12/20 "I can't think of the Germans without hating them, and so to-day, when all the world is hating them, I keep myself from thinking of them as much as I can. Already half the world is full of war; you want to go to war to make things right, but it won't; it will only make more war!" "Well, I--" "Don't you see what you've done, you boys ?" she said. "Don't you see what you've done with your absurd telegram? Vengeance is the most terrible thought; once you put it into people's minds that they ought to have it, it runs away with them." "Well, it isn't mostly vengeance we're after, at all. There's a lot more to it than just getting even with--" She did not heed him. |