n''t they faces?
34985And what could we answer to the poor fellows?
34985And what do we see of war?
34985And what will you look like?
34985And what work to do?
34985And what would the enemy do in this uneven region, where orchards and pasture grounds alternate with rocks and woods?
34985And with the gold pieces my mother- in- law had brought from Paris, had I not made a band I wore around my waist?
34985And you might as well have dined at the village inn?
34985Are the nice afternoon- naps already forgotten?
34985Are there maledictions of sufficient vehemence to penetrate the carapace in which you have wrapped up your understanding?
34985Are we to suppose he thought he would thus acquire a few niceties of speech of which he was ignorant?
34985Are you not conscious of the void, which draws on the enemy like a cupping- glass?
34985Are you pleased, O moon?
34985As I did n''t go-- I had money, too, in my bundle-- they forced me to go; they all flocked around me, they were twelve, and... how am I to say it?..."
34985As to requisitions, they were always going on, and the farmers never got up at dawn without thinking:"What are they going to steal to- day?"
34985Besides, is it not a good deed to help in exhausting their provisions?"
34985But afterwards?
34985But can any sight you have ever witnessed be compared with that which you look down upon to- day?
34985But do n''t you think it is just like ours?"
34985But how?
34985But now to whom would the inheritance come?
34985But one day I suppose the intruders caught sight of a golden head in flight, and Barbu asked me:"There are young girls in the house?"
34985But suppose that just the reverse happened?
34985But tell me in earnest, Posy, do you think there will be a war?"
34985But to what purpose should we attempt what would certainly bring new harsh measures upon our neighbours?
34985But was the trap shut tight?
34985But what did it matter?
34985But what did we hear?
34985But what matters the want of good looks?
34985But what of those who dwelt in attics through which the wind was blowing just as it did outside, or in cellars where they sat in a perpetual draught?
34985But when?"
34985Can anything be sadder than this?
34985Can you doubt?
34985Could we feel glad at it?
34985Could we go on foot?
34985Could we not appeal to him as a last shift?
34985Could we shout it loud enough?
34985Dear little house, white walls, virginia creepers, when shall we meet again?
34985Did any one betray the runaway''s retreat?
34985Did the Germans not feed us?
34985Did they look for treasure?
34985Did you call a private soldier such names as he had deserved a hundred times?
34985Do n''t you hear a noise of steps?
34985Do n''t you know that stealing is forbidden?
34985Do our prisoners not feast upon it in Germany?
34985Do you hear, Barbu?
34985Do you know that no troops in the world are to be compared with them?"
34985Do you think I should care about it?"
34985Do you think tea a native of the department of the Aisne?
34985Does it not come from our bonded warehouses and stores?
34985English?
34985Every family had one or several of its members away at the front, and we asked over and over again, are they dead, wounded, ill?
34985For instance, do you suppose we had given up having tea in the afternoon?
34985For what purpose had they torn up these precious pictures?
34985For who would have believed it?
34985For whose sake?
34985Frightened not to see us back?
34985Had I any kinsman in the war?
34985Had I not early in the morning buried in the depths of the garden a sealed- up glass jar full of jewels?
34985Had the progress of the haughty boors been stayed?
34985Had the radiant morning really begotten this sad noon?
34985Had you kept back any goods from the perquisitioners?
34985Has God suffered this?
34985Have I not hinted, in a former chapter, that Attila may have sent a reconnoitring party down here?
34985Have they...?
34985Have you not just seen our army pass?
34985Have you noticed the gait of our soldiers?
34985Have you received your death- wound, outnumbered in some lonely corner?
34985Have you run him in?"
34985He was courteous, and seemed inclined to let us go, when he was struck by a sudden idea:"''Are you English?''
34985He went to have his pass signed; the sergeant held out his hand to take the paper and said:''Well, comrade?''
34985How am I to help it?
34985How am I to help it?
34985How can the wind make such a noise through the branches?
34985How far should we go now?
34985How long should we have to groan and struggle in that all- devouring water?
34985How many of those who had fled from the invasion had renounced the pleasures of home for months or even years?
34985How many of us had, the night before, observed the signals that came from Laon or glittered in the"mountains"?
34985How shall we depict the fate of thousands of soldiers ordered back home on the eve of the invasion?
34985I suppose she noticed our admiring gaze, for she said all of a sudden:"Would you like to have some?"
34985If impotent anger often moved the women into tears, what shall we say of the men?
34985If the Germans were driven back, the front would also remove farther?
34985If we were uneasy and disquieted, where could we better calm our fears than in Laon?
34985In one of the rooms of the farm he asked:"You are comfortable here, are n''t you?"
34985In the village, so lively, so busy but a few days ago, is there a single uniform left?
34985In this terrible moment, our eager goodwill could do no more than ask:"Do you want a cup of coffee?
34985Is Barbu''s love of creature comforts still remembered?
34985Is any one coming in?
34985Is it not already famous in both continents?
34985Is it not stolen goods?
34985Is n''t it a shame?
34985Is that far enough?"
34985Is the French army advancing?"
34985Is the bell ringing?
34985Is there a knock at the door?
34985Is there any cry that might pierce your dull conscience?
34985It means, does n''t it, to run into jeopardy, to seek after perilous missions?
34985Lantois ran up breathless:"Do you know that the lieutenant just said that_ everybody_ must go to the market- place?
34985Lantois, half- sour, half- sweet, asked her lieutenant:"Well, you had some fun last night?"
34985Laroye alone?
34985Laroye friends or relations to entertain?
34985Look if it is like us?"
34985Many emigrants were crying:"Where are we going to?
34985Oh, my Posy, my treasure, my love, my pride, have you not asked for a dangerous mission?
34985One morning the officer asked:"Why does M. Villars not come himself?"
34985Or might it not rather come from too many merry parties?
34985Or shall we take a ticket to Marseilles, Algiers, or Timbuktu?
34985Our very prayers seemed to rise to an unrelenting God, and we could but murmur:"Father, Father, why hast Thou forsaken us?"
34985Posy, are you in the Vosges?
34985Powder is as necessary to women as to soldiers, is n''t it?
34985Really now, he had a castle... in the air?...
34985Really, now, who would make up such an adjective?
34985Shall I describe this mixture?
34985Shall I go and study music in Paris when the Prussians are still here?
34985Shall we be allowed to see them again here below?
34985Shall we get news to- day?
34985She discovered in her soup- plate... she discovered... how can I tell?
34985Suppose we put on our slippers?
34985The Place?
34985The day after our arrival, we managed to ask an officer:"What is the matter?
34985The other ladies will not either?
34985The others repeated with one accord:"And if mother was taken as a hostage?
34985The poor boy had gone beyond the frontier of the commune with his cattle:"What am I to do?"
34985The very first day he had given a sample of his talents by asking a youth:"Hé... vous... combien hannées vous havoir?"
34985The_ dramatis personae_?
34985Then catching sight of the roof whose shadow served as a screen to our bedding:"What is up there, then?"
34985Then he turned round to me:"Have you any beans?"
34985Then there was the problem to solve, where to hide them?
34985There will be a war?
34985To Germany or to the trenches?
34985To be unable to fight for your countrymen, or to have no share in the robbery?
34985To what purpose?
34985To- night?
34985Twenty grammes of bacon daily, a dish of rice on Sunday, a dish of beans on Thursday, eatable bread; what would you ask more?
34985Valaine,"said he,"what do you make of this?
34985Was it a signal?
34985Was it a singing in our ears or was it cannon- shots?
34985Was it a way to convert their paper money into something safer?
34985Was it due to home- sickness and to a longing for sauerkraut and sausages?
34985Was it oil, or syrup?
34985Was it possible that we were going away?
34985Was it possible to go to Paris?
34985Was it to the east, the north, or the south?
34985Was it true?
34985Was it true?
34985Was it"for their great courage and their huge size"?
34985Was there a battle?
34985Was there no means of encouraging us?
34985We could not bury water- colours or oil- paintings, could we?
34985We did not give credit to it, but what would happen if the men reposed no trust in their chiefs?
34985We had decided to go, that was well and good; but how should we go?
34985We never saw two soldiers walking together in the street without thinking:"Where are they going?
34985We would fly, but whither, in this train of sluggard things?
34985Well, what were we to do?
34985Were the Germans really at our gates?
34985Were the Germans still gaining ground?
34985Were the Germans to settle in the country?
34985Were we actually prisoners?
34985Were we approaching the Swiss frontier?
34985Were you penniless when liable to a fine?
34985Were you unwilling to comply with the requisitioners''orders?
34985What are we doing here?"
34985What could we do against the cannon, which peppered us from the top of the hill?
34985What could we say of that captain who, in Jouville, used to be wheeled home in a barrow by his servants?
34985What do they want?"
34985What does your shade regret, O famous plunderer?
34985What family has not one or several members at the front?
34985What had happened?
34985What is going on?"
34985What ought we to do?"
34985What ought we to do?"
34985What sacrifices could we make to match what they gave us: their strength, their life, their youth?
34985What shall I do at my age if they come here now?"
34985What shelter should we get?
34985What should I prescribe her?
34985What was going on?
34985What was going to happen?
34985What was the meaning of this visit?
34985What whim will they take into their heads to- night?"
34985What will become of me?
34985What will become of us?
34985What will become of us?"
34985What would become of us?
34985What, indeed, can you do at home but dream if you are a hare, and sew if you are a woman?
34985What, then, prevents a thoroughly good understanding?"
34985When and how were we to go?
34985When are we going?"
34985When shall we know whether they are dead or alive, whether strong and healthy or moaning upon a bed in hospital?
34985When shall we see a newspaper again?"
34985When the invaders alarmed strong and courageous men, I, who am not a thunderbolt of war, how could I put a good face on the matter?
34985When would they do the same in Morny?
34985Where are the beloved ones?
34985Where are the beloved ones?
34985Where are they?
34985Where should we have slept?
34985Where should we lay our tired heads?
34985Where were we going to?
34985Where, I beg of you, could you conceal four sacks of wheat in an honest house?
34985Whither could we turn?
34985Whither shall we be taken?"
34985Who indeed had invented this fantastic order?
34985Who invented or transformed the news?
34985Who is it?
34985Who is it?
34985Who knew how many miles we were to walk?
34985Who knows?
34985Who shall describe the horror of the dreams dreamed during the war?
34985Who talked of dearth?
34985Who will eat them?
34985Who will ever pierce the mysteries of a German brain?
34985Who wished it?
34985Why not on politics?
34985Why should we go on feeding so many useless people?
34985Why?
34985Why?
34985Why?
34985Will he fasten us to the stirrups of his horse and drag us to Laon all six in a line?
34985Will he send us to prison, and put us on bread and water?
34985Will they come here?
34985With naked feet and nothing but a nightgown on, how should we have been able to stand up against this booted, armed giant if he had broken in?
34985Without more ado we went in, and asked the usual questions:"Where are the Germans?
34985Work?
34985Would n''t it?
34985Would they sweep onward, like a cloud of insects, towards Paris, whose splendour and renown dazzled and attracted them invincibly?
34985Would they take it amiss?
34985Would you kindly take one of our parcels with you?"
34985Yet could we pity them?
34985You are expecting another''70?"
34985You are sure the lady is unable to travel?"
34985You knew an Englishman was hidden in it?
34985You laugh?
34985You were not aware of this?
34985and then?"
34985black, apocalyptical, it passed by, and greeted us without astonishment:"Good- night, ladies; a beautiful night, is n''t it?"
34985he said,"what do I care for it?
34985how long?
34985is it possible?
34985or will he give some such order as this to the commandant of the village:''Should an opportunity come, billet fifty men on these people''?"
34985the angry peasant cried out;"am I going to pay 1500 francs because two dozen birds have alighted on my house?"
34985the mother moaned;"am I going to abandon them like that?
34985then she had married a German?"
34985they are coming here, are n''t they?
34985we moaned,"is there no means of escape from this hell?"
34985what do they want?"
34985what is happening?"
34985who is it?
34985you deign to notice it?
58231A civilian?
58231A good idea, but would you mind-- though we do n''t insist on this-- frying a pailful of them?
58231And suppose the lieutenant comes along.... And what if the Germans attack?
58231And what if I am killed?
58231And what of Verrier? 58231 And what of you here, has much damage been caused?"
58231And where is the 24th?
58231And you think it will reach its destination?
58231And you, the other day when preparing mess, did n''t you go away and leave me to carry a huge pail all alone? 58231 And your other friends?"
58231Anything fresh here?
58231Are n''t you two going to hold your tongues?
58231Are the letters for Achains''ready?
58231Are you not coming too?
58231Are you on the watch?
58231Are you wounded?
58231Boys,says Reymond,"since we are not going to die immediately, suppose we break into my best_ pâté de foie gras_?"
58231Can it be you, dear old fellow?
58231Do n''t you recognize me?
58231Do n''t you see that your artillery is gone? 58231 Do the savages want to demolish our house?"
58231Do you belong to Class 4?
58231Do you mean to say you''re writing? 58231 Do you think the lieutenant will give me the lock- up for this?"
58231Do you think there will be anything of importance happening to- day?
58231Do you want me to come and fetch you?
58231Does n''t war provide you with sufficient opportunities to satisfy your bloodthirsty instincts? 58231 Eh?"
58231Have you come here for me to give you a lesson in geography? 58231 Have you eaten your two tins of corned beef?"
58231Have you room for me here?
58231He is surely not dead?
58231How will my squadron manage for meals now?
58231I say, Belin, this is a real outpost, is it not?
58231I say, old man, just go and tell my wife... or my mother... or my sister, will you? 58231 I suppose you have had nothing to eat?"
58231In case of attack, what becomes of the outposts?
58231Indeed? 58231 Is that all?
58231Is that all?
58231Is the bombardment pretty violent?
58231Is the house demolished?
58231Is there a bed for him?
58231Is there any one here named Verrier?
58231Is this the 23rd?
58231Just a little iodine on it?
58231Look here, Charensac, would you like this?
58231Only your elbow? 58231 Shall we tell the others?"
58231So it''s decided that you are to go?
58231Suppose we go and see how they are getting along in the cellar?
58231Suppose we try to find the post- office?
58231Suppose we write an article for the_ Figaro_?
58231That''s what they say at the depot, is it? 58231 The 352nd, 27th company?
58231The war, old fellow? 58231 There is no more room here, I suppose?"
58231They say,remarks some one,"that the Germans scamper off as soon as they see the French?"
58231Things are serious this morning, eh?
58231We are winning, are we not?
58231Well, and what of yourself? 58231 Well?"
58231What am I to do with you?
58231What are you all doing here?
58231What are you doing here? 58231 What are you writing?"
58231What if I am caught by the gendarmes? 58231 What is it?"
58231What of the 24th?
58231What''s the matter with you, Ramel?
58231What''s the matter with you, little stupid?
58231What''s the matter with you?
58231What''s this?... 58231 When do shells fall in too great numbers for an outpost?"
58231Where are the letters?
58231Where are we going, sergeant?
58231Where are you going?
58231Where?
58231Which company?
58231Who is dead over there?
58231Who was it shouted,''Look out!''?
58231Who''s old Ubu?
58231Why did n''t you stick your bayonet into the fool of a German?
58231You agree?
58231You do n''t know? 58231 You''re not wounded?"
58231Your biscuits too, naturally?
58231_ Ah, là là!_ Could they not have removed their own filth themselves?
58231Above all, why do they come empty- handed?
58231Accosting our lieutenant, he asks--"Where are you going?"
58231And Belin?
58231And that, just at the time we expect our letters?
58231And what of ourselves?
58231And why did you eat your tins of corned beef?"
58231And why does the soldier insist on being long- haired?
58231And you think it will be a joke for us to carry you away dead, a giant like you?"
58231Are we beaten?"
58231Are we really at war, at the front, with the enemy less than a mile away?
58231Are we the enemy''s target?
58231Are we the same persons who, only the day before yesterday, were wallowing in the trench between two walls of mud?
58231Are we to attack again?
58231Are we to attack shortly?
58231Are we to spend the whole day basking in the sun?
58231Are you going away on an empty stomach?"
58231As each man awaits his turn he questions the attendants--"Is the major in good humour this morning?"
58231As he rides past we ask--"Well, good news?"
58231Besides, what do you want here, lounging about the door?
58231But did he mention where the distribution was to take place?"
58231But how is it that they are armed and equipped?
58231But what can we do in the matter?"
58231Can not one talk in war- time?"
58231Curious to gather their impressions, I crawl up to them and slyly ask--"Well, raw ones, what do you think of the stew?"
58231Did n''t I say:''Two''?"
58231Did n''t you go to the_ Ecole Normale_ as a boy?"
58231Did you, or did you not?"
58231Do you fix your bayonet when on sentry duty in the trench?
58231Do you know me?"
58231Every ten minutes the poor fellow draws aside the screen and asks--"Are n''t you going to relieve me soon?
