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CHAPTER III
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I've got a little pocket-book full that I've collected.

I've left it in London, but I'll show you some day.

But bless you, nobody _talks_ about their feelings at the front.

We're a pretty slangy lot in the trenches, and when we're in billets, we read novels and rag each other--and _sleep_--my word, we do sleep!' He rolled on his back, and drew his hat over his eyes a moment, for even in the fresh mountain air the June sun was fierce.

Nelly sat still, watching him, as he had watched her--all the young strength and comeliness of the man to whom she had given herself.
And as she did so there came swooping down upon her, like the blinding wings of a Fury, the remembrance of a battle picture she had seen that morning: a bursting shell--limp figures on the ground.


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