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Updated: May 21, 2025
I'll see that a ration of hot tea is served out for them. Your train starts at a quarter past seven this evening remember to call it nineteen-fifteen, by the way, in this country and you ought to be at the station an hour before the time. I'll send you a guide. What a fine-looking lot these chaps of yours are! Best lot I've seen here for a very long time. Working like niggers, too!
During those months of nineteen-fifteen when she had worked in hospitals close to the front as auxiliary nurse, all the high courage of her nature which she had inherited from a long line of men who had fought in the Civil War, the Revolution, and in the colonial wars before that, and the tribal wars that came after, and all that she had inherited from those foremothers whose courage, as severely tested, had never failed either their men or their country; in short, the inheritance of the best American tradition; had risen automatically to sustain her during that period of incessant danger and horror.
"You goose, where's the fun of letting your right hand go to pieces?" "Easy on. They won't amputate it," said Jimmy. That was in nineteen-nine. This is nineteen-fifteen. And only yesterday Norah asked me if I remembered what Jimmy said about his hand the night we were engaged. Yes, that night I was engaged to Norah Thesiger.
"I hate this war," said Rilla bitterly, as she gazed out into the maple grove that was a chill glory of pink and gold in the winter sunset. "Nineteen-fourteen has gone," said Dr. Blythe on New Year's Day. "Its sun, which rose fairly, has set in blood. What will nineteen-fifteen bring?" "Victory!" said Susan, for once laconic.
"I wouldn't have done that for the world," she repeated with a white face. "And you're living in the year of grace nineteen-fifteen? It's only What did we call it? A child's toy. And, between ourselves, it wasn't a very efficient paper-weight. I can assure you I shan't miss it." "Perhaps you will some day. And then you'll lift up your hands and curse the hour when you first met me."
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