Parade's End: The Tetralogy

by Ford Madox Ford

'Cats and monkeys. Monkeys and cats. All humanity is there.'

'It's maddening,' he said, 'to find women, as soon as they get in Council, as muddleheaded and as afraid to face straight issues as men!...'

him. They could die, they could be massacred, by the quarter million, in shambles. But that they should be massacred without jauntiness, without confidence, with depressed brows: without parade...

Does a man desert and at the same time refuse to betray his country? Well, he might. There was no end to the contradictions in men's characters.