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Before his departure he had promised his half brothers a long and circumstantial account of what the trenches were really like. Here he redeemed his promise. He had evidently written with the idea that the letter would be handed over to them. "Tell the bruddykinses I'm glad they're going to Brinsmead school. Later on, I suppose, they will go on to Statesminster.
"No good grousing, I suppose, but after Statesminster and a glimpse of old Cardinal's way of doing things, one gets a kind of toothache in the mind at the sight of everything being done twice as slowly and half as well as it need be." He went off at a tangent to describe the men in his platoon.
He lost his gardener, who had gone to higher priced work with a miller, and he had great trouble to replace him, so that the garden became disagreeably unkempt and unsatisfactory. He had to give up his frequent trips to London. He was obliged to defer Statesminster for the boys. For a time at any rate they must go as day boys to Brinsmead.
"I always classified a little above my age at Statesminster," he said as though that cleared up everything. He looked at a rosebud as though it interested him. Then he remarked rather casually: "I thought," he said, "that if I was to go to war I'd better do the thing properly. It seemed sort of half and half not to be eligible for the trenches.... I ought to have told you...." "Yes," Mr.
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