The Return of the Soldier Paperback -
by Rebecca West
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That day its beauty was an affront to me, because, like most Englishwomen of my time, I was wishing for the return of a soldier. Disregarding the national interest and everything else except the keen prehensile gesture of our hearts toward him, I wanted to snatch my Cousin Christopher from the wars and seal him in this green pleasantness his wife and I now looked upon. Of late I had had bad dreams about him. By nights I saw Chris running across the brown rottenness of No-Man's-Land, starting back here because he trod upon a hand, not even looking there because of the awfulness of an unburied head, and not till my dream was packed full of horror did I see him pitch forward on his knees as he reached safety, if it was that. For on the war-films I have seen men slip down as softly from the trench-parapet, and none but the grimmer philosophers could say that they had reached safety by their fall. And when I escaped into wakefulness it was only to lie stiff and think of stories I had heard in the boyish voice of the modern subaltern, which rings indomitable, yet has most of its gay notes flattened: "We were all of us in a barn one night, and a shell came along. My pal sang out, 'Help me, old man; I've got no legs!' and I had to answer, 'I can't, old man; I've got no hands!'" Well, such are the dreams of Englishwomen to-day. I could not complain, but I wished for the return of our soldier. - Taken from "The Return of the Soldier" written by Rebecca West
Details
- Title The Return of the Soldier
- Author Rebecca West
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 100
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Independently Published
- ISBN 9781702004305 / 1702004309
- Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5 x 0.24 in (20.29 x 12.70 x 0.61 cm)
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