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On the next afternoon the children about the Café des Réfugiés enjoyed the spectacle of the invalid Cuban moved on a trestle to the Café des Exilés, although he did not look so deathly sick as they could have liked to see him, and on the fourth morning the doors of the Café des Exilés remained closed. The hour for the funeral was fixed at four P.M. It never took place.
He had no doubt they said among themselves, "She is an excellent and beautiful girl and deserving all respect;" and respect they accorded, but their respects they never came to pay. "A café is a café," said the old gentleman. "It is nod possib' to ezcape him, aldough de Café des Exilés is differen from de rez." "It's different from the Café des Réfugiés," suggested the Irishman.
[Footnote 117: Écrit donné aux Habitants réfugiés
"Very well, madame," she replied as cheerfully as if the rumble of the procession behind us were not still in our ears. The next morning that was September 2 I woke just before daylight. There was a continual rumble in the air. At first I thought it was the passing of more refugies on the road.
This is the account of the interview which he gave me from a journal he was in the habit of keeping at that time: "I read the word 'Refugies' over the door, and it reminded me of the inscription on the gates of hell 'Leave all hope far behind. Everyone knows that the very reason that ghosts are dreaded, is that ghosts were never seen.
At least, they never recognise one another's existence in any way. There are also vague people who possess the power of becoming invisible at will. They fade in and out of the house like wraiths: their one object in life appears to be to efface themselves as much as possible. Madame refers to them as "refugiés"; this the sophisticated Mr. Cockerell translates, "German spies."
Presently they would commence returning, one by one, as a flock of wild fowl will do, that has been startled up from its accustomed haunt. Frequenters of the Café des Réfugiés also would appear. A small gate in the close garden-fence let them into a room behind the café proper, and by and by the apartment would be full of dark-visaged men conversing in the low, courteous tone common to their race.
Besides, I had no intention of leaving my home and all the souvenirs of my life without making every effort I could to save them up to the last moment. In addition to that, I could not see myself joining that throng of homeless refugies on the road, if I could help it. "But," she insisted, "you cannot save your house by staying. We are in the same position.
From the ruined villages of the border, the poor réfugiés have been gathered into the old capital of Lorraine, and what seemed to me a remarkably efficient and intelligent philanthropy has been dealing with their needs and those of their children. Nor is this all. M. Mirman is an old Radical and of course a Government official, sent down some years ago from Paris.
All the same, the general impression was, that in spite of that, "all was well." I suppose it was wise. On Sunday week, that was August 30, Amelie walked to Esbly, and came back with the news that they were rushing trains full of wounded soldiers and Belgian refugies through toward Paris, and that the ambulance there was quite insufficient for the work it had to do.
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