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Updated: May 4, 2025
"And the smoke on the horizon?" "The smoke from the guns. They are fighting beyond Saarbrück yes, beyond Pfalzburg and Wörth; they are fighting beyond the Lauter." "Wissembourg?" "I think so. They are nearer now. Monsieur de Nesville, the battle has gone against the French." "How do you know?" demanded the marquis, harshly. "I have seen battles. One need only listen and look at the army yonder.
Different detachments were despatched against the northern fortresses, and by degrees Soissons, Verdun, Thionville, Ham, where Napoleon had once been a prisoner, Pfalzburg and Montmedy, all fell into the hands of the Prussians, thus opening to them a free road for the supplies of provisions.
Soldiers drilling, soldiers at target practice, and soldiers in companies marching about in every direction, greet my eyes upon approaching Pfalzburg; and although there appears to be less beating of drums and blare of trumpets than in French garrison towns, one seldom turns a street corner without hearing the measured tramp of a military company receding or approaching.
I linger in Saarburg only about thirty minutes, yet am addressed twice by natives in my own tongue; and at Pfalzburg, a smaller town, where I remain over night, I find the same characteristic.
At the little gasthaus at Pfalzburg the people appear to understand and anticipate an Englishman's gastronomic peculiarities, for the first time since leaving England I am confronted at the supper-table with excellent steak and tea.
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