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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918
1918-02-02 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3
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no odd sight to them - but to beg pennies. At once I realized that it was really France. The narrow, winding streets, the shuttered windows, the pinched and toil-worn faces of the class upon which poverty has placed the impress of hundreds of years of near-suffering showed me the ugly side. And the pretty villas, houses charming in lines and design as only French houses can be, set among green, terraced gardens, - the picturesque paved residence streets - the kindly-faced, pretty women of the bourgeoisie who peeped at us from parted windows showed the more fascinating aspect. As we marched up one street a fine, white-haired woman came out on a balcony and ran the Stars and Stripes up the flagstaff. You are right- we gave her a cheer! Arrived at camp we were assigned to tents and given the freedom of the officers club. It is a one-story building in green and white with
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no odd sight to them - but to beg pennies. At once I realized that it was really France. The narrow, winding streets, the shuttered windows, the pinched and toil-worn faces of the class upon which poverty has placed the impress of hundreds of years of near-suffering showed me the ugly side. And the pretty villas, houses charming in lines and design as only French houses can be, set among green, terraced gardens, - the picturesque paved residence streets - the kindly-faced, pretty women of the bourgeoisie who peeped at us from parted windows showed the more fascinating aspect. As we marched up one street a fine, white-haired woman came out on a balcony and ran the Stars and Stripes up the flagstaff. You are right- we gave her a cheer! Arrived at camp we were assigned to tents and given the freedom of the officers club. It is a one-story building in green and white with
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