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The German realized this and after he had lost Mametz and Bernafay he held all the more desperately to Trônes, which, for the time being, was the superlative horror in woods fighting, though we were yet to know that it could be surpassed by Delville and High Woods. In Trônes the Germans met attack with counter-attack again and again.
General Delville was a splendid-looking man; and this, united with his wealth and station, could scarcely have failed to win to his heart any maiden whom he chose to address, less frank and upright than Della Delancey.
"You seem very attentive to me, major," said the general, smelling a rat. Then the major blurted out his desire. Could he lead a squadron round Delville Wood? Could he take that ride into the blue? He would give his soul to do it. "Get on with your job," said General Haldane.
It seemed as though our generals, after conferring with one another over telephones, said, "All right, tell So-and-so to have a go at Thiepval," or, "To-day we will send such-and-such a division to capture Delville Wood," or, "We must get that line of trenches outside Bazentin."
Twice had Della summoned courage to declare, in the presence of both her parents, that if General Delville came with any idea of winning her love she wished his visits to cease; for marry him she never would; but both times had she met with such stormy reproofs from her father, and such loud appeals to her pride and dignity from her mother, that she had ceased to argue the matter, and by both parents her acceptance of his suit was considered a settled thing.
Bazentin-le-Grand and le Petit and the wood were taken; aided by an unwonted cavalry charge which raised delusive hopes of breaking through, a great advance was made to High wood; and the Germans were driven out of most of Longueval and the Delville wood.
The German position at Longueval passed into British control on July 28, after what was called the most terrific fighting of the war, in Delville Wood. Between August 6 and September 10 the British under Gen. Sir Douglas Haig and the French under Gen.
Below the Pozières-Bapaume road were five small woods, grouped like the Great Bear constellation of stars. Their roots were feeding on hundreds of dead bodies, after each of the five Trones, Mametz, Foureaux, Delville, and Bouleaux had seen wild encounters with bomb and bayonet beneath its dead trees.
You are going to sleep early, Miss?" "So as to have bright eyes in the morning, dear." Lonely, without her mistress, Minnie also prepared for sleep; and that night Bernard's letter was placed beneath her pillow, and her dreams were of him. Della, as she had hoped, dreamed of General Delville.
So I came away early, an' your door was open, an' I I lost my boy this way six months ago, an' I've been tryin' to forget it ever since, an' I I I am very sorry for intrudin' an' anythin' that has happened. Mrs. Bent was putting out the Doctor's eye with a lamp as he stooped over Dora. 'Take it away, said the Doctor. 'I think the child will do, thanks to you, Mrs. Delville.
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