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Tasks which on the outwardjourney he would have made light of were now beyond
his power. The dogs in the hutfelt its advent, for they set up a wild
barking.
They wentto a play that night with a party, and Adam did not fall
asleep. He would bury his head in their fur, for the smell of itbrought back to
him a happier world.
Itwas rough nursing, but the best he could give.
You may
yet enter Jerusalem by the side of Raymond. Im rather tied up just now,but Im
entirely at your service.
He looks innocent, andsometimes foolish, but he is
very, very acute.
Youre like somebody recovered from the dead. It has shaken
Falconet, but you seem to have thriven onit. Hestruck a light, and saw a rough
bed on which lay the figure of aman. He thought he was dead, till his breathing
told him that hewas asleep.
He was whistling as far as his crackedlips allowed
him. The winter rôles were reversed, and Falconet took charge.
You have had to
learn in the last five years to judge men rapidlyand to go mainly by their
faces.
The man was worn to a shadow by pain, malnutrition andpoisoned blood.
You wanted to getaway from mankind for a bit .
Scrope saw thedistinction in
sharper contrast.
They were now on half apound of food a day and the dogs had
become miserable bags of skinand bone. Its a jolly morning, and Ive got my car
here. The lightwoke the sleeper, who started up as if to reach for a weapon,
andthen dropped feebly back.
Falconet wasgone, after burying his dead comrade
under his countrys flag.
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