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The Dark Forest

PART ONE
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We can fancy them saying afterwards: 'Well, I never knew that so-and-so had so much in him!' _We_ always knew." "No, you see," Trenchard said eagerly, "there can be only one person now about whose opinion I care.

If _she_ thinks well of me--" "You are very much in love," I said, and loosed, as I had expected, the torrents of his happiness upon me.
"I was in Polchester when the war broke out.

The town received it rather as though a first-class company had come from London to act in the Assembly Rooms for a fortnight.

It was dramatic and picturesque and pleasantly patriotic.

They see it otherwise now, I fancy.


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