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multiple amputation on a captain from the East Surreys—the
regiment the boys in the village had joined. And then there were the dying.
Using a pair of surgical tongsshe began carefully pulling away the sodden
congealed lengths of ribbon gauze from the cavity in the side of his face. When the
last was outthe resemblance to the cutaway model they used in anatomy classes
was only faint. This was all ruincrimson and raw. She could see through his
missing cheek to his upper and lower molarsand the tongue glisteningand
hideously long. Further upwhere she hardly dared lookwere the exposed muscles
around his eye socket. So intimateand never intended to be seen. Private Latimer
had become a monsterand he must have guessed this was so. Did a girl love him
before? Could she continue to?
“We’ll soon have you fixed” she lied again.
She began repacking his face with clean gauze soaked in eusol. As she was securing
the pins he made his sad sound.
“Shall I bring you the bottle?”
He shook his head and made the sound again.
“You’re uncomfortable?”
No.
“Water?”
A nod. Only a small corner of his lips remained. She inserted the little teapot spout
and poured. With each swallow he wincedwhich in turn caused him agony around
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