Punch was served to everyone. Toasts were drunk half as a rag. There was a tap-room atmosphere. Everyone was in uproarious spirits—feverish with the excitement of the departure which was so close at hand. A school-master named Groningaire started off with a song—he had a good voice—then some patriotic2 verses, while we sang the refrain in chorus.
Miquel went to the piano.
"Go it! Play us something!"
He was known to be a performer.
"What style do you want?"
"The 'Battle,' g-r-r-r-r-r and symphony!"
There was a general laugh. He sat down on the music stool.
"First part. Four o'clock in the morning."
His fingers raced over the keys. A running accompaniment in the bass4 suggested the army sleeping. A high note, the bugle6 call, suddenly burst forth7 followed instantaneously by shouts, the stir of troops[Pg 104] awakening8 and moving to and fro, and the neighing of horses....
"Bravo!"
Reminiscences no doubt of melodies he had composed or learnt. His rare skill soldered9 them into a sort of pot-pourri, which was at the same time both genial10 and burlesque11. He jerked out the titles of motifs12: the start at dawn, the approach of the enemy, the deployment13, then the surprise of the first shots, the scattering14, and the reply.... The pianist's fancy multiplied and expanded, painting an extraordinary picture. In the left hand, the cannon15 rumbled16 ceaselessly in hollow tones. In the treble a frenzy17 of staccato notes crackled like a fusillade. Between the two, smothered18 vociferations, and the trampling20 of the combatants could be distinguished21. To end up with there was the charge, swelling22 harmonies, and a roar of glory and madness, throughout which fragments of the famous "La Goutte à boire!!!" recurred24 persistently25.
Miquel paused. There was a burst of applause.
He struck a minor27 chord, succeeded by two or three others, equally lugubrious28, a gloomy arpeggio strengthened the impression of mourning.... The day after! yes. There was a slight shudder29. I recognised Beethoven's Funeral March.
Denais had got up, and was drawing his hand across his forehead. Then embarrassed by our glances he forced a wry31 smile.
"Rotting apart, it's not exactly cheerful!"
A few backed him up. Others shrugged32 their shoulders. A discussion began which degenerated[Pg 105] into an uproar1. Laraque took possession of the piano and romped33 through a "tango" which was applauded. Miquel was called upon again; but he refused point blank this time, and it was not very long before he left, perhaps because he was offended.
Then Guillaumin and I went to swell23 a group which had formed in a corner, round Fortin, who was holding forth.
A robust34 fellow, with an enormous forehead, and a clever, ugly face, he was repeating the lessons he had just brought back from Germany where he had been living for some time. His rich voice carried wonderfully, supported by his energetic gestures. A frequenter of public meetings and debating societies, one was tempted35 to forgive him if he was rather inclined to like the sound of his own voice, because he spoke36 well.
To begin with, however, I only half listened to him. He was enlarging upon the industrial qualities of that race, their method, and patience, and tenacity37 of purpose, their thoroughness in perfecting detail; on their moral virtues38 too, from which the others sprang.
This sort of thing had been overdone39! However at such a time it assumed a striking note of unexpectedness and daring. This Frenchman obviously overflowed40 with sympathy, or at all events admiration41 for the foe42 he was about to face.... And not one of us protested.... What impartiality43, I thought. Was it to our credit, or discredit44?
I now followed the speaker's arguments with interest. He occasionally spoke so decidedly and precisely45 that I suspected him of dishing up for our benefit certain passages already composed for the work he was meditating46.
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On the other hand one had the feeling that one was not the dupe of a rhetorician. I was able when necessary to verify the exactitude of his statements by my own recollections.
Here he was sketching47 the portrait of the young German, steady and strong, accustomed from his earliest childhood to long walks with his pack on his back, his first attempts at warlike frolics, keen on swimming, shooting, and gymnastics, more sporting in reality than we were who had been won over to the rough games from over the channel. They were chaste48 too and had no false shame about admitting it; not exhausted49, depraved, and indeed contaminated, as a result of the stupid dissipation which we appear to think necessary for our young men. I could see the companions of my excursions round Iéna again,—Otto Kra?mer, merry, affectionate, and untiring—and so virtuous—questioning me with an innocent smile, quite free of any suspicion of envy, on the pleasures of Paris.
