Do not forget, young man, that the Vandals were the ancestors of the Prussians of to-day." Again Argensola tried to speak, but his friend signed to him not to interrupt the professor who appeared to have forgotten his former reserve and was working up to an enthusiastic pitch with his own words.
"We are going to witness great events," he continued.

"Fortunate are those born in this epoch, the most interesting in history! At this very moment, humanity is changing its course.

Now the true civilization begins." The war, according to him, was going to be of a brevity hitherto unseen.
Germany had been preparing herself to bring about this event without any long, economic world-disturbance.

A single month would be enough to crush France, the most to be feared of their adversaries.

Then they would march against Russia, who with her slow, clumsy movements could not oppose an immediate defense.