Dr. Barnes said it
was very necessary, because you had seen so much that you should
try to forget. Ah, my friend, I can never forget what you suffered
for me! Captain Nichol's funeral sermon was preached while you
were so ill. I was not present--I could not be. I've been to see
his mother often, and she understands me. I could not have
controlled my grief, and I have a horror of displaying my most
sacred feelings in public. Father and the people also wish you to
be present at the general commemorative services, when our Senator
will deliver a eulogy on those of our town who have fallen; but I
don't think you should go if you feel that it will have a bad
effect on you."
"I shall be present, Helen. I suppose my mind has been weak like
my body; but the time has come when I must take up life again and
accept its conditions as others are doing. You certainly are
setting me a good example. I admit that my illness has left a
peculiar repugnance to hearing and thinking about the war; it all
seemed so very horrible. But if our brave men can face the thing
itself, I should be weak indeed if I could not listen to a eulogy
of their deeds.
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