58231Evidently he is unnerved, for he answers--"What the deuce do you expect me to do with that?
58231Evidently the poor fellow has not begun to suffer yet, for he remarks blusteringly--"This is n''t the time to ogle the ladies, is it?"
58231Finally he remarks--"You will leave me free to go out whenever I want, wo n''t you?
58231Has some one to come and take you by the hand?"
58231Has there really been an attack?
58231Have you enough room to stretch yourself?"
58231Having met at the depot we recognize one another, and ask--"Are the enemy retreating?"
58231He asks--"My dear fellow, what do you do in ordinary times?"
58231He comes right up to us, and we question him--"Is it a bad wound?"
58231He paints two white letters every day, and even then...._ Friday, 21st August._ When is the contingent complement to leave?
58231He says to me--"When peace is proclaimed, wo n''t you take me back with you?"
58231He walks sturdily along, and calls out to us--"Do n''t I look pretty?"
58231Heart- broken to see me ill, he shouts confidentially into my ear--"What''s the use of fretting, old fellow?"
58231How are you, my young friends?"
58231How can the officers find their way in the dark?
58231How do you expect us to sleep with all this squeaking overhead?"
58231I am inquisitive enough to ask--"Does it hurt?"
58231I request permission to return to the depot; since I have no broken limbs, why should I stay on at the hospital?
58231I suppose you think this very droll?"
58231If the Germans have beaten us, why do they not follow up their advantage?
58231In point of fact, where are we going?
58231In reply to our questions, he says--"You ask if we have got them?
58231In the stone bedroom the men are very kind and attentive to one another--"I hope I''m not in your way, old fellow?
58231Ironical exclamations--"What''s that filth?
58231Is Bucy to become a society rendez- vous?
58231Is any one tired belonging to the 24th?"
58231Is he alive?"
58231Is it because the ancient Gauls were long- haired?
58231Is it in this light that history will depict us?
58231Is it over?
58231Is n''t it enough?"
58231Is that the way an enemy patrol goes to work?"
58231Is the train being attacked, in the way we read about in a schoolboy''s romance?
58231Is there drink to be had at Humes?"
58231Is there no placard containing our number?
58231Is this the last réveillé in the loft?
58231Is this to be a hand- to- hand encounter?
58231It is the turn of his other neighbour to ask--"Shall I dress it for you?"
58231It''s you, is it?
58231It''s you, is it?
58231It''s you, is it?"
58231Look at these_ messieurs_, are they frightened?"
58231May I come in?"
58231Most improbable; how are we to believe such a thing?
58231My comrades hold their sides with laughter, Jules chuckles with pride and vanity as he asks--"Next one?"
58231No sooner do I see him than I ask--"Where are my comrades?"
58231On coming to relieve us, the two following sentries, after muffling themselves up by lantern light, ask--"A pretty heavy bombardment just now, eh?"
58231On the threshold I have to answer the invariable question:"No one missing?"
58231One of them, his shoulder and arm all twisted up, asks--"Are you reservists?"
58231One old dame asks anxiously--"At all events, you''ll not let them come back here?"
58231Or are we to attack?
58231Or suppose I meet the colonel?"
58231Or will he be clever enough to make up a tale of heroism which will win him an iron cross?
58231Running up to him, I call out--"Wounded?"
58231Shall I dress it for you?"
58231Shall we attack this evening or to- morrow?
58231Shall we be attacked?
58231Shall we be relieved to- night?
58231Shall we ever see Verrier again?
58231She looks at haversacks, rifles, and_ musettes_, and asks in drawling accents--"Do you really carry all these things on your back?"
58231So you are one of the complement?"
58231Some one asks--"Why is the battery going away?
58231Some such remark as the following is heard--"You''re not going to keep it all to yourself, as you did last time, I suppose?"
58231Speedily comes fresh cause for anxiety--"Where''s my coffee?
58231Startled, I burst out--"You''re not going to tell the first squadron who old Ubu was?"
58231Tell me if my parcel has arrived?"
58231The Germans at Compiègne?...
58231The day sergeant passes through the trenches and calls out--"Any one ill to- day?"
58231The death sweat streams down his face, as he says hoarsely--"You''re not going to leave me here, are you?
58231The doctor accordingly asks--"Which stomach?
58231The lieutenant sends for me--"Guess who''s here?"
58231The lieutenant was right.... You have your dozen biscuits and two tins, at all events?"
58231The mistress, an optimist, declares in her country accent--"Shall I tell you what I think?"
58231The one that eats or the one that breathes?"
58231Their first words are--"Have you any tobacco?
58231Then come the questions--"Is there a letter for me?
58231Then you can not even tolerate ordinary politeness in a man?"
58231Then, do you know what the cur did?
58231They ask--"Is it far to Villers- Cotterets?"
58231They even add--"Are you running away?"
58231They shouted out--"Have n''t you nearly finished up in the loft?
58231Unless.... For, after all, what is an order?
58231We ask him--"Where are the others?"
58231We raise our heads; is it he?
58231We try to keep out the cold with mufflers, gloves,_ passe- montagne_; but-- how are we to warm our poor feet?
58231Well, and what are they themselves, after all?
58231What am I doing here all alone in the middle of the night, and half undressed?
58231What are we to do?
58231What are you complaining of when you''ll soon be on your way to see her again?"
58231What can be the matter?
58231What can be the matter?
58231What is going to happen?
58231What is the direction we are to take?
58231What is the reason of this aversion for the clipper?
58231What is there for us to do?
58231What kind of special wire is it that connects a kitchen with headquarters?
58231What of my rabbit?
58231What of the attack?
58231What sort of a story will Fritz have to tell on returning to his own lines without his rifle?
58231What time is it?
58231What was the matter?"
58231What will they attempt now?
58231What''s that thou say''st?
58231What''s the matter?"
58231What''s your other name?"
58231When the moment comes, shall we feel ourselves carried away in a whirl of excitement, as civilians do?
58231When will this life in depots and barracks come to an end?
58231Where am I?
58231Where are my comrades?
58231Where are the Germans?
58231Where are we going?
58231Where are we?
58231Where are you going?"
58231Where does it come from?
58231Where is he going, and what is taking place?
58231Where is that?"
58231Where is the 352nd?
58231Where is the enemy?
58231Where''s lunch?"
58231Which direction are we to take?
58231Who is the first for the hand- basin?
58231Who is the man who uttered that shriek of distress?
58231Why do you make me lose my time?"
58231Why does a bombardment begin?
58231Why does it stop?
58231Why is no one either killed or wounded?
58231Why is this?
58231Why should you go and kill tiny birds like these?"
58231Will he be kicked unmercifully?
58231Will you come?"
58231With a despairing gesture, he asks--"You call this a muster, do you?"
58231Would you like to begin with a couple of sardines?"
58231You understand?"
58231_ Monday, 14th September._ When shall we see white bed- sheets again?
58231do you want them to use us as a target?"
58231my poor men, I wonder if I shall ever see you again?"
58231were you not killed?"
58231where are the cannon?"
58231yes, where are they?
31087Are you_ Union_ soldiers?
31087Echo answers where?
31087Stonewall Jackson? 31087 Under which King, Benzonian?"
31087What authority had he for this?
31087What is Randolph?
31087Where is McClellan, general?
31087Will not the Confederate soldiers now in Pennsylvania remember such acts of cruelty and barbarism? 31087 Will they come, when he does call for them?"
31087A few more weeks, at that rate, will consume his army, and then-- peace?
31087A moment after, Gen. Walker, of Georgia, came in, and addressed the colonel thus:"Is the Secretary in?"
31087A safe prediction-- but what is his belief?
31087A. Seddon, Secretary of War: Will you please send me, through the post- office, a passport to leave the city?
31087AUGUST 24TH.--We have nothing further from Charleston, except that Beauregard threatened retaliation( how?)
31087And Mr. Hotze( who is he?)
31087And are they not?
31087And do they not take gold and other property to the North, and thereby defeat the object of the sequestration act?
31087And he supposes Bragg''s splendid victory( what did he suppose the next day?)
31087And how could any of its members escape?
31087And is it nothing to have her soil polluted by the martial tramp of the Yankees at Alexandria and Arlington Heights?
31087And what are we doing?
31087And what are we doing?
31087And what are we fighting for?
31087And what would become of the slaves, especially in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri?
31087And will not that gallant boy in the 16th Regiment remember his mother''s fate, and take vengeance on the enemy?
31087At this rate, how are we to replenish the ranks as they become thinned in battle?
31087Bragg will_ probably_ be sustained by the President-- but then what will become of------, who is so inimical to Bragg?
31087But can he control the State governments?
31087But can he, a modest man and a Christian, aspire to such a position?
31087But how can Lee achieve anything when the enemy is ever kept informed not only of his movements in progress, but of his probable intentions?
31087But how can it be possible for the people of the North to submit to martial law?
31087But how can they be fed?
31087But how does this speak for the government, or rather the efficiency of the men who by"many indirect ways"came into power?
31087But how fares it with the invader?
31087But how long could he advance in that direction without being overwhelmed?
31087But how long will we be allowed to remain?
31087But if a forced reconstruction of the Union were consummated, does the North suppose any advantage would result to that section?
31087But if he could not hold his mountain position, what can he do in the plain?
31087But might they not, if this were adopted, be liable to be caught sometimes without enough ammunition?
31087But suppose it should_ not_ be relieved, and a force should be sent suddenly up the James and York Rivers?
31087But suppose that should be too late?
31087But the gunpowder will be used to destroy the destroyer, man, and why should not the birds sing?
31087But was Beauregard aware of the fact, before the opportunity ceased to exist?
31087But we can not fail without more great battles; and who knows what results may be evolved by them?
31087But what do they mean by the"_ nation_?"
31087But what good will the crops do, if we be subjugated in the mean time?
31087But what is in a name?
31087But what is this"agent"to procure in the United States which could not be had by our steamers plying regularly between Wilmington and Europe?
31087But what may not its ending be?
31087But what were they sent to Lee for, unless he meant to give battle?
31087But where are State Rights now?
31087But where will this end?
31087But who can foresee the future through the smoke of war, and amid the clash of bayonets?
31087But why does the government issue such an order in North Carolina, when the government itself is selling, not destroying, the cotton of Mississippi?
31087But will he?
31087But will the President dismiss his cabinet in time to save Richmond, Virginia, and the cause?
31087But will the government make itself popular with the people?
31087But will the potency of his cabinet feed Lee''s army?
31087But will the_ arms_ be distributed among them?
31087But with flour at$ 200 per barrel; meal,$ 20 per bushel, and meat from$ 2 to$ 5 per pound, what income would suffice?
31087But, then, what is the cotton business?
31087Ca n''t the troops be paid?
31087Can Savannah, and Charleston, and Wilmington be successfully defended?
31087Can he believe the silly tale about our troops being sent from Virginia to the Carolinas?
31087Can he have them?
31087Can it be Gen. Cooper( Northern) who procures the appointment of so many Northern generals in our army?
31087Can it be possible that the United States are ignorant of popular sentiment here?
31087Can it be possible that_ he_ has influenced the President''s mind on this subject?
31087Can it be possible that_ we_ have men in power who are capable of taking bribes from the enemy?
31087Can it be that his hesitation is caused by the advice of the President, in his great solicitude to make the best appointments?
31087Can it be that the President knows nothing of this?
31087Can such a people be subjugated?
31087Can such soldiers be vanquished?
31087Can that be the reason his smile has faded almost away?
31087Can the agents paid by the Signal Bureau be relied on?
31087Can there be war brewing between the United States and England or France?
31087Can they have intelligence from the West, not yet communicated to the public?
31087Can they mean to cross?
31087Can this be so?
31087Can this be the influence of Gen. Cooper?
31087Could Lee make such a blunder?
31087Could a Yankee have been the inventor of the Secretary''s plaything?
31087Could the Union men in the Convention, after being forced to pass the ordinance, have dealt a more fatal blow to their country?
31087Could the operations beneath have produced this phenomenon?
31087Could this communication be his resignation?
31087Could you not ascertain for me?
31087Did Pitt ever practice such things during his contest with Napoleon?
31087Did he have any conception of the surprise the enemy was executing at the moment?
31087Did he influence the mind of his father- in- law, G. W. Park Custis, to emancipate his hundreds of slaves?
31087Did he try them?
31087Did such a people ever exist before?
31087Did the Continental Government ever resort to such equivocal expedients?
31087Did the President know it yesterday?
31087Did they really suffer pain from their wounds?
31087Do they object to my acquaintance with the members?
31087Does he understand that they are to fight before being exchanged?
31087Does the general mean to alarm the authorities here?
31087Does this mean trading cotton with the enemy?
31087Does this really mean war?
31087Early''s army was scattered to the winds; that the enemy had the Central Railroad( where?)
31087Else why a prolongation of the war?
31087Elzey and Winder are doing-- and echo answers, WHAT?
31087Fort Caswell, below Wilmington, has been casemated with iron; but can it withstand elongated balls weighing 480 pounds?
31087Gen. Lee writes that a scout( from Washington?)
31087Gen. Maury writes from Mobile that he has seized, in the hands of Steever( who is he?
31087Gen. P. telegraphs that the French steam frigate was coming up the river( what for?
31087Gold was$ 70 for$ 1 on Saturday: what will it be to- day or to- morrow?
31087Grant has_ used up_ nearly a hundred thousand men-- to what purpose?
31087Has Hill marched his corps away to North Carolina?
31087Has Hooker the genius to conceive such a plan?
31087Has he been instructed on that point in reference to Gen. Price?
31087Has it not been clearly stated that independence alone will content us?
31087Have they not sworn to support it, etc.?
31087Have we not Southern men of sufficient genius to make generals of, for the defense of the South, without sending to New York for military commanders?
31087He said he had information that when Charleston_ fell_, South Carolina would conclude a treaty of peace( submission?)
31087He says he had an order from the Surgeon- General; but what right had he to give such orders?
31087He says the Federals asked his servants where the master and mistress had gone?
31087How can he obey the orders of one who was so recently under his command?
31087How can success be possible?
31087How can they detect political offenders, when they are too ignorant to comprehend what constitutes a political offense?
31087How can we live here, unless our salaries are increased?
31087How can we live here?
31087How could he refuse, since his own family( at least a portion of it) have enjoyed the benefits of sojourning in the North since the war began?
31087How could it be otherwise?
31087How did that get out-- if, indeed, such is the determination?
31087How in the mischief can such non- committalists ever arrive at a conclusion?
31087How is he, Gen. J., to get from Tennessee to Grenada with reinforcements, preceded by one army of the enemy, and followed by another?
31087How long can this war last?
31087How long shall we have even this variety and amount?
31087How long will it be after peace before the sectional hatred intensified by this war can abate?
31087How long will the people suffer thus?
31087How long will this continue?
31087How many Yankees will bleed and die in consequence of this order?
31087How many butchers would be required to accomplish the beneficent feat?
31087How many can you accommodate in hospitals at Baton Rouge?
31087How many do they expect to come forward, voluntarily, candidates for gunpowder and exposure in the trenches?
31087How many will rush forward a year hence to volunteer their services on the plains of the South?
31087How many would then follow the fortunes of this government?
31087How shall we feed them?
31087How shall we live?
31087How shall we subsist this winter?
31087How soon will he revoke it again?
31087How would it be possible for those with families on their hands to get transportation?
31087How_ can_ it be possible to avoid this liability, if the cotton be shipped from the Mississippi River?
31087How_ could_ the President"approve"such a law?
31087I have seven children; what shall I do?"
31087I wonder if the President will send them to Charleston?
31087If Donelson falls, what becomes of the ten or twelve thousand men at Bowling Green?
31087If Pemberton had acted differently, if the movement northward had been followed by disaster, then what would Mr. Lincoln have written to Grant?
31087If he were to die, what would be the consequences?
31087If it be determined to abandon the city, what will houses rent for then?
31087If it remains where it is, how can they subsist on it without selling it to the enemy?
31087If it should occur, will it give us peace?
31087If so, what may be the consequences when the falsehood is exposed?
31087If so, why can we not bear privation as well as our forefathers did?
31087If the enemy be defeated, and the Democrats of the North should call for a National Convention-- but why anticipate?
31087If they refuse to pay, then what will they deserve?
31087If this be so, who is responsible, after his alleged misconduct at the battle of the Seven Pines?
31087If we deserve it, we shall triumph; if not, why should we?
31087In future times, I wonder if it will be said that we had great men in this Congress?
31087In my young days I saw much of these sensational excitements, and partook of them; for how can the young resist them?
31087Is Hooker really there?
31087Is Providence frowning upon us for our sins, or upon our cause?
31087Is Stuart there?
31087Is he in the Adjutant- General''s office?
31087Is he in this fight?
31087Is it famine they dread, or a desire to keep out of the war?