Fortin showed us how war had become inevitable50 for these people. Since they were suffocating51 at home! They were a prolific52 race; that was their foremost merit. The necessity and also the capacity for expansion in a country which in forty years doubles its population! There was the fruitful young sap. To them belonged the future.
We were listening, silent and engrossed53, leaning on our elbows.... Ladmiraut demanded some detail from time to time. He had pulled out his note-book. Guillaumin, who was beside me, seemed to be the only one who could not listen to this language without impatience54; he strummed nervously55 on the marble table-top.
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Fortin went on to say that over there it was the entire populace from the Kaiser down to the last of the beggars, who dreamt of the greater Germany.... The fateful hour had struck.... He reminded us of the saying where the five sons of the German family came to demand a share of his heritage from the only son of the French family. We certainly had no luck in just happening to be the neighbours and thus the picked adversaries56 of this terribly covetous57 race, and in holding so many rich provinces that they meant to annex58 again in the name of ancient traditions for the Germanic Empire! Any schoolboy coming from Germany would tell you of their ambitions. To begin with they must have what remained to us of Lorraine and Champagne59 and Flanders, they'd see about Burgundy and the Franche-Comté, when the occasion arose!
"Then you think we shall be beaten?" Guillaumin broke in harshly.
It was like a cold douche, we looked at each other. Fortin shrugged his broad shoulders.
"I'll tell you one thing, I think, and that is that we're fighting in a cause ... that is out of date. We no longer incarnate60 a great force worthy61 of existence. Our day is nearly done. Just think how long we have held the stage. Mark you, I do not say that our end will not be glorious. We are an old fighting race, we shall do wonders, I think, before succumbing62. Nor do I say that our decline is not to be regretted in the superior interests of civilisation63...."
"Then you see no hope of anything but decline and disappearance64!"
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"Sss...! I say. Chuck it at his head!" whispered Holveck.
Someone laughed, and there was a short relaxation66.
I did not take my eyes off Fortin, wondering whether he would accept the challenge.
And he actually did! He made up his mind to it. It was a thankless task, he said, to go against all our prejudices and cherished illusions. But still, if he was driven to it.... And perhaps it would be better that we should realise what we were in for!...
"Yes, start away then!" Guillaumin exclaimed. "Tell us what you think and what you know!"
What he knew? The other protested that he was not admitted to the secrets of the gods, that he was lacking in the necessary technical knowledge concerning military matters, but that what he feared from certain reliable data, was the "kolossal" force—the word is laughable, not the thing it stands for—of this horde67 of invaders68 about to fall upon us. People in France reassured69 themselves by the aid of simplex calculations. They summarily compared the figures of the population, with the triumphant70 argument that the enemy must put so and so many men on the Russian front.... As if there was not an immense gulf71 fixed72 between the actual and the theoretical returns! As if it was not the vitality73 of the races that would have the last word! Or again, the total of Germany's effective forces was put at twenty-five corps74 against our twenty-one corps! Only another way of throwing dust in our eyes. Who suspected that on the two banks of the Rhine there were fifty or sixty corps, already complete with their full complement75, ready to be set in motion at a sign and destined76 to be formed into twelve or fifteen formidable[Pg 109] armies. With them there was no waste of material; each individual had his own appointed place, the technicians in the factories; the smallest details were foreseen and provided for, the most recent discoveries in every sphere, exploited. The troops were young and sound, and their discipline was marvellous. Each soldier had his map and compass. Their uniform was far and away the least noticeable. Their equipment was faultless. Their heavy artillery77 unique (it would be our most unpleasant surprise!). They had adopted quite new principles for use in a?rial warfare78.... What more was there? The best-regulated commissariat, propaganda among the neutrals, accomplices79 among their adversaries.... And then the spy system. Ah, yes! the spy system!
"Oh, magnificent!" muttered Guillaumin.
"I beg your pardon. As they wanted war, it was only right that they should be as well prepared for it as possible. One can't help admiring them for that!"
"Oh, charming! There's nothing to be done then! And to-morrow a German Europe!"
