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Meanwhile Bridget Cookson was living in her usual Bloomsbury boarding-house, holding herself quite aloof from the idle ways of its inmates, who, in the midst of the world-war, were still shopping as usual in the mornings and spending the afternoons in tea and gossip. Bridget, however, was scarcely employing her own time to any greater profit for a burdened country.
But now all was peace in London, and the world-war half forgotten. Within herself arose a great struggle. Hugh was accused of a crime an accusation of which he could not clear himself. He had been hunted across Europe by the police and had, up to the present, been successful in slipping through their fingers. But why did he visit that notorious woman at that hour of the night?
I think that the coming generation will not call the great drama of the last five years the world-war, but the world-revolution, which it will realise began with the world-war. Neither at Versailles nor St. Germain has any lasting work been done. The germs of decomposition and death lie in this peace.
I have been told that, in the first flurry of the breaking out of the World-War, Aix was not placid. It went spy-mad, just as all Europe went spy-mad a mania from which this Continent has not entirely recovered by any means. There was a great rounding up of suspected aliens.
When the world-war broke out China was still in the throes of her domestic troubles and without any money at all in her Central Treasury; and although Yuan Shih-kai, on being suddenly confronted with an unparalleled international situation, did initiate certain negotiations with the German Legation with a view to securing a cancellation of the Kiaochow lease, the ultimatum which Japan dispatched to Germany on the 15th August, 1914, completely nullified his tentative proposals.
Hadn't I just as good go to jail here in Leesville as be shipped over to Europe to be shot or maybe drowned by a submarine on the way?" And thus a new terror was introduced into Lizzie's life robbing her of sleep for many a night thereafter, planting in her mother-heart for the first time the idea that she might be concerned in the world-war.
I told them that it was obvious our very existence depended upon our unity of action, that we were to all intent and purpose entering a new world as far from the seat and causes of our own world-war as if millions of miles of space and eons of time separated us from our past lives and habitations. "There is no reason why we should carry our racial and political hatreds into Caprona," I insisted.
If the Fates were kind, he would come back from the world-war and reclaim both the lands and their mistress, and if not he would have the satisfaction of knowing that his broad acres at least had a worthy mistress. At breakfast he met Natas again, and during the meal one of his footmen entered, bringing the letters that had come by the morning post.
Every possible danger from that direction has passed, hasn't it? The world-war of which we have been talking is rendered impossible, isn't it?" "That's a question," answered Mr. Grimm.
A never-ceasing flood of grey-clad soldiery surged up from the south, overflowed the barricades to the north, and swept the last of the Russians out of the streets like so much chaff. All the hundred streams converged upon Muswell Hill, and joined the ranks of the attacking force, and so the night fell upon the last struggle of the world-war.
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