The Gretchens are all sentimental; they talk of their inner feelings like the heroines of third-rate novels, send the object of their affections cigars and stockings knitted by their own fair hands, and implore him to be faithful, and not forget, in the toils of some French syren, poor Gretchen.

But what is more strange is that in the pocket of each corpse a reply is found which he has forgotten to post.

In this reply the warrior tells a fearful tale of his own sufferings, and says that victory is impossible, because the National Guards are such an invincible band.
The number of the wounded in my hotel has considerably diminished owing to the deaths among them.

For the Societe Internationale to have made it their central ambulance was a great mistake.

Owing to the want of ventilation the simplest operations are usually fatal.