The book The Love of An Unknown Soldier Found in a Dug Out was written by author H Heathcote Henry Heathcote Statham Here you can read free online of The Love of An Unknown Soldier Found in a Dug Out book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Love of An Unknown Soldier Found in a Dug Out a good or bad book?
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There are four girls offering to marry every maimed soldier in France for every girl who is accepted. Ah, how these French shame us with their superior humanity ! We have called them immoral, lax, sentimental so many foolish words in the past. I wish to God that we Anglo-Saxons shared some of the vices that produce their virtues. We pre- tend to be so strong, so self-sufficient, so indifferent to affection. How sick I am of my own pose of spurious manliness ! What I want is to feel your arms ab...out me and your lips against my eyes, whispering, "Mon petit. " Why should I be ashamed to tell you ? Why should you be ashamed to do it ? I understand the gratitude of Jesus for the woman who pitied Him so abandonedly that she wiped His feet with the hairs of her head. She was trying to 134 The Love of an Unknown Soldier say to Him just what these French girls say to their wounded, " Mon petit, " pressing the weary heads against their breasts. Wild, wild talk, my little American ! I fear you would not understand it.
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