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That being now quite perfectly understood, you gentlemen will give yourselves the trouble to descend as you have come. Further, you will place a sentry at the tower door, and inform enquirers that General Count von Gierdorff and his staff are occupying the Nivelle belfry for purposes of observation."
The first was fought in the early part of November, and resulted in the occupation by Wellington's army of the great mountain-barrier south of Bayonne, with six miles of entrenchments along the Nivelle, and of the port of St. Jean de Luz.
If it were successful beyond expectation, it would achieve all that Nivelle had hoped to do by a frontal attack, and would compel a general German retreat by turning the enemy's flank as Joffre had tried to turn it in October 1914. But short of such extravagant anticipations it might materially help to win the war by defeating the real German offensive for 1917.
He then telephoned to General Nivelle the necessary permission for us to enter Verdun. I doubt whether General Petain realises the respect in which he is held in all the civilised countries of the world.
I did not remain long with General Nivelle; to have taken much of such a man's time would have been a rank impertinence. I would go to Verdun? he inquired. Yes, with his permission, I answered. Everything had been arranged, he assured me. But with a gesture he waved the compliment aside. "It is the men out there in the trenches who should be thanked," he said.
Before them is the Nivelle; they do not see it, since they see nothing, but they hear it run, and now long, flexible things are in the way of their steps, are crushed by their bodies: the reeds on the shores. The Nivelle is the frontier; they will have to cross it on a series of slippery rocks, leaping from stone to stone, despite the loads that make the legs heavy.
She staunched her tears with the edge of her apron. "It was that way with us," she managed to say. "I was enchanted and a little frightened it being my first friendship. He was so big, so droll, so kind.... We were on our way to Nivelle this morning.
"And do you mean that you and I are to go there, to Nivelle?" she asked. "That is exactly what I mean. In an hour I shall be in the Nivelle belfry. Will you be there with me?" "Yes." "Excellent!" he exclaimed. "You can play ’La Brabançonne’ on the bells while I blow hell out of them in the redoubt below us!" The infantry from the Nivelle trenches began to pass.
You understand, mon ami Djack, I had to come." He nodded. She added, naïvely: "God watches over our trenches. We shall be quite safe in Nivelle." A dull boom shook the sunlit air. Even in the cart they could feel the vibration. An hour later, everywhere ahead of them, a vast, confused thundering was steadily increasing, deepening with every ominous reverberation.
There was a watch on his wrist, but it had been put out of business when his machine fell in Nivelle woods. Glancing at it mechanically he saw the phosphorescent dial glimmer faintly under shattered hands that remained fixed. An hour later Bayard shook the starlit silence ten times.
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