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Updated: June 17, 2025
MY DEAR FRIEND: I have received yours of the 21st past, with the inclosed proposal from the French 'refugies, for a subscription toward building them 'un temple'. I have shown it to the very few people I see, but without the least success.
I explained to her as well as I could that I was alone in the world, poor myself, and that I could not see myself leaving all that I valued, my home; to have which I had made a supreme effort, and for which I had already a deep affection, to join the band of refugies, shelterless, on the road, or to look for safety in a city, which, if the Germans passed here, was likely to be besieged and bombarded.
The children of its schools, drilled to run down to the cellars at the first alarm as our children are drilled to empty a school on a warning of a Zeppelin raid, are the gayest and most spirited creatures, as I saw them at their games and action songs; unless indeed it be the children of the réfugiés, in whose faces sometimes one seems to see the reflection of scenes that no child ought to have witnessed and not even a child can forget.
The repatriés are the French civilians who were captured by the Germans in their advance and have since been sent back. The réfugiés are the French civilians from the devastated areas, who have always remained on the Allies' side of the line.
Pauline," responded the father, "but I have been letting the enemy in and out at pleasure." "Good-night," she answered, and kissed him three times on either cheek; "the blessed Virgin will take care of us; good-night; he never said those things; not he; good-night." The next evening Galahad Shaughnessy and Manuel Mazaro met at that "very different" place, the Café des Réfugiés.
I had no idea of putting my books underground to be mildewed. Besides, if it had been possible I would not have attempted it and it distinctly was impossible. I felt a good deal like the Belgian refugies I had seen, all so well dressed; if my house was going up, it was going up in its best clothes. I had just been uprooted once a horrid operation and I did not propose to do it again so soon.
MY DEAR FRIEND: I have received yours of the 21st past, with the inclosed proposal from the French 'refugies, for a subscription toward building them 'un temple'. I have shown it to the very few people I see, but without the least success.
"Lads," said the Irishman. "Fill yer dlasses. Here's to the Café des Exilés, God bless her!" And the meeting slowly adjourned. Two days later, signs and rumors of sickness began to find place about the Café des Réfugiés, and the Mexican physician made three calls in one day. It was said by the people around that the tall Cuban gentleman named Benito was very sick in one of the back rooms.
The réfugiés are divided into two classes: réfugiés proper that is fugitives from the front, who fled for the most part at the time of the German invasion; and évacués those who were sent out of the war zone by the military authorities.
This I found so sensibly, when I was at The Hague, that I never tasted company so well nor was so good company myself, as at the suppers of my post days. I take Hamburg now to be 'le centre du refuge Allemand'. If you have any Hanover 'refugies' among them, pray take care to be particularly attentive to them. How do you like your house? Is it a convenient one?
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