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Conger Reynolds correspondence, July 1918
1918-07-07 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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You see, I knew your reputation as a heart breaker, old dear, and I wasn't takin' no chances. Old Dame Fortune had given me a history-making day, but I didn't know it then. It's true that when I had reached the barracks through the rain and found a letter from Hy telling me the tearful tale of how you had abused him I shed no tears; still I hadn't any very serious designs on your heart. The day had been only one of those innocent beginnings that acquire importance in the light of later events. Today that day is down in my memory as one of the best I have known. I hope I am not unpatriotic if I am more impressed with the fact that this is the anniversary of the first of the all too few wonderful times we have had together than with the fact that it is the 142nd birthday of my country. Then you were the pleasant companion of the moment to be admired and liked and entertained, and forgotten. But the forgetting didn't take place, glory be! And now you are my Queen to be admired and loved and served and honored, and forgotten never for a moment. I am one year old in my golden age of knowing you. I had expected to celebrate very comfortably all to myself. Everybody but Lieutenant Mangan went away in the morning to take part in celebrations elsewhere. In the morning I worked at some papers. Mangan and I were alone at lunch, which did not detract from the merit of the feast that came out of Martine's kitchen. I wish you could have had your share
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You see, I knew your reputation as a heart breaker, old dear, and I wasn't takin' no chances. Old Dame Fortune had given me a history-making day, but I didn't know it then. It's true that when I had reached the barracks through the rain and found a letter from Hy telling me the tearful tale of how you had abused him I shed no tears; still I hadn't any very serious designs on your heart. The day had been only one of those innocent beginnings that acquire importance in the light of later events. Today that day is down in my memory as one of the best I have known. I hope I am not unpatriotic if I am more impressed with the fact that this is the anniversary of the first of the all too few wonderful times we have had together than with the fact that it is the 142nd birthday of my country. Then you were the pleasant companion of the moment to be admired and liked and entertained, and forgotten. But the forgetting didn't take place, glory be! And now you are my Queen to be admired and loved and served and honored, and forgotten never for a moment. I am one year old in my golden age of knowing you. I had expected to celebrate very comfortably all to myself. Everybody but Lieutenant Mangan went away in the morning to take part in celebrations elsewhere. In the morning I worked at some papers. Mangan and I were alone at lunch, which did not detract from the merit of the feast that came out of Martine's kitchen. I wish you could have had your share
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