{2442}{2506}Left, two, three, four! {2548}{2582}Company... {2614}{2644}halt! {2646}{2699}Weapons straight ahead! {2741}{2781}Take cover! {2807}{2844}On your feet and march! {2895}{2927}Take cover! {2955}{3002}Left face! {3023}{3090}Left, two, three, four. {3377}{3439}Company, halt! {3441}{3492}We're so exhausted. {3498}{3560}A German must never fear fatigue. {3566}{3619}Karl, I'm not complaining. {3848}{3894}Damned chicken! {5475}{5577}Fifty plus 1 0 equals 60, my friend. {5594}{5643}Did you count my king? {5649}{5760}This is a republic.|Kings don't count here. {6065}{6132}This is how you dress|when visiting a foreign land? {6227}{6313}Candles, socks... {6334}{6384}Mr. Haussmann, your bill is ready. {6390}{6453}It comes to 57 francs|and 7 5 centimes... {6454}{6504}barring any error, of course. {6527}{6588}I trust you, Mr. Rechampot. {6590}{6657}You'll be paid|within three months, as usual. {6663}{6731}I'm not worried.|You always pay on time. {6737}{6767}Maryvonne? {6880}{6933}Come down here.|Our friend is about to leave. {6939}{6984}- What?|- He's leaving. {7005}{7079}He's leaving.|Let's have one last drink. {7087}{7133}Alas, I cannot. {7134}{7212}You mustn't insult us.|A quick one will do you good. {7214}{7291}The road is long.|I must be back by tomorrow evening. {7297}{7343}Exactly.|It'll give you strength. {7362}{7402}Another time, madam. {7408}{7449}So, my friend. {7668}{7714}At ease. {7773}{7863}If we weren't here to keep them supplied,|the Germans would be in trouble. {7896}{7993}Please convey my respects|to your priests. {7999}{8068}I'm sure they're out in the bush|making new Christians. {8074}{8152}They'll be back in two weeks,|if they're not eaten alive fiirst. {8154}{8191}Attention! {8214}{8263}Take up your packs! {8314}{8385}Hurry up over there!|Faster! {8424}{8465}On the double! {8521}{8583}Company, right face! {8618}{8651}Forward march! {8681}{8730}Good Lord. {8812}{8841}He works them hard! {8843}{8905}Give my best to your offiicers! {8910}{8979}Jawohl, madam. I'll do that. {9211}{9277}That's all well and good... {9298}{9395}but let's have a drink|before Mr. Rechampot sells it all. {9574}{9664}Look at this,|all broken and beat up. {9674}{9725}What can I give you for that? {9766}{9838}Here, I'll give you a cross.|Now go on. {9882}{9914}Let me see. {10243}{10278}Here. {10326}{10396}This Sacred Heart card is very nice. {10471}{10528}Tell him a Sacred Heart|is more than fair. {10554}{10602}That's not even worth a cross. {10743}{10888}He says he wants the big colored statue|of the woman and child. {10890}{10981}He says his necklace|is extremely valuable. {10987}{11047}Then he can keep his necklace|and I'll keep my Sacred Heart. {11054}{11136}I'll give you a cross|for the rest and off with you! {11219}{11301}This is really getting on my nerves! {11305}{11388}- You shouldn't expect much here.|- They know us too well. {11390}{11413}Next. {11950}{11974}Fidele. {11976}{12024}HAPPY NEW YEAR 1 91 5 {12130}{12165}Yes, Sergeant? {12263}{12295}Nothing. {12575}{12664}I thought you might want|to talk about... {12686}{12771}the younger sister|of my brother-in-law's cousin. {12773}{12821}The one I spoke to you about. {12882}{12929}No, it was nothing. {12986}{13006}Just talking. {13008}{13068}But the young girl says... {13070}{13133}she can do everything|just the way you like it. {13161}{13196}Who taught her? {13198}{13269}The old woman|who comes often to visit you. {13318}{13399}Tell her to come knock|at my door one evening. {13420}{13496}I'll do that.|You'll be pleased. {13619}{13655}Leon? {13675}{13719}Come on.Just for me. {13780}{13848}I'm not in the mood. {13887}{13937}The appetite grows with the eating. {13950}{13986}Come on. {14153}{14197}What's wrong? {14199}{14259}Don't you ever get excited anymore? {14428}{14520}To Mr. Lucien Herr,|College of Advanced Education... {14530}{14579}45 rue d'Ulm,|Fifth Arrondissement, Paris... {14605}{14669}in care of Administrator Tarato... {14671}{14760}St. Pierre de Samba,|French Equatorial Africa. {14837}{14910}Fort Coulais,January 6, 1 9 1 5. {14922}{14994}Dear teacher and,|if I may, dear friend.' {15012}{15106}Here is my punishment for not excelling|in nobler gfields of study. {15112}{15213}I should be teaching Greek|in one of those pleasant schools... {15215}{15257}of which our province is so proud... {15262}{15325}but instead here I am|under a summer sky... {15330}{15387}wandering through virgin savannahs... {15389}{15468}picking native grasses|and collecting mineral specimens. {15477}{15547}What good fortune|to be a simple geographer.! {15697}{15786}Africa is far from being the hell|depicted in writings from the colonies. {15827}{15907}Where I expected|to encounter gfierce beasts... {15909}{15964}I fiind only dogs, cows, chickens... {15970}{16016}and the occasional duck. {16029}{16081}Where I expected ferocious savages... {16086}{16164}armed with spears, lances|and poisoned arrows... {16166}{16227}ready to turn all travelers|into a quick meal... {16249}{16293}I meet only peaceful villagers... {16295}{16367}whose pastoral lives remind me... {16369}{16450}of the country folk|in many parts of our own land. {16545}{16619}The only dangers I battle here|are boredom... {16621}{16692}and the company|of a handful of our compatriots... {16694}{16744}with whom I must rub elbows. {16816}{16896}Listen,just because it's my turn|to be on watch tonight... {16898}{16943}you don't have to take|such a long siesta. {16949}{17004}Don't worry.