Fortin having made a movement as if to say, "Why not?" a certain member of us protested all the same: "Oh no! Anything but that. We would fight for it! The triumph of brute81 force. Government by the sword (all the old catch words), we couldn't stand that...." Laraque declared that when we were beaten he should go to live in America. Ladmiraut asserted pedantically82 that all attempts at universal sway were foredoomed to failure. Napoleon was an example of it!
Fortin retorted:
"We exaggerate when we talk of tyranny....[Pg 110] There would be a certain amount of rearranging to be got through. What these people want, is...."
"To pick our pockets," cried Guillaumin.
"Yes, to pick our pockets, and also...."
"Would you like to know what they want? Well, simply the reign84 of reason, of their reason. To their physical need for conquest is added this intellectual need. I think that in the case of a crushing victory they would not be exacting85, that they would content themselves with re-organising and ordering the world to their ideas. The triumph of 'Kultur,' yes! Without doubt they would allow as many individual liberties and indeed local constitutions, as possible, to subsist86. Their charter of empire is so convenient! The United States of Europe. That is their avowed87 dream, often expressed by the Kaiser. Peace, yes, but under the aegis88 of the Hohenzollern, chosen of God! An imposing89 task to which they bring the fervour of apostles, which to-morrow, on the battle-field will become the fanaticism90 of martyrs91. The horror of this contest does not dismay them, they consider it unavoidable. There are two obstacles in their path; France in their eyes grown old and debased; Russia that huge inorganic92 body, still in a state of barbarism. Their idea was to humiliate93 both nations, with the object of raising them up again later on while imbuing94 them with the moral and intellectual virtues on which the Teuton prides himself. England impedes95 them equally. This conflict too was fated. They despise the English because they consider them too exclusively concerned with their well-being96, with their comfort; too material, shopkeepers, in fact! They themselves[Pg 111] pose as idealists and philosophers, but heirs to the spiritualistic traditions, and regardful of the property, of the integri——"
"Oh, that! That does'nt count: Das ist Krieg! It's only outside the state of war that they flatter themselves that they're good, just, sentimental98, and gentle. It is impossible to deny that their ambition, in the main, is generous; to put an end to the inferior period of improvisation99 and disorder100, and to instigate101 the reign of perfect equilibrium—of happiness, that is!—among men."
He paused:
"And bear in mind that it must be admitted that no race has ever had a better chance of success than they have at this moment!"
Yes, Fortin showed us this prodigious102 result as being remote and still hidden behind the veil of the future, but within reach—all Germany was aware of it!—of the present generation or at all events of the next. German Europe? But, except for the three powers in question, who were to be overcome by force, was it not that already?
He showed up, in a crude light, the important underground activities of the exchequer103 and the cabinet; quite another side of the question. Italy, our famous Latin sister, peremptorily104 wrested105 from the sphere of French influence. Austria! With what supreme106 skill the rival of yesterday had been converted into the intimate ally of to-day. Turkey: simply a German colony, who, on the day prescribed, would hurl107 all her weight into the balance. The Scandinavian countries, Spain, Switzerland, Holland,—all pronounced German[Pg 112]ophils. It was a real miracle that Belgium should have barred their way! The Church instinctively108 approving two traditional Empires, full of spite and distrust for a republic. And then the Balkans! Nothing but sad surprises could be awaited, from Roumania, whose king, Carol, had bound himself by treaty to the fortunes of the Central Powers; from Bulgaria, whose just grievances109 were being exploited by the enemy; from Greece who was retained in this orbit by her king, the Kaiser's brother-in-law! A fine piece of work by the Wilhelmstrasse! Fortin exhibited the play of this far-sighted and prudent110 diplomacy111, which had been weaving its web for so long, and peopling the European thrones with German princes and queens for the last fifty years.
There was no gainsaying112 it. This fellow, Fortin, was deucedly interesting! We were all listening, down to the most rowdy group, who had little by little stopped talking and come up. There were but few protestations now. Foreheads, furrowed113 by wrinkles, were unconsciously bowed in assent114.
But there was a sudden climax115. A dry voice made itself heard behind us. We turned round. A lieutenant116 was standing117 on the threshold of the room.
"Your name! I want the speaker's name!"
We were all stupefied. Fortin got up.
"And 'stand at attention' first of all."
The other explained the position. He was pale.
"Your company?"
