Some Do Not (Historical Novel)

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Ford Madox Ford. Some Do Not (Historical Novel)

Some Do Not (Historical Novel)

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Ford Madox Ford

World War I Novel (Parade's End, Volume I)

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‘Damn it I I don’t even know if the child’s my own!’

This last confidence had shocked Macmaster so irremediably—the child had been a seven months’ child, rather ailing, and Tietjens’ clumsy tenderness towards it had been so marked that, even without this nightmare, Macmaster had been affected by the sight of them together—that confidence then had pained Macmaster so frightfully, it was so appalling, that Macmaster had regarded it almost as an insult. It was the sort of confidence a man didn’t make to his equal, but only to solicitors, doctors, or the clergy who are not quite men. Or, at any rate, such confidences are not made between men without appeals for sympathy, and Tietjens had made no appeal for sympathy He had just added sardonically:

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