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At a little table by the side of the square sat the recruiting officer with his pen and ledger, and the village school-master, a grave, intelligent-looking young man, who must have held such a place in this half-feudal village as he would have done a hundred years ago, was doing his best to glamour over the very realistic loss of these wives and sweethearts with patriotism's romance.
I thought, to what extent is this slaughter to go on, and when will the sacrifice for patriotism's sake be complete? Came up with the camp at length, and found the men engaged in clearing the ground and pitching the tents, which work was continued until dinner time.
For many of them, probably for Kitty, a rude and simple life would mean not only fresh mental but fresh physical strength. He had seen what women could endure, for love's or patriotism's sake! Make but appeal to the spirit the proud and tameless spirit and how the flesh answered!
There are two names to-day which are practically forgotten by modern England. Yet it is only half a century ago that the men who owned them were making a gallant stir for patriotism's sake. How many Englishmen to-day remember the story of Kossuth and Pulszky? Yet fifty years ago their names sounded loudly enough in the political arena.
I'm not a bloody patriot either I reckon patriotism's a bloody curse. I've never been any use to them! I only worked when they forced me to. I've been more expense and trouble to them than I'm worth. I haven't helped to win this wicked war, and I'm proud of it too! Sentimental rot be damned if everyone had been my way of thinking there wouldn't have been a war, no, not in any country.
Blake's young plantation in my descent, by the thought of the service I was rendering him while admitting a little fresh air into his sanctum. For my patriotism's sake I will not record my sensations as I took my way through the shrubbery towards the stable.
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