Alois Jirásek

“ Suk stood rigid. Suspicion was awakened. Some trick perhaps—and then—to go away from the spot appointed to him as guard! Koláčný understood.
“Fear not, friend! How could I injure you? Let us lay aside our weapons and each go half way.” That voice did not deceive and Suk saw that Koláčný was propping his gun against a tree trunk. He looked around and went forward. Half way forward the soldiers met. The Prussian enemy with undisguised sincerity extended his hand.
“Just come, don’t be afraid. You and I have done nothing wrong to each other. We are brothers of one blood. ”

“ What matters it to us what the rulers of these lands have done to each other?” said the Helvetian bible-loving descendant of the exiled Bohemian brethren emigrants. And the lively lad from the home kingdom understood him. ”