The Good Soldier
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Edward Ashburnham the finest soldier
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A page from Forester: a romance gone wrong in an idyllic Victorian setting, though thoroughly modern in style (Ford edited and helped write Conrad's work before they had a falling out).
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This is the saddest story I've ever heard.
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I wanted to say, "God bless you," for I also am a sentimentalist. But I thought that perhaps that would not be quite English good form, so I trotted off with the telegram to Leonora. She was quite pleased with it.
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