23/43 Here was a peasant, but a thinking peasant, and there were millions like him in France. They were not really peasants in the old sense of the word, but workingmen with a stake in the country, and the mind and courage to defend it. It might be possible to beat the army of a nation, but not a nation in arms. You've talked a lot for a man who has been unconscious four days." "You're right, my good Picard, as I've no doubt you usually are. Was I troublesome, much, when I was out in the dark ?" "But little, sir. |