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-Title: Rada
-       A Belgian Christmas Eve
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@@ -215,7 +183,7 @@ PRELUDE
     Thou that for Liberty hast died
       And livest, to the end of years._
     And answer, earth! Far off, I hear
-    The paeans of a happier sphere:--
+    The pæans of a happier sphere:--
 
     _The trumpet blown at Marathon
       Exulted over earth and sea;
@@ -1266,7 +1234,7 @@ TARRASCH.
     The British! A night-attack!
 
  (_They all rush out except NANKO, who peers after them from the door.
-   Leaving it open to the night, he takes a _marron glace_ from the
+   Leaving it open to the night, he takes a _marron glacé_ from the
    table, crosses the room, and begins to examine the gramophone._
 
  _Confused sounds of men rushing to arms, thin bugle-calls in the
@@ -1277,7 +1245,7 @@ TARRASCH.
 NANKO (_calling aloud as he munches_).
 
     Come, Rada, you're pretending. They're all gone.
-    Rada, these _marrons glaces_ are delicious.
+    Rada, these _marrons glacés_ are delicious.
     It's over now! Come, I don't think it's right
     To spoil a person's pleasure on Christmas Eve.
 
@@ -1339,7 +1307,7 @@ NANKO (_calling aloud as he munches_).
    singing_:)
 
     ADESTE FIDELES,
-    LAETI TRIUMPHANTES,
+    LÆTI TRIUMPHANTES,
         ADESTE, ADESTE IN BETHLEHEM!
         NATUM VIDETE
         REGEM ANGELORUM:
@@ -1382,8 +1350,8 @@ NANKO.
 
 THE IMPERIAL CHOIR.
 
-        AETERNI PARENTIS
-        SPLENDOREM AETERNUM,
+        ÆTERNI PARENTIS
+        SPLENDOREM ÆTERNUM,
     VELATUM SUB CARNE VIDEBIMUS,
         DEUM INFANTEM,
         PANNIS INVOLUTUM,
@@ -1541,362 +1509,4 @@ INTERCESSION
 
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-Title: Rada
-       A Belgian Christmas Eve
-
-Author: Alfred Noyes
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-Release Date: February 4, 2014 [EBook #44829]
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-
-RADA
-
-
-
-
-BY THE SAME AUTHOR
-
-
- TALES OF THE MERMAID TAVERN
- DRAKE
- THE FOREST OF WILD THYME
- FORTY SINGING SEAMEN
- THE ENCHANTED ISLAND
- THE WINE PRESS
-
-
-[Illustration: THE BAYONETS]
-
-
-
-
-                                 RADA
-
-                        A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE
-
-                                  BY
-
-                             ALFRED NOYES
-
-                  WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS AFTER GOYA
-
-                          METHUEN & CO. LTD.
-                         36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
-                                LONDON
-
-
-_First Published in 1915_
-
-
-
-
-DEDICATION
-
-
-    Thou whose deep ways are in the sea,
-      Whose footsteps are not known,
-    To-night a world that turned from Thee
-      Is waiting--at Thy Throne.
-
-    The towering Babels that we raised
-      Where scoffing sophists brawl,
-    The little Antichrists we praised--
-      The night is on them all.
-
-    The fool hath said ... The fool hath said ...
-      And we, who deemed him wise,
-    We, who believed that Thou wast dead,
-      How should we seek Thine eyes?
-
-    How should we seek to Thee for power,
-      Who scorned Thee yesterday?
-    How should we kneel in this dread hour?
-      Lord, teach us how to pray.
-
-    Grant us the single heart once more
-      That mocks no sacred thing,
-    The Sword of Truth our fathers wore
-      When Thou wast Lord and King.
-
-    Let darkness unto darkness tell
-      Our deep unspoken prayer;
-    For, while our souls in darkness dwell,
-      We know that Thou art there.
-
-
-
-
-LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
-
-
- THE BAYONETS                    _Frontispiece_
-
-                                    FACING PAGE
-
- OVER THE JAWS OF THE CROWD                  16
-
- THE OLD DANCE OF CHARLATANS AND BEASTS      22
-
- THE VAMPIRE                                 56
-
-_Reproduced from etchings by Goya_
-
-
-
-
-PRELUDE
-
-
-    Under which banner? It was night
-      Beyond all nights that ever were.
-    The Cross was broken. Blood-stained Might
-      Moved like a tiger from its lair,
-    And all that heaven had died to quell
-    Awoke, and mingled earth with hell.
-
-    For Europe, if it held a creed,
-      Held it thro' custom, not thro' faith.
-    Chaos returned in dream and deed,
-      Right was a legend--Love, a wraith;
-    And That from which the world began
-    Was less than even the best in man.
-
-    God in the image of a snake
-      Dethroned that dream, too fond, too blind,
-    The man-shaped God whose heart could break,
-      Live, die and triumph with mankind;
-    A Super-snake, a Juggernaut,
-    Dethroned the Highest of human thought.
-
-    Choose, England! For the eternal foe
-      Within thee, as without, grew strong,
-    By many a super-subtle blow
-      Blurring the lines of right and wrong
-    In Art and Thought, till nought seemed true
-    But that soul-slaughtering cry of _New!_
-
-    New wreckage of the shrines we made
-      Thro' centuries of forgotten tears....
-    We knew not where their hands had laid
-      Our Master. Twice a thousand years
-    Had dulled the uncapricious sun.
-    Manifold worlds obscured the One;
-
-    Obscured the reign of Law, our stay,
-      Our compass thro' the uncharted sea,
-    The one sure light, the one sure way,
-      The one firm base of Liberty;
-    The one firm road that men have trod
-    Thro' Chaos to the Throne of God.
-
-    _Choose ye!_ A hundred legions cried
-      Dishonour, or the instant sword!
