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Excerpt: ...movement of his eyes, a stronger twitching of his lips. More shells crashed sharply; a little along the line a gust of rifle-bullets swept over and into the parapet; a Maxim rap-rap-rapped and its bullets spat hailing along the parapet above their heads. Halliday caught his breath and shivered again. "That," he said-"that is one of the devils weve got to face presently." His eyes glanced furtively about him. "God " he muttered, "if I could only get out of this Tisnt fair, I tell ye, it isnt fair to ask a man thats been through what I have to take it on again, knowing that if I do come through, twill be the same thing to go through over and over until they get me; or until my own sergeant shoots me for refusing to face it." Everton had listened in amazed silence-an understanding utterly beyond him. He knew the name that Halliday bore in the regiment, knew that he was seeing and hearing more than Halliday perhaps had ever shown or told to anyone. Shamefacedly and self-consciously, he tried to say something to console and hearten the other man, but Halliday interrupted him roughly. "Thats it " he said bitterly. "Go on Pat me on the back and tell me to be a good boy and not to be frightened. Im coming to it at last: old Bob Halliday thats been through it from the beginning, one o the Old Contemptibles, come down to be mothered and hushaby-babyd by a blanky recruit, with the first polish hardly off his new buttons." He broke off and into bitter cursing, reviling the Germans, the war, himself and Everton, his sergeant and platoon commander, the O.C., and at last the regiment itself. But at that the torrent of his oaths broke off, and he sat silent and shaking for a minute. He glanced sideways at last at the embarrassed Everton. "Dont take no notice o me, chum," he said. "I wasnt speaking too loud, was I? The others havent noticed, do you think? I dont want to look round for a minute." Everton assured him that he had not spoken too...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153582087 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153582082 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 116 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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