31087Is it his intention to assume an independent attitude, and call the North Carolina troops to the rescue?
31087Is it not a condemnation of the President and the administration that displaced Gen. J., etc.?
31087Is it not_ certain_ that"Butler, the Beast,"is a party to the speculation?
31087Is it supposed that six or eight million of free people can be exterminated?
31087Is it the imminency of war with England?
31087Is it the policy of their own government to starve them?
31087Is not Pemberton and Blanchard responsible?
31087Is not the Constitution the law?
31087Is not this a fair specimen of Yankee cupidity and character?
31087Is not this an evidence of a mutual desire for peace?
31087Is the Federal_ Government_ a party to this arrangement?
31087Is there no turning point in this long lane of downward progress?
31087Is there really no Secretary of War?
31087Is there some grand political egg to be hatched?
31087Is this because they do not participate in the hardships and dangers of the field?
31087Is this the"sunny South"the North is fighting to possess?
31087It appears that Major H. has contracted for 50,000 muskets at$ 4 above the current price, leaving$ 200,000 commission for whom?
31087It is also stated that Grant''s losses have been 40,000, and ours 5000. Who could have computed them?
31087It is probable Charleston, Wilmington, and Richmond will fall without a battle; for how can they be held when the enemy stops supplies?
31087It is said Kirby Smith has defeated the enemy at Port Hudson; but how could his army get over the river?
31087It is true, some$ 300,000,000 might be collected in taxes, if due vigilance were observed,--but_ will_ it be observed?
31087It would cost, perhaps, a thousand lives; but is it not the business of war to consume human life?
31087JANUARY 31ST.--What if these men( they have passports) should be going to Washington to report the result of their reconnoissances in Tennessee?
31087JULY 13TH.--The_ Enquirer_ says the President has got a letter from Gen. Lee( why not give it to the people?)
31087Letcher to be ready to fight in a few days?
31087Mc------?)
31087Mr. Garnett asked( and obtained) permission for a Mr. Hurst( Jew?)
31087Mr. Hunter indorses:"My dear sir, will you read the inclosed?
31087Mr. James Lyons thought he had made H. a Southern man; what does he think now?
31087North Carolina, one would think, is soon to be the scene of carnage; and it is asked what can 16,000 men do against 60,000?
31087Now what will Mr. Secretary do?
31087Now what will the_ Tribune_ say?
31087Now will the Secretary order an investigation?
31087Oh, patriotism, where are thy votaries?
31087Or did the Secretary keep it back till the new government( permanent) was launched into existence?
31087Or have propositions been made_ on our part_ for reconstruction?
31087Or if Lincoln should succeed in getting into the field the 500,000 men now called for?
31087Or is it a demonstration of the enemy to prevent him from sending reinforcements to North Carolina?
31087Or will Lee beat them up in their quarters?
31087Ought I to go?
31087Ought not Taylor''s forces to cross the Mississippi?
31087Shall we have_ another_ great battle on the Rappahannock?
31087Shall we starve?
31087So it is his determination to cross the Rappahannock?
31087Statesmen are the physicians of the public weal; and what doctor hesitates to vary his remedies with the new phases of disease?
31087Stewart who was sent here to the Provost Marshal-- a prisoner._ How did he get out?
31087That the enemy will come over and get it if we do not take it away?
31087The Commissary- General approves, and the late Secretary approved; but what will the new one do?
31087The President has the reins now, and Congress will be more obedient; but can they save this city?
31087The question is on every tongue-- have our generals relaxed in vigilance?
31087The question now is, who is right?
31087Then what else but independence, on some terms, could be the basis for_ further_ conference?
31087Then what will the Secretary do?
31087Then why not strive for the possible and the good in the paths of peace?
31087Then, if Lee must evacuate Richmond, where can he go?
31087These troops were called( by whom?)
31087This is his opportunity, if he be ambitious,--and who can see his heart?
31087Trunks were packed in readiness-- for what?
31087Was ever such management known before?
31087Was it merely to deceive_ me_, knowing that I had some influence with certain leading journals?
31087Was it not thus in the trying times of the Revolution?
31087Was it really Jackson making mince- meat of our right?
31087Was she reluctant to break the peace?
31087Was that"allowed"to reach the Secretary and the President?
31087We have great generals, but what were they without great men to obey them?
31087We hope for relief when Congress meets, a month hence; but what can Congress do?
31087Were they not sent into eternity?
31087What Mitchel will do finally, who knows?
31087What a war, and for what?
31087What are we coming to?
31087What can it mean?
31087What can this mean but reconstruction on the old Democratic basis?
31087What can this mean?
31087What can this mean?
31087What could they do with four millions of negroes arrogating equality with the whites?
31087What does Grant mean?
31087What does that mean?
31087What does the Northern Government propose to accomplish by the invasion?
31087What does this mean?
31087What does this mean?
31087What for?
31087What for?
31087What for?
31087What harm have the poor trees done the enemy?
31087What has Blair been running backward and forward so often for between the two Presidents?
31087What has become of the marksmen and deer hunters of Missouri?
31087What has he done?
31087What has the Secretary of State to do with_ martial law_?
31087What has the Secretary sent him_ there_ for?
31087What if Grant now had the 140,000 more-- lost in this campaign?
31087What if Meade retreated to entice Lee away from Richmond, having in preparation an expedition against this city?
31087What if they should be compelled to abandon our property there?
31087What interest or department of industry in the United States can promise such results?
31087What is North Carolina to the Empire?
31087What is all this?
31087What is it worth in the eyes of European powers?
31087What is this for?
31087What man ever neglected such an opportunity?
31087What possible good could he, a Virginian, and formerly an aid of Gen. Scott, effect in that quarter?
31087What right has a military commander to grant such passports?
31087What shall be done with the parties( spies, of course) when we are ready to act?
31087What shall we do for sugar, now selling at$ 2 per pound?
31087What shall we do?
31087What significance is in this?
31087What sort of financiering is this?
31087What terms may be expected?
31087What then?
31087What will Mr. Seddon do now?
31087What will be the consequence?
31087What will be the price of gold then?
31087What will be the price of such commodities a year hence if the blockade continues?
31087What will he do next?
31087What will his own country say of him?
31087What will it end in?
31087What will remain of the Confederacy?
31087What will result from this?
31087What will the President_ do_, after_ saying_ he should never have another command?
31087What would Shakspeare think of that?
31087What would the money the farmers now possess be worth?
31087What, then, constitutes the"nation''s agony"?
31087What_ shall_ we do to subsist until the next harvest?
31087When hailed,"What steamer is that?"
31087When will the enemy come?
31087When will these things cease?
31087When will this year''s calamities end?
31087When, when will prices come down?
31087When_ will_ the government put"none but Southerners on guard?"
31087Where a people will not have mercy on one another, how can they expect mercy?
31087Where are the patriots of the decade between 1850 and 1860?
31087Where are they now?
31087Where are we drifting?
31087Where did Gen. Cooper find him?
31087Where is his mighty army now?
31087Where is the braggart Pope now?
31087Where is the surplus food to come from to feed 4,000,000 idle non- producers?
31087Wherefore?
31087Wherefore?
31087Who commands there?"
31087Who does not remember the scene in Shakspeare, where Richard appears on the balcony, with prayer book in hand and a priest on either side?
31087Who furnished this for publication?
31087Who gave up Norfolk?
31087Who is responsible for it?
31087Who is responsible for their absence?
31087Who is responsible?
31087Who is the traitor?
31087Who is to blame but the Secretaries themselves?
31087Who knows but that one or more members of Mr. Lincoln''s cabinet, or his generals, might be purchased with gold?
31087Who then?
31087Who will Gen. Winder report to now?
31087Who will resign?
31087Whose fault is this?
31087Why declare such a purpose at this day?
31087Why did Mr. Benjamin send the order for every man to be arrested who applied for permission to leave the country?
31087Why did they not bring their families away before the storm burst upon them?
31087Why do the Northern men_ here_ hate Wise?
31087Why does not the President recommend it?
31087Why is this?
31087Why not arrange with Lamar?
31087Why not get meat from the enemy''s country for nothing?
31087Why not let the war cease now?
31087Why not throw aside the instruments of death, and exchange commodities with each other?
31087Why stay, with no prospect of success?
31087Why wait to see what they meant to do?
31087Why was it not burnt?
31087Why were they appointed contrary to law?
31087Why were they not paroled and sent into the enemy''s lines?
31087Will Meade be here in a few weeks?
31087Will Mr. Secretary Seddon permit this?
31087Will Mr. Seddon have the nerve to act?
31087Will Mr. Seddon let it be saved?
31087Will Virginia escape the scourge?
31087Will he convert the money into European funds?
31087Will he float on a sea of blood another four years?
31087Will he intimate that his own services are so indispensable that he had better remain out of the field?
31087Will he resign?
31087Will he simply refer it to the Secretary?
31087Will he, too, escape merited punishment?
31087Will his official life be a long one?
31087Will it do any good?
31087Will not such a cruel race of people eventually reap the fruit of their doings?
31087Will not the Nansemond companies remember it?
31087Will our authorities think of this?
31087Will such vacillating policy conciliate the troops, and incite them to heroic deeds?
31087Will the government act in time to save them?
31087Will the poor and friendless fight their battles, and win their independence for them?
31087Will they go into winter quarters?
31087Will they not be conscripted in the North?
31087Will this generation, with their eyes open, and their memories fresh, ever, ever go to war again?
31087Will we thus blunder on to the end?
31087Will_ they_ compel the evacuation of the city?
31087Would not Mr. Benjamin throw his influence against such a suggestion?
31087Yet why are they so late in coming?
31087_ Can_ it be from the Government at Washington?
31087_ Miss._--But how shall the army be fed?
31087_ Why_ does he procrastinate?
31087_ Will these last until_----?
31087and how could the garrisons escape when once cut off from the interior?
31087exclaimed she,"how can I pay such prices?
31087how are our brave men faring in the hands of the demon fanatics in the United States?
31087or Gen. Winder''s corps of rogues and cut- throats?)
31087or a portent of the future?
31087to starve honest men into the Union?
31087to urge their own people on to certain destruction?
31087was it accidental?
31087what is behind?
31087would abandon it?
31087would it not be too expensive--"too much for the whistle?"
34843''Are you a Christian Commission man?'' 34843 ''Are you married?''
34843''But what''s all dis here talking''bout? 34843 ''It is n''t Sunday, is it?
34843''My boys, you do n''t play cards on Sunday, do you?'' 34843 ''O Missis,''says I,''how could you do it?''
34843''Wo n''t you try to leave it off?'' 34843 ''_ You_ will, you nigger?
34843Absurd? 34843 An''says I to her,--"''Who is God, anyhow, mammy?''
34843And leave your old home, your old master, and the place where you have lived all your days?
34843Are they driving us?
34843Are we to understand that in this age a captain can not afford to equal a negro in politeness?
34843Are you a Union man?
34843Are you a slave, Dick?
34843Are you all ready there?
34843Are you going to move?
34843Are you going to pay me for it?
34843Are you not afraid of us Yankees?
34843Are you not afraid of us?
34843Are you not afraid that the Rebels will catch you?
34843Are you not afraid that we shall sell you?
34843Are you not too much extended? 34843 But did you not wish to be free?"
34843But how could you fight against the old flag?
34843But how will he get his supplies?
34843But if two individuals can live peacefully, why not ten,--or a hundred,--a thousand,--all?
34843But, Sojourner, had you never been told about Jesus Christ?
34843But, my friend, if it had not been for the Union troops would n''t you have lost everything, if you are a Union man?
34843By whose authority do you take my property?
34843Ca n''t you trust the President who gave you your freedom?
34843Can I do anything for you?
34843Can you accommodate me with a room?
34843Can you favor me with an account of the affair?
34843Can you read and write?
34843Can you retake that battery?
34843Dat President Linkum?
34843Did not I tell you that I would take you away?
34843Did you bring your''stificate with you?
34843Did you ever see an Abolitionist?
34843Did you ever try to escape?
34843Did you get it for me? 34843 Did you have any desire to stay North?"
34843Did you not feel sometimes like rising against your masters?
34843Did you not sometimes despair?
34843Did you pray, my son?
34843Did your people understand the points at issue between the South and the North, when the war begun?
34843Do I look as though I should like to kill your little ones?
34843Do n''t you think the war is almost over,--that it is useless for Lee to contend further?
34843Do they believe it?
34843Do you mean the Union soldiers?
34843Do you preach from the Bible?
34843Do you think it right, auntie, to leave your mistress, who has taken care of you so long?
34843Do you think that I am to be intimidated by a pack of blackguards from northern Ohio?
34843Do you think that Lee can get across the Potomac?
34843Do you think that men can live in the mountains?
34843Do you think that the men will permit me to take him?
34843Do you think you can take care of yourself?
34843Do you want to be buried with a nigger, and have your bones touch his in the grave?
34843Does any one here know anything about Jonas?
34843For who that leans on His right arm Was ever yet forsaken? 34843 From Rosa?
34843From Rosa?
34843Has Lee licked the Yankees?
34843Has he always treated you well?
34843Have n''t any to sell? 34843 Have not I always treated you well?"
34843Have they been in battle?
34843Have you found him?
34843Have you seen any Rebels this morning?
34843How came you here?
34843How compelled?
34843How did the negroes stand fire?
34843How do the Yankees behave?
34843How do you do, Aunty?
34843How far is it to Savannah?
34843How large a force is it supposed the Rebels have in Maryland?
34843How many colored men enlisted?
34843How so?
34843How so?
34843How so?
34843I asked one noble- looking soldier if he loved Jesus? 34843 I suppose you did n''t expect Grant to get this side of the Wilderness?"
34843I suppose you have heard many prayers here for Jeff Davis?
34843I wonder if we shall have McClellan back?
34843I would like to know what title we shall have to our lands, or to the improvements we shall make?
34843If I were to reside here, you of course would treat me courteously so long as I was a gentleman in my deportment?
34843In what way would you have our generals act to carry out what you conceive to be such principles?
34843Is General Grant in?
34843Is not this your home?
34843Is your master a Secessionist?
34843Joe,said the Colonel,"are you willing to go home with your master?"
34843Let''em burn: who cares?
34843Mr. Brown, did you ever hear about the Abolitionists?
34843O my God, what will become of us? 34843 O, is n''t it too bad that Zollicoffer is killed?
34843Say, General, ai n''t you going to pay me for my property which your soldiers destroyed?
34843See here, old fellow, wo n''t ye sell me a hunk of your gingerbread?
34843Shall I take a look at the church?
34843Stranger,said he,"have you got a sweet tooth?"
34843Thank you,"God bless the Commission,"I say, Bill, are n''t they bully?
34843The Christian Commission? 34843 The soldiers steal your chickens, you say?"
34843Then the women were as eager as the men for the war?
34843Then you are glad the Yankees are here?
34843Then you have a wife?
34843Then you look upon us as your friends?
34843Then you were at Bull Run? 34843 Then you would not have a majority of the people elect their officers in the constituted way?"
34843Was not the first gun fired by the Rebels upon Fort Sumter?
34843Was you a member of the church there, my son?
34843Was your master kind to you?
34843Well, I wonder what he was thinking of when he carried out those forty thousand handcuffs?
34843Well, Uncle Jacob, which would you rather be, a freeman or a slave?
34843Well, my boy, what is your name?
34843Well, my son, where are you from?
34843Were you not afraid, Aunty, when the shells fell into the town?
34843Were you not frightened when you saw the Yankees?
34843What can be done for the poor whites?
34843What can you do?
34843What did you hear about them?
34843What did you think when we were defeated at Manassas? 34843 What do the women think now?"
34843What do you ask for a loaf?
34843What do you call us?
34843What do you charge for a glass?
34843What do you think of it?
34843What does this mean?
34843What for? 34843 What gives the wheat- field blades of steel?
34843What have ye got to sell, old fellow? 34843 What is the matter?"
34843What is your name?
34843What kind of people do you think they are?
34843What makes you so happy?
34843What pleases you, Aunty?
34843What regiment do you belong to?
34843What right have your men to stop us, sir? 34843 What shall I do?"
34843What though the cast- out spirit tear The nation in his going? 34843 What will Grant do?"
34843What, massa?
34843When did you come from there?
34843When do you think the war would end if such a plan was adopted?
34843When will you evacuate?
34843Where are you going? 34843 Where are you going?"
34843Where are you going?
34843Where are you going?
34843Where did this come from?
34843Where did you come from?
34843Where do you hail from, soldier?
34843Where do you live?
34843Where is your captain?
34843Where is your master?
34843Where were you when the fight was going on at Fort Donelson?
34843Where, I should like to know?
34843Which way?
34843Who are you, sir?
34843Who do you belong to?
34843Who has the most reason to be ashamed, you of us, or we of you?
34843Who will convey news to Hooker of our success?
