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Mametz Wood is a dark expanse to the front; to the right of it are other woods, Bazentin Woods, Big and Little, and beyond them, rather to the right and only just visible as a few sticks upon the skyline, are two other woods, High Wood, like a ghost in the distance, and the famous and terrible Wood of Delville. High Wood is nearly five miles away and a little out of the picture.
I came to-day to lay my heart and fortune at your feet: a heart which, though old, would have been true to you, and loved you dearly. It is, of course, needless to tell you how great is my disappointment. I ask no sacrifice of you, however. May you always be happy! God bless you!" Della burst into tears. "General Delville, I knew I could not be mistaken in your noble nature."
They who valued themselves on their understandings moved heaven and earth to become popular with the beautiful countess. Lady Delville was not asked; Lady Delville was furious: she affected disdain, but no one gave her credit for it. Lord Erpingham teazed Constance on this point. "You see I was right; for you have affronted Lady Delville.
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!"
Insisting that he could lift the cigarette I offered him to his lips and light it, too, he said: "We've only to keep at them, sir. They'll go." So the British kept at them and so did the French at every point. Was Delville Wood worse than High Wood? This is too nice a distinction in torments to be drawn. Possess either of them completely and command of the Ridge in that section was won.
One month later she announced her intention of calling upon Mrs. Delville. Both Mrs. Hauksbee and Mrs. Mallowe were in morning wrappers, and there was a great peace in the land. 'I should go as I was, said Mrs. Mallowe. 'It would be a delicate compliment to her style. Mrs. Hauksbee studied herself in the glass.
If his own statement was true, his charms of manner and conversation were so great that he needed constant surveillance. And he received it, till he repented genuinely of his marriage and neglected his personal appearance. Mrs. Delville alone in the hotel was unchanged.
So it was that Delville Wood was captured and lost several times and became "Devil's" Wood to men who lay there under the crash and fury of massed gun-fire until a wretched remnant of what had been a glorious brigade of youth crawled out stricken and bleeding when relieved by another brigade ordered to take their turn in that devil's caldron, or to recapture it when German bombing-parties and machine-gunners had followed in the wake of fire, and had crouched again among the fallen trees, and in the shell-craters and ditches, with our dead and their dead to keep them company.
Suddenly Della lifted her eyes, and turned them full upon the face before her. "General Delville?" "Della." "Pardon me, sir, for what I am about to say to you, and which I would have said long ago had I only had the opportunity; and and "Go on, Miss Della," said the General, though he moved uneasily in his chair.
I never conceal my sentiments: and I own with regret and shame that, till this moment, I had never seen in your mind whatever I might in your person those claims to admiration which were constantly dinned into my ear." Lady Delville actually coloured. "Pray," continued Constance, "condescend to permit me to a nearer acquaintance.
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