Excerpt from A Truce and Other Stories

You will do no such thing. It is just like Cornwall to put you up to something he knew I should disapprove. Still, I needn't trouble myself, between Ann's cowardice and your own laziness you will never go. The walking in there is atrocious, it is next door to a quicksand, pulling your feet down at every step - drag, drag, drag. I had to go ploughing through it until I was completely worn out, and ready to swear.

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