Original Short Stories of Maupassant, Volume 1

hort duration that saved a hundred and fifty thousand men from certain death. Hunger, the terrible cold, forced marches in the snow without boots, over bad mountain roads, had caused us 'francs-ti

rst of January, there remained only twenty-two pale, thin, ragged

red for. We all gained fresh life, and those who had been rich and happy before the war declared that they had never experienced a

in check, and the latter had their revenge by ravaging Franche Comte. Sometimes we heard that they had approached quite clos

as disgraceful and irritating to know that within two or three leagues of us the Germans were victorious and insolen

e had been a sublieutenant in the Zouaves, was tall and thin and as hard as steel, and during the whole campaign he had cut out their

? Does it not almost drive you mad to know that those beggarly wretches are walking about as masters in our mountai

you manage

st six months, and got out of woods that were guarded by very different men from the Sw

t shall we do in Fran

will get them over

all run the risk of doing the Swiss an injury, if Manteuffel

sians; that is all I care about. If you do not wish to do as I do, well and good; onl

s mind, we felt obliged to promise to go with him. We liked him too much to leave him in