She was fleeing blindly, trying to escape from danger and shut out horrible visions.
Desnoyers and the Keeper's family listened to her explanations interrupted with hiccoughs of terror.
The Germans were in Villeblanche.

They had entered first in an automobile driven at full speed from one end of the village to the other.

Its mitrailleuse was firing at random against closed houses and open doors, knocking down all the people in sight.

The old woman flung up her arms with a gesture of terror.

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