34843Why do n''t Buell move? 34843 Why do n''t you fall into line?"
34843Why do you keep your slaves? 34843 Why do you not go to Illinois?"
34843Why do you think so?
34843Why not, sir?
34843Why so? 34843 Why so?"
34843Why, Sojourner, what do you preach from, then?
34843Why,he asked,"does Louisville write on an hundred of her stores''To let,''while Cincinnati advertises''Wanted''?
34843Why?
34843Will it disturb you if we have a little singing? 34843 Will you send the boy into some other regiment?"
34843Would you have fought against the Yankees?
34843Would you like an orange, sir?
34843Would you like an orange?
34843You are?
34843You did n''t expect to buy them here, did you?
34843You have seen people sold in the market, I suppose?
34843You live in this old house down here?
34843You mean one of your slaves, I presume?
34843You own some slaves?
34843Your own father?
34843_ Is_ he?
34843''Are you to have it finished before the world ends?''
34843''Fixing up to leave?''
34843''How does your saloon get on?''
34843''I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me; and arn''t I a woman?
34843''Please, sir, can you spare me one?''
34843''Who wants meetings?''
34843*****"And is it Christian England cheers The bruiser, not the bruised?
34843An''says I,''Laws, you did n''t think o''sech a thing as my sleepin''in dat''ar''_ bed_, did you?
34843An''then says I,''_ Who_ is this?''
34843And must she run, despite the tears And prayers of eighteen hundred years, A- muck in Slavery''s crusade?
34843And union find in freedom?
34843And will not evening call another star Out of the infinite regions of the night To mark this day in Heaven?
34843Are n''t you willing to trust him now?"
34843Are you afraid that the negro will push you from your position?
34843Are you willing that I should go and get my boy?"
34843Bread, eh?"
34843Brothers, wo n''t you follow?"
34843But has not the free American laborer been forced to compete through all the years of the past with unrequited slave labor?
34843But what made you become a Christian?"
34843But where did they place themselves?
34843But where were the Union people?
34843Can any of you tell me how you voted?"
34843Can we expect him to be our equal in acquisition of knowledge?
34843Can you hold your front?"
34843Certainly it was beneficial to the master; why should it not be to the slave?
34843Could we dance?
34843Did you not despair?"
34843From Rosa?
34843General Baird saw the negroes on the steamer, and approaching Colonel Utley, said,--"Why, Colonel, how is this?
34843Had Stuart suddenly gained our rear?
34843Had anything happened to them?
34843Had the fuse failed?
34843Have all of these negroes free papers?"
34843Have n''t I been her cook for more than thirty years?
34843Have n''t I cooked every meal she ever ate in that house?
34843Have you written to your mother since the battle?"
34843He knew it would endanger the lives of thousands; but what cared he?
34843He thus addressed the unconverted:--"O, my poor, impenitent fellow- sinner, what you think you are doing?
34843He was a pious old preacher; but then I seemed to see Cato in the light, an''he was all polluted an''vile, like me; an''I said,''Is it old Sally?''
34843How did they live?
34843How does he know dey go out?
34843How lie down in death in that loathsome place, when, by taking the oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy, he could obtain freedom?
34843How long, O Lord?
34843How much do you love your country if you thus make conditions of loyalty?"
34843How shall we reward them?
34843How shall we thank them?
34843How you goin''to do it?
34843I asked one athletic man what he thought of it?
34843I have prayed for you to come; and do you think that I would have prayed one way and fit de other?"
34843I looked into the first cabin, and seeing an old man sitting before the fire, greeted him with"How do you do, Uncle?"
34843I met a young colored man, with features more Anglo- Saxon than African, who asked,--"Do you think, sir, that I could obtain employment in the North?"
34843I often think of the language of our Saviour:''Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani,''--My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
34843I take it that you belong to the army?"
34843I was a stranger to them all, but I ventured to make this inquiry,--"Did you ever see an Abolitionist?"
34843If Secession could cut loose from the Union, why not from the Confederacy?
34843If my cup wo n''t hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, would n''t you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?''
34843If the sword cut in one direction, why not in another?
34843Is it a wonder that the recollection of that scene sometimes fills my eyes with tears?
34843Is it a wonder that they exhibited extravagant joy?
34843Is it old Cato?''
34843Is n''t it strange?"
34843On what page of Confederate history shall we read the remonstrance of Lee, Davis, Stephens, Toombs, or Breckenridge?
34843Once they asked questions of Yankees:"What is your occupation?
34843Or would he move his right flank along the Blue Ridge, crowding Lee to the seaboard?
34843Raising her voice she repeated,''Whar did your Christ come from?
34843Raising herself to her full height, and her voice to a pitch like rolling thunder, she asked,''And arn''t I a woman?
34843Said a friend to me one morning,"Are you aware that the Washington jail is full of slaves?"
34843Shall not this act of two unknown colored soldiers also have a place in history?
34843She''d groan an''groan, an''says I to her,--"''Mammy, what makes you groan so?''
34843Should we steam down to them, and ask them what they thought of the Rebellion?
34843Sisters, wo n''t you follow?
34843So great was the danger which he ran, that one of his staff said,''General, do n''t you think this is the wrong place for you?''
34843So prevailing was the excitement that the common mode of salutation on Main Street was,''When do you think the Federals will be here?''
34843The Yankees coming?
34843The following conversation passed between them:--_ Colonel W._"Whom have I the pleasure of addressing?"
34843There was''already an order out to move; what''s the use?''
34843They are arrant cowards, those dear dark friends of ours.[?]
34843They hail me from a distance:''Are you coming down this way, chaplain?''
34843To what end?
34843W._"Shall I also trouble you for a pen and ink?"
34843W._"Will you do me the favor to loan me a piece of paper?"
34843Was such destruction warranted?
34843Was the arrival of the Monitor in Hampton Roads on that morning, after the havoc made by the Merrimac, accidental?
34843Was there any respect shown by the Rebel authorities?
34843Were the Rebels retreating, or were they receiving reinforcements?
34843Were the workingmen of Old England any more worthy than they of New England to associate with the slave- masters of the South?
34843Were they assembling to welcome us?
34843What action was taken by the Rebel Congress?
34843What are ye here for?"
34843What are you doing here?
34843What breaks the oath Of the men o''the South?
34843What brought you to the South?
34843What can we do with''em?
34843What cared those freedmen, fresh from the house of bondage, for floating timber or military commands?
34843What could I do with my three little children there?
34843What could it be?
34843What did she ever do for me?
34843What did they do?
34843What dis dey call it?''
34843What drama surpasses it in interest?
34843What estimate shall we place upon their work?
34843What had caused this alienation?
34843What had produced this bitterness?
34843What had transpired to produce this white heat of passion?
34843What has she done for me in return?
34843What if our horses had started?
34843What is your shame worth?
34843What period of the world''s history is more replete with great events affecting the welfare of the human race?
34843What points the rebel cannon?
34843What restraint was ever laid upon him?
34843What righteous cause can suffer harm If He its part has taken?
34843What say you?
34843What sets the roaring rabble''s heel On the old star- spangled pennon?
34843What shall I do?"
34843What shall I do?"
34843What shall I get?"
34843What was gained by it?
34843What will be the verdict of history?
34843What wonder that hunger, despair, and death, and the example of some of his comrades, made him weakly hesitate?
34843What would become of them?
34843What''s dat got to do wid woman''s rights or niggers''rights?
34843Whate''er the loss, Whate''er the cross, Shall they complain Of present pain Who trust in God''s hereafter?
34843When were his acts disavowed by the Rebel government?
34843When will this terrible war come to an end?"
34843Where is the protest of the"chivalrous"gentlemen of the South?
34843Where is your sense of fair play?
34843Where will you go?"
34843Where you think you are going?
34843Who attempt the hazardous enterprise?
34843Who gave them authority?
34843Who would go?
34843Why do n''t Halleck move?
34843Why do the Abolitionists oppose colonization?
34843Why not place them in the category with gunpowder, horses, and cattle?
34843Why?
34843Will it withstand the shock?
34843Will not history hold him accountable?
34843Will the tree of Liberty prematurely decay, if nourished by such life- giving blood?
34843Would Meade move directly across the Rapidan and attack Lee in front, with every passage, every hill and ravine enfiladed by Rebel cannon?
34843Would an abject, servile race, kept in chains four thousand years, assert their manhood?
34843Would he not aim directly toward the cradle of Secession?
34843Would he not make, rather, a sudden change of base to Fredericksburg?
34843Would they falter?
34843Would they fight?
34843Yet who can restrain grief to see them fall in such a way as this,--not by the fortunes of war, but by the hand of an assassin?"
34843You do n''t hate me individually?"
34843You go about lecturing, do you not?"
34843You say that the negro is an inferior being; what do you say of Frederick Douglass, who has raised himself from slavery to a high position?
34843You''s heerd o''me, I reckon?"
34843how did they die?"
34843in''63,"Where shall we hide our goods?"
34843or what if in the darkness a soldier, grieving over his imaginary wrong, and reckless of life, had misunderstood us?
34843or where do you expect to go?"
34843said he;"you who condemn the government?
34843shall I ever forget that sight, when the boat went down?"
38948''Well, Annie, what is it?'' 38948 A prisoner?
38948A''n''t one of them General Grant?
38948A''n''t there any cavalry camped at Shoal Creek?
38948A''n''t you the lady that sent Colonel Slemmens the boquet last summer, when he was on outpost duty, with his regiment, at Cold Water?
38948And a sack of flour?
38948Are they?
38948Are you a soldier?
38948Are you a soldier?
38948Are you bursted?
38948Are you going to shoot me?
38948Are you going to_ shoot_ him?
38948Are you hurt, Bunker?
38948Are you-- gwine to-- kill me?
38948Are you? 38948 Are your_ bowels_ all right?"
38948Boys,said I,"do n''t you know better than to huddle together in that way for bushwhackers to shoot at?
38948Bunker,said the Colonel,"a''n''t you mistaken?"
38948Certainly, gentlemen; what will you have, roast beef or boiled ham?
38948Colonel,said I,"what do you think about that cotton trip to Bolivar now?
38948Did he?
38948Did they go out here this morning?
38948Did they have passes?
38948Did those men come through the lines here?
38948Did you allow them to go out without passes?
38948Did you bring the man in?
38948Did you do_ all that alone_?
38948Did you get a pass from the Yank''s to get out with?
38948Did you have a hand in it?
38948Did you help take the place?
38948Did you see any of Bill Johnson''s cavalry on the road?
38948Did you see any rebel cavalry there?
38948Do n''t you belong to that ar mule cavalry?
38948Do you belong to the Federal army?
38948Do you claim that wagon, Lieutenant?
38948Do you expect to pin the States together again with bayonets?
38948Do you know of any body that has got any of that kind of cartridges?
38948Do you know the name of any Colonel in Bolivar, and the regiment that he commands?
38948Do you know what regiment the man belonged to that took it?
38948Do you know who got this man''s revolver?
38948Do you remember of my assisting you one time in Memphis, when you was in trouble?
38948Do you see him?
38948Do you think that I would sit here and see your son steal my money without saying any thing? 38948 Do-- you-- know-- the-- hoss?"
38948General Van Dorn,said General Wheeler,"do n''t you know him?
38948General,said I, when the citizen had gone,"do you know where Billy Jackson is?"
38948Good morning; wo n''t you come in?
38948Has the forage party come in, chaplain?
38948Have n''t we got a cavalry force there?
38948Have n''t you taken the_ oath_, doctor?
38948Have we got any cavalry here?
38948Have we got any guerrillas here?
38948Have you been out to the Hickory Flats?
38948Have you come here to interfere with my arrangements?
38948Have you got a Southern paper?
38948Have you got a pass?
38948Have you got a pass?
38948Have you got any fire- arms or papers with you?
38948Have you got any meat?
38948Have you got any money?
38948Have you got any pass, or any papers to show that?
38948Have you lived in these parts long?
38948Here I am, Doctor,I answered;"what do you want of me?"
38948How are you, boys?
38948How are_ you_?
38948How came you to be in Bolivar?
38948How close can we get without getting into the Yankee pickets?
38948How did you manage to get into Bolivar?
38948How do you do?
38948How far have you come on this military road?
38948How far?
38948How long have you been sick?
38948How many are there of you here?
38948How many did they fire after I went away?
38948How so?
38948How so?
38948How?
38948I have got some nice rum here; will you try some of it?
38948I suppose, then, Colonel, that the best thing that we can do is to get away from here; a''n''t it?
38948If de secesh dun git us, wo n''t dey hang us both?
38948Is that all? 38948 Is that your rank, sir?"
38948Jim,said I to the man nearest me, whom I knew to be a good shot,"why do n''t you shoot that General?"
38948Look here, daddy; do n''t you know that this country is invaded? 38948 Mother,"said she,"what are you doing with that man here?"
38948Mr. Bunker, hab we got forces down dar in de bottom?
38948Mr. Bunker,said he,"is there any forces coming along here?"
38948My son, what made you go into the shop during my absence?
38948No; are you?
38948Now, could you,she continued,"demand of a_ poor lone widow_, like I am, breakfast for sixteen men and feed for a hundred and fifty horses?"
38948Shall I drive him thar?
38948Stranger,said I, addressing an elderly gentleman that I found on entering,"can I get some dinner here?"
38948That would really be a nice little spec, would n''t it?
38948That''s a fact, is it?
38948That''s a_ fact_, is it?
38948That''s the understanding then, is it?
38948There,said the Admiral, handing me the gun;"how do you like the looks of that?"
38948Tom,said I to the Sergeant,"what kind of soldiers do you call them?"
38948Vare you stshay they are? 38948 Was he in the fight?"
38948Was there a barrel of sugar?
38948Well, ca n''t you bestow a little more of your hospitality on a fellow, in the shape of about a pint, to put in my pocket and take along?
38948Well, do you ever drink any?
38948Well, how did the fight come off?
38948Well, inasmuch as I have got no cartridges for my gun, how will you trade guns with me?
38948Well, it will be apt to go pretty hard with them, wo n''t it?
38948Well, sir, are you acquainted about here?
38948Well, that was lucky, was n''t it?
38948Well, what are they?
38948Well, what did you do with them?
38948Well, what is it that you want I should do?
38948Well, what is it?
38948Well, what is it?
38948Well, what is it?
38948Well, what is the news about Vicksburg?
38948Well, what luck did you have?
38948Well, where is he?
38948Well, why did n''t you save one of the hams that you threw away, if you wanted one so bad?
38948Whar be you gwine?
38948What are the militia doing there?
38948What are you doing here with a light at this time of night?
38948What are you doing here?
38948What are you doing here?
38948What are you doing here?
38948What are you doing here?
38948What are you doing here?
38948What are you doing here?
38948What are you doing out here?
38948What are you doing_ here_?
38948What are you dressed up so nice for?
38948What business has an infantry soldier with such a revolver as that?
38948What do you mean?
38948What do you want here?
38948What do you want of General Hurlbut?
38948What do you want of General McPherson?
38948What do you want of me?
38948What do you want?
38948What do you want?
38948What have we done,I inquired,"that you should have such an awful antipathy against us?"
38948What have you got here?
38948What is that for?
38948What is your name?
38948What is your name?
38948What is your name?
38948What is your rank?
38948What kind are they, Bunker?
38948What kind of ammunition do you want?
38948What news have you got?
38948What were you doing here?
38948What were you doing here?
38948What were you doing there at this time of night?
38948What were you placed here for?
38948What''s the names of the men that were out with you?
38948What''s up? 38948 What''s up?"
38948Where are you from?
38948Where are you from?
38948Where are you from?
38948Where are you gwine?
38948Where did you come from?
38948Where did you ever see me?
38948Where did you go?
38948Where do you belong?
38948Where do you belong?
38948Where do you belong?
38948Where do you belong?
38948Where do you belong?
38948Where do you belong?
38948Where do you belong?
38948Where do_ you_ belong?
38948Where have you been?
38948Where have you been?
38948Where have you been?
38948Where have you been?
38948Where is he?
38948Where is your look- out post?
38948Where were you going, and what were you going for?
38948Where?
38948Where?
38948Whereabouts is General Ross''command?
38948Which is of the most importance, Major: for me to sit down and tell you my history, or for you to get out your men and capture those guerrillas?
38948Who are these?
38948Who are you to work for now?
38948Who are you?
38948Who are you?
38948Who are you?
38948Who are you?
38948Who are you?
38948Who are you?
38948Who comes there?
38948Who is that man with you?
38948Who is the Colonel?
38948Who were those two men with you that ran away?
38948Who''s coming to see you?
38948Whose-- General Van Dorn''s?
38948Why not? 38948 Why so?
38948Why so?
38948Why so?
38948Why, what is it?
38948Why, yes, I believe I was; where was you?
38948Will you be responsible to me for my share?
38948Yes, I am a spy; where do you belong?
