70/127 May God punish England!" And she extolled this patriarch's unheard-of exploit. He was the commandant of the submarine that had torpedoed one of the greatest English transatlantic steamers. Out of the twelve hundred passengers from New York more than eight hundred were drowned.... Women and children had gone down in the general destruction. He was now surveying with astonishment the photograph of this official surrounded with his biblical progeny, like a good-natured burgher. |