"The seventeenth."
"You're a despicable worm! You dare to speak in such a way! You, a French non-commissioned officer! What would a German say or do? Get back to your quarters at once. You'll hear from me later."
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The officer's voice was trembling. Fortin did not reply. Liberty was dead! He took down his belt which was hanging on a hook, shook the few hands held out to him, then saluted118 and left the room.
What a douche! A dismayed silence reigned119 for a few minutes. At last we left the place, but even outside we hardly spoke.
"Lieutenant Coudray, wasn't it?"
"There's no knowing where this may end...."
"Court-martial!"
Ladmiraut unburdened himself.
"Just what I said; Fortin exaggerates."
"Exactly!"
Everyone agreed that it was bound to happen.
It seemed to me that our voices were lowered. Did we mistrust each other? Really, the unexpected appearance of this officer!... Someone must have gone to warn him.... These were nice times, certainly!
We separated, and Guillaumin took me home as usual.
"I don't wish him any ill," he said, "but you must confess that he was asking for it!"
"Who? Fortin?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Oh, look here! He said enough to make one jump through the ceiling. No, but can you see the Bosches calmly laying hands on Champagne and Flanders!"
I was still suffering from the effects of the irritation120 and humiliation121 aroused in me by the intervention122 of the Lieutenant. I could hear his cutting voice. Some rotter or other! But there was nothing to be done, but to bow before his superior rank.
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It must be added that I had come under the depressing influence.... What a hit it was at my illusions, at our groundless self-confidence! To go and get killed for a cause we knew was already lost. Oh, it really was the limit!
A cold rage filled me. I vented123 it on poor Guillaumin to begin with. He was on the point of returning to the subject of his Champagne and his Flanders.... One would have thought they belonged to him and that someone wanted to pick his pocket of them!
None of that! I shut him up, and told him what an ass5 I thought him. The dull resentment124 which had been heaped up in me by these first days of subjection, rose up from the depths of my being. And I did not stop at that; my egoism and the anarchism of my bad days rebelled.
I suddenly announced that I hoped the socialistic agitations125 would come to something.
"What agitations?" Guillaumin asked.
"Oh!" I said. "They were keeping quiet on the subject, by order! but they existed, could not help existing in spite of certain recantations. Would they smother19 the peoples' poignant126 cry for peace at any price, much longer? War on the War!" Following up the bold refrain, I asserted that I should like to see the workmen who had been called up, fire their first shots at the instigators of the catastrophe127, all these statesmen, generals, and financiers of both countries, who were driving two peaceful nations to the slaughter128! As if all the political and economic interests in the world were worth this massacre129 of innocents!
I went further—or lower. I blush when I remember to what degrading lengths I allowed myself to go.[Pg 115] If our neighbours were really so passionately130 anxious for the expansion of their "Kultur" as Fortin had said they were, did he, Guillaumin, know what remained to be done? Simply fold our arms and wait for them. They would not devour131 us, or at least not all of us! We should be invaded? And then? Annexed132? What a misfortune that would be to be sure! There would be no more France? Well, if she had to disappear, why not to-morrow, just as well as in a hundred years!... All these tales of separate races, and of native lands were simply the patter of disastrous133 phrase-makers.... Let all those who believed them go and get killed for them. There could be nothing more just! To the frontier with the enthusiasts134, the convinced—the imbeciles—who could not bear the idea of changing their names. But as for us, for me, who did not care a blow about it all...!
"Talk away!" said Guillaumin.
"What?"
"You won't take me in!"
"How do you mean?"
"You want to get a rise out of me!"
"I?"
"You'll fight as well as the best of them!"
"Well, what will that prove?"
He did not answer me. There was no need. I was at a loss for words. I was pinked.
Recall to reality. The time was past for weighing the reasons for and against. The philosophic135 juggling136. The superior sphere of action, offered itself, nay137 imposed itself upon us.... Fortin, Guillaumin, I myself; we were all in uniform, we were going to fight.... Then there was only one thing to be done, to strain our muscles and our soul, to stake[Pg 116] our fate on hope and on faith in our cause. What folly138 to be both judge and suitor. What grandeur139 in belief, even when absurd!
If only I had been sure that I should fight as well as he said I should!
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