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The Red Badge of Courage


                                     And as he sweated with the pain of these thoughts, he
                                  could hear low, serene sentences. ‘I’ll bid five.’ ‘Make it
                                  six.’ ‘Seven.’ ‘Seven goes.’
                                     He stared at the red, shivering reflection of a fire on the

                                  white wall of his tent until,  exhausted and ill from the
                                  monotony of his suffering, he fell asleep.







































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