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"That's the spirit!" says Mr. Robert. "As the French said at Verdun, 'Ils ne passeront pas. Eh?" "Meaning 'No Gangway', I expect!" says I. "That's the idea," says he. "But say, Mr. Robert, what's he look like, this king of the dotted line!" says I. Mr. Robert shakes his head. "I was sitting back to him," says he. "Besides, to give you his description would be taking rather an unfair advantage.
Well hast thou said, O ragged Macaire, "Le jour va passer, MAIS LES BADAUDS NE PASSERONT PAS." About the year 1760, there lived, at Paris, a little fellow, who was the darling of all the wags of his acquaintance. Nature seemed, in the formation of this little man, to have amused herself, by giving loose to half a hundred of her most comical caprices.
But Macaire's receipt is easy. "Get a gown, take a shop," he says, "borrow some chairs, preach about Napoleon, or the discovery of America, or Moliere and there's a religion for you." We have quoted this sentence more for the contrast it offers with our own manners, than for its merits. After the noble paragraph, "Les badauds ne passeront pas.
I passed the bookshop where Mademoiselle was locking up the door of this house which had escaped by greater luck than its neighbors. She turned as I passed and raised her hand with a grave gesture of resignation and courage. "Ils ne passeront pas!" she said. It was the spirit of the courage of French womanhood which spoke in those words.
But General Joffre, instead of sending the telegram in question, merely dispatched officers to British Headquarters to assure and calm the chafing Scotsman commanding the military forces of the British Empire. Throughout that long summer the battle cry of Verdun, "Ne passeront pas!" Then as autumn drifted its red foliage over the heights surrounding the bloody field, the French struck back.
The sheets were often flattened kerosene- and gasoline-cans and were drawn taut and smooth. These are impasses for the wily climbers. "Ils ne passeront pas," said the French; "Aita haere!" the Tahitians.
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