“The President is not with them, anyhow,” he said, and wiped his forehead. “But surely they are right away on the horizon,” said the bewildered Colonel, blinking and but half recovered from Bull’s hasty though polite explanation. “Could you possibly know your President among all those people?” “Could I know a white elephant among all those people!” answered Syme, somewhat irritably. “As you very truly say, they are on the horizon; but if he were walking with them … by God! I believe this ground would shake.” After an instant’s pause the new man called Ratcliffe said with gloomy decision: “Of course the President isn’t with them. I wish to Gemini he were. Much more likely the President is riding in triumph through Paris, or sitting on the ruins of St. Paul’s Cathedral.” “This is absurd!” said Syme. “Something may have happened in our absence: but he cannot have carried the world with a rush like that. It is quite true,” he added, frowning dubiously at the distant fields that lay towards the little station, “it is certainly true that there seems to be a crowd coming this way; but they are not all the army that you make out.”
What do You think about The Man Who Was Thursday (2001)?
