But you'll see, you'll see.

And the worst is that we are not situated as you are; we haven't a reserve of men and money in a dense peasant population, whose thrifty savings are always at hand to fill up the gaps caused by big catastrophes.

There is no social rise among our people as yet; fresh men don't spring up out of the lower classes to reinvigorate the national blood, as they constantly do in your country.

And, besides, the people are poor; they have no stockings to empty.

The misery is frightful, I must admit it.