38948Yes, did you?
38948Yes, h-- h-- how d-- do you do?
38948Yes,said I,"the ox is yours now; why did n''t you think of that when loyal men begged of you for mercy?
38948Yes,said one;"where have you been?"
38948Yes; but pray what fetched you here?
38948Yes; but what shall I do about it?
38948Yes; why?
38948You are mighty good, a''n''t you? 38948 You are?
38948You belong to them, I suppose?
38948You do n''t remember of having me arrested in Tennessee as a rebel spy? 38948 You do?"
38948You do?
38948You have taken the_ oath_ to the Lincoln Government, I suppose?
38948You let him go, did you?
38948You lose mules, do n''t you?
38948You was? 38948 You were in the fight on the Hatchee, the other day, were you?"
38948You will give-- a body-- time-- to pray-- won''t you?
38948You''ve got tired soldiering on short rations, I suppose?
38948You_ are_ in a bad fix now, a''n''t you?
38948_ Captured_ you?
38948_ Come_, prisoner,said Levi, manifesting impatience;"a''n''t you getting about through with your conversation?"
38948_ How do you do, daddy?_said I again, louder than before.
38948_ Ruptured!_ what is that?
38948_ What in hell and d-- nation are you doing?_I shouted.
38948( Addressing the South Carolina General,)"Do you know that man?"
38948A''n''t you afraid they''ll_ get you_?"
38948About 1 o''clock at night a rebel Captain stepped up to me, and addressing me by name, said,"How are you?"
38948Addressing myself to the lady of the house, said I,"Can we get some breakfast here this morning?
38948After we had conversed awhile, I said to her,"''Melia, did you see Billy Jackson in town yesterday?"
38948Approaching the bedside, I said to him:"You are sick, are you, old hoss?"
38948Are you determined to kill me?_""Do n''t shoot!
38948Are you the gentleman?"
38948As I entered his office, I was saluted by,"Well, old hoss, who are you?"
38948As we were going in, we met a soldier, who, when he saw me, called out,"Hallo, Ruggles, is that you?
38948Boys, have you got any for yourselves?"
38948But where is your uniform?"
38948But, pray tell me, what is your situation for money?"
38948By the way, how does the doctor like the Yankees being so strict?"
38948Ca n''t you afford to do that much for us?
38948Ca n''t you make a cotton- burning trip up into the vicinity of Bolivar?
38948Ca n''t you take this revolver and keep watch for us to- night, while we sleep, so that we can_ both_ get one good night''s sleep?
38948Ca n''t you wait on a poor soldier?"
38948Can you do it?"
38948Can you render me any assistance?"
38948Can you tell me of any path that leads down there?"
38948Coming up to him, I said,"Daddy, how do you do?"
38948Do you think that you are doing exactly right to take up arms against us?"
38948Do you understand me?"
38948Do you understand that, you black rascal?"
38948Do you wish to go right on to General Johnston''s head- quarters?"
38948Do you''_ know him''now_?
38948General, do you know Jim Ford and Charlie Ford, of Memphis?"
38948Ha''n''t I taught you better than that?
38948Ha''n''t I thrashed you time and again for that?
38948Had n''t I better go up and tell him to come down?"
38948Have n''t you got some whisky, that you can give me two or three hundred swallows before I go?"
38948Have you any news?"
38948Have you any papers to show that?"
38948Have you''_ seen him before_?''"
38948He read over my order from the Governor, and then said,"Did you raise your men under that order as scouts?"
38948He said to me,"Bunker, what is your detail for?"
38948Hearing some one come to the door, I inquired where Mr. W. S. Perry lived, and was asked,"Who are you?"
38948How are you?"
38948How did you keep the Yankees from taking your revolver?"
38948How do you like my trap, Captain?"
38948How do you like them?"
38948How in the world did you come to be up here?"
38948I again woke him up, and commenced to tell what I wanted, when he said:"Do-- you-- know-- the-- man?"
38948I am sure that you ca n''t get along with that?"
38948I had been there but a moment, when a prisoner, discovering that I was a fresh arrival, stepped up and said,"To what command do you belong?"
38948I helped you; why not help me?"
38948I think your Adjutant- General has got some pretty good whisky in there; ca n''t you induce him to give me a drink before I go back?"
38948I''ll help you out of this, if I can?"
38948Is any of our forces out on this yer road?"
38948Is that you?
38948It_ was_ a narrow escape, was n''t it?"
38948Just then another prisoner came up, and, taking me by the hand, said,"Do n''t you know me?"
38948Lieutenant, where did you boys stay last night?"
38948Now, Major, what plan do you propose to get them through?"
38948Oh, tell me, have you received your new guns yet?"
38948On the Baldwin''s Ferry road?"
38948Our rap for admittance was answered by"Who is there?"
38948People often ask me,"What is the essential qualification of a good spy?"
38948Pulling out my wallet, I said,"General, how much did you pay for that wine?
38948Ruggles?"
38948Said I to the latter, saluting him,"General Breman, you do n''t know me, do you?"
38948Said I,"You have n''t had your furlough long, have you, Colonel?"
38948Said the private to me:"Bunker, was there a carpet on that wagon?"
38948Seeing only my own number of men, I inquired:"Was the doctor at home?"
38948Sha''n''t I help you to some?
38948She invited us to be seated, and then said:"Have you been in the fight?"
38948Since it is so warm down where you are going that you do n''t need it, what objections can you have to my taking it?"
38948Soldier, what road did you come in on this morning?"
38948Street?"
38948Taking a hickory gun- wiper that stood in a corner of the shop, he gave me a severe whipping, and then said,"Lorain, what did you do with the nails?"
38948The Captain carried the letter to him and read it, and then said,"Frank, what shall I write to your sister?"
38948The officers left as soon as I came up, and the lady turned her conversation to me:"Do you know General Van Dorn?"
38948Then turning to the old man, I said:"Did n''t you tell the rebel Colonel that I was a Yankee spy, and try to have him shoot me?
38948They are not all fools, are they?"
38948They called me, and General McPherson said:"Bunker, can you shoot into that ditch yonder, where those men are at work?
38948We had a chaplain in our regiment, who said to me once,''Bunker, ca n''t you bring me in a good horse?''
38948We halted in front of the steps leading on to the porch, when Levi, addressing the lady, said:"Madam, have you got any corn or fodder here?"
38948We procured what breakfast we wanted, and was about to leave, when, addressing the old man, I said:"How do you do, daddy?"
38948We were about to leave, when the man said,"You''ll stop with us to breakfast, wo n''t you?"
38948Were you on picket yesterday?"
38948What are you doing up here?"
38948What business have you to be prowling about between the lines of the two contending armies?"
38948What command do you belong to?"
38948What do you say, will you do it?"
38948What do you say?
38948What do you think is the matter?"
38948What do you think of that, Sol.?"
38948What is your name?"
38948What shall I do-- go to recruiting, or go back to the front?"
38948What''s that?"
38948What''s the matter up in town?"
38948What''s the names of the men that belong to your band?"
38948What''s the news?"
38948When I had finished, said I,"Mister, look''e here; have you got any more of that''divine, adorable stuff?''"
38948When he came to the date, which was 1863, when it should have been 1864, he inquired:"Where have you been for a year past?"
38948When ready to attend to me, he said:"Well, where do you belong?"
38948Where did you capture him?"
38948Where do you belong?"
38948Where in the h-- l have you been?
38948Where is he?"
38948Which will you do?"
38948Who has not?
38948Why a''n''t you cooking breakfast?"
38948Why did n''t you stop?
38948Why do n''t you get paroled, or run away from that guard?"
38948Why, what do you want?"
38948Will you accept them?"
38948Wo n''t we all be killed?
38948Wo n''t you alight and come in?"
38948Wo n''t you let me get on behind you and ride across?"
38948You are going down to hunt up the Yankees, are you?"
38948You are not a- gwine to_ walk_ to Salem, are you?"
38948You are really a prisoner, then, are you?"
38948You did n''t know that, did you, boys?"
38948You''ll get cold there, wo n''t you?"
38948are you in here?"
38948captured_ you_?
38948do you remember the''_ Yankee spy_?''
38948have_ our forces all got up yet_?"
38948is that a fight?
38948said I;"why did n''t you clean that horse''s legs?
38948said the man;"where do you belong?"
38948that''s it, is it?_ I did n''t know that!"
38948trying to evade capture, said to me:"Look''e here, mister, where do you belong?"
38948what makes you think that?"
38948what''s the news on the other side of the river?"
38948who comes there?"
38948who comes there?''
38948who comes there?''
38948will you lead us?"
54816A good night at last, eh, Hutin?
54816And the Belgian soldiers?
54816And the Captain?
54816And the Germans are perfect savages, are n''t they?
54816And when did you come?
54816Anybody else still asleep?
54816Are n''t the Germans coming then?
54816Are n''t we here to prevent them?
54816Are n''t you ashamed to talk like that?
54816Are those swine turning tail?
54816Are we still far from the ambulance?
54816Are you going to leave the names in?
54816Are you in pain?
54816Are you wounded?
54816Ask for what, old fellow?
54816Been fighting long here?
54816But the Russians?
54816But what are we to do?... 54816 But why did n''t the third battalion join in?"
54816But your officers?
54816Ca n''t I get on the step?
54816Ca n''t you pull your infernal mules back a bit?... 54816 Can you manage to hold out?"
54816Can you see him, Hutin?
54816Chasseurs?
54816Did you hear?
54816Do you know Corporal X? 54816 Every one all right in there?"
54816French?
54816Get on? 54816 Have the Germans come as far as this?"
54816Have you any milk, auntie? 54816 Have you had a bullet in the stomach?"
54816Have you seen any of the English, sergeant?
54816Have you seen the Germans?
54816Hear what?
54816Hit?
54816How are you?
54816How many days?
54816How much?
54816How much?
54816How should I know? 54816 Hungry, Lintier?"
54816Hutin?
54816I suppose the Germans are resting, are n''t they?
54816I suppose you have n''t seen the postmaster?
54816I''m glad...."Had any news from home?
54816Is the 102nd behind you?
54816Is there an ambulance over there?
54816Look... we''d better take the thumb right off, had n''t we?
54816No one wounded?
54816No, and you?
54816No, what?
54816No, why?
54816No?
54816Not wounded?
54816Nothing you want?
54816Replaced?
54816Shall we make you an omelette with bacon?
54816Sir?
54816So Mortier''s dead, is he?
54816So that''s war, is it?
54816So you''re all right?
54816Some milk and eggs? 54816 That''s so, is n''t it?"
54816The Captain?
54816Then what are they firing at?
54816Then you do n''t know what''s happened?
54816Think so?
54816Tortue, sir? 54816 Untie your horses so that we can get the picket- lines, will you?...
54816Well, Hutin, war''s a nice sort of show, is n''t it?
54816Well, Laillé, did you go yesterday?
54816Well, and what then?
54816Well, at any rate, you wo n''t order me to do anything else afterwards?
54816Well, how are things going down there?
54816Well, what''s wrong with you?
54816Well, where do you come from?
54816What are those troops down there?
54816What are you doing there?
54816What did he say?
54816What does it feel like, a bullet?
54816What does that mean, sir?
54816What have you done with her?
54816What is it? 54816 What is the use of staying?"
54816What range? 54816 What regiment is that passing?
54816What regiment is that?
54816What regiment is that?
54816What time is it?
54816What''s that?
54816What''s the matter now?
54816What''s the time?
54816What''s the time?
54816What''s up, old chap?
54816What''s your Group doing there?
54816What? 54816 What?
54816What?
54816What?
54816What?
54816What?
54816Where are you going to?
54816Where are you going to?
54816Where are you going to?
54816Where are you going?
54816Where have you come from?
54816Where is it?
54816Where?
54816Where?
54816Where?
54816Where?
54816Who cares?
54816Who let them get through?
54816Who''s the idiot who did n''t pick it up yesterday?
54816Why could n''t you say you were in the straw?
54816Why the hell are n''t they in Berlin by this time? 54816 Why?"
54816Would n''t he have killed me if I''d been all alone? 54816 Wounded?"
54816Yes, and you?
54816Yes, but where are the Germans? 54816 Yes.... Well, are we retiring?"
54816Yes?
54816You do n''t believe me? 54816 You see?"
54816***** Where were all these poor people going to?
54816After we had read our correspondence Hutin called me:"Are you coming to wash your linen?"
54816And another:"Suppose there''s no duty on melinite, is there?"
54816And they questioned us in their turn:"Which way do you think we''d better go?
54816And what happened afterwards?
54816And what might we expect then?
54816And yet, what are we hourly expecting as we sit here in nervous idleness in the barracks, unless it is the order for general mobilization?
54816And you?"
54816And, as I ventured to say that instead of killing the man treacherously they might have taken him prisoner, seeing that he had surrendered:"Why?"
54816Are we going into action again?"
54816As a priest I ought not to have done that, ought I?
54816Be careful with your horse, ca n''t you?
54816Been wounded in the chest?
54816Best to go, is n''t it?"
54816But a moment after one could see them through the gloom, once more subsiding and gradually slipping, slipping.... Where were we going to?
54816But did we not mark time to the same refrain in 1870, almost at this time of year?
54816But he went on shaking me, and then he shouted:''What the blazes do you think you''re doing?''
54816But were the French still in Belgium and in Alsace?
54816But were they really advancing?
54816But what the devil can you expect?
54816But where are they going to?"
54816But why should n''t it be true?
54816But you wo n''t do the same when you get into Germany, will you?"
54816But, if there was an alarm, should I be able to find them in the straw?
54816But... was it true?
54816By whom?"
54816By whom?...
54816Ca n''t see an inch in here.... Ca n''t you raise the lantern over there?"
54816Ca n''t you finish me?"
54816Ca n''t you keep your horses straight?...
54816Ca n''t you kill them all?"
54816Ca n''t you see he''s got entangled?..."
54816Ca n''t you speak French?"
54816Come and help, ca n''t you?"
54816Could the pilot see us at that hour?
54816Could we believe it?
54816Did it mean defeat... invasion... France laid open?
54816Do you hear?...
54816Do you know where the Prussians are?"
54816Do you know whether they have turned Marville on the south?"
54816Do you see them over there?...
54816Do you think we shall have any more fighting to- day?"
54816Does it hurt much?"
54816Downstairs the infantry were grumbling:"Ca n''t you keep quiet, up there, eh?
54816Eh?
54816Even with two to one we ca n''t be beaten, can we?
54816Every few minutes Hutin asked me:"What time is it?"
54816Fires or shells bursting?
54816Friend or enemy?
54816Got your first- aid dressing?...
54816Had I caught trench pest?
54816Had I hit him?
54816Had our position been signalled by a spy?
54816Had the enemy succeeded in crossing the frontier near Stenay?
54816Had their mother fainted?
54816Had we been betrayed by signal by a spy hiding somewhere behind us?
54816Had we been surprised, then, or nearly surprised?
54816Had we not been replaced?
54816Have n''t they read the Army Order then?"
54816Have you been dreaming of German mares?"
54816He gave us a searching look with his intelligent hazel eyes, and repeated:"We''ll face them, wo n''t we?"
54816He''ll know.... Alice is my name.... You wo n''t forget?...
54816How am I to get on?"
54816How came it that the enemy was allowing us to cross the river?
54816How had the enemy been able to discover our new position?
54816How was I to defend myself?...
54816I asked a passing orderly:"Do you know when they''ll be able to dress my wound?"
54816I asked a sergeant:"But those are n''t the Germans we were on the heels of yesterday and the day before, are they?"
54816I questioned the big bugler:"Shall we stop?
54816I suppose I know my own saddle, do n''t I?
54816I thought to myself,''If he comes in, what will happen?...
54816If the Belgian Army alone has managed to worst them, what hopes dare we not entertain?
54816In that case, what was the good of hurrying?
54816In the inside pocket of your tunic?...
54816Is England going to come into line with us against Germany?
54816No more room left?"
54816No need to make such a row....''And then I rubbed my eyes, and got up.... Do you know who it was?...
54816No?...
54816On the contrary, perhaps they''ve been threatened on that side by an enveloping movement of our troops.... Who knows?...
54816On we lumbered... on, on.... Should we never stop?
54816One of the corporals shouted out:"Now then, get on, ca n''t you?"
54816Perhaps it led to a window?
54816Perhaps this shakes you too much?"
54816Pointing in the direction our column was following, I asked the old man:"Where does this road lead to?"
54816Pull him off, ca n''t you?"
54816See?"
54816Shall I tell you what_ I_ think of it, sergeant?
54816Should I ever come back?
54816Should we never stop?
54816So the enemy was there, behind the crests, and was advancing.... What was the French command waiting for?
54816Some one asked:"Why do n''t we go quicker?...
54816Suddenly I heard a voice, at once infantile and yet grave, in my ear:"You wounded?"
