24/26 They will come to an empty and a stricken country--a country red with blood, desolate, with blackened houses and empty cities. The horror of it! Think, my friend David, the horror of it!" Bellamy threw his head back with a sudden gesture of impatience. "England, at any rate, is not yet a conquered race. And there is France--Italy, too, if she is wise, will never suffer this thing from her ancient enemy." "It is the might of the world which threatens," she murmured. Last year you declared yourself our friend--you and even Russia. |