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"The Fewer Words, The Better," "as it seems to me." "As it seems to me" is the quiet way in which Nestor states things. Would we were all as careful! There is one adverb or adjective which it is almost always safe to leave out in America. It is the word "very." I learned that from one of the masters of English style. "Strike out your 'verys," said he to me, when I was young.
Four miles away on the left as you went from Ervillers, the guns mumbled over the hills, low hills over which the Verys from the trenches put up their heads and peered around, greeny, yellowy heads that turned the sky sickly, and the clouds lit up and went grey again all the night long. As you got near to Behagnies you lost sight of the Verys, but the guns mumbled on.
While the physical surroundings of the Verys were fairly entrancing, we are sorry to confess that the moral environment was anything but elevating and desirable. In fact the neighborhood was considered one of the worst in all the newly settled country. It received the name of Rogues' Harbor and well deserved the title.
Dick Cheeser peered down it, but it closed again. ``No, Night seemed to say, ``you don't guess my secret. And the awful hush intensified. ``What would they do? thought the sentry. ``What were they planning in all those miles of silence? Even the Verys were few.
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