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Chapter Twenty-Two The Summons Comes for Mr Standfast
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I slept for one and three-quarter hours that night, and when I awoke I seemed to emerge from deeps of slumber1 which had lasted for days. That happens sometimes after heavy fatigue2 and great mental strain. Even a short sleep sets up a barrier between past and present which has to be elaborately broken down before you can link on with what has happened before. As my wits groped at the job some drops of rain splashed on my face through the broken roof. That hurried me out-of-doors. It was just after dawn and the sky was piled with thick clouds, while a wet wind blew up from the southwest. The long-prayed-for break in the weather seemed to have come at last. A deluge3 of rain was what I wanted, something to soak the earth and turn the roads into water-courses and clog4 the enemy transport, something above all to blind the enemy’s eyes . . . For I remembered what a preposterous5 bluff6 it all had been, and what a piteous broken handful stood between the Germans and their goal. If they knew, if they only knew, they would brush us aside like flies.
As I shaved I looked back on the events of yesterday as on something that had happened long ago. I seemed to judge them impersonally7, and I concluded that it had been a pretty good fight. A scratch force, half of it dog-tired and half of it untrained, had held up at least a couple of fresh divisions . . . But we couldn’t do it again, and there were still some hours before us of desperate peril8. When had the Corps9 said that the French would arrive? . . . I was on the point of shouting for Hamilton to get Wake to ring up Corps Headquarters, when I remembered that Wake was dead. I had liked him and greatly admired him, but the recollection gave me scarcely a
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banking
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