Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 25, 2025
Another giant shell burst near them, and two more members of the staff fell from their cycles, dead before they touched the ground. That convulsive shudder seized John again, but the crash of tremendous events was so rapid that fear and horror alike passed in an instant. A piece of the same shell struck General Vaugirard's car and put it out of action at once.
He would have said more, but General Vaugirard beckoned to him, gave him a note which he had written hastily, and in a few more minutes Lannes was flitting like a swallow through the heavens. Then General Vaugirard's car moved forward and brigade after brigade of the French army resumed its advance also. John felt that the great German machine had been met by a French machine as great.
As soon as he arrives at what seems to him a solution of his problem he will begin to whistle. Then he will interrupt his whistling by saying: 'Ah, well, such is life." "I hope he'll begin to whistle soon," said John, "because his brow is wrinkling terribly." He watched the huge general with a sort of fascinated gaze. Seen now in the twilight, Vaugirard's very bulk was impressive.
A half-dozen Germans, rifle in hand, stood near by. John took his place on the grass by the side of a fair, slim young man who carried his left arm in a bandage. "Englishman?" said the young man. "No, American." "But you have been fighting for us, as your uniform shows. What command?" "General Vaugirard's, but I became separated from it earlier in the day." "I've heard of him.
Owing to the wind John could not hear the battle on the other flank so well, but he believed that it was being fought there with equal fury and determination. He was watching with such intentness that he did not hear the sweep of an aeroplane behind him, but he did see Lannes run to General Vaugirard's car and give him a note.
John heard a whizzing sound, he caught a glimpse of a dark object, rushing forward at frightful velocity, and then he and his wheel reeled beneath the force of a tremendous explosion. The shell coming from an invisible point, miles away, had burst some distance on his right, scattering death and wounds over a wide radius. But Vaugirard's brigades did not stop for one instant.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking