We're British all through, and don't you forget it--sir--( she added deprecatingly): British _all through_ and we're goin' to beat Germany yet, _you'll_ see.

The British navy never _has_ been licked nor won't be, this time." Colonel von Giesselin did not insist.

He seemed depressed himself at times, and far from elated at the victories announced in his own newspapers.

He would in the dreary autumn evenings show them the photographs of his wife--a sweet-looking woman--and his two solid-looking, handsome children, and talk with rapture of his home life.

Why, indeed, was there this War! His heart like his Emperor's bled for these unhappy Belgians.