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fight, don't you?--Well when you could fight it was not always the

pleasure of going over the top? You had to have times in the trenches

too, hadn't you--when you just had to bear it?"

"Of course--?"

"Well--you are in the trenches now, don't you see--and it is according

to how your soul learns the lesson of theo over the top again--or even to have

peace"

"What is the lesson?"

"I am not God--I cannot tell you--but ould all knohat our lesson

to learn is, if ere not too vain to face the truth into ourselves"

"The aith"

"What qualities do you most adth"

"You have no sy people are better than weak good ones"

I knew this was true This fragile creature suggests infinite repose and

strength--what could she have done in a fors, that she ery, so

that she has never even leisure to think?--I longed to ask her, but did

not dare