You will hear everything you regard as sacred laughed at and condemned, and every kind of nauseous folly acclaimed, and you must hold your tongue and pretend to agree.

You will have nothing in the world to do except to let the life soak into you, and, as I have said, keep your eyes and ears open.' 'But you must give me some clue as to what I should be looking for ?' 'My orders are to give you none.

Our chiefs--yours and mine--want you to go where you are going without any kind of _parti pris_.

Remember we are still in the intelligence stage of the affair.

The time hasn't yet come for a plan of campaign, and still less for action.' 'Tell me one thing,' I said.