-    Ye chose. Ye met that blood-stained tide,
-      A little kingdom kept its word;
-    And, dying, cried across the night,
-    _Hear us, O earth, we chose the Right._
-
-    Whose is the victory? Though ye stood
-      Alone against the unmeasured foe,
-    By all the tears, by all the blood,
-      That flowed, and have not ceased to flow,
-    By all the legions that ye hurled
-    Back thro' the thunder-shaken world;
-
-    By the old that have not where to rest,
-      By lands laid waste and hearths defiled,
-    By every lacerated breast,
-      And every mutilated child,
-    Whose is the victory? Answer, ye
-    Who, dying, smiled at tyranny:--
-
-    _Under the sky's triumphal arch
-      The glories of the dawn begin.
-    Our dead, our shadowy armies, march
-      E'en now, in silence, thro' Berlin--
-    Dumb shadows, tattered blood-stained ghosts,
-    But cast by what swift following hosts!_
-
-    And answer, England! _At thy side,
-      Thro' seas of blood, thro' mists of tears,
-    Thou that for Liberty hast died
-      And livest, to the end of years._
-    And answer, earth! Far off, I hear
-    The pæans of a happier sphere:--
-
-    _The trumpet blown at Marathon
-      Exulted over earth and sea;
-    But burning angel lips have blown
-      The trumpets of thy Liberty,
-    For who, beside thy dead, could deem
-    The faith, for which they died, a dream?_
-
-    _Earth has not been the same, since then.
-      Europe from thee received a soul,
-    Whence nations moved in law, like men,
-      As members of a mightier whole,
-    Till wars were ended...._ In that day,
-    So shall our children's children say.
-
-
-
-
-CHARACTERS
-
-
- RADA, wife of the village doctor.
-
- BETTINE, her daughter, aged twelve.
-
- BRANDER  { German soldiers quartered in her house
- TARRASCH { during the occupation of the village.
-
- NANKO, an old, half-witted schoolmaster, living in the care of the
-   doctor. He has a delusion that it is always Christmas Eve.
-
- German soldiers.
-
-
-
-
-RADA
-
-A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE
-
-
- _The action takes place in a Belgian village, during the War of 1914.
-   The scene is a room in the doctor's house. On the right there is
-   a door opening to the street, a window with red curtains, and a
-   desk under the window. On the left there is a large cupboard with a
-   door on either side of it, one leading to a bedroom and the other
-   to the kitchen. At the back an open fire is burning brightly. Over
-   the fireplace there is a reproduction in colours of the Dresden
-   Madonna. The room is lit only by the firelight and two candles in
-   brass candlesticks, on a black oak table, at which the two soldiers
-   are seated, playing cards and drinking beer._
-
- _RADA, a dark handsome woman, sits on a couch to the left of the fire,
-   with her head bowed in her hands, weeping._
-
- _NANKO sits cross-legged on a rug before the fire, rubbing his hands,
-   snapping his fingers, and chuckling to himself._
-
-TARRASCH (_throwing down the cards_).
-
-Pish! You have all the luck. (_He turns to RADA_) Look here, my
-girl, where is the use of snivelling? We've been killing pigs all
-day and now we want to unbuckle a bit. You ought to think yourself
-infernally lucky to be alive at all, and I'm not sure that you will be
-so fortunate when the other boys come back. Wheedled them out of the
-house finely, didn't you? On a fine wildgoose chase, too. Hidden money!
-Refugees don't bury their money and leave the secret behind them.
-You've been whimpering ever since we two refused to believe you. What's
-your game, eh? I warn you there'll be hell to pay when they come back.
-
-RADA (_sobbing and burying her face_).
-
-God, be pitiful!
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-This is war, this is! And you can't expect war to be all swans and
-shining armour. No--nor smart uniforms either. Look at the mud my
-friend and I have already annexed from Belgium. Brander, you know it's
-a most astonishing fact; but I have remarked it several times. Those
-women whose eyes glitter at the sight of a spiked helmet are the first
-to be astonished by the realities of war. They expect the dead to jump
-up and kiss them and tell them it is all a game, as soon as the battle
-is ended. No, no, my dear; it's only in war that one sees how small is
-one's personal happiness in comparison with greater things. Isn't it?
-
- (_He fills a glass and drinks. BRANDER lights a cigar._)
-
-NANKO.
-
-Exactly. In times of peace we forget those eternal silences. We value
-life too highly. We become domesticated. Why, I suppose in this
-magnificent war there have been so many women and children killed
-that they would fill the great Cloth Hall at Ypres; and, as for the
-young men, there have been so many slaughtered that their dead bodies
-would fill St. Peter's at Rome. Why, I suppose they would fill the
-three hundred abbeys of Flanders and all the cathedrals in the world
-chock-full from floor to belfry, wouldn't they? How Goya would have
-loved to paint them! Can't you see it?
-
- (_He grows ecstatic over the idea._)
-
-    Tournai with its five clock-towers, Ghent, and Bruges,
-    Louvain and Antwerp, Rheims and Westminster,
-    Under the round white moon, on Christmas Eve,
-    With towers of frozen needlework, and spires
-    That point to God; but all their painted panes
-    Bursting with dreadful arms and gaping faces,
-    Gargoyles of flesh; and round them, in the snow,
-    The little cardinals, like gouts of blood,
-    The little bishops, running like white mice,
-    Hooded with violet spots, quite, quite dismayed
-    To find there was no room for them within
-    Upon that holy night when Christ was born.
-
-But perhaps if Goya were living to-day he would prefer to pack them
-into Chicago meat factories, with the intellectuals dancing outside
-like marionettes, and the unconscious Hand of God pulling the strings.
-You know one of their very latest theories is that He is a somnambulist.
-
-TARRASCH (_to RADA_).
-
-You should read Schopenhauer, my dear, and learn to estimate these
-emotions at their true value. You would then be able to laugh at these
-feelings which seem to you now so important. It is the mark of _Kultur_
-to be able to laugh at all sentiments. Isn't it?
-
-NANKO.
-
-The priests, I suppose, are still balancing themselves on the
-tight-rope, over the jaws of the crowd. The poor old Pope did his best
-for his Master, when the Emperor asked him for a blessing on the war.
-"_I_ bless Peace," said the Pope; but nobody listened. I composed a
-little poem about that. I called it St. Peter's Christmas. It went like
-this:--
-
-    And does the Cross of Christ still stand?
