Excerpt from Sonia Married Ever since you read sonia in manuscript, you have been the book's most generous critic. May I mark my gratitude for this and for a friendship Older than sonia by dedicating its successor to you P Perhaps you remember Openly doubting whether in fact the spiritual shock Of war could so change and steady Sonia as to make her a fitting Wife for any man, o'rane most of all; you may recollect my confessing that such a marriage of hysterical impulse contained the seeds Of instant disaster. Sequels are ...
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Excerpt from Sonia Married Ever since you read sonia in manuscript, you have been the book's most generous critic. May I mark my gratitude for this and for a friendship Older than sonia by dedicating its successor to you P Perhaps you remember Openly doubting whether in fact the spiritual shock Of war could so change and steady Sonia as to make her a fitting Wife for any man, o'rane most of all; you may recollect my confessing that such a marriage of hysterical impulse contained the seeds Of instant disaster. Sequels are admittedly failures, but I look on this book less as a sequel than as an epilogue or footnote. Sonia was not to know happiness until she had suffered, and the sacrifice in the early days Of war was to many a new and heady self indulgence. It is the length of the war, the sickening repet itiou of one well-placed blow after another on the same bruised flesh that has tested the survivors. After a year of war o'rane could have mustered many followers, when he murmured to himself, 1 - 311 of us who were out there have seen it. We can't forget. The courage, the cold, heart-breaking courage and the smile on a dying man's face. We must never let it be forgotten we've earned the right. As long as a drunkard kicks his wife, or a child goes hungry, or a woman is driven throng-h shame to disease and death. Is it a great thing to ask To demand Of England to remember that the criminals and loafers and prostitutes are somebody's children, mothers and sisters? And that we've all been saved by a miracle Of suffering? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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