 Even the old ones do not often complain about their dear things — their linen, and their china, and their beds. If they have the ground, and hope, all that they can make again. This war has taught us all how little the made things matter. Only the feeling...  One of Ours - Seite 386von Willa Cather - 1922 - 459 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...resiliency of the war-torn French people: "They must love their country so much, don't you think, when diey endure such poverty to come back to it?" she said....hadn't it made life both bitter and sweet for him? (328-29) Although Mlle, de Courcy articulates Gather's crucial idea, Claude intuitively feels its significance;... | |
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