-      Yes, though His friends may watch from far--
-    And who is this at His right hand,
-      This Rock in the red surf of war?
-
-    This, this is he who once denied,
-      And turned and wept and turned again.
-    Last night before an Emperor's pride
-      He stood and blotted out that stain.
-
-    Last night an Emperor bared the sword
-      And bade him bless. He stood alone.
-    Alone in all the world, _his_ word
-      Confessed--and blessed--a loftier throne.
-
-    I hear, still travelling towards the Light,
-      In widening waves till Time shall cease,
-    The Power that breathed from Rome last night
-      His infinite whisper--_I bless Peace._
-
- (_TARRASCH and BRANDER applaud ironically._)
-
-[Illustration: OVER THE JAWS OF THE CROWD]
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-Excellent! Excellent! (_To RADA_) You should have seen our brave
-soldiers laughing--do you remember, Brander--at a little village near
-Termonde. They made the old vicar and his cook dance naked round the
-dead body of his wife, who had connived at the escape of her daughter
-from a Prussian officer.
-
-NANKO.
-
-Ah, that was reality, wasn't it? None of your provincial respectability
-about that, none of your shallow conventionality! That's what the age
-wants--realism!
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-It was brutal, I confess; but better than British hypocrisy, eh? There
-was something great about it, like the neighing of the satyrs in the
-Venusberg music.
-
-RADA (_sinking on her knees by the couch and sobbing_).
-
-God! God!
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-They were beginning to find out the provincialism of their creeds in
-England. The pessimism of Schopenhauer had taught them much; and if it
-had not been for this last treachery, this last ridiculous outburst of
-the middle-class mind on behalf of what they call honour, we should
-have continued to tolerate (if not to enjoy), in Berlin, those plays by
-Irishmen which expose so wittily the inferior _Kultur_, the shrinking
-from reality, of their (for the most part) not intellectual people. I
-have the honour, madam, to request that you should no longer make this
-unpleasant sound of weeping. You irritate my nerves. Have you not two
-men quartered upon you instead of one? And are they not university
-students? If your husband and the rest of the villagers had not
-resisted our advance, they might have been alive, too. In any case,
-your change is for the better. Isn't it?
-
- (_He lights a cigar._)
-
-NANKO.
-
-Exactly! Exactly! You remember, Rada, I used to be a schoolmaster
-myself in the old days; and if _you_ knew what _I_ know, you wouldn't
-cry, my dear. You'd understand that it's entirely a question of the
-survival of the fittest. A biological necessity, that's what it is. And
-Haeckel himself has told us that, though we may resign our hopes of
-immortality, and the grave is the only future for our beloved ones, yet
-there is infinite consolation to be found in examining a piece of moss
-or looking at a beetle. That's what the Germans call the male intellect.
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-Is this man attempting to be insolent?
-
- (_He rises as if to strike_ NANKO.)
-
-BRANDER (_tapping his forehead_).
-
-Take no notice of him. He's only a resident patient. He was not calling
-you a beetle. He has delusions. He thinks it is always Christmas Eve.
-That's his little tree in the corner. As Goethe should have said--
-
-    There was a little Christian.
-    He had a little tree.
-    Up came a Superman
-    And cracked him, like a flea.
-
-TARRASCH (_laughing_).
-
-Very good! You should send that to the _Tageblatt_, Brander.
-
-Well, Rada, or whatever your name is, you'd better find something for
-us to eat. I'm sick of this whimpering.
-
-Wouldn't your Belgian swine have massacred us all, if we'd given them
-the chance? We've thousands of women and children at home snivelling
-and saying, "Oh! my God! Oh! my God!" just like you.
-
-RADA (_rising to her feet in a fury of contempt_).
-
-    Then why are you in Belgium, gentlemen?
-    Is it the husks and chaff that the swine eat,
-    Or is it simply butchery?
-
- (_They stare at her in silence, over-mastered for a moment by her
-   passion. Then, her grief welling up again, she casts herself down on
-   the couch, and buries her face in her hands, sobbing._)
-
-    God! God! God!
-
-[Illustration: THE OLD DANCE OF CHARLATANS AND BEASTS]
-
-BRANDER.
-
-Don't you trouble about God. What can _He_ do when both sides go down
-on their marrow-bones? He can't make both sides win, can He?
-
-NANKO.
-
-That's how the intellectuals prove He doesn't exist. Either He is not
-almighty, they say, or else He is unjust enough not to make both sides
-win. But all those anthropomorphic conceptions are out of date now,
-even in England, as this gentleman very truly said. You see, it was so
-degrading, Rada, to think that God had anything in common with mankind
-(though love was once quite fashionable), and as we didn't know of
-anything higher than ourselves we were simply compelled to say that
-He resembled something lower, such as earthquakes, and tigers, and
-puppet-shows, and ideas of that sort. Reality above all things! You
-may see God in sunsets; but there was nothing _real_ about the _best_
-qualities of mankind. It's curious. The more intellectual and original
-you are, the lower you have to go, and the more likely you are to end
-in the old dance of charlatans and beasts. I suppose that's an argument
-for tradition and growth. If we call it Evolution, nobody will mind
-very much.
-
-RADA (_wringing her hands in an agony of grief_).
-
-Oh, God, be pitiful, be pitiful!
-
-BRANDER (_standing in front of her_).
-
-Look here, we've had enough of this music. I've been watching you, and
-there's more upon your mind than sorrow for the dead. Why were you so
-anxious to wheedle us all out of the house? Tarrasch has warned you
-there'll be hell to pay when the others come back. What was the game,
-eh? You'd better tell me. You couldn't have thought you were going to
-escape through our lines to-night.
-
- (_There is a sudden uproar outside, and a woman's scream, followed by
-   the terrified cry of a child._)
-
-Ah! Ah! Father!
-
-BRANDER.
-
-Hear that. The men are mad with brandy and blood and--other things.
-There's no holding them in, even from the children. You needn't wince.
-Even from the children, I say. What chance would there be for a
-fine-looking wench like yourself?
-
-No, you were not going to try that. You've something to hide, here, in
-the house, eh? Well, now you've got rid of the others, and we've had a
-drink, we're going to look for it. What is there?
