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Updated: July 23, 2025
'One only, but he talks of his wife in a revolting way. I hated him for it. He thought he was being epigrammatic and brilliant. 'That is a vice peculiar to men. I dislike him because he is generally in the wake of some girl, disappointing the Eligibles. He will persecute May Holt no more, unless I am much mistaken. 'No. I think Mrs. Delville may occupy his attention for a while.
Delville and High Woods and Guillemont and Longueval and the Switch Trench these are symbolic names of that attrition, of the heroism of British persistence which would not take No for answer. You might think that you had seen ruins until you saw those of Guillemont after it was taken.
Even old Delville received Cecilia, though the daughter of a man of low birth." "And even so, madam," replied I, "Lady Margaret was prevailed on to countenance Morton, although the old Covenanter, his father, stuck sorely with her for some time.
Trevor was flattered: Lady Delville drew herself up. "It is a small party at the duchess's," said the latter; "merely to meet the Duke and Duchess of C ." "Ah, few people are capable of giving a suitable entertainment to the royal family." "But surely none more so than the Duchess of Daubigny her house so large, her rank so great!"
A troop or two made their way over the cratered ground and skirted Delville Wood; the Dragoon Guards charged a machine-gun in a cornfield, and killed the gunners. Germans rounded up by them clung to their stirrup leathers crying: "Pity! Pity!" The Indians lowered their lances, but took prisoners to show their chivalry. But it was nothing more than a beau geste.
In Delville Wood the South African Brigade of the 9th Division was cut to pieces, and I saw the survivors come out with few officers to lead them. In Trones Wood, in Bernafay Wood, in Mametz Wood, there had been great slaughter of English troops and Welsh. The 18th Division and the 38th suffered horribly. In Delville Wood many battalions were slashed to pieces before these South Africans.
Continued hard fighting on the eastern and northern edges of the Delville Wood advanced the British lines several hundred yards on each side of the Longueville-Flers road. These operations resulted in the British capturing eight officers and about 200 of other ranks. West of Ginchy two German companies attacked the British trenches and were driven off by machine-gun fire.
From that hour, Lady Delville who had at first resented, from the deepest recess of her heart, Constance Vernon's accession to rank and wealth, who, had Constance deferred to her early acquaintance, would have always found something in her she could have affected to despise; from that hour, Lady Delville was the warmest advocate, and a little time after, the sincerest follower, of the youthful countess.
High wood had to be completely evacuated; for Delville wood the South Africans, and the troops which relieved them on the 20th, had to struggle for thirteen days, and it was not wholly cleared for another month. Much of what was credited to the 14th of July had to be retaken in detailed fighting spread over many days.
Here, and among those ghastly fragments of shattered woods that one sees to south and east Mametz, Trônes, Delville, High Wood human suffering and heroism, human daring and human terror, on one side and on the other, reached their height.
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