He lay there in the confiding relaxation of a child 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 -C- PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER CHAPTER I “AH, don't begin to fuss!" wailed Kitty. "If a woman began to worry in these days because her husband hadn't written to her for a fortnight! Besides, if he'd been anywhere interesting, anywhere where the fighting was really hot, he'd have found some way of telling me instead of just leaving it as 'Somewhere in France.' He'll be all right." “ A We were sitting in the nursery. I had not meant to enter it again, now that the child was dead; but I had come suddenly on Kitty as she slipped the key into the lock, and I had lingered to look in at the high
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