We have never spoken since.

A Prussian lieutenant is the most offensive specimen of humanity that nature and pipeclay have ever produced.

Apart from all political considerations, the supremacy of this nation in Europe will be a social calamity, unless France, like vanquished Greece, introduces the amenities of society among these pedants, squires, and martinets.
What, however, is to be done for the French?
Nothing, I am afraid.

They have brought their troubles on their own heads; and, to use an Americanism, they must face the music.

Even at this late moment they fail to realise the fact that they ever will be called upon to endure any real hardships, or that their town ever really will be bombarded.