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If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.
He wanted to make him bleed, and then tend to the wounds.
had decided at fifteen to marry Maud because she was clever, and a nice sort of girl, and it would mean Gaunt would be there every Christmas for the rest of his life. It was only occurring to him now how stupid a plan it had been.
It was the Hell you’d feared in childhood, come to devour the children. It was treading over the corpses of your friends so that you might be killed yourself. It was the congealed evil of a century.