54816Surely that can not be possible?
54816The artillerymen began swearing:"Hallo, what the hell''s all this?
54816The flag?...
54816The roll was called:"Eleventh?"
54816Then how had we been seen?...
54816Then how is it that we are saddled with this terrible reproach by things and people whom we can not defend against an enemy too superior in numbers?
54816Then, as we prepared to go on our way:"Wo n''t you come in?"
54816These beasts of Germans, who violate and disembowel women... who knows whether they would have respected her condition?...
54816They stopped to ask us for water or cigarettes, and we exchanged a few words with them:"Are we advancing?"
54816To Paris... to our homes... to kill, sack, rape?...
54816To a certain extent, perhaps.... Did we really believe there was going to be war?
54816To go where?
54816Troops which can advance no farther must at all costs hold the ground won and let themselves be killed rather than retire._""Do you understand?"
54816Understand?"
54816Was it a surprise?
54816Was it decision or courage?
54816Was it not merely a fresh allotment of French troops?
54816Was it possible that the enemy was at the gates?
54816Was it the enemy''s advanced guard?
54816Was it the guns?
54816Was n''t it you who were always saying that Langle de Cary''s army ought to come up and help us?
54816Was our retreat cut off?
54816Was the Army Corps retiring?
54816Was the enemy outflanking us again?
54816Was the infantry on ahead protecting us?
54816Was there a man with them?
54816Was there no one to stop him?
54816We asked the peasant:"Well, what did you do with your Boche?"
54816We exchanged impressions:"Well, Hutin?"
54816We questioned him:"So they''ve not succeeded in crossing the Meuse yet?"
54816We questioned him:"Wounded?"
54816We''re fighting from the North Sea right down to Belfort, are n''t we?
54816Well, then, how can you judge by one wretched little corner?
54816Were there not plenty of excellent positions on the hills?
54816Were they French troops, or was it the enemy?
54816Were they afraid of frightening us by the word"retreat"when we were already experiencing its reality?
54816Were they the enemy, or were they the French troops which were occupying the heights of the Meuse near Stenay and which were now retiring?
54816Were we going to entrain and leave the road open to the invaders?
54816Were we not in a good position to wait for the enemy?
54816Were you at Liége, or Brussels, or Copenhagen?''
54816What are we to believe?
54816What can it mean?
54816What can one say about a burst shell or a dead man?
54816What could be the meaning of it?
54816What had happened?
54816What is one to write?"
54816What lay hid in their gloomy forests?
54816What was the meaning of this sudden retreat?
54816What were these positions worth, and from what point could they be observed?
54816What''s up now?"
54816Where on earth were we going to?
54816Where was the enemy?
54816Where were the batteries which had preceded us?
54816Who''s Tortue?"
54816Why ca n''t some of the others have a turn?..."
54816Why did they not throw forward the troops which, over towards Fresnières, were swarming on the mangel- wurzel fields?
54816Why do n''t we advance also?
54816Why had we been deceived, demoralized?...
54816Why here rather than there?
54816Why sold?
54816Why this alarm?
54816Why were we being sent there?
54816Why were we waiting?
54816Why?
54816Why?
54816Why?
54816Why?
54816Why?
54816Will they?"
54816Would they manage to pass us, and get to Paris?
54816Would they not surround the troops operating in Belgium and those advancing in Alsace?...
54816Yes?
54816You have n''t had your quid this morning, have you?...
54816You remember how we all said:''If anything happens to him he can count on all of us?''
54816You too?"
54816You want to buy them?
54816_ Shut''em_, do you hear?"
54816he smells bad, does n''t he?"
54816not unmixed with pain, for were it not a nobler task to extol the virtues of the living than sing the praises of those gone before?
54816shut the door, ca n''t you?"
54816so you''ve heard of William?"
54816to start, would you?"
54816what does that mean?"
54816where?"
7852Is----- under any engagement?
7852MY VERY DEAR FRIEND,Be you yet alive?
7852To- morrow, did I say? 7852 Was it philosophy that supported you in your trials?
7852When and where shall I see you again?
7852Who can view the works of nature, and the productions of art, without the most sublime and rapturous emotions? 7852 Why, Major Burr,"says he,"you are not going?"
7852Would it be agreeable to you that----- should make overtures?
7852_ Plus que jamais à   vous_,dost thou recollect it?
7852_ Question._ Ought the votes of Clinton to be canvassed?
7852''But what did the rascal,''continued he,''state to be the purport of the letter?''
7852''s being out of the question, is there nothing in this line to be found in South Carolina?
7852----Where can----- be?
7852--I rose up suddenly from the sofa, and rubbing my head--"What book shall I buy for her?"
7852A. or Joseph A.?
7852About two o''clock, as the public well know, he expired--"Incorrupta fides-- nudaque veritas Quando ullum invenient parem?
7852After you get through the book you are now reading, which I think is Anacharsis, or is it Gibbon?
7852Again, are they citizens of the United States, or can Congress make them such?
7852Ah, my husband, what can be pleasure to your Theo., unassisted by the charms of your presence and participation?
7852Ah, my husband, why are we separated?
7852Am I dreaming, or do you leave home again before you go to Philadelphia?
7852Am I to blame Strong?
7852And can you really hope, my Theodosia, with all your ingenuity, to convince me that such a being will enjoy equal happiness in marriage with me?
7852And do you find that you converse with more facility in the French?
7852And do you regret that you are not also a woman?
7852And do you, indeed, miss your Theo.?
7852And have you not as much philosophy as I have?
7852And is not Reubon in a way to be coquetted, with his eyes open?
7852And tell me what is laudanum?
7852And what are its effects?
7852And what does all this prove?
7852And what in particular were the contents of such letters or letter, or communication?
7852And what took you to Darien?
7852And when we enter on the theatre of the world, why not act our parts together?
7852And whether a copy of it can be procured?
7852And who can be a judge of these consequences but myself?
7852And why he did not retreat with the army?
7852Are authority and compulsion then the only engines by which you can be moved?
7852Are the Wadsworths with you?
7852Are the wagons you mentioned some time ago returned?
7852Are there any, or very pressing calls at the office?
7852Are you a good girl?
7852Are you afflicted with any of your old, or with what new complaint?
7852Are you content?
7852Aristotle says"that a man should not marry before he is six- and- thirty:"pray, Mr. Alston, what arguments have you to oppose to such authority?
7852As you are likely to make considerable use of it, would it not be worth while to have a few days''work done on it?
7852Better or worse?
7852But even supposing I should fail in this-- where is this sad reverse of fortune?--this lamentable change?
7852But pray, when you have got up to two hundred lines a lesson, why do you go back again to one hundred and twenty, and one hundred and twenty- five?
7852But what has become of poor Alpha Beta?
7852But what necessity for enumerating all these circumstances?
7852But when or where, I pray, are we to meet?
7852But when that love is real, what can amuse, what engage the mind, to banish, for a single instant, the object of its delight?
7852But why am I requested to"_ say nothing about obligations_,"while you continue to load me with new ones?
7852But why do you diminish their value by carelessness?
7852But why need I advise a person of better judgment than myself?
7852But why need I confine myself to these?
7852But why should I desire you to do what I know your own heart will dictate?
7852But why should we connect ourselves with any of them, so as to interrupt our studies?
7852But why these questions, to which I can receive no answer but in person?
7852But why this to you, who know me better than I know myself?
7852But you bear it charmingly; do you think this courage will last, or is it only a spasm?
7852But, allowing both these objections their full force, may there not be a single case that they do not reach?
7852Ca n''t you lug a scrap from him now and then, apropos, into your letters?
7852Can any thing place the charge in a more ridiculous point of view?
7852Can as much be said in favor of his great competitor on that occasion?
7852Can interest repay the sacrifice?
7852Can it be that you have still in memory the vagrant Burr?
7852Can you excuse, sir, the overflowing of a heart that knows not where to stop when on a subject so interesting?
7852Can you form an idea of a more happy mortal than she will be when seated on the throne of Constantinople?
7852Can you imagine what are Miss C.''s occupations and arrangements?
7852Can you leave Mr. Osmer without injury?
7852Can you make little_ chose_ drink the water?
7852Coquetting for admiration and attracting flattery?
7852DEAR SIR, His excellency desires me to inquire whether you have received any information of the enemy''s movements, situation, or design?
7852Did he know the printed orders?--was she sold conformable?
7852Did he not communicate to you that the said David A. Ogden had been requested to see the plaintiff for the purposes aforesaid?
7852Did he or any other person( and if so, who?)
7852Did not the said house ballot for the president several times before a choice was made?
7852Did the conduct of the said Aaron Burr correspond with the declarations contained in the said letter?
7852Did you ever communicate with the plaintiff, or he with you, on the subject?
7852Did you ever know them to countenance a man of talents and independence?
7852Did you receive any letters from the said Aaron Burr after the said equality of votes was known and before the final choice of a president?
7852Did_ he_, the said Aaron Burr, know thereof?
7852Discouraged?
7852Do I read right?
7852Do n''t you see that this sentence would have been perfect and much more elegant without the last_ it_?
7852Do yon recollect the second daughter of Mr. Barclay, of Philadelphia, the sister of Nelly?
7852Do you continue to preserve Madame De S.''s good opinion of your talents for the harp?
7852Do you discover a symptom of it?
7852Do you drink the waters, and bathe, and ride, and walk?
7852Do you ever hear from Natalie?
7852Do you know Miss Joanna Livingston?
7852Do you know any matter, circumstance, or thing which can be material to the defendant in this cause?
7852Do you know any person who did communicate with him?
7852Do you know that any measures were suggested or pursued by any person or persons to secure the election of Aaron Burr to the presidency?
7852Do you know the parties, plaintiff and defendant, or either and which of them, and how long have you known them respectively?
7852Do you know the present boundaries of the French republic?
7852Do you know who such members were?
7852Do you know, or have you been informed( and if so, how?)
7852Do you mean that the forty lines which you construed in Virgil were in a part you had not before learned?
7852Do you not think we may safely enter the house then?
7852Do you or do you not know Aaron Burr, late vice- president of the United States?
7852Do you or do you not know Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States?
7852Do you really feel a vacuum in your pleasures?
7852Do you really find happiness indissolubly blended with her presence?
7852Do you think that 8 would be induced from any motive to vote for him?
7852Do you think this trait ominous of a coward?
7852Do you want the pity of such?
7852Do you, my husband, think as frequently of your Theo., and wish for her?
7852Does Theodosia employ herself ever in the same way?
7852Does he yet know his letters?
7852Does it not drop through your tent?
7852Does our friend Doctor Blythe still reside at Georgetown?
7852Does young Mr. Broome attend?
7852For friendship?
7852Four pages in Lucian was a great lesson; and why, my dear Theo., ca n''t this be done a little oftener?
7852General Knox presented himself, and Burr( then called Major Burr) asked the general what he did there?
7852God bless you; you have my prayers always; and who dare say they are not as good as a bishop''s, or any member of a Presbyterian synod?
7852Had I any thing so much at heart as to render him happy?
7852Has he not informed you, or have you not understood( and if so, how?)
7852Has she a soul framed for love?
7852Has some earthquake, some sudden and dreadful concussion of nature, ingulfed you?
7852Has the God of heaven, in anger, here changed the order of nature?
7852Have my directions been pursued with regard to her Latin and geography?
7852Have our enjoyments for that period been worth the trouble of living?
7852Have you any commands to town, madam?
7852Have you any rice on hand yet?
7852Have you done running up and down stairs?
7852Have you enough of_ gampy_ now?
7852Have you ever ratified the vows she made in your behalf?
7852Have you forgotten the mad project of going to England?
7852Have you not been tormented with some embarrassments which I wickedly left you to struggle with?
7852He added a fourth, to wit: What would be Mr. Jefferson''s conduct as to the public officers?
7852He was turned round and round by each of the company: was asked where he got that very neat bag, and the valuable locket?
7852Heavy business, is it not?
7852Hence arose a question, whether this was not a_ personal trust_, which could not be legally performed by deputy?
7852How am I to judge of the degree intended?
7852How can Mr. Alston, consistently with his views of business, leave the state for five or six months, as you have proposed, for your Northern tour?
7852How could I omit Celeste and her sisters, whom I saw several times?
7852How could I write to you How divine your residence?
7852How could we forget Latimer?
7852How could you be sure that even this opinion had exceeded the bounds which you would yourself deem admissible between political opponents?
7852How do you account for the apathy of the public on this subject?
7852How do you like this essay?
7852How do you live, sleep, and amuse yourself?
7852How does your election advance?
7852How else could he have been questioned with any propriety?
7852How far are you from Natalie?
7852How have you borne it?
7852How is General Vaughan?
7852How is it possible you can write me such short letters, having so much leisure, and surrounded with all that can interest me?
7852How is it possible you had nothing more to write?
7852How is it that I have not a line from_ Mari_, in answer to several letters which I wrote him from New- York?
7852How is this?
7852How is your health?
7852How long are you to stay in Charleston?
7852How many sergeants''parties have you?
7852How was this to be effected?
7852How, then, could I refuse him one day?
7852I asked Alston,''Would you wish to see my notes of what passed between Duane and me?''
7852I have a thousand questions to ask, but why ask of the dumb?
7852I have not asked the price, but not exceeding_ eight hundred dollars!_ Did you take away"The man of Nature?"
7852I set out for camp the last of this week; may I expect letters from my friend?
7852I should doubtless be happier if I enjoyed perfect health and the society of a friend_ like you_; but why do I say like you?
7852I then thought so, as you will readily believe; because, why should I deceive my dear little Theodosia?
7852I went to a wedding supper at Mrs. Moore''s, whose daughter has married Willing-- could any one suppose she was_ unwilling_?
7852I would give, what would I not give to see or know even your most trifling actions and amusements?
7852If I leave Richmond Hill, however, had I not better buy in town, that you may have a resting- place there?
7852If he was not sheriff, can the votes sent by him be legally canvassed?
7852If so, which state or states, and what was the reason or reasons of such belief?
7852If the cabals of the day be not speedily arrested, where shall our political bark be anchored?
7852If yea, what was the tenour of such letter?
7852If you finish your causes before court is over, can not you look at us, even should you return to the manor?
7852If you have any, had you not better send it?
7852If you mean it for a residence, what avail its intrinsic value?
7852If you were half as punctual or as fortunate( which shall I call it?
7852In Charleston, Sullivan''s Island, or Clifton?
7852In plain terms, can you spare me the amount of it?
7852In what case it was taken?
7852Is Chevalier still punctual?
7852Is L. N. coming to live with you?
7852Is it because each revolving day proves thee more deserving?
7852Is it not a very easy matter to fix on another time, and write you word by T. Edwards?
7852Is it owing to ignorance or prejudice that I have not yet met a single person who had discovered or would allow the merit of this work?
7852Is it possible my affection can increase?
7852Is it, then, criminal that a person of mature age should converse on a subject most highly interesting with the friend most likely informed?
7852Is my wife, too, taken from me?
7852Is not that good Irish?
7852Is not that industry?
7852Is that right?
7852Is the language and spelling your own?
7852Is this right?
7852Is this the promised protection?
7852It is so long; how long is it?
7852Laid aside for the present?
7852Let me know whether you are yet suited with horses, and how?
7852Lo Alexander and Cesar, the fabled heroes of antiquity, to what lengths did passion hurry them?
7852MY DEAR SIR, Will you allow me that appellation, who have so long neglected to inform you of the situation of your affairs left in my hands?
7852May l expect to see you here in the spring?
7852May not the same be the case with noxious vapours?
7852Might I safely travel through your low country at this season?
7852Might it not be of service to draw a line, if but for a few days, from Bronx to Rye, or Mamaroneck?
7852Montesquieu says he writes to make people think; and why may not Theodosia?
7852Must I attribute it to the fatality which has already separated us, and, I fear, is determined to put an eternal bar to our junction?
7852Need we a proof of this?
7852Never enjoying, always hoping?
7852Now, how much wiser or better are we than this time last year?
7852Now, ma Minerve, is not this a very ridiculous posture for so grave an affair?
7852Now, say you, what has this to do with the introduction of a correspondence?
7852Now, what are your plans?
7852Oh, why did n''t you bring her?
7852On the 24th of June, 1778, the commander- in- chief propounded to the general officers the question,"Will it be advisable to hazard a general action?"
7852One letter may contain the name, and another the comment--_"Car ou l''arreter?_"is rather too mystical.
7852Or are you so angry as not to think I merit an answer?
7852Or how shall I annex any precise idea to language so indefinite?
7852Or, why should I be denied the common privilege of every liberal mind, that of acknowledging the obligation which I have not the power of cancelling?
7852Ought the votes of Tioga to be canvassed?
7852Ought they to canvass those sealed in the box, and reject the others?
7852Pray can it be true that she was engaged to a young man whom we knew and valued, and who lately died in your country?
