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Greenmantle

CHAPTER TWO
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They were as vacant as an abstracted child's; but I had an uncomfortable feeling that they saw more than mine.
'You have been fighting, Major?
The Battle of Loos?
Well, I guess that must have been some battle.

We in America respect the fighting of the British soldier, but we don't quite catch on to the de-vices of the British Generals.

We opine that there is more bellicosity than science among your highbrows.

That is so?
My father fought at Chattanooga, but these eyes have seen nothing gorier than a Presidential election.
Say, is there any way I could be let into a scene of real bloodshed ?' His serious tone made me laugh.

'There are plenty of your countrymen in the present show,' I said.


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