-
- (_He points to the bedroom door._)
-
-RADA (_rising to her feet slowly, steadying herself with one hand on
-the couch and fixing her eyes on his face_).
-
-My bedroom. No. I've nothing here to hide. This is war, isn't it? If I
-choose to revenge myself on those that have used me badly, people that
-I hate, by telling you where you can find what everybody wants, money,
-money--I suppose you want that--isn't that good enough?
-
-BRANDER.
-
-Better come with us, then, and show us this treasure-trove.
-
-RADA (_shrinking back_).
-
-No, no, I dare not. All those dead out there would terrify me, terrify
-me!
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-A pack of lies! What were you up to, eh? Telephoning to the English?
-
-BRANDER.
-
-It has been too much for her nerves. Don't worry her, or she'll go
-mad. Then there'll be nobody left to get us our supper.
-
- (_TARRASCH wanders round the room, opening drawers and examining
-   letters and other contents at the desk._)
-
-NANKO.
-
-That _would_ be selfish, Rada. You know it's Christmas Eve. Nobody
-ought to think of unpleasant things on Christmas Eve. What have you
-done with the Christmas-tree, Rada?
-
-BRANDER.
-
-And who's to blame? That's what I want to know. You don't blame _us_,
-do you? We didn't know where we were marching a month ago; and
-possibly we shall be fighting on your side against somebody else, a
-year hence.
-
-NANKO.
-
-Of course they didn't know! Poor soldiers don't.
-
-TARRASCH (_who has been trying the bedroom door_).
-
-In the meantime, what have you got behind that door? Give me the key.
-
-RADA (_hurriedly, and as if misunderstanding him, opens the cupboard.
-She speaks excitedly_).
-
-Food! Food! Food for hungry men. Food enough for a wolf pack. Come on.
-Help yourselves!
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-Look, Brander! What a larder! Here's a dinner for forty men. Isn't it?
-
-RADA.
-
-Better take your pick before the others come.
-
- (_She thrusts dishes into BRANDER'S hands and loads TARRASCH with
-   bottles. They lay the table with them, RADA seeming to share their
-   eagerness._)
-
-BRANDER (_looking at his hands_).
-
-Here! Bring me a basin of warm water. There are times when you can't
-touch food without washing your hands.
-
- (_RADA hesitates, then goes into the kitchen. BRANDER holds out a
-   ring to TARRASCH._)
-
-    Her husband's ring. I got it off his finger
-    When he went down. He lay there, doubled up,
-    With one of those hideous belly wounds. He begged,
-    Horribly, for a bullet; so, poor devil,
-    I put him out of his misery. I can't eat
-    With hands like that. Ugh! Look!
-
-NANKO (_rising and peering at them_).
-
-                                    Ah, but they're red.
-    Red, aren't they? And there's red on your coat, too.
-
- (_He fingers it curiously._)
-
-    I suppose that's blood, eh? People are such cowards.
-    Many of them never seem to understand
-    That man's a fighting animal. They're afraid,
-    Dreadfully afraid, of the sight of blood.
-    I think it's a beautiful colour, beautiful!
-    You know, in the Old Testament, they used
-    To splash it on the door-posts.
-
-BRANDER (_pushing him away_).
-
-                                  Go and sit down,
-    You crazy old devil!
-
- (_RADA enters with a bowl of water, sets it on a chair, and returns to
-   the couch. BRANDER washes his hands._)
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-                        My hands want washing, too.
-    My God, you've turned the water into wine.
-    Get me some fresh.
-
- (_RADA approaches, stares at the bowl, and moves back, swaying a
-   little._)
-
-BRANDER (_roughly_).
-
-    I'll empty it. Give it to me.
-
- (_He goes out._)
-
-NANKO.
-
-    The Old Testament, you know, is full of it.
-    _Who is this_, it says, _that cometh from Edom,
-    In dyed garments from Bozrah?_ It was blood
-    That dyed their garments. And in _Revelation_
-    Blood came out of the wine-press, till it splashed
-    The bridles of the horses; and the seas
-    Were all turned into blood. Doesn't that show
-    That man's a fighting animal?
-
-TARRASCH (_again fumbling at the bedroom door_).
-
-    Give me the key.
-
-RADA (_thrusting herself between him and the door_).
-
-    That is my bedroom. You must not go in.
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-    Are they so modest, then, in Belgium, madam?
-    You're fooling us. What is it? Loot? More loot?
-    The family stocking, eh?
-
- (_BRANDER enters. He goes to the table and begins eating._)
-
-NANKO.
-
-                            The stocking? No!
-    The stocking is in the chimney-corner, see.
-
- (_He shakes an empty stocking that hangs in the fire-place._)
-
-    Bettine and I, we always hang it up
-    Ready for Santa Claus. It's a good custom.
-    They do it in Germany. The children there
-    Believe that Santa Claus comes down the chimney.
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-    If I know anything of women's eyes,
-    It's either money, or a daughter, Rada.
-    And so--the key! Or else I burst the door.
-
-RADA (_looks at him for a moment before speaking_).
-
-    I throw myself upon your mercy, then.
-    It _is_ my little girl. She is twelve years old.
-    Don't wake her. She has slept all through this night.
-    I thought I might have hidden her. It's too late.
-    It's of the other men that I'm afraid.
-    Not you. But they are drunk. If they come back....
-    Help me to save her! I'll do anything for you,
-    Anything! Only help me to get her away!
-    I'll pray for you every night of my life. I'll pray....
-
- (_She stretches out her hands pitifully and begins to weep. The men
-   stand staring at her. The door opens behind her, and BETTINE, in
-   her night-dress, steals into the room._)
-
-BETTINE.
-
-Mother----Oh!
-
- (_She stops at the sight of the strangers._)
-
-BRANDER.
-
-    Don't be afraid. I'm Nanko's friend.
-    What? Don't you know me? I came down the chimney.
-
-BETTINE.
-
-    I don't see any soot upon your face.
-
- (_She goes nearer._)
-
-    Nor on your clothes. That's red paint, isn't it?
-
-BRANDER.