7852Pray how do you advance?
7852Pray shake your little noddle, to give the brains, if any there be, a little action; but who can do two things at once?
7852Pray what have you been doing?
7852Pray why have you neglected to answer my letter by Colonel Wadsworth?
7852Pray, do you recollect the opinion which Judge Candour solemnly pronounced upon us both, in a court of reason held at the Indian King?
7852Pray, from whom did you learn that he was angry?
7852Pray, have you lived altogether on pepper?
7852Pray, in what consists the pleasure of a familiar correspondence?
7852Pray, madam, do you know of what consist the"Republic of the Seven Islands?"
7852Pray, say you, what is it to me why you have not been in the army?
7852Quoi faire?
7852Resume, I pray you, this confidence, so flattering to me, so consoling to yourself, may I add, so justly founded?
7852Run off and leave him?
7852Shall I add, their love also?
7852Shall I exchange?
7852Shall I guess again?
7852Shall I or shall I not investigate this point?
7852Shall I write to her to- night, or omit it till to- morrow?
7852She promised to give you now and then a lesson on the forte- piano; is she as good as her word?
7852Stiff with cold, how must his papa have fared?
7852Supposing he should come here the 13th of April, what could I do?
7852Taking lessons of Wisdom from your Minerva?
7852Tell me truly, did you write it without assistance?
7852Tell me, Aaron, why do I grow every day more tenacious of thy regard?
7852That you are not numbered in that galaxy of beauty which adorns an assembly- room?
7852The cheerfullness of all around me led me to ask why all animated nature enjoyed its being but man?
7852The handwriting of the letters various; very good, very bad, and middling; emblematic, shall I say, of the fair authoress?
7852The happiness of my life depends on your exertions; for what else, for whom else do I live?
7852The inquiry was then made--"What are we to do?"
7852The mother I cherished with so much pride?
7852The next question was, Of whom shall the assembly ticket for the city be composed?
7852The question--_When shall we meet_?
7852The reason, indeed, is obvious; for what more necessary to be learned and accurately understood?
7852There; is not that little incident related in the true heroic style?
7852This phenomenon( what shall I call it?)
7852Till that time, my dear friend, can you keep me above water, and do justice to yourself?
7852To this junto you have twice sacrificed yourself, and what have you got by it?
7852To whom am I indebted but to you, my friend, for this unmerited favour?
7852Under such circumstances, am I not only warranted in these remarks, but imperiously called upon to make them?
7852Was Richard R. Smith the sheriff of the county of Otsego when he received and forwarded the ballots by his special deputy?
7852Was you a member of the House of Representatives of the United States, at Washington, in the session of 1800 and 1801?
7852We stared, and asked one another-- How could Burr know that?
7852Were there any letter or letters written communicating such an intention?
7852What are L. N.''s?
7852What brighter mark-- what stronger evidence need we of a God?
7852What can be the reason of the great delay in forwarding letters by the post?
7852What can have exhausted or disturbed you so much?
7852What care you for all that?
7852What co- operation or aid the plaintiff could or would afford towards securing his own election to the presidency?
7852What conduct he would pursue in respect to certain cardinal points of federal policy?
7852What does Mr. Jefferson mean by the declaration that he had formed a cabinet, of which Mr. Burr was to be a member?
7852What greater blessing can await me?
7852What have we left?
7852What in the name of love and matrimony can this mean?
7852What is all this says my friend Aaron?
7852What is become of the rifles?
7852What is the exchange with you?
7852What language can express the joy, the gratitude of Theodosia?
7852What man under heaven ever before discovered an analogy between a moscheto and his mistress?
7852What more could she do?
7852What of that?
7852What other mode remained to set the public mind at ease?
7852What shall I do with the other articles, a small parcel of glassware and rum, and the money arising from the sales of the vessel''s sea- coat,& c.?
7852What then will be your substitute?
7852What think you of this alteration in the plan we settled?
7852What thought suggested my assent?
7852What will you think of the taste of New- York when I shall tell you that Miss Broadhurst is not very generally admired here?
7852What would I not give to have but those four small words from thee?
7852What would be your conjectures in such a case?
7852What would you bet that La G. is not in a kind of quandary just now?
7852What would you say if I should tell you that----- had absolutely professed love for me?
7852What''s the matter I do n''t write to Natalie any more?
7852What-- can neither affection nor civility induce you to devote to me the small portion of time which I have required?
7852When the heat shall be intolerable here, shall I set my face towards the sun?
7852When were these communications made?
7852When, when will that month come?
7852When, when will the month of October come?
7852Where and how made?
7852Where are the promised letters?
7852Where did it loiter so long?
7852Where is Hampton all this while, that you say nothing of him?
7852Where is Miss Burr?
7852Where now was the boy?
7852Where will you be from the 10th to 15th May?
7852Which_ Maria_ did your husband go for, the biped or the quadruped?
7852Who are so naturally our friends as those who are born such?
7852Who can view the miseries of others, without being dissolved into compassion?
7852Who will be appointed?
7852Why are you so cautiously silent as to our little Sally?
7852Why are you still in town?
7852Why did I consent to his departure?
7852Why did I hesitate to decide?
7852Why did you undertake that very laborious task you mention?
7852Why do you delay it so long?
7852Why do you neither acknowledge nor answer my last letter?
7852Why have you not already done it?
7852Why may not Papa Alston be weaned as well as Papa Burr?
7852Why may not this be done again?
7852Why, Burr, all this negligence?
7852Why, then, expose my person?
7852Why, then, will you expose my weakness by ascribing to me imaginary excellences?
7852Will it not advance the service to send you down some biscuit?
7852Will it not be possible for you to meet me at Trenton, that we may travel together to New- York?
7852Will not the same pertinacity and precipitation endanger the better-- the opposite cause?
7852Will not these continued rains deprive us of the pleasure of the promised visit of the W.''s?
7852Will the reader examine the deposition, especially what relates to Mr. McLean and Mr. Latimer?
7852Will you be able to extricate me from the difficulties attending this bill?
7852Will you be abroad any, and what part of the summer?
7852Will you speedily supply the deficiency?
7852Will your health permit you to join the army?
7852Without enjoyment, without distinction?
7852Wo n''t she come up this winter?
7852Would Charles Lee accept the place of secretary of the Senate?
7852Would Mr. Alston be willing to go as secretary to Chancellor Livingston?
7852Would he believe, still further, that it was drawn by an American?
7852Would it be an intolerable labour, if, precisely at half past nine o''clock every evening, you should say,"I will now devote an hour to papa?"
7852Would not these evils be in some measure remedied by sending me a parcel of shoes?
7852Would not this be truly satanic?
7852Would you think it?
7852Yet wherefore?
7852Yet would not a permanent residence in town for some, for many, for all reasons, be better?
7852Yet, on second thought, would it not be better that he break his?
7852You are not contented, my dear Burr, and why are you not?
7852You ask how Miss P. walks?
7852You say nothing of writing or learning Greek verbs;--is this practice discontinued?
7852You sigh for New- Jersey, and why do you not return?
7852_ Interrogatory on the part of the plaintiff_.--Do you know of any matter or thing that may be beneficial to the plaintiff on the trial of this cause?
7852_ It leaves a chasm in my arrangements_ which can not be adequately filled up?"
7852_ Qu''a- t- il_, Alexis?
7852and if so, what did he say?
7852and why?
7852and, therefore, what more proper to engage the attention?
7852can aught on earth compensate for his presence?
7852for what am I reserved?
7852from what unfriendly cause does this arise?
7852frown?
7852has Heaven more to grant?
7852if so, how many times?
7852if so, were such letter or letters forwarded to him through the postoffice by any person, and who?
7852if so, what were their names?
7852if so, who were such person or persons?
7852is she to wear out her youth and beauty, dissipate her talents, and exhaust her spirits without an object in life or a place in society?
7852or flying after the Atalanta''s of Virginia, more swift than their celebrated racers?
7852or the postmaster?
7852or whom?
7852that he was apprized that an attempt would be made to secure his election?
7852that the plaintiff declared, as to the first question, it would not be expedient to enter into explanations, or words to that effect?
7852the anxiety and misery it cost us for some days?
7852what more near and interesting?
7852what sacrifices do you make, and to what end?
57383''Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? 57383 ''The question,''Mr. Lincoln replied,''was,"Why does man have breasts?"''
57383''Well, what about General King?'' 57383 ''Well,''he said,''are you on good terms with Price and King?''
57383***On the vote to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law, how did that( Democratic) side of the House vote?
57383And suppose they could be induced by a Proclamation of Freedom from me to throw themselves upon us, what should we do with them? 57383 Any chickens?"
57383Any eggs?
57383Any flour or grain?
57383Any guerrillas?
57383Are you a member of the other House?
57383Are you prepared for such a change in the institutions of your country? 57383 Are you the Governor of a State?"
57383But what more was done? 57383 But why should Emancipation South, send the freed people North?
57383Certainly not"Have you ever had a vote of thanks by name?
57383Dependenceupon whom, and with regard to what?
57383Descendants of the same people inhabit the country; yet what is the reason of this vast difference? 57383 Do you think you could become so interested in my conversation as not to notice the door- keeper?"
57383Have you any meat?
57383He said,''Wo n''t General Price vote for it? 57383 How will it be with New England?
57383I ask the Senator to recollect, too, what, save to send aid and comfort to the Enemy, do these predictions of his amount to? 57383 If, then, for a common object, this Property is to be sacrificed, is it not just that it be done at a common charge?
57383If, then, we are at some time to be as populous as Europe, how soon? 57383 Is anybody in the house?"
57383Is it a good road, and how far?
57383Is it doubted, then, that the plan I propose, if adopted, would shorten the War, and thus lessen its expenditure of money and of blood? 57383 Is it locked up?"
57383Is it true, then, that Colored people can displace any more White labor by being Free, than by remaining Slaves? 57383 Is no one about who can get in?"
57383Is there no Justice in putting an end to human Slavery? 57383 It is not,''Can any of us imagine better?''
57383Now, I ask any plain common- sense man what was the meaning of that? 57383 Now, then, tell me, if you please, what possible result of good would follow the issuing of such a Proclamation as you desire?
57383Now, where is the proper place to break it?
57383Question. � And of course an abandonment of the purpose for which you were there? 57383 Question. � At that time General Patterson felt it was so important to attack Johnston that he had determined to do it?
57383Question. � Behind his intrenchments? 57383 Question. � Did not General Patterson issue orders at Bunker Hill, the night before you marched to Charlestown, for an attack on the Enemy?
57383Question. � Even if you had received a check there, it would have prevented his junction with the forces at Manassas? 57383 Question. � That order was not countermanded until late on Tuesday, the 16th, was it?
57383Question. � You understood General Patterson to be influenced to make that attempt because he felt there was a necessity for detaining Johnston? 57383 Question[ by Mr. Odell]. � Had you any such understanding with Patterson?
57383Question[ by Mr. Odell]. � You covered his movement? 57383 Question[ by the Chairman]. � Did he[ Patterson] assign any reason for that movement?
57383Shall one battle determine the fate of empire, or a dozen? � the loss of one thousand men, or twenty thousand? 57383 The question is, if the Colored people are persuaded to go anywhere, why not there?
57383Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution? 57383 Well, ai n''t you on our side?"
57383Well,said he,"did n''t you think it was the biggest shuck and the littlest ear that ever you did see?"
57383Well,said he,"did you see him take it off?"
57383Well,said he,"what do you want of me?"
57383Well,said he,"why do n''t you go into the gallery?"
57383What appointment?
57383What are the uses of decisions of Courts? 57383 What do you know of Uncle Billy?"
57383What do you live on?
57383What else was done at the very same session? 57383 What good would a Proclamation of Emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated?
57383What is to be done with the freedmen?
57383What is your badge?
57383What says the Preamble to the Constitution? 57383 What troops are those?"
57383What,said he, referring to Mr. Ross,"has been the course of that gentleman and his Party on this floor in regard to voting supplies to the Army?
57383Where?
57383Whether such language is not Treason?
57383Why should they leave this Country? 57383 Why should this Property be exempt from the hazards and consequences of a rebellious War?
57383Why was not this taken and accepted? 57383 Why?"
57383Will you ever submit to a warfare waged by the Southern States to establish Slavery in Illinois? 57383 � you ask �"What next?"
57383''Must a Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?''
57383*** But you may ask me what are these rights and these privileges?
57383*** How has the planting of Slavery in new countries always been effected?
57383*** On the subject of arming Slaves, of putting Negroes into the Army, how has my colleague and his Party voted?
57383*** This being so, what is Judge Douglas going to spend his life for?
57383*** What can authorize him to draw any such inference?
57383*** What cause is there for further alarm in the Southern States, so far as the Territories are concerned?
57383*** What is fairly implied by the term Judge Douglas has used,''resistance to the decision?''
57383*** What is now the case?
57383*** Who did it?
57383*** Will it be any more valid?
57383***"''Question. � In what direction would Johnston have had to move to get by you?
57383***"I ask Mr. Lincoln how it is that he purposes ultimately to bring about this uniformity in each and all the States of the Union?
57383***"You may ask, why does the South want us to do it by Constitutional Amendment, when we have just done it voluntarily by Law?
57383******"What more, then, is demanded?
57383********* Question[ by the Chairman]. � Would there have been any difficulty in preventing Johnston from going to Manassas?
57383*********"Question. � While at Bunker Hill, the night before you left there, were any orders issued to march in the evening?
57383**********''Question[ by the Chairman]. � And that left Johnston free?
573831, but are in the immediate neighborhood, on their plantations?
573839:45 p.m."LIEUTENANT- GENERAL GRANT:"Would it not be well for Warren to go down with his whole corps and smash up the force in front of Sheridan?
57383A Freeman?
57383A few days afterward the husband again appealed to his commanding officer( Taylor), who exclaimed:"Have n''t you got a musket?
57383After assisting him in checking his steed, the President said to me:''He came pretty near getting away with me, did n''t he?
57383After shaking hands all round, the Governor said,"Coleman, what the devil is the matter here?"
57383And Farnsworth met this idea � which had also been advanced by Messrs. Ross, Fernando Wood, and Pruyn � by saying:"What constitutes property?
57383And as it is to so go, at all, events, may we not agree that the sooner the better?
57383And as to Oligarchal rule � the rule of the few( and those the Southern chiefs) over the many, � was not that already accomplished?
57383And how is it, that Johnston gets away from Patterson so neatly?
57383And if such is the case, what are we to hope in the future?
57383And is it not needed whenever it helps us and hurts the Enemy?
57383And then cried the orator- his voice rising to a higher key, penetrating, yet musical as the blast from a silver trumpet:"What would he have?
57383And then, having succeeded in convincing himself of Republican failure, he exultingly exclaimed:"But why enumerate?
57383And to this more than fair proposition to the Southerners � to this touching appeal in behalf of Peace � what was the response?
57383And we are asked by one of my colleagues,( Mr. Cox) does the gentleman from New York intend to call us Traitors?
57383And what can that purpose be, but to throw his augmented right upon our left, at Blackburn''s Ford, and so, along the ridge- road, upon Centreville?
57383And what have we seen?
57383And what is this"republican"form of government, thus pledged?
57383And what next?
57383And what was the chief cause or pretext for discontent at that time?
57383And what was the response of the South to this generous and conciliatory message?
57383And when does he do it?
57383And whose the sacrilegious hand that dared be first raised against his Country and his Country''s flag?
57383And why may we not continue that ratio far beyond that period?
57383And why the hasty after- indorsement of the decision, by the President and others?
57383And, above all, is it consistent with any notion, which the mind of man can conceive, of human Liberty?"
57383And, in any event, can not the North decide for itself, whether to receive them?
57383Another, Mr. Charles E. Lex( a Republican), speaking of the Southern People, said:"What, then, can we say to them?
57383Are they not already in the Land?
57383Are they not intended for disorganization in our very midst?
57383Are they not intended to animate our enemies?
57383Are they not intended to destroy our zeal?
57383Are they not intended to dull our weapons?
57383Are we to predict evil, and retire from what we predict?
57383Are we to stop and talk about an uprising sentiment in the North against the War?
57383Are you for it?
57383Are you for it?
57383As I drew up by the party, Bismarck accosted me with,"Well, General, are n''t you hungry?
57383As a political question and a question of humanity, can I receive the services of a father and mother, and not take the children?
57383At every meal the steward would come to me, and say,"Captain Sherman, will you bring your ladies to the table?"
57383At this General Grant remarked:"Did he say so?
57383Aye, what next?
57383Benjamin, why do you not vote?
57383But do you think they are so perfectly moulded to their state as to be insensible that a better exists?
57383But how can we attain it?
57383But it first became necessary to settle the important question of who should succeed General McPherson?
57383But the matter regarded by him of larger moment � the safety of the Union � how about that?
57383But to return to Military operations: On December 10th?
