He lay there in the confiding relaxation of a child
THE RETURN
OF THE SOLDIER
BY
REBECCA WEST
NEW
YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1918,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | |
|---|---|
| He lay there in the confiding relaxation of a child | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| "Give it a brush now and then, like a goodsoul" | 6 |
| She would get into the four-foot punt that was used as a ferry and bring it over very slowly | 66 |
| "I oughtn't to do it, ought I?" | 176 |
| CHAPTER: I, II, III, IV, V, VI |
THE RETURN
OF THE SOLDIER
CHAPTER I
“AH, don't begin to fuss!" wailed Kitty. "If a woman began to worry inthese days because her husband hadn't written to her for a fortnight!Besides, if he'd been anywhere interesting, anywhere where the fightingwas really hot, he'd have found some way of telling me instead of justleaving it as 'Somewhere in France.' He'll be all right."
We were sitting in the nursery. I had not meant to enter it again, nowthat the child was dead; but I had come suddenly on Kitty as she slippedthe key into the lock, and I had lingered to look in at the high room,so full of whiteness and clear colors, so unendurably gay and familiar,which is kept in all resp