Excerpt from Lotus Buds

Once I read of a soldier wfio wrote a letter fiome from tfie midst of a fiattle, on a crumpled piece of paper laid upon a cannon fiall. His fiome people fie finew would overloofi tfie appear ance of tfie paper and tfie lacé of various tfiings expected in a letter written in a quiet room upon a study tafile. ¿nd fie finew fie could trust tfiem not to firing too fine a criticism to fiear upon tfie unstudied words fiot¿om tfie fiattle's fieart.

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