It was used a good deal just after it was over, and then it was dropped.

I think it's time to take it up again.

I believe it would be a card." It was running in March's mind that Dryfoos had an old rankling shame in his heart for not having gone into the war, and that he had often made that explanation of his course without having ever been satisfied with it.

He felt sorry for him; the fact seemed pathetic; it suggested a dormant nobleness in the man.
Beaton was saying to Fulkerson: "You might get a series of sketches by substitutes; the substitutes haven't been much heard from in the war literature.

How would 'The Autobiography of a Substitute' do?
You might follow him up to the moment he was killed in the other man's place, and inquire whether he had any right to the feelings of a hero when he was only hired in the place of one.