-
-    Can't help it. Santa Claus--that is my name.
-    What's yours?
-
-BETTINE.
-
-    Bettine.
-
-BRANDER.
-
-                        Ah! I've a little girl
-    At home--about your age, too--called Bettine.
-
-BETTINE (_who has been watching him curiously_).
-
-    I know. You are the British. Mother said
-    The British would be here before the Boches.
-    I dreamed that you were coming, and I thought
-    I heard the marching. Weren't you singing, too?
-    It made me feel so happy in my sleep.
-    What were you singing? "It's a long, long way
-    To----" what d'you call it? _Tipperary_? eh?
-    What does that mean?
-
-BRANDER.
-
-    A place a long way off.
-
-BETTINE.
-
-    As far as heaven?
-
-BRANDER.
-
-    Almost as far as--home.
-
-BETTINE.
-
-    Well, I suppose it means the Boches must march
-    A long, long way before they reach it, eh?
-    There's Canada. They'll have to march through that.
-    Then India, and that's huge. Why, Nanko says
-    There are three hundred million people there,
-    And all their soldiers ride on elephants.
-    Poor Boches! I'm sorry for them. Nanko says
-    They're trying to ride across two thousand years
-    In motor-cars. It's easy enough to ride
-    Two thousand miles; but not two thousand years.
-
- (_She runs to the stocking and examines it. TARRASCH and BRANDER
-   return to the table and eat and drink._)
-
-    There's nothing in the stocking. Never mind,
-    Nanko, when Christmas really comes, you'll see.
-
- (_With a sudden note of fear in her voice._)
-
-    Mother, where's father?
-
-RADA (_putting an arm round her_).
-
-                          He will soon be with us.
-    It's all right, darling.
-
-BETTINE.
-
-                            Mother, mayn't we try
-    The new tunes on the gramophone?
-
-NANKO.
-
-                                    Now, wait!
-    I've an idea. It's Christmas Eve, you know.
-    We'll celebrate it. Where's the Christmas-tree?
-    We'll get that ready first.
-
- (_BETTINE pulls the little Christmas-tree out from the corner. RADA
-   glances from the child to the men, as if hoping that her play will
-   win them to help her._)
-
-BETTINE.
-
-                              It's nearly a week,
-    Isn't it, Nanko, since you had your tree?
-
-BRANDER.
-
-    Here, put it on the table.
-
-NANKO (_clapping his hands_).
-
-                              Yes, that's best.
-    I fear that we shall want a new tree, soon.
-    This one is withered. See how the needles drop.
-    There's no green left. It's growing old, Bettine.
-    What shall we hang on it?
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-                            What d' you think
-    Of that now? (_He hangs his revolver on the tree._)
-
-BETTINE (_laughing merrily_).
-
-                Oh! Oh! What a great big pistol!
-    That'll be father's present! And now what else?
-
-NANKO (_eagerly_).
-
-    What else?
-
-BRANDER.
-
-    Well, what do you say to a ring, Bettine?
-    How prettily it hangs upon the bough!
-    Isn't that fine? (_He hangs the ring upon the tree._)
-
-BETTINE (_staring at it_).
-
-    It's just like father's ring!
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-    Now light the candles. Isn't it?
-
-NANKO (_clapping his hands and capering_).
-
-                                    Yes, that's right!
-    Light all the little candles on the tree!
-    Oh, doesn't the pistol shine, doesn't the ring
-    Glitter!
-
-BETTINE.
-
-            But oh, it _is_ like father's ring.
-    He had a little piece of mother's hair
-    Plaited inside it, just like that. It _is_
-    My father's ring.
-
-RADA.
-
-                    No; there are many others,
-    Bettine, just like it, hundreds, hundreds of others.
-
-BRANDER.
-
-    And now--what's in that package over there?
-
-BETTINE.
-
-    Oh, that's the new tunes for the gramophone.
-    That's father's Christmas present to us all.
-
-NANKO.
-
-    Now, what a wonderful man the doctor was!
-    Nobody else, in these parts, would have thought
-    Of buying a gramophone. Let's open it.
-
-BETTINE.
-
-    Yes! Yes! And we'll give father a surprise!
-    It shall be playing a tune when he comes in!
-    He won't be angry, will he, mumsy dear?
-
- (_BRANDER opens the package. NANKO rubs his hands in delight. They get
-   the gramophone ready._)
-
-NANKO.
-
-    Oh, this will be a merry Christmas Eve.
-    There now--just see how this kind gentleman
-    Has opened the package for us. Now you see
-    The good of war. It benefits the health.
-    Sets a man up. Look at old Peter's legs,
-    He's a disgrace to the village, a disgrace!
-    Nobody shoots him either, so he spoils
-    Everything; for you know, you must admit,
-    Bettine, that war means natural selection--
-    Survival of the fittest, don't you see?
-    For instance, _I_ survive, and _you_ survive:
-    Don't we? So Peter shouldn't spoil it all.
-    They say that all the tall young men in France
-    Were killed in the Napoleonic wars,
-    So that most Frenchmen at the present day
-    Are short and fat. Isn't that funny, Bettine?
-
- (_She laughs._)
-
-    Which shows us that tall men are not required
-    To-day. So nobody knows. Perhaps thin legs
-    Like Peter's _may_ be useful, after all,
-    In aeroplanes, or something. Every ounce
-    Makes a great difference there. Nobody knows.
-    It's natural selection. See, Bettine?
-    Ah, now the gramophone's ready. Make it play
-    A Christmas tune. That's what the churches do
-    On Christmas Eve: for all the churches now,
-    And all the tall cathedrals with their choirs,
-    What do you think they are, Bettine? I'll tell you.
-    I'll whisper it. _They're great big gramophones!_
-
- (_She laughs._)
-
-    Now for a Christmas tune!
-
-TARRASCH (_adjusting a record_).
-
-                            There's irony
-    In your idea, my friend, that would delight
-    The ghost of Nietzsche! Certainly, it shall play
-    A Christmas tune. Here is the very thing.
-
- (_There is an uproar of drunken shouts in the distance._ BRANDER
-   _locks the outer door._)
-
-BETTINE.
