Pray do me the honour to join me in a bock.' With a feeling of distinction we stalked out of the ordinary ruck of passengers and followed the lieutenant to the station restaurant.

He plunged at once into conversation, talking the Dutch of Holland, which Peter, who had forgotten his school-days, found a bit hard to follow.
He was unfit for active service, because of his eyes and a weak heart, but he was a desperate fire-eater in that stuffy restaurant.

By his way of it Germany could gobble up the French and the Russians whenever she cared, but she was aiming at getting all the Middle East in her hands first, so that she could come out conqueror with the practical control of half the world.
'Your friends the English,' he said grinning, 'will come last.

When we have starved them and destroyed their commerce with our under-sea boats we will show them what our navy can do.

For a year they have been wasting their time in brag and politics, and we have been building great ships--oh, so many! My cousin at Kiel--' and he looked over his shoulder.
But we never heard about that cousin at Kiel.