occupied thoughts revisited places war. Tramping soil fed blood men le — William Trevor, Story Lucy Gault

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All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the blood of men he had led and whose faces now stirred in his memory, it was his wife's response that came – as if in compensation for too little said before – when he wondered why his wandering had led him back to these old battlefields: in his sixty-ninth year he was establishing his survivor's status.

William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault

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