tra-dee-tion

Updated: May 22, 2025

It was almost uncanny to see him sitting there, silent, arms folded, shoulders hunched, sparkling eyes missing nothing. "It is true," mademoiselle told us earnestly, "that the tra-dee-tion says he will come back when France needs him the soldiers talk of it." "In almost every country," I said, "there is a story like that, of heroes who will come again."

Temple Bailey - The Gay Cockade