I rose so high, because I thought attack here was less possible, but as no enemy is in sight we'll drop down." The _Arrow_ sank gradually, and now both could get a splendid view of a spectacle, such as no man had ever beheld until that day.

The sounds of battle were still unheard, but they clearly saw the fire of the cannon, the rapid-firers, and the rifles.

It was like a red streak running in curves and zigzags across fifty or maybe a hundred miles of country.
"We continue to cut in," said Lannes.

"You can see how our armies off there are marching into that great open space between the Germans.
Unless the extreme German army hastens it will be separated entirely from the rest.

Oh, what a day! What a glorious, magnificent day! A day unlike any other in the world's story! Our heads in the dust in the morning and high in the air by night!" "But we haven't won yet ?" "No, but we are winning enough to know that we will win." "How many men do you think are engaged in that battle below ?" "Along all its windings two millions, maybe, or at least a million and a half anyhow.