Both of them, I think, were Prussians, but this general was a Saxon from the South.

Indeed, as I now recall, he said his home in peace times was in Dresden.

He seemed less simple of manner than they; they in turn lacked a certain flexibility and grace of bearing which were his.

But two things in common they all three had and radiated from them--a superb efficiency in the trade at which they worked and a superb confidence in the tools with which they did the work.

This was rather a small man, quick and supple in his movements.
He had a limited command of English, and he appeared deeply desirous that we Americans should have a good opinion of the behavior of his troops and that we should say as much in what we wrote for our fellow Americans to read.
Coming out of the house to reenter our automobile I saw, across the small square of the town, which by now was quite in darkness, the flare of a camp kitchen.