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Updated: May 25, 2025
And they all thought surely they were going into Paris "Two days more," they had laughed as they drank down-stairs, "Paris, and then kaput!" You can imagine that gray horde rolling through the streets narrow, cobblestoned streets, with steep-roofed stone houses and queer little courts, and the air over all of having been lived in for generations on generations.
Jovannic wanted not so much to think as to dwell in the presence of his impressions. Those strange, quiet smiles! "Did you see them laughing?" he interrupted. "Smiling, I should say. After you had cut the fellow down they stopped crying out and they smiled." "Ha! Enough to make 'em," said Captain Hahn. "I laughed myself. All that play-acting before his people, and then, with two smacks kaput!
When he saw my pistol, he jerked his hands above his head. Dirty and unshaven, with the tears all wet on his face, he looked a woe-begone and tragic figure. "Kamerad! Kamerad!" he muttered stupidly at me. "Napoo! Kaput! Englander!" I gazed at the stranger, hardly able to believe my ears. That trench jargon in this place! "Are you English?" I asked him.
For instance, last summer when the news was full of repeated reports of Hindenburg's death, any sane man could foresee that what these reports really meant was not necessarily Hindenburg's death at all, but Germany's approaching military collapse. Some German prisoners had probably said "Hindenburg ist kaput," meaning "Hindenburg is done for," i.e., "The great offensive has failed."
Five years of school and one R&R field assignment under his belt, and he had been drafted into the I-A for brilliant detection of militancy on Hammel. And two years later kaput! Abruptly, Stetson hurled the service record at the gray metal wall across from him; then he got up, brought the record back to his desk, smoothing the pages. There were tears in his eyes.
On November 10th, a German soldier who followed Vivien about with humble fidelity since she had cured him of a bad whitlow and also because, as he said, it was a joy to speak English once more for he had been a waiter at the Savoy Hotel came to her in the Boulevard d'Anspach and said "The Red flag, lady, he fly from Kommandantur. With us I think it is Kaput."
Lavender became conscious for the first time of a young woman leaning up against the wall, with a pair of tweezers in her hand. "Take it out, Otto," she said in a low voice, "if he wants it." "No no," said Mr. Lavender sharply, resuming his teeth; "I would not for the world burden your conscience." "My clients are all batriots," said the young dentist, "and my bractice is Kaput.
Ashe made a deliberate process of chewing and swallowing before he replied. "Naturally." His tone reduced whatever had happened to Hardy to a matter-of-fact proceeding far removed from Kurt's implied melodrama. "He's smashed up ... kaput...." Kurt's accent, slight in the beginning, was thickening. "Tortured...." Ashe regarded him levelly. "You aren't on Hardy's run, are you?"
"I'm trying to warn you that the bozo you're after carries one of those new needle-guns, and the needles are poison-tipped. Also, he's the fastest man on the draw I've ever seen I watched him practice. Just one of those needles and you'd be kaput before you could yell." "Why ... how ... what d'you mean, huh, what d'you mean?"
From the ruined rooms, from the depths of the cellars, from the clumps of shrubbery in the park, from the stables and burned garage, came surging forth men dressed in greenish gray and pointed helmets. They all threw up their arms, extending their open hands: "Kamarades . . . kamarades, non kaput." With the restlessness of remorse, they were in dread of immediate execution.
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