France's Vietnam (the Algerian War or First Indochina War)

I've been to the pisshouse twenty times since yesterday because I'm so nervous.

He never—so they agreed—uses his head. He never—I think I have their phrase correct—stops to think.

[…] instead of sitting (as she ought to have done) by her good father and mother, she must needs run up into the gallery, and sit with a parcel of giddy creatures of her own age […]