I tell you they are very good people.

All the week they work and work, and on Sunday they go to church; and then maybe they take a little walk.
"You Americans now--you come from a very great country.

Surely, if the worst should come America will not let our country perish from off the earth, eh! Is not that so ?" Fifteen minutes later we were out again facing the dusty little square of Saint Jacques; and now of a sudden peace seemed to have fallen on the place.

The wagons of a little traveling circus were ranged in the middle of the square with no one about to guard them; and across the way was a small tavern.
All together we discovered we were hungry.

We had had bread and cheese and coffee, and were lighting some very bad native cigars, when the landlord burst in on us, saying in a quavering voice that some one passing had told him a squad of seven German troopers had been seen in the next street but one.