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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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