Had I heard it mentioned I would have known nothing about it and cared as little . I know all about it now -- its size , its standing , its military significance . Yesterday the news that the Germans have captured it in their second rush to Warsaw made my heart sink into my boots . I woke up in the night and worried over it . I do n't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night . Everything presses on my soul then and no cloud has a silver lining . '' `` When I wake up in the night and can not go to sleep again , '' remarked Susan , who was knitting and reading at the same time , `` I pass the moments by torturing the Kaiser to death . Last night I fried him in boiling oil and a great comfort it was to me , remembering those Belgian babies . '' `` If the Kaiser were here and had a pain in his shoulder you 'd be the first to run for the liniment bottle to rub him down , '' laughed Miss Oliver . `` Would I ? '' cried outraged Susan . `` Would I , Miss Oliver ? I would rub him down with coal oil , Miss Oliver -- and leave it to blister . That is what I would do and that you may tie to . A pain in his shoulder , indeed ! He will have pains all over him before he is through with what he has started . '' `` We are told to love our enemies , Susan , '' said the doctor solemnly . `` Yes , our enemies , but not King George 's enemies , doctor dear , '' retorted Susan crushingly . She was so well pleased with herself over this flattening out of the doctor completely that she even smiled as she polished her glasses . Susan had never given in to glasses before , but she had done so at last in order to be able to read the war news -- and not a dispatch got by her .
`` Can you tell me , Miss Oliver , how XXXXX pronounce M-l-a-w-a and B-z-u-r-a and P-r-z-e-m-y-s-l ? ''
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