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Then as declared with the Boers in South Africa, and

everywhere was a fizz of exciteo And he sent her a box of sweets

She was slightly dazed at the thought of his going to the

war, not knowing how to feel It was a sort of romantic

situation that she kneell in fiction she hardly understood

it in fact Underneath a top elation was a sort of dreariness,

deep, ashy disappointment

However, she secreted the sweets under her bed, and ate them

all herself, when she went to bed, and when she woke in the

uilty and ashamed, but she

simply did not want to share them

That box of sweets remained stuck in her mind afterwards Why

had she secreted theuilty--she only knew she ought to feel guilty And

she could not make up her mind Curiously monumental that box of

sweets stood up, noas empty It was a crux for her What

was she to think of it?

The idea of war altogether hting with each other it see, and the wholeinto the botto she had Yet of course there was the ion about

war She was very confused