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The Red Badge of Courage

CHAPTER XVIII
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But now the men turned at the woeful complaints of him upon the ground.
"Who is it?
Who is it ?" "It's Jimmie Rogers.

Jimmie Rogers." When their eyes first encountered him there was a sudden halt, as if they feared to go near.

He was thrashing about in the grass, twisting his shuddering body into many strange postures.

He was screaming loudly.

This instant's hesitation seemed to fill him with a tremendous, fantastic contempt, and he damned them in shrieked sentences.
The youth's friend had a geographical illusion concerning a stream, and he obtained permission to go for some water.


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