human
All I say, he kept repeating one night at Ross House,
gpt
You'd let Germany keep all she's got, Lady Maitland asked,
human
Germany's broken, as it is, Bertrand answered.
gpt
She can never make good her losses and she'd gladly discuss terms. But, good Heavens! even if we didn't accept the terms, there's surely no harm in discussing them!
human
When I'm dealing with the burglar who's collared my silver, he said,
gpt
I prefer not to argue until he's divested himself of what I believe is called the swag.
human
You may _prefer_ not to. Can you enforce your preference?
gpt
Then let's go down fighting,
human
With great submission, a live dog's better than a dead lion, said Bertrand.
gpt
I've so much faith in the potentialities of my country that I want to preserve her.
human
If you make peace now, you'll _disgrace_ her! she cried.
gpt
We shall never be able to hold up our heads again!
human
Uncle Bertrand, you can't be serious! she exclaimed.
gpt
We should be faithless to those who've died, if we didn't hold on. I--I would sooner have my husband killed a _second_ time than go back on the dead!
human
I say, Oakleigh, old man, if I may say so, you oughtn't to talk like that, you know. You're a man in a responsible position, people quote what you say. It produces a devilish bad impression.
gpt
I agree with Oakleigh to this extent, I said.
human
All of us here are either women or men over military age. We ought to check the easy impulse to make _other_ people fight to the bitter end.
gpt
You won't hear any peace-talk at the Front, interposed Maitland.
human
I've just come back from G.H.Q., you know.
gpt
You won't find people lighting pipes in high-explosive factories, he answered.
human
It's against the rules. At the present time the policy of the war is dictated by people who can't conceivably be sent to carry it out. Stornaway's quite right. _We_ fat old men sit at home and water the fields of Flanders with _other people's_ blood. _We_ say that, if _they_ don't go on to the bitter end, there'll be another war in ten years. It's wrong, and we've been wrong every day we've gone on after we shewed the Germans that they couldn't overrun Europe at will. _I_ went through the phase of dismembering Germany, deposing the Kaiser, commandeering the Fleet.