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Thank you, Phil. . . . I am very happy; I mean that she shall be. Always." Berkley said: "There are few people I really care for. She is among the few." "I have believed so. . . . She cares, deeply, for you. . . . She is right." . . . He paused and glanced over his shoulder at the crimson horizon. "What was that shelling about? The gun-boats were firing, too." "I haven't any idea.
She talked as if I'd done her out of her shelling on purpose, whereas it only meant that I happened to be on the spot when the ambulances were sent out and she was away somewhere with her own car. She really is rather vulgar about shells. It must be that. Even Dicky owns that she's splendid, though he doesn't like her.... iv Five months later. The Manor, Wyck-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire.
The company cook, seeing such a splendid opportunity to replenish the company larder, crawled down to the edge of the river, jumped into a rowboat and soon was occupied in filling his boat with fish, utterly disregardful of the intermittent shelling and sniping. That evening, needless to say, the cook was the most popular man in his company.
We enjoyed glimpses of how the enemy here had made himself comfortable; still more did we enjoy glimpses of how we here had made the enemy uncomfortable. Huge craters there were, made by naval guns shelling from the sea.
In the midst of the shelling of Atlanta in 1864, he writes from the trenches to his wife: "Tell Squire to put your cows and Gabriel's in the volunteer oatfield. Every day we hear cannonading in front."
"Well," growing much blander, "we are going to send you some wagons to move; you must get ready." "With pleasure, if you have selected a house for me. This is too large; it does not suit me." "No, I didn't find a house for you." "You surely don't expect me to run about in the dust and shelling to look for it, and Mr. L. is too busy." "Well, madam, then we must share the house.
But it was impossible to take that position, as our guns were firing bomb after bomb from the valley at our back, somewhat to the left of us, so that the stones flew up in the air. We also ran the risk of being taken for khakies, as our men knew nothing of our venture. The Captain sent down a message to tell them to stop shelling that position, as we wished to take it.
The shelling was dreadful when we were going in and we had to keep on the run all the way up and carrying guns, that was no joke. Every road we crossed had a heavy barrage put on it and we had a lively time. We had almost reached the front lines when one of our officers got hit in the face by a piece of "whiz-bang."
The whole village was seamed with a maze of trenches, but these were only for use when the shelling had been particularly heavy. At other times people moved about the place by paths sufficiently well protected by houses and walls against the rifle bullets that had practically never ceased to smack into the village for many months past.
"Business as usual" was its motto, in spite of the almost daily shelling it received by light guns, said to have been mounted on an armoured train. This bombardment took place, as a rule, between 6 and 7 o'clock each evening, but the damage done was very slight, only one soldier being reported killed during our stay.
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