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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918
1918-06-03 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 7
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fact he was colonel of the cadet regiment when I was in it. That was not so many years ago, but how little we ever thought then that we should meet under circumstances like those of yesterday. Powell was alone in a third floor room of a more or less shell shocked building. The windows had no glass in them and the room contained only a bed, a table, two chairs, and an oil portrait of an old woman who probably had bitten into a rotten spot in an apple just before the artist painted her. If I had been Cliff I should surely have turned her face to the wall. Powell lost no time telling me he was well fed up on
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fact he was colonel of the cadet regiment when I was in it. That was not so many years ago, but how little we ever thought then that we should meet under circumstances like those of yesterday. Powell was alone in a third floor room of a more or less shell shocked building. The windows had no glass in them and the room contained only a bed, a table, two chairs, and an oil portrait of an old woman who probably had bitten into a rotten spot in an apple just before the artist painted her. If I had been Cliff I should surely have turned her face to the wall. Powell lost no time telling me he was well fed up on
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