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Henri and Jean ca the first ten days

Jean spent the night rolled in a blanket by the kitchen fire, and Henri

disappeared He was always back in thedirty

and very tired Sara Lee sewed ely incurious It was as though, where everything was

strange, Henri's erratic coht the unexpected happened The village was shelled

Sara Lee had received her first letter from Harvey that day The maid

at Morley's had forwarded it to her, and Henri had brought it up

"I think I have brought you so down at her

"Mutton?" she inquired anxiously

"Better than that"

"Sugar?"

"A letter, mademoiselle"

Afterward he could not quite understand the way she had suddenly drawn

in her breath He had no , his conviction that she was doing a thing cri

and cruel

"Give it to me, please"