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He tries to master his rebellious tongue, but failing in the attempt, he smiles, and expresses himself with a limpid glance, full of intelligence. Leglise pities him too: "It must be wretched not to be able to speak." To-day we laughed, yes, indeed, we laughed heartily, Leglise, the orderlies and I.
Small splinters from a grenade make very little wounds in a man's legs; but great disorders may enter by way of those little wounds, and the knee is such a complicated, delicate marvel! Corporal Leglise is in bed now. He breathes with difficulty, and catches his breath now and again like a person who has been sobbing. He looks about him languidly, and hardly seems to have made up his mind to live.
And always something beside me murmurs, mutely: "You see, you see, he was wrong when he said he would rather die." I am convinced of it, and this is why I have told your story. You will forgive me, won't you, Leglise, my friend? Every morning the stretcher-bearers brought Vize-Feldwebel Spat down to the dressing ward, and his appearance always introduced a certain chill in the atmosphere.
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