Tales Of Hearsay
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
English
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TALES OF HEARSAY
BY JOSEPH CONRAD
COPYRIGHT, 1911, 1917, 1918,
BY THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE CO.
GARDENCITY, N. Y.
Contents
THE WARRIOR'S SOUL
(1917)
The old officer with long white moustaches gave rein to his indignation.
"Is it possible that you youngsters should have no more sense than that!Some of you had better wipe the milk off your upper lip before you startto pass judgment on the few poor stragglers of a generation which hasdone and suffered not a little in its time."
His hearers having expressed much compunction the ancient warrior becameappeased. But he was not silenced.
"I am one of them—one of the stragglers, I mean," he went onpatiently. "And what did we do? What have we achieved? He—the greatNapoleon—started upon us to emulate the Macedonian Alexander, witha ruck of nations at his back. We opposed empty spaces to Frenchimpetuosity, then we offered them an interminable battle so that theirarmy went at last to sleep in its positions lying down on the heaps ofits own dead. Then came the wall of fire in Moscow. It toppled down onthem.
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