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I confess that my heart beat a little too rapidly when, as we ran out of Meaux, and took the route départmentale of Senlis, a soldier stepped to the middle of the road and held up his gun baionette au canon. We stopped. Were we after all going to be turned back? I had the guilty knowledge that there was no reason why we should not be.
The letter A alone might do it, signifying anonymous. "Voila, un as!" says the French soldier, indicating one of these brave modest fellows who chances to be passing. "You see that chap," one of our soldiers would say; "he's an A." All that I know of the "as" I have gathered from the French satirical paper, a child of the War, La Baïonette.
His followers, startled and cowed by the deed, and the voice and the look of the death-giver, halted. The officers, who had at first yielded to the panic of their men, took fresh courage, and finally led the bulk of the troop back to their post "enlevis a la baionette," to use the phrase of a candid historian of that day. Day, on the whole, not inglorious to France.
His followers, startled and cowed by the deed, and the voice and the look of the death-giver, halted. The officers, who had at first yielded to the panic of their men, took fresh courage, and finally led the bulk of the troop back to their, post "enlevis a la baionette," to use the phrase of a candid historian of that day. Day, on the whole, not inglorious to France.
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