Chapter XLVI: THE FAILURE, by Sem

"After the Battle of the Marne, more than 50,000 German corpses were
counted"—(The Papers).

_Le Mot._

(A Franco-Russian Drawing.)

XLVII. This drawing by Bakst, which appeared in _Le Mot_, bears the
following legend:

"Leon Bakst, the great Russian painter, promises very soon, he says:
From the Carpathians to Berlin a bound in the style of the Russian
ballets, to the great stupefaction of those hounds of Germans and
Austrians."

XLVIII. The Empress Eugènie has turned her house into a military
hospital.

"Do you know where we are, Jimmy?"
"The nurse told me that it's the house of a lady who has lost her son
in the war."

From _Le Mot_.

—Savez-vous chez qui nous sommes Jimmy?
—La nurse m'a dit que c'était chez une dame qui a perdu son fils à la
guerre.
XLVIII.]