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The People of the Abyss

CHAPTER XXI--THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF LIFE
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Of course, if they are favourably made and are not tied by kinship duties, they may run away from the industrial battlefield.

In which event the safest thing the man can do is to join the army; and for the woman, possibly, to become a Red Cross nurse or go into a nunnery.

In either case they must forego home and children and all that makes life worth living and old age other than a nightmare..


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