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The work and play of the children, the interests and relaxations provided for their elders, had been gradually explained to her by Justine, and she knew that this shining tenth birthday of hers was to throw its light as far as the clouds of factory-smoke extended.
I'm not defending the town. It's merely I'm a confirmed doubter of myself. It's like all villages in all countries. Most places that have lost the smell of earth but not yet acquired the smell of patchouli or of factory-smoke are just as suspicious and righteous. I wonder if the small town isn't, with some lovely exceptions, a social appendix?
It was a good thing when October 28 came and the Battalion moved back to Arras for a twelve days' spell in rest. Billets were the French prison, whose cells provided excellent accommodation. Arras in the autumn of 1917 was an attractive place. The clear atmosphere, through which the sun shone undimmed by factory-smoke, lent to its majestic ruins almost Italian colouring.
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