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Contenido enTales of Hearsay / Suspense por Joseph Conrad (indirecto) Tales of Hearsay and Last Essays por Joseph Conrad (indirecto)
The old officer with long white moustaches gave rein to his indignation. "Is it possible that you youngsters should have no more sense than that! Some of you had better wipe the milk off your upper lip before you start to pass judgment on the few poor stragglers of a generation which has done and suffered not a little in its time." His hearers having expressed much compunction the ancient warrior became appeased. But he was not silenced. "I am one of them-one of the stragglers, I mean," he went on patiently. "And what did we do? What have we achieved? He-the great Napoleon-started upon us to emulate the Macedonian Alexander, with a ruck of nations at his back. We opposed empty spaces to French impetuosity, then we offered them an interminable battle so that their army went at last to sleep in its positions lying down on the heaps of its own dead. Then came the wall of fire in Moscow. It toppled down on them. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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