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CHAPTER V. Further Adventures of the Same
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Next morning there was a touch of frost and a nip in the air which stirred my blood and put me in buoyant spirits. I forgot my precarious1 position and the long road I had still to travel. I came down to breakfast in great form, to find Peter’s even temper badly ruffled2. He had remembered Stumm in the night and disliked the memory; this he muttered to me as we rubbed shoulders at the dining-room door. Peter and I got no opportunity for private talk. The lieutenant3 was with us all the time, and at night we were locked in our rooms. Peter discovered this through trying to get out to find matches, for he had the bad habit of smoking in bed.
Our guide started on the telephone, and announced that we were to be taken to see a prisoners’ camp. In the afternoon I was to go somewhere with Stumm, but the morning was for sight-seeing. “You will see,” he told us, “how merciful is a great people. You will also see some of the hated English in our power. That will delight you. They are the forerunners4 of all their nation.”
We drove in a taxi through the suburbs and then over a stretch of flat market-garden-like country to a low rise of wooded hills. After an hour’s ride we entered the gate of what looked like a big reformatory or hospital. I believe it had been a home for destitute5 children. There were sentries6 at the gate and massive concentric circles of barbed wire through which we passed under an arch that was let down like a portcullis at nightfall. The lieutenant showed his permit, and we ran the car into a brick-paved yard and marched through a lot more sentries to the office of the commandant.
He was away from home, and we were welcomed by his deputy, a pale young man with a head nearly bald. There were introductions in German which our guide translated into Dutch, and a lot of elegant speeches about how Germany was foremost in humanity as well as martial7
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3 lieutenant | |
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9 bullying | |
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17 rattle | |
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18 abominably | |
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24 grumbling | |
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25 breach | |
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26 discoursed | |
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27 interfered | |
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28 sergeant | |
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29 scorpion | |
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30 ornament | |
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31 brazen | |
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38 moody | |
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39 conversational | |
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40 pointed | |
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44 technically | |
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50 middle-aged | |
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51 ragged | |
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55 gist | |
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56 fabric | |
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57 yarns | |
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58 undertaking | |
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59 accurately | |
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60 kindle | |
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61 affinities | |
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62 dealing | |
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63 Moslem | |
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64 eyebrows | |
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65 apprehension | |
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66 professed | |
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67 rascal | |
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68 utterly | |
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69 mentality | |
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70 detested | |
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71 apparently | |
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72 patriotism | |
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73 fervently | |
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76 random | |
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77 eastwards | |
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80 kindly | |
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81 bullied | |
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82 jaw | |
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83 charlatan | |
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84 rogue | |
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85 atone | |
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86 ordained | |
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