-
-    The inn is full of drunken men to-night,
-    Mother. D' you hear them? Mother, was it an inn
-    Like that--the one that's in my Christmas piece?
-
-BRANDER (_to TARRASCH_).
-
-    Don't do it, we've had irony enough.
-    Don't start it playing, if you want to keep
-    This Christmas party to ourselves, my boy.
-    The men are mad with drink, and--other things.
-    Look here, Tarrasch, what are we going to do
-    About this youngster, eh?
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-                            Better keep quiet
-    Till morning. When the men have slept it off
-    They'll stand a better chance of slipping away.
-    They're all drunk, officers and men as well.
-
-BRANDER.
-
-    That's the most merciful thing that one can say.
-
-NANKO.
-
-    Oh, what a pity! I did think, Bettine,
-    That we should have some music. Well--I know!
-    Tell us the Christmas piece you learned in school.
-    That's right. Stand there! No, stand up on this bench.
-    Your mother tells me that you won the prize
-    For learning it so beautifully, Bettine.
-    That's right. Now, while you say it, I will stand
-    Here, with a candle. See, that illustrates
-    The scene.
-
- (_He lifts one of the candles to illuminate the picture of the
-   Madonna and child. For a moment he speaks with a curious dignity._)
-
-              You know it is not all delusion
-    About this Christmas Eve. The wise men say
-    That Time is a delusion. Now then, speak
-    Your Christmas piece.
-
-BETTINE (_with her hands behind her, as if in school, she obeys him_).
-
-She laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
-
-And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field,
-keeping watch over their flock by night,
-
-And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord
-shone round about them, and they were sore afraid.
-
-And the angel said unto them, "Fear not: for behold I bring you good
-tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
-
-"For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour, which is
-Christ the Lord.
-
-"And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in
-swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."
-
-And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host,
-praising God, and saying:--
-
-"_Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace...._"
-
- (_There is silence for a moment, then a pistol-shot, a scream, and a
-   roar of drunken laughter without, followed by a furious pounding on
-   the door. BETTINE runs to her mother._)
-
-BRANDER.
-
-    Here, Tarrasch, what the devil are we to do
-    About this child?
-
- (_He calls through the door._)
-
-                    Clear out of this! The house
-    Is full. We want to sleep.
-
- (_The uproar grows outside, and the pounding is resumed. There is a
-   crash of broken glass at the window._)
-
-BETTINE.
-
-                              Mother, I'm frightened!
-    It is the Boches! Mother, it is the Boches!
-    Where are the British, mother? You said the British
-    Were sure to be here first!
-
-BRANDER.
-
-                              Bundle the child
-    Into that room, woman, at once!
-
- (_RADA snatches the revolver from the Christmas-tree and hurries
-   BETTINE into the bedroom just as the other door is burst open and a
-   troop of soldiers appear on the threshold, shouting and furious with
-   drink. They sing, with drunken gestures, in the doorway:_)
-
-    "Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutscher Rhein...."
-
-FIRST SOLDIER.
-
-                                              Come on!
-    They're in that room. I saw them! The only skirts
-    Left in the village. Comrades, you've had your fun--
-    It's time for ours.
-
-BRANDER.
-
-                      Clear out of this. You're drunk.
-    We want to sleep.
-
-SECOND SOLDIER.
-
-    Well, hand the women over.
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-    There are no women here.
-
-FIRST SOLDIER.
-
-                            You greedy wolf,
-    I saw them.
-
-NANKO.
-
-    Come! Come! Come! It's Christmas Eve!
-
-[Illustration: THE VAMPIRE]
-
-SECOND SOLDIER.
-
-    Well, if there are no petticoats, where's the harm
-    In letting us poor soldiers take a squint
-    Through yonder door? By God, we'll do it, too!
-    Come on, my boys.
-
- (_They make a rush towards the room._)
-
-NANKO.
-
-                    Be careful, or you'll smash
-    The Christmas-tree! You'll smash the gramophone!
-
- (_A soldier tries the bedroom door. It is opened from within, and RADA
-   appears on the threshold with the revolver in her hand._)
-
-FIRST SOLDIER.
-
-    Liars! Liars!
-
-RADA.
-
-                There is one woman here,
-    One woman and a child....
-    And war, they tell me, is a noble thing.
-    It is the mother of heroic deeds,
-    The nurse of honour, manhood.
-
-SECOND SOLDIER.
-
-    God, a speech!
-
-NANKO (_who is hugging his Christmas-tree near the fire again_).
-
-    Certainly, Rada! You will not deny
-    That life's a battle.
-
-RADA.
-
-                        You hear, drunk as you are,
-    Up to your necks in blood, you hear this fool,
-    This poor old fool, piping his dreary cry.
-    And through his lips, and through his softening brain,
-    The men that use you, cheat you, drive you out
-    To slaughter and be slaughtered, teach the world
-    That this black vampire, sucking at our breasts,
-    Is good. Men! Men! The pestilence of your dead
-    Is murdering you by legions. All the trains
-    Of quicklime that your Emperor sends behind you
-    Can never eat its way through all that flesh--
-    Three hundred miles of dead! Your dead!
-
-FIRST SOLDIER.
-
-                                          Hoch! Hoch!
-    A speech!
-
- (_They make a movement towards her, which she arrests by raising the
-   revolver._)
-
-RADA.
-
-            I do not hate! I pity you all.
-    I tell you, you are doing it in a dream.
-    You are drugged. You are not awake.
-
-NANKO.
-
-                I have sometimes thought
-    The very same.
-
-RADA.
-
-                  But you will wake one day.
-    Listen! If you have children of your own,
-    Listen to me ... the child is twelve years old.
-    She has never had one hard word spoken to her
-    In all her life.
-
-SECOND SOLDIER.
-
-                    Nor shall she now, by God!
-    Where is she? Bring her out!
-
-FIRST SOLDIER.
-
-                                Twelve years of age?
-    Add two, because her mother loves her so!
-    That's ripe enough for marriage to a soldier.
-
- (_They laugh uproariously, and sing again mockingly_:)
-
-    "Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutscher Rhein!"
