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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER IV
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A certain Bablot received 20,000fr.

for his services as a conspirator.
The complaints of the newspapers against the number of young men who avoid military duty by hooking themselves on in some capacity or other to an ambulance are becoming louder every day.

For my part I confess that I look with contempt upon any young Frenchman I meet with the red cross on his arm, unless he be a surgeon.

I had some thoughts of making myself useful as a neutral in joining one of these ambulances, but I was deterred by what happened to a fellow-countryman of mine who offered his services.

He was told that thousands of applicants were turned away every day, and that there already were far more persons attached to every ambulance than were necessary.
Dr.Evans, the leading spirit of the American ambulance, the man whose speciality it was to have drawn more royal teeth, and to have received more royal decorations than any other human being, has left Paris.


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