Assuredly, to date and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I am the only civilian who has been so favored by the Germans.

Well, I trust I am not hoggish.
Possessing, as it does, this air of uniqueness, the distinction is worth much to me personally.

I would not take anything for the experience; but I do not think I shall take it again, even if the chance should come my way, which very probably it will not.
It was mid-afternoon; and all day, since early breakfast, we had been working our way in automobiles toward this destination.

Already my brain chambered more impressions, all jumbled together in a mass, than I could possibly hope to get sorted out and graded up and classified in a month of trying.

Yet, in a way, the day had been disappointing; for, as I may have set forth before, the nearer we came to the actual fighting, the closer in touch we got with the battle itself, the less we seemed to see of it.
I take it this is true of nearly all battles fought under modern military principles.