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Ulysses

right height over me Im sure he was brave too he said I
was lovely the evening we kissed goodbye at the canal
lock my Irish beauty he was pale with excitement about
going away or wed be seen from the road he couldnt stand

properly and I so hot as I never felt they could have made
their peace in the beginning or old oom Paul and the rest
of the other old Krugers go and fight it out between them
instead of dragging on for years killing any finelooking
men there were with their fever if he was even decently
shot it wouldnt have been so bad I love to see a regiment
pass in review the first time I saw the Spanish cavalry at La
Roque it was lovely after looking across the bay from
Algeciras all the lights of the rock like fireflies or those
sham battles on the 15 acres the Black Watch with their
kilts in time at the march past the 10th hussars the prince
of Wales own or the lancers O the lancers theyre grand or
the Dublins that won Tugela his father made his money
over selling the horses for the cavalry well he could buy
me a nice present up in Belfast after what I gave him
theyve lovely linen up there or one of those nice kimono
things I must buy a mothball like I had before to keep in
the drawer with them it would be exciting going round
with him shopping buying those things in a new city
better leave this ring behind want to keep turning and

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