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Updated: June 4, 2025
Fritz had never dropped any our way before. I never heard such a barrage, at least not for aeroplanes. It wasn't so bad as out here all the same you could take shelter, anyhow. Air-raids are bloody awful things, they put my wind up much more than shell-fire." We finished our work as the sun was setting. The clouds on the horizon had vanished. One by one the stars came out.
I've been in some twenty-five or thirty air-raids in four or five cities of France, and I have never yet seen many Americans who took to the "abris." They all want to see what's going on, and so they hunt the widest street, and the corner at that, to watch the air-raids.
The Coroner sympathised deeply with his lordship's position, and felt sure that his lordship understood that; but his lordship would also understand that the policy of heads of households in regard to air-raids had more than a domestic interest it had, one might say, a national interest; and the force of prominent example was one of the forces upon which the Government counted, and had the right to count, for help in the regulation of public conduct in these great crises of the most gigantic war that the world had ever seen.
Paris is a second home to me." "Can one get a passport easily for Paris?... I mean, supposing the air-raids grew too dangerous again." "Why not, madame? If one has one's papers. To get a passport from Paris to London, that would be another thing, I admit.... I see that you play," the Russian added, rising, with a gesture towards the piano. "I have heard you play. You play with true taste.
I expect he will be asking you." Jolyon smiled. "This promises to take the place of air-raids," he said. "After all, one misses them." Irene looked up at him. "We've known it would come some day." He answered her with sudden energy: "I could never stand seeing Jon blame you. He shan't do that, even in thought. He has imagination; and he'll understand if it's put to him properly.
The man who's too servile to be capable of feeling humiliation and too stupid to understand what danger is that's the man who makes a good, steady soldier. We've seen men so horribly smashed up by bombs that it makes you sick to look at them, and then people expect us not to be afraid of air-raids.
He forgot the children who had been killed. He did not know the air-raids had had much effect. "They had an unfortunate psychological effect." "Well, you don't forgive us." "On the contrary, the generality of Englishmen forgive Germany now she is down." My friend perceptibly winced at the word "down." I had used the wrong word. But it is true enough.
We did not learn whether it was the full moon or the U-boats shifting their hunting-grounds or the late air-raids on the south coast of England. Whatever the cause, no one growled much. The steamship people and the government were doing their best with a difficult service. The delay gave us another day to look the port over. I had been there years before.
Scogan's bandana-covered head was just below him; his terrifying whispers came clearly up. Denis looked and listened while the witch prophesied financial losses, death by apoplexy, destruction by air-raids in the next war. "Is there going to be another war?" asked the old lady to whom he had predicted this end. "Very soon," said Mr. Scogan, with an air of quiet confidence.
The mention of an air-raid rendered her definitely inimical. Formerly Marthe had been more than average nervous in air-raids, but she had grown used to them and now defied them. As she kept all windows closed on principle she heard less of raids than some people. G.J. did not explain the circumstances. He simply asked if Madame had returned. No, Madame had not returned.
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