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I wanted to hand it to him as a freewill offering, as a partial payment of the debt Scotland owed him for what he had done for her. And I thought, too, of men stricken by shell-shock, or paralyzed in the war there are pitifully many of both sorts! I did not want them to stay in bare and cold and lonely institutions.
What if he did omit to mention that the nasty, dangerous fellows turned out to be two feeble youths, half imbecile with shell-shock and half drunk, and that it was Mr. Hawtrey, arriving opportunely in his car, who took them over the last mile to the police station? As it happened Mr. Waddington had frankly forgotten these details as inessential to his story.
My talk with old Dicky had given me such a mental jar that I found it at first wellnigh impossible to concentrate my thoughts. That's the worst of shell-shock. You think you are cured, you feel fit and well, and then suddenly the machinery of your mind checks and halts and creaks.
"On the other hand, the prisoner's actions, since returning to England, strongly suggest that his mind has been giving way for some time past. He was invalided from the Army suffering from shell-shock, with the result that his constitution became weakened, and the fatal taint of inherited epilepsy, which was in his blood, began to manifest itself.
But say; suppose that doctor's one of these swabs who serve out number nine pills for shell-shock, broken leg, dyspepsia, housemaid's knee and the creeping itch? Suppose he swears I'm luny? What then?" "Grim will find somebody to swear to anything once," I answered.
And as I looked upon this silent city, my awe grew, for the Colonel, in his gentle voice, spoke of death and wounds, of shell-shock, nerve-wrack and insanity; but he told also of wonderful cures, of miracles performed on those that should have died, and of reason and sanity won back. "And you?" I questioned, "have you done many such wonders?" "Few!" he answered, and sighed.
During the war, it has been one of the afflictions of a large number of the victims of "shell-shock." But, whatever be the cause, the patient is reduced mentally to an elementary state, resembling that of a child, and needs re-educating in the elements of language.
"Not a damn thing to be seen." "Our men ought to have a walk-over," said an optimist. "Any living German must be a gibbering idiot with shell-shock." "I expect they're playing cards in their dugouts," said the officer who was bored. "Even high explosives don't go down very deep." "It's stupendous, all the same. By God! hark at that! It seems more than human. It's like some convulsion of nature."
"Yes, I think I do. But since my engagement I'd gone into colors. Oh, of course I've gone back into mourning now! And everything was ready settlements and so on, you know. And rooms taken at Bournemouth. And then it all came out!" "How?" "Well, Eustace Captain Cranster, I mean. Oh, I think he really must have had shell-shock, as he said, even though the doctor seemed to doubt it!
To our front and left, for no apparent reason, three little dirty yellow clouds burst simultaneously over a copse, with a smash which made you feel you ought to be tolerant to men with shell-shock. On our right was an empty field. Short momentary flames leaped constantly from its farthermost hedge, with a noise like the rapid slamming of a row of iron doors.
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