satanes

Updated: June 8, 2025

She does not spare epithets in talking of "ces satanes Allemands" these Sisters and nurses of the front have seen sights to dry up the last drop of sentimental pity but through all the horror of those fierce September days, with Clermont blazing about her and the helpless remnant of its inhabitants under the perpetual threat of massacre, she retained her sense of the little inevitable absurdities of life, such as her not knowing how to address the officer in command "because he was so tall that I couldn't see up to his shoulder-straps."

Edith Wharton - Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort