A Diary Without Dates
Enid Bagnold
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SOLDIERS' TALES OF THEGREAT WAR
SOLDIERS' TALES OF THEGREAT WAR
MY '75. From the French of Paul Lintier . 3s. 6d. net. ON TWO FRONTS. By Major H. M. Alexander , D.S.O. 3s. 6d. net. NURSING ADVENTURES. ( Anon. ) Illustrated. 3s. 6d. net. FORCED TO FIGHT. By Erich Erichsen . 2s. 6d. net. IN GERMAN HANDS. By Charles Hennebois . 3s. 6d. net. "CONTEMPTIBLE." By " Casualty ." 3s. 6d. net. ON THE ANZAC TRAIL. By " Anzac ." 3s. 6d. net. UNCENSORED LETTERS FROM THE DARDANELLES. Notes of a French Army Doctor. Illustrated. 3s. 6d. net. PRISONER OF WAR. By André Warnod
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ENID BAGNOLD
ENID BAGNOLD
First printed January 1918 Second Impression February 1918 London: William Heinemann, 1918 TO THAT FRIEND OF MINE WHO, WHEN I WROTE HIM ENDLESS LETTERS, SAID COLDLY, "WHY NOT KEEP SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF!" I apologize to those whom I may hurt. Can I soothe them by pleading that one may only write what is true for oneself? E. B.  ...
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I like discipline. I like to be part of an institution. It gives one more liberty than is possible among three or four observant friends. It is always cool and wonderful after the monotone of the dim hospital, its half-lit corridors stretching as far as one can see, to come out into the dazzling starlight and climb the hill, up into the trees and shrubberies here. The wind was terrible to-night. I had to battle up, and the leaves were driven down the hill so fast that once I thought it was a mot
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My feet ache, ache, ache...! End of the first day. Life in a ward is all scurry and rush. I don't reflect; I'm putting on my cap anyhow, and my hands are going to the dogs. I shall never get to understand Sisters; they are so strange, so tricky, uncertain as collies. Deep down they have an ineradicable axiom: that any visitor, any one in an old musquash coat, in a high-boned collar, in a spotted veil tied up at the sides, any one with whom one shakes hands or takes tea, is more important than th
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So now one steps down from chintz covers and lemonade to the Main Army and lemon-water. And to show how little one has one's eye upon the larger issues, the thing that upset me most on coming into a "Tommies'" ward was the fact that instead of twenty-six lemons twice a day for the making of lemonade I now squeeze two into an old jug and hope for the best about the sugar. Smiff said to-day, "Give us a drop of lemon, nurse...." And the Sister: "Go on with you! I won't have the new nurse making a p
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