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…They were picking them up at almost every station now – men and women coming in for the Christmas Week, with racquets, with bundles of polo-sticks, with dear and bruised cricket bats, with fox-terriers and saddles…It was a glorious return, and when the bachelors gave the Christmas ball William was, unofficially, the chief and honoured guest… |
This is from “William the Conqueror” in The Day’s Work. ‘William’, the sister of a Superintendent of Police in the Punjab, has been a key member of a famine relief team that was rushed south to Madras when the crops failed. She had carried a load as great as any man there in saving lives and defeating the famine. Now they were coming home at Christmas time. |
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