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I met one boy who had a glass eye, and he wore a monocle over it so that it would look humorous. He would have been the last person in the world to want your pity. He'd had hard luck. Well, he'd make a jest of it. What did it matter, after all? He had his other eye. Never did I see a wounded lad coming toward me In the streets of London but I had a pang In my heart — such sturdy, clean-looking boys they were, and oh, so young to be hurt ! But they would have told you they were only too glad to ...be alive, no mat- ter what their wounds were like. If an arm was gone, I always rejoiced when I perceived that, for- tunately, it was the left arm. I saw a boy scarcely nineteen, badly shot up, laughing his bandaged head off at a farce one after- noon; and I wished I had been the author of that play, Avery Hopwood, that I might make a soldier, even for so brief a time, forget his wounds and scars. One misty day I was riding on top of a 'bus, and n SHAKING HANDS WITH ENGLAND when the conductorette came to get my fare, she leaned over the seat in front of mine, and kissed the wounded soldier who was sitting there.
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