Non-combatants and Others

Non-combatants and Others

'War is just the killing of things and the smashing of things. And when it is all over, then literature and civilisation will have to begin all over again. They will have to begin lower down and against a heavier load.... The Wild Asses of the Devil are loose, and there is no restraining them. What is the good, Wilkins, of pretending that the Wild Asses are the instruments of Providence, kicking better than we know? It is all evil.' PART I. WOOD END CHAPTER I. JOHN COMES HOME CHAPTER II. JOHN TALKS CHAPTER III. ALIX GOES PART II. VIOLETTE CHAPTER IV. SATURDAY MORNING AT VIOLETTE CHAPTER V. AFTERNOON OUT CHAPTER VI. EVENING AT VIOLETTE CHAPTER VII. HOSPITAL CHAPTER VIII. BASIL AT VIOLETTE CHAPTER IX. SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY CHAPTER X. EVENING IN CHURCH CHAPTER XI. ALIX AND EVIE CHAPTER XII. ALIX AND BASIL CHAPTER XIII. ALIX, NICHOLAS, AND WEST PART III. DAPHNE CHAPTER XIV. DAPHNE AT VIOLETTE CHAPTER XV. ALIX AT A MEETING CHAPTER XVI. ON PEACE CHAPTER XVII. NEW YEAR'S EVE In a green late April evening, among the dusky pine shadows, Alix drew Percival Briggs. Percival stood with his small cleft chin lifted truculently, small blue eyes deep under fair, frowning brows, one scratched brown leg bare to the knee, dirty hands thrust into torn pockets. He was the worst little boy in the wood, and had been till six months ago the worst little boy in the Sunday-school class of Alix's cousin Dorothy. He had not been converted six months ago, but Dorothy, like so many, had renounced Sunday-school to work in a V.A.D. hospital. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 35807
Author: Macaulay, Rose
Release Date: Apr 9, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English