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Paths of Glory

CHAPTER 7
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If not, it is highly probable I shall meet others who are equally confident, and who will express the same views, which they hold because they are the views of the German people.
At eleven o'clock, when I start back to the hotel, the streets will be almost empty.

Aix will have gone to bed, and in bed it will peacefully stay unless a military Zeppelin sails over its rooftrees, making a noise like ten million locusts all buzzing at once.

There were two Zeppelins aloft last night, and from my window I saw one of them quite plainly.
It was hanging almost stationary in the northern sky, like a huge yellow gourd.

After a while it made off toward the weSt.One day last week three of them passed, all bound presumably for Paris or Antwerp, or even London.

That time the people grew a bit excited; but now they take a Zeppelin much as a matter of course, and only wonder mildly where it came from and whither it is going.
As for to-morrow, I imagine to-morrow will be another to-day; but yesterday was different.


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