A diary without dates.

  • Bagnold, Enid.
Date:
[1918]
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Credit: A diary without dates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    almost with the same longing with which he says When I get into civies. ... Scutts is not one of those whose life is stopped; he has made plans. When I get into civies and walk out of here. ... His plans for six months' holiday are all writ down in me notebook. But what shall you do, Scutts ? Go to London ? London ! ... No towns fer me ! He will not tell us what he is going to do. Secretly I believe it is something he wanted to do as a boy but thought himself a fool to carry out when he was a man : perhaps it is a sort of walking tour. Among his eleven wounds he has two crippled arms. I'm safe enough from death, he says (meaning France), till it fetches me in a proper way. Perhaps he means to live as though life were really a respite from death. I had a day on the river yesterday. / seed yer with yer bit of ejdy-furdy roun' yer neck an' yer little attachy-case, said Pinker. A nurse's life is one roun' of pleasure, said Pinker to the ward.