Through the lands of the Serb,

PIROT i83 "Yes," said I. "You speak German very well for a Servian. I did not know that the ladies learned foreign languages." "I am English." "Dear God!" he cried, and came out into the corridor to have a better view of me. "You are English and you come from a town in the middle of Servia! Ach! how dangerous! Now I am a man. I am making a pleasure trip to Constantinople with my friends. We should never think of stopping in a country like this. We are travelling straight through from Vienna." "I also am making a pleasure trip, but it is possible that the same things are not interesting to us. I am going to Pirot." "My God, how English! Look you, Fraulein, your nation does things that are quite fearfully silly, and it succeeds because the things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. You are like your own army, some day you will walk into an ambush." " But it always comes home when it has done all that it meant to do," I persisted; for I never allow the Empire to be scored off if I can help it. Then he told his friends of the strange wild beast he had found in the corridor, and they looked at me cautiously and discussed the propriety, or perhaps I should say the impropriety, of my proceedings in awful whispers, with many Teutonic invocations of the Deity, until I had a hail-Caesar-we-who-are-about-to die-salute-thee feeling, which became less and less dignified as the West Balkans themselves came into sight. We reached Pirot, and I descended from the train in a state not unlike " funk."

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Title: Through the lands of the Serb,
Author: Durham, Mary E.
Canvas: Page 183
Publication: London,: E. Arnold,; 1904.
Subject terms: Montenegro -- Description and travel; Serbia -- Description and travel.

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