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I did know the rest; how Shock and I lay for a fortnight at the little

country inn carefully tended before ere declared fit to go back

ho us back to our senses;

and, save that I used to ith a start out ofI was back in the pit, I was not much the worse Shock was

better, for he looked cleaner and fresher, but he objected a great deal

to our nurse brushing his hair

I was just back and feeling strong again, when one day Sir Francis came

down into the pinery, and stopped and spoke to me He said he had heard

all aboutto ain

He was very kind after his ht

all the world were soldiers, and I was going up to my dinner soon, after

I had stopped for a bit of a cool down in one of the other houses, when,

to ust, I saw Courtenay and Philip back, and I felt a kind

of foreboding that there would soon be so the rest of their stay at home they seemed

to have combined to make my life as wretched as they possibly could

I was often on the point of co, but I did not like to do so,