We don't care a blow!
Tra-la-la-la.
We don't care a blow!
Lamalou spoilt his effect.
"Wot do you mean, 'don't care a blow'?"
They went on getting ready to a chorus of jests. They might have been starting off for a holiday.
Directly I was fully equipped, I went out and was one of the first to get into the avenue. I could not master the transport which swept me off my feet, at the thought of going into action. Of taking the offensive again! The captain must have second sight—and the time was not past. Our chance was intact, indeed, increased. Heavens! All that I had hoped for was coming to pass. Let me confess my vanity, my childish simplicity. I was actually under the delusion that if our luck was turning, it was my reward, for having drawn myself out of the pit to help others.
And was I so very much mistaken? Was I not responsible for a small share in this immortal decision? Would our leaders have taken such a risk—it was a bold move!—if those waves of faith and enthusiasm, which a few of us had raised, had not spread from our watchful quarters right away to them?
September 7th-9th