"In war who can tell?
We take our chances, we who live by the sword.

If a Russian is to get me, he will do so, and it will not help to be afraid, or to think of the chances that I may not see the end of what has been begun to-night! We have been getting ready for years.

Now we shall know before long if we have done enough.

The test has come for us of the fatherland." And then Fred said a bold thing.
"I can wish you good luck and a safe return, Lieutenant," he said.

"But I can't wish that your country may be victorious because my mother, after all, was a Russian." "I wouldn't ask that of you," said Ernst, with a laugh.