57383But what have we seen?
57383But what next?
57383But what would be the effect upon South Carolina?
57383Ca n''t you defend your own family?"
57383Can Grant supply himself from the Mississippi?
57383Can I have fifty?
57383Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws?
57383Can aliens make treaties, easier than friends can make laws?
57383Can it be that such a resort finds root in any stratum of American opinion?
57383Can not this last bloody battle be avoided?''
57383Can the Union endure under such a system of policy?
57383Can their self love be so totally annihilated as not frequently to induce ardent wishes for a change?
57383Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?
57383Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens, than laws can among friends?
57383Can we Abolish Slavery in the Loyal State of Kentucky against her will?
57383Can we account for it to ourselves, gentlemen?
57383Can we afford to send them forward to their masters, to be by them armed against us, or used in producing supplies to sustain the Rebellion?
57383Can we do anything more?
57383Can we whip the South?
57383Can you expedite the sending to Nashville of the recruits that are in Indiana and Ohio?
57383Continuing, he said:"What more do the Southern States want?
57383Could I get a hundred tolerably intelligent men, with their wives and children, and able to''cut their own fodder''so to speak?
57383Could not such a camp be established about Pocotaligo or Coosawhatchie?
57383Could not such escaped slaves find at least a partial supply of food in the rice- fields about Savannah, and cotton plantations on the coast?
57383Could not your cavalry go back by the way of Stony Creek depot and destroy or capture the store of supplies there?
57383Could the one, in any way, greatly disturb the seven?
57383Davis, etc.?
57383Do not its principles and theories become daily more fixed in our practice?
57383Do we not know it to be so?
57383Do we not know that they have been anxious for a change of Government for years?
57383Do we not know this?"
57383Do you mean that I am to concede the benefits of the political struggle through which we have passed, considered politically, only?
57383Do you mean that I am to give up my convictions of right?
57383Do you mean that we are to deny the great principle upon which our political action has been based?
57383Do you suppose we shall do nothing, even upon the sea?
57383Do you think differently?
57383Do you visit the North in the Summer?
57383Does it appear otherwise to you?
57383Does not the Fugitive Slave Law affect the Black soldier in the Army who was a Slave?
57383Does the Free Republic of the United States exist, in fact, to- day?
57383Does timidity ask WHEN?
57383From your Custom- houses?
57383General Blair simply asked,"Do you like it?"
57383General Grant remarked,"What is to prevent their laying the rails again?"
57383General Halleck had a map on his table, with a large pencil in his hand, and asked,"where is the rebel line?"
57383Governor of a State?
57383Halleck was present and spoke up, saying:"How would Sheridan do?"
57383Halleck''s telegram of last night says:"Who sent Smith''s division to Nashville?
57383Has Congress any power over the subject of Slavery in Kentucky or Virginia or any other State of this Union?
57383Has any thing been heard from the troops ordered from Vicksburg?
57383Has he not stolen a march and sent re- enforcements toward Manassas Junction?
57383Has it more waste surface by mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, or other causes?
57383Have any more troops arrived from Richmond, or are any more coming, or reported to be coming?
57383Have we not at the South, as well as the North, grown great, prosperous, and happy under its operations?
57383He asked me,"Where?"
57383He dropped out of the retinue with an orderly, and after we had ridden a mile or so he overtook us, and I asked him,"What luck?"
57383He inquired,"Why not both?"
57383He remaining mounted, spoke first to me, saying simply,"How are you, Sheridan?"
57383He said:"What is the use of your persevering?
57383He then asked in his quizzical way,"Are you a foreign embassador?"
57383He then said,"Have you any impudence?"
57383He turned to me and said,"Ca n''t you take your regiment up there?"
57383How can this be done?
57383How can we feed and care for such a multitude?
57383How can we, by conceding what you now ask, relieve you and the Country from the increasing pressure to which you refer?
57383How did that side of the House vote on the question of arming Slaves and paying them as soldiers?
57383How does it happen that we have not had unanimity enough to agree on any measure of that kind?
57383How is he going to do it?
57383How long have we been at War?
57383How many letters of marque and reprisal would it take to put the whole of your ships up at your wharves to rot?
57383How will he do it?
57383How?
57383I answered, rather shortly,''How the devil do you know there is a masked battery?
57383I answered:"How can you go to New York?
57383I asked Deshler:"What does this mean?
57383I assured him with thanks that I was"first- rate,"when, pointing toward the village, he asked,"Is General Lee up there?"
57383I had on my undress uniform indicating my rank, and inquired of the sentinel,"Is General Fremont up?"
57383I presume that some one said to the Governor about this time,"Why do n''t you get Sheridan?"
57383I said I had come to see him on business; and he added,"You do n''t suppose that he will see such as you?"
57383I said to Mr. Pickens,''What next do you propose we shall do?
57383I submit to you, my fellow- citizens, whether such a line of policy is consistent with the peace and harmony of the Country?
57383I touched it and examined one or two of the larger pieces, and asked,"Is it gold?"
57383If Hood goes to the Alabama line, will it not be impossible for him to subsist his army?
57383If Rebellion and bloodshed and murder have followed, to whose skirts does the responsibility attach?
57383If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not say it does not mean some other man?
57383If such persons have what will be an advantage to them, the question is, whether it can not be made of advantage to you?
57383If the rebel leaders were to arm the slaves, what would be its effect?
57383If you ca n''t get over, how can the rebels get at you?''
57383In answer to his compliments about the comfortable location I had made, I said:''Very comfortable, General, when shall we move on?''
57383In that event, could you stand the reaction feeling which the suffering commerce of Charleston would probably manifest?
57383In that event, would it not be possible for you to become a citizen of our State?
57383In what do our new Territories now differ in this respect from the old Colonies when Slavery was first planted within them?
57383In what way can that Compromise be used to keep Lee''s Army out of Pennsylvania?
57383Is he going to spend his life in maintaining a principle that no body on earth opposes?
57383Is it doubted that it would restore the National authority and National prosperity, and perpetuate both indefinitely?
57383Is it inferior to Europe in any natural advantage?
57383Is it less fertile?
57383Is it not a mere usurpation without any known mode of justification, under any existing Code of Laws, human or Divine?"]
57383Is it not a time when the measure is most likely to produce danger and mischief to the Country at large?
57383Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before?
57383Is it worth our while to continue this union of States, where the North demands to be our masters and we are required to be their tributaries?
57383Is that what you mean?
57383Is there a single Court or Magistrate, or individual that would be influenced by it there?
57383Is there no danger to the Tranquillity of the Country in its existence?
57383Is there, has there ever been, any question that, by the Law of War, property, both of enemies and friends, may be taken when needed?
57383It forces us to ask:''Is there in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?''
57383It has the sanction of God''s own Apostle; for when Paul sent back Onesimus to Philemon, whom did he send?
57383It is only a week ago last Monday, that a Bill was introduced here to punish guerrillas*** and how did my colleague vote?
57383Look to the illustrations which the times now afford, how, in the illustration of that sentiment, do we differ from the Black man?
57383MAJOR- GENERAL THOMAS, Nashville, Tenn. Is there not danger of Forrest moving down the Cumberland to where he can cross it?
57383Major Childs inquired,"Where is Coacoochee?"
57383Major W. T. Sherman: Will you accept the chief clerkship of the War Department?
57383Mason said to me,"What is that?"
57383May it not interfere with the common Defense and general Welfare?
57383May they not pronounce all Slaves Free?
57383May they not think that these call for the abolition of Slavery?
57383Member of Congress?"
57383Mr. Lincoln*** more than once exclaimed:''Must more blood be shed?
57383Mr. Lincoln, who was still standing, said,"Threatened to shoot you?"
57383My friends, is it possible to preserve Peace between the North and the South if such a doctrine shall prevail in either Section of the Union?
57383Not that he feared the North � but the South; how would the wayward, wilful, passionate South, receive his proffered olivef- branch?
57383Now, what do we find?
57383Now, who was it that did the work?
57383Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs,''Can we do better?
57383Of all the times when an attempt was ever made to carry this measure, is not this the most inauspicious?
57383Of parties claiming foreign protection?
57383Offering the flask to his uncle, he said:"You''ve had a hard day of it; wo n''t you refresh yourself?"
57383Often"Johnny"would call:"Well, Yank, when are you coming into town?"
57383One party to a contract may violate it � break it, so to speak; but does it not require all, to lawfully rescind it?
57383Or would he conduct this War so feebly, that the whole World would smile at us in derision?"
57383Others say:"What are we to do?
57383Our position for renewing the action the next morning was excellent; whence, then, our failure?
57383Pausing awhile, and watching the operations of this man roasting his corn, he said,"What are you doing?"
57383President?''
57383Renick said,"What do you want with General Fremont?"
57383Shall we send a flag of Truce?
57383Sherman said to me:"Admiral, how could you make such a remark to McClernand?
57383Should his request be granted, who would you like as his successor?
57383Should we allow them to escape, etc.?
57383Simply that a Constitutional Amendment shall be adopted, affirming � what?
57383Sir, are they not words of brilliant, polished Treason, even in the very Capitol of the Nation?
57383Sir, how can we make Peace?
57383Sir, how can we retreat?
57383Sir, is not this a remarkable spectacle?
57383So that among the younger officers the query was very natural,"Who the devil is Governor of California?"
57383So that the only questions that remained were, would he surrender at Raleigh?
57383Some say:"I have such a one sick at my house; who will wait on them when I am gone?"
57383State in what manner you would rather live-- whether scattered among the whites, or in colonies by yourselves?
57383State what you understand by slavery, and the freedom that was to be given by the President''s proclamation?
57383State what, in your opinion, is the best way to enlist colored men as soldiers?
57383Suppose he does re- enact the same law which the Court has pronounced unconstitutional, will that make it Constitutional?
57383The Governor knocked at the door, and on inquiry from inside"Who''s there?
57383The immediate Secessionists, or those who are opposed to separate State action at this time?
57383The next was,"What are WE to do?"
57383The only question now was, how to get rid of it?
57383The question, then, naturally arises, what are those rights and privileges, and what is the nature and extent of them?
57383Then followed the question,"Is Fort McAllister taken?"
57383These speeches of his, sown broadcast over the Land, what clear distinct meaning have they?
57383This being so, how is it possible for the people still here( mostly women and children) to find any shelter?
57383This feature was more than acceptable to the parents at times, for how else could they so thoroughly learn all the neighborhood gossip?
57383To mob law, to partisan caucuses, to town meetings, to revolution?
57383To whom shall you appeal?
57383Tracy desiring"to know whether, in these Halls, the gentleman from Maryland invoked Almighty God that the American Arms should not prevail?"
57383Upon what terms?
57383WHAT NEXT?
57383WHAT NEXT?
57383WHAT NEXT?
57383Warming up, he proceeded to say:"Can the Union be restored by War?
57383Was it Mr. Clark?
57383Was it that they believed a Monarchical form of government was incompatible with civil liberty?
57383Was it that they were opposed to a Monarchical form of government?
57383Was it the firing on our flag at Sumter?
57383Was that the first adversary passage?
57383We then returned to Benicia, and Wool''s first question was,"What luck?"
57383Well, so much being disposed of, what is left?
57383Well, suppose he is; what is he going to do about it?
57383Were it his own, would he not have said in"making"it, instead of in"stating"it?
57383What American is not proud of the result?
57383What Commissioners?
57383What better Compromise could have been made?
57383What can I do for you?"
57383What can it be?
57383What could I do?
57383What do those terms mean when used now?
57383What do those terms mean?
57383What good does it do to pass a second Act?
57383What has become of it?
57383What has become of that Squatter Sovereignty?
57383What has been their course in regard to raising money to pay the Army?
57383What has now become of all his tirade about''resistance to the Supreme Court?''"
57383What is Popular Sovereignty?
57383What is War?
57383What is it?
57383What more can any man demand?
57383What more?
57383What of future hopes?
57383What of past glories?
57383What should be done with them?
57383What signified the terms to them, so long as we obtained the actual surrender of people who only wanted a good opportunity to give up gracefully?
57383What then?
57383What then?
57383What was Squatter Sovereignty?
57383What was to be done with the rebel armies when defeated?
57383What were they but a clear indication that the framers of the Constitution intended and expected the ultimate extinction of that institution?
57383What will become of Constitutional Government?
57383What will become of public Liberty?
57383What would be its fate there?
57383What would he have?
57383What would our condition be in the event of the greatest calamity that could befall this Nation?"
57383What''vested right''has any man or State in Property in Man?
57383When ground is owned by parties who have gone south, and have leased the ground to parties now in the city who own the improvements on the ground?
57383When he did speak it was to ask:"Grant, how many wolves do you think there are in that pack?"
57383When houses are occupied and the owner has gone south, leaving an agent to collect rent for his benefit?
57383When houses are owned by loyal citizens, but are unoccupied?
57383When movable property is found in stores that are closed?
57383When parties owning houses have gone south, and the tenant has given his notes for the rent in advance?
57383When parties who occupy the house are creditors of the owner, who has gone south?
57383When the navigation laws cease to operate, what will become of your shipping interest?
57383When the owner has gone south, and parties here hold liens on the property and are collecting the rents to satisfy their liens?
57383When the owner lives in town, and refuses to take the oath of allegiance?
57383When the tenant has expended several months''rent in repairs on the house?
57383When this Tariff ceases to operate in your favor, and you have to pay for coming into our markets, what will you export?
57383When your machinery ceases to move, and your operatives are turned out, will you tax your broken capitalist or your starving operative?
57383Where are you?"
57383Where is Rome, once the mistress of the World?
57383Where is it?
57383Where is the remedy when you refuse obedience to the constituted authorities?"
57383Where is to be your boundary line?
57383Where the end of the principles we shall have to give up?
57383Which party will prevail?
57383Who defeated it?
57383Who ever supposed they would come away down here in Alabama?"
57383Who have prompted him?
57383Who heard of any such thing, because of the Ordinance of''87?
57383Who is responsible for it?
57383Who is so bold as to do it?
57383Who shall treat?
57383Who would go?
57383Who, then, has brought these evils on the Country?
57383Who, then, shall come in at this day and claim that he invented it?
57383Whose fault was it?
57383Why better after the retraction than before the issue?
57383Why declare that within twenty years the African Slave Trade, by which Slaves are supplied, might be cut off by Congress?
57383Why deprive him of supplies by a blockade, and voluntarily give him men to produce them?
57383Why disguise this great truth?
57383Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command?
57383Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command?
57383Why even a Senator''s individual opinion withheld, till after the Presidential election?
57383Why is this so?
57383Why may not our Country at some time, average as many?
57383Why not attack at once?
57383Why not save this Proposition, and see if we can not bring the Country to it?''
57383Why not?
57383Why should they do anything for us if we will do nothing for them?
57383Why the delay of a re- argument?
57383Why the incoming President''s advance exhortation in favor of the decision?
57383Why the outgoing President''s felicitation on the indorsement?
57383Why this sad difference?
57383Why was the Court decision held up?
57383Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people, voted down?
57383Why was this, or why was all mention of any field of duty for the head of the army left out of the army regulations?
57383Why were all these acts?
57383Will he be able to convince the Court that the second Act is valid, when the first is invalid and void?
57383Will he shrink from armed Insurrection?
57383Will his State justify it?
57383Will it be said the South required in addition to this, laws of Congress to protect Slavery in the Territories?
57383Will its better public opinion allow it?
57383Will liberation make them any more numerous?
57383Will that do any good?
57383Will that success continue?
57383Will the Senator yield to Rebellion?
57383Will the galling comparison between themselves and their masters leave them unenlightened in this respect?
57383Will you not embrace it?
57383Will you not embrace it?
57383Wo n''t you speak your mind freely on this question of slavery, that so agitates the land?
57383Would it be less than stealing?"
57383Would my word free the Slaves, when I can not even enforce the Constitution in the Rebel States?
57383Would we not be in the wrong?"
57383Would you not lose that in which your strength consists, the union of your people?
57383You ask, what is the general''s opinion, upon this subject?
57383You here are Freemen, I suppose?
57383You will ask in this view, how do you consult the benefit of the slaves?
57383and will they not be warranted by that power?
57383and"whether it is in order to talk Treason in this Hall?
57383are we to tell the People that Republicanism is a failure?
57383because of the Missouri Restriction because of the numerous Court decisions of that character?
57383but,''Can we all do better?''
57383or is it not manifest that there is no just title?
57383or one hundred million or five hundred million dollars?
57383said Mr. Lincoln,"how are they getting along down there?"
57383said a listener,"do n''t you know that old Sherman carries a duplicate tunnel along?"
57383what do you export?
57383what more than we have expressed in the resolutions we have offered?
57383where are they to come from?"
57383where will their revenue come from?
57383why have not the People of that Heaven- favored clime, the spirit that animated their fathers?
57383will you work?
57383� said Davies �"and can they get through that road?"