-
- (_They move forward again._)
-
-RADA (_raising the revolver_).
-
-    One word. If you are deaf to honour, blind
-    To truth, and if compassion cannot reach you,
-    Then I appeal to fear! Yes, you shall fear me.
-    Listen! I heard, when I was in that room,
-    A sound like gun-fire, coming from the south:
-    What if it were the British?
-
-SOLDIERS.
-
-                                Ah! The swine!
-    The dogs!
-
-RADA.
-
-    Bull-dogs; and slow. But they are coming,
-    And, where they hold, they never will let go.
-    Though they may come too late for me and mine,
-    You are on your trial now before the world.
-    You never can escape it. They are coming,
-    With justice and the unconquerable law!
-    I warn you, though their speech is not my own,
-    And I shall be but one of all the dead,
-    Dead, with that child, in a forgotten grave--
-    I speak for them, and they will keep my word.
-    Yes, if you harm that child ... the British.... Ah!
-
- (_They advance towards her._)
-
-    I have one bullet for the child and five
-    To share between you and myself.
-
-FIRST SOLDIER.
-
-                                    Come on!
-    She can't shoot! Look at the way she's holding it!
-    Duck down, and make a rush for it.
-
-SOLDIERS.
-
-    Come on!
-
- (_They make a rush. RADA steps back into the bedroom and shuts the
-   door in their faces._)
-
-SECOND SOLDIER.
-
-    Locked out in the cold. Come, break the damned thing down!
-
-BETTINE (_crying within_).
-
-    O British! British! Come! Come quickly, British!
-
-BRANDER (_trying to interpose_).
-
-    She'll keep her word. You'll never get 'em alive.
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-    Never. I know that kind. You'd better clear out.
-
-FIRST SOLDIER.
-
-    Down with the door!
-
- (_They put their shoulders to it. BRANDER makes a sign to TARRASCH.
-   They try to pull the men back. There is a scuffle and BRANDER is
-   knocked over. He rises with the blood running down his face, while
-   TARRASCH still struggles. The door begins to give. A shot is heard
-   within. The men pause and there is another shot._)
-
-BRANDER.
-
-    By God, she's done it!
-
- (_There is a booming of distant artillery._)
-
-                          Hear!
-    She was not lying. That came from the south-west.
-    It is the British!
-
- (_A bugle-call sounds in the village street._)
-
-TARRASCH.
-
-    The British! A night-attack!
-
- (_They all rush out except NANKO, who peers after them from the door.
-   Leaving it open to the night, he takes a _marron glacé_ from the
-   table, crosses the room, and begins to examine the gramophone._
-
- _Confused sounds of men rushing to arms, thin bugle-calls in the
-   distance, and the occasional clatter of a galloping horse blow in
-   from the blackness framed in the open door. The deep pulsation of
-   the British artillery is heard throughout, in a steady undertone._)
-
-NANKO (_calling aloud as he munches_).
-
-    Come, Rada, you're pretending. They're all gone.
-    Rada, these _marrons glacés_ are delicious.
-    It's over now! Come, I don't think it's right
-    To spoil a person's pleasure on Christmas Eve.
-
- (_He tiptoes to the door and peers into the night._)
-
-    Come quick, Bettine, rockets are going up!
-    They are breaking into clusters of green stars!
-    Oh, there's a red one! You could see for miles
-    When that one broke. The willow-trees jumped out
-    Like witches; and, between them, the canal
-    Dwindled away to a little thread of blood.
-    And there were lines of men running and falling,
-    And guns and horses floundering in a ditch.
-    Oh, Rada! there's a bonfire by the mill.
-    They've burned the little cottage.
-        There's a man
-    Hanging above the bonfire by his hands,
-    And heaps of dead all round him.
-        Come and see!
-    It's terrible, but it's magnificent,
-    Like one of Goya's pictures. That's the way
-    _He_ painted war. Well, everybody's gone....
-    To think _I_ was the fittest, after all!
-
- (_He returns to the gramophone._)
-
-    I wonder how this gramophone does work.
-    He said the tune that he was putting in
-    Was just the thing for Christmas Eve.
-        I wonder,
-    I wonder what it was. Listen to this!
-
- (_He reads the title._)
-
-    It's a good omen, Rada--_A Christmas carol
-    Sung by the Grand Imperial Choir_--d' you hear?--
-    _At midnight in St. Petersburg_--_Adeste
-    Fideles!_ Fancy that! A Christmas carol
-    Upon the gramophone!
-    So all the future ages will be sure
-    To know exactly what religion was.
-    To think we must not hear it! Rada, they say
-    The Angel Gabriel composed that tune
-    On the first Christmas Eve. So don't you think
-    That we might hear it?
-    Everybody is gone, except the dead.
-    It will not wake them....
-    Come, Rada, you're pretending! Do not make
-    The war more dreadful than it really is.
-
- (_He accidentally sets the gramophone working and jumps back, a little
-   alarmed. He runs to the bedroom door._)
-
-    Rada! I've started it! Bettine, d' you hear?
-    The gramophone's working.
-
- (_The artillery booms like a thunder-peal in the distance. Then the
-   gramophone drowns it with the massed voices of the Imperial Choir
-   singing_:)
-
-    ADESTE FIDELES,
-    LÆTI TRIUMPHANTES,
-        ADESTE, ADESTE IN BETHLEHEM!
-        NATUM VIDETE
-        REGEM ANGELORUM:
-        VENITE, ADOREMUS,
-        VENITE, ADOREMUS,
-        VENITE, ADOREMUS DOMINUM.
-
- (NANKO _touches the floor under the door of the bedroom and stares at
-   his hand._)
-
-NANKO.
-
-    Something red again? Trickling under the door?
-    Blood, I suppose....
-
- (_A look of horror comes into his face as he stands listening to the
-   music. Then, as if slowly waking from a dream and almost as if
-   sanity had returned for a moment, he cries_:)
-
-    It's true! It's true! Rada, I am awake!
-    I am awake! And, in the name of Christ,
-    I accuse, I accuse ... O God, forgive us all!
