Three days after we had left the army, the greatest battle since Sedan was waged for six days.
"So, our half-year of time and money, of dreary waiting, of daily humiliations at the hands of officers with minds diseased by suspicion, all of which would have been made up to us by the sight of this one great spectacle, was to the end absolutely lost to us.

Perhaps we made a mistake in judgment.

As the cards fell we certainly did.
"The only proposition before us was this: There was small chance of any immediate fighting.

If there were fighting we would not see it.
Confronted with the same conditions again, I would decide in exactly the same manner.

Our misfortune lay in the fact that our experience with other armies had led us to believe that officers and gentlemen speak the truth, that men with titles of nobility, and with the higher titles of General and Major-General, do not lie.