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` Hindenburg says he will spend a million lives to break the Allied front , ' said Gertrude . ` At such a price he must purchase some successes and how can we live through them , even if he is baffled in the end . These past two months when we have been crouching and waiting for the blow to fall have seemed as long as all the preceding months of the war put together . I work all day feverishly and waken at three o'clock at night to wonder if the iron legions have struck at last . It is then I see Hindenburg in Paris and Germany triumphant . I never see her so at any other time than that accursed hour . ' `` Susan looked dubious over Gertrude 's adjective , but evidently concluded that the ` a ' saved the situation . ''