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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER XV
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They are all, it says, animated by a hostile feeling towards France.

"We give them warning, and we hope that they will profit by it." Now, we know pretty well what French journalists term a hostile feeling towards their country.

We were told at the commencement of the war that the English press was sold to Prussia, because it declined to believe in the Imperial bulletins of victories.

That a correspondent should simply tell the truth, without fear or favour, never enters into the mind of a Gaul.

For my part, I confess that my sympathies are with France; and I am glad to hear, on so good authority, that these sympathies have not biassed my recital of events.


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