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Updated: June 6, 2025
Aviator's gauntlets draped the staff of the banner. Along the eastern side of this eyrie a broad divan invited one to rest. Over it were suspended Austrian and Bulgarian captures a lance with a blood-stiffened pennant, a cuirass, entrenching tools, a steel helmet with an eloquent bullet-hole through the crown.
At the back of the boy's head, rimmed by blood-stiffened hair the hair that had once been "as soft as the down of a bird" was a big red hole. That hole was always pitilessly distinct. They stepped on him heedlessly. They heeled the scattered stuff of his exquisite brain into the clay.... From all such moods of horror Mr. Britling's circle of lamplight was his sole refuge.
I stood there and I smelled that smell. And I thought of all those flies, and those blood-stiffened stretchers, and those little inch-long figures which I myself, looking through that telescope, had seen lying on the green hill, and those automobiles loaded with mangled men, and War de Luxe betrayed itself to me. Beneath its bogus glamour I saw war for what it is the next morning of drunken glory.
Grease spattered the earth; the floor of the buffet room was ankle deep, literally, in discarded bandages and blood-stiffened cotton; and the nurses and the doctors and the helpers dropped down in the midst of it all to snatch a few precious minutes of rest before the next creaking caravan of misery arrived. There was no need to tell them of its coming; they knew.
Shrinking from him, she made a desperate effort to push away his outstretched hand, threatening him in a broken whisper. "If you touch me I will kill you." They were brave men, those Englishmen. The Etheling only smiled, and one of his warriors chuckled. With a touch as gentle as it was strong, he put aside her resisting hands and began swiftly to cut away the blood-stiffened hose.
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