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... her power and also, making it an extra ordinary event, going to war out of idealism. In that war, England's old professional army, who had so long fought on the Empire's frontiers, was wiped out, machine-gunned, gassed and buried in the slaughter of 1915 ...

... Colley, poking her head round the door. For it was now Christmas Eve. The wind howled in a mean way. The sky looked like an Army blanket pegged over them. Better fetch it before it starts snowing, said Colley. Mathilda removed one coat and a scarf. It ...

... dressed in grey Augustus Hare s Tales of the Supernatural (Concluded from page 19) very far. I am going to Oxenholme, in Cumber land. How singular, said Dr. Watson, for that is just where I am going myself. I wonder if you happen to know Lady D., who lives ...