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But here, although Lady Calmady turned on her a welcoming and far from unjoyful countenance, she stopped dead, while Godfrey incontinently gave vent to that which his younger brother sitting beside his mother, Mary Ormiston, at table, on Richard Calmady's right described mentally as "the most awful squawk."
You enter a kind of ditch, called a trench; it leads on to another and another in an unjoyful maze. From the sides feet stick out, and arms and faces the dead of previous encounters. "One of our chaps," you say casually, recognising him by his boots or khaki, or "Poor blighter a Hun!" One can afford to forget enmity in the presence of the dead.
Naturally taciturn, unjoyful, and ever oppressed by that brooding consciousness of guilt hanging like a cloud over her memory, formless, vague, but never lifting, Fina's changeful temper and tumultuous vivacity were intensely wearisome to her. Nevertheless, she was forbearing if not loving, and the people said rightly when they said she was admirable.
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