|There's lots more for you. {17204}{17239}The bastard! {17303}{17355}Where are those empire builders... {17361}{17434}those modern-day knights|and intrepid pioneers... {17440}{17505}that all those adventure novels|had us dreaming of?. {17718}{17742}Payback! {17770}{17823}So I feel quite alone here. {17825}{17885}Moreover, it's been six months... {17887}{17958}since we've had any visitors|or correspondence. {17960}{18057}It seems such delays are not unusual|in this part of Africa. {18072}{18147}But I'm longing to know|what is happening in Paris these days. {18168}{18237}What are they playing|at the theater and the opera? {18242}{18307}What is Debussy composing?|What is Peguy up to? {18313}{18382}And what's new|with our socialist friends? {18384}{18454}As for the colonies,|tell our friends not to be so sure... {18455}{18534}about the inferiority|of the black race. {18543}{18646}Seen up close, this inferiority has less|to do with the shape of the skull... {18648}{18692}or the composition of the blood... {18698}{18781}than with the conviction we hold|of our own superiority. {18791}{18850}At the risk of shocking you... {18852}{18901}I daresay that in many respects... {18907}{19016}the natives are not far from meriting|the honored name of''men. '' {19026}{19077}Thank you, Barthelemy. {19300}{19389}Dear teacher, I wish you|a happy and peaceful 1 9 1 5. {19395}{19445}Respectfully yours... {19446}{19482}Hubert Fresnoy. {19594}{19673}There's no end to this junk. {19790}{19830}Garbage! {19874}{19927}This one's not too bad. {19974}{20010}This we'll keep too. {20150}{20249}Like the monsignor says, you can't even|give this stuff away to charity. {20255}{20312}In the provinces, maybe. {20319}{20392}Bad taste has limits|even in the provinces. {21093}{21156}How I love this song! {22177}{22220}Oh, my back! {22382}{22452}- Thomas, how are you?|- Fine, Father. {22456}{22522}- Are you here all alone?|- All alone. {22528}{22577}- The other fathers aren't here?|- No. {22588}{22643}But surely they'll be|returning tonight? {22649}{22690}I don't know. {22701}{22777}Have they been gone a long time? {22789}{22853}- Long time.|- Long time very much? {22874}{22914}Long time a little. {22942}{22988}And they left no word for us? {23010}{23090}They said monsignor said|they should join him. {23124}{23163}What's all this about? {23165}{23201}I don't know. {23220}{23278}Didn't anything arrive for us|at Fort Coulais? {23291}{23315}Nothing. {23530}{23566}So there is something after all. {23571}{23628}This isn't for us? {23650}{23693}Not for you. {23699}{23779}It's for the young man|who loves plants. {23783}{23842}And where does that young man live? {23848}{23898}Fort Coulais. {23904}{23952}And where do we live? {23960}{24014}You live at Fort Coulais. {24036}{24084}But this isn't for us? {24174}{24225}It's for you. {24703}{24747}Great! Something to read! {25057}{25124}Jaures has been assassinated! {25126}{25161}Who? {25182}{25212}- Who?|-Jaures. {25440}{25482}Go on. {25501}{25564}Mr. Hubert, you mustn't get upset. {25624}{25672}God in Heaven! {25674}{25712}My friends, we're at war. {25714}{25739}Who is ''we''? {25741}{25773}Us. France. {25775}{25830}What's the date on that, Father? {25832}{25882}- August 3rd.|- My God. {25894}{25950}Does it say how it turned out? {26033}{26080}They only go up to August 1 3th. {26082}{26130}Who are we at war with, Father? {26136}{26183}Germany, of course! {26194}{26301}Really?|I would have said the English. {26355}{26403}- Damn it!|- What? {26405}{26506}That means I'm out|57 francs and 7 5 centimes! {26513}{26563}Germany's never going to pay now! {26578}{26599}What? {26605}{26654}Germany. {26660}{26718}- It's right out there!|- So? {26720}{26750}The Krauts are out there! {26766}{26826}That's right! {26831}{26903}Luckily they can't know yet.|Everything comes through us. {26952}{27009}- You hear that, Bosselet?|- It's time to wake up. {27010}{27058}What are you so excited about? {27059}{27130}- We're not excited!|- Yes, you are. {27158}{27228}Remember: The military authorities|take charge in a case like this. {27230}{27325}Exactly!|And around here, that's you! {27331}{27381}In any case, it's clear: {27386}{27461}The motherland is in danger.|Vive la France.! {27535}{27583}Aren't you going to say|Vive la France? {27985}{28054}You can't do th...
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