-
- (_He falls on his knees by the bedroom door and calls, as if to the
-   dead within_:)
-
-    Awake, and after nineteen hundred years....
-    Bettine, Bettine! the British, they are coming!
-    Rada, you said it--they are coming quickly!
-    They are coming, with the reign of right and law.
-    But, O Bettine! Bettine! will they remember?
-    Are they awake? I only hear their guns.
-    What if they should grow used to it, Bettine,
-    And fail to wipe this horror from the world?
-    God, is there any hope for poor mankind?
-    God, are Thy little nations and Thy weak,
-    Thine innocent, condemned to hell for ever?
-    God, will the strong deliverers break the sword
-    And bring this world at last to Christmas Eve?
-
-THE IMPERIAL CHOIR.
-
-        ÆTERNI PARENTIS
-        SPLENDOREM ÆTERNUM,
-    VELATUM SUB CARNE VIDEBIMUS,
-        DEUM INFANTEM,
-        PANNIS INVOLUTUM,
-    VENITE, ADOREMUS,
-    VENITE, ADOREMUS,
-    VENITE, ADOREMUS DOMINUM.
-
-NANKO.
-
-    Will Christ be born, oh, not in Bethlehem,
-    But in the soul of man, the abode of God?
-    There, in that deep, undying soul of man
-    (I still believe it), that immortal soul,
-    Will they lift up the cross with Christ upon it,
-    The Fool of God, whom intellectual fools,
-    The little fools of dust, in every land,
-    Grinning their _What is Truth?_ still crucify.
-    Could they not thrust their hands into His wounds?
-    His wounds are these--these dead are all His wounds.
-    Bettine! Bettine! the British, they are coming!
-    But you are silent now, so silent now!
-    Will they lift up God's poor old broken Fool,
-    And sleep no more until His kingdom come,
-    His infinite kingdom come?
-                      Will they remember?
-
- (_He bows his head against the closed door, while the gramophone lifts
-   the chorus of the Imperial Choir over the deepening thunder of the
-   guns_:)
-
-    NUNC CANTET, EXULTANS,
-    CHORUS ANGELORUM,
-    CANTET NUNC AULA CELESTIUM
-    GLORIA, GLORIA,
-    IN EXCELSIS DEO!
-    VENITE, ADOREMUS,
-    VENITE, ADOREMUS,
-    VENITE, ADOREMUS DOMINUM.
-
-
-
-
-INTERCESSION
-
-
-    Now the muttering gun-fire dies,
-      Now the night has cloaked the slain,
-    Now the stars patrol the skies,
-      Hear our sleepless prayer again!
-    They who work their country's will,
-    Fight and die for Britain still,
-    Soldiers, but not haters, know
-    _Thou_ must pity friend and foe.
-            Therefore hear,
-    Both for foe and friend, our prayer.
-
-    Thou whose wounded Hands do reach
-      Over every land and sea,
-    Thoughts too deep for human speech
-      Rise from all our souls to Thee;
-    Deeper than the wrath that burns
-    Round our hosts when day returns;
-    Deeper than the peace that fills
-    All these trenched and waiting hills.
-            Hear, O hear!
-    Both for foe and friend, our prayer.
-
-    Pity deeper than the grave
-      Sees, beyond the death we wield,
-    Faces of the young and brave
-      Hurled against us in the field.
-    Cannon-fodder! They _must_ come,
-    We must slay them, and be dumb,
-    Slaughter, while we pity, these
-    Most implacable enemies.
-            Master, hear,
-    Both for foe and friend, our prayer.
-
-    They are blind, as we are blind,
-      Urged by duties past reply.
-    Ours is but the task assigned;
-      Theirs to strike us ere they die.
-    Who can see his country fall?
-    Who but answers at her call?
-    Who has power to pause and think
-    When she reels upon the brink?
-            Hear, O hear,
-    Both for foe and friend, our prayer.
-
-    Shield them from that bitterest lie
-      Laughed by fools who quote their mirth,
-    When the wings of death go by
-      And their brother shrieks on earth.
-    Though they clamp their hearts with steel,
-    Conquering _every_ fear they feel.
-    There are dreams they dare not tell.
-    Shield, O shield, their eyes from hell.
-            Father, hear,
-    Both for foe and friend, our prayer.
-
-    Where the naked bodies burn,
-      Where the wounded toss at home,
-    Weep and bleed and laugh in turn,
-      Yes, the masking jest may come.
-    Let him jest who daily dies.
-    But O hide his haunted eyes.
-    Pain alone he might control.
-    Shield, O shield his wounded soul.
-            Master, hear,
-    Both for foe and friend, our prayer.
-
-    Peace? We steel us to the end.
-      Hope betrayed us, long ago.
-    Duty binds both foe and friend.
-      It is ours to break the foe.
-    Then, O God! that we might break
-    This red Moloch for Thy sake;
-    Know that Truth indeed prevails,
-    And that Justice holds the scales.
-            Father, hear,
-    Both for foe and friend, our prayer.
-
-    England, could this awful hour,
-      Dawning on thy long renown,
-    Mark the purpose of thy power,
-      Crown thee with that mightier crown!
-    Broadening to that purpose climb
-    All the blood-red wars of Time....
-    Set the struggling peoples free,
-    Crown with Law their Liberty!
-            England, hear,
-    Both for foe and friend, our prayer!
-
-    Speed, O speed what every age
-      Writes with a prophetic hand.
-    Read the midnight's moving page,
-      Read the stars and understand:
-    _Out of Chaos ye shall draw
-    Deepening harmonies of Law,
-    Till around the Eternal Sun
-    All your peoples move in one._
-            Christ-God, hear,
-    Both for foe and friend, our prayer.
-
-
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@@ -372,7 +334,7 @@ LONDON
 <span class="i0"><i>Thou that for Liberty hast died</i><br /></span>
 <span class="i2"><i>And livest, to the end of years.</i><br /></span>
 <span class="i0">And answer, earth! Far off, I hear<br /></span>
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 <span class="i2">Exulted over earth and sea;<br /></span>
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 Leaving it open to the night, he
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+<span class="i0">Rada, these <i>marrons glacés</i> are delicious.<br /></span>
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