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It seemed like magic, or like some wonderfully vivid dream. He was only a hundred miles or so from England; it was not very long since he had been there; yet what he heard seemed like an enchanted dream, because only the day before he had been in the trenches. IT SEEMED LIKE MAGIC OR LIKE SOME WONDERFULLY VIVID DREAM HE WAS ONLY A HUNDRED MILES OR SO FROM ENGLAND IT WAS NOT VERY LONG SINCE HE HAD BEEN THERE YET WHAT HE HEARD SEEMED LIKE AN ENCHANTED DREAM BECAUSE ONLY THE DAY BEFORE HE HAD BEEN IN THE TRENCHES
 passed, would each first peep over the wall be undertaken. In some years it would be scaled from one side, in some ages from the other. What a barrier that old red wall would have seemed! How new the adventure would have seemed in each age to those that dared it, and how old to the wall! And in all those years the elders never made a door, but kept that huge and haughty separation. And the ivy quietly grew greener. And then one day a shell came from the east, and, in a moment, without plan or diffidence or pretext, tumbled away some yards of the proud old wall, and the two gardens were divided no longer: but there was no one to walk in them any more. Wistfully round the edge of the huge breach in the wall, a Michaelmas daisy peered into the garden, in whose mined paths I stood. After Hell He heard an English voice shouting, "Paiper! Paiper!" No mere spelling of the word will give the intonation. It was the voice of English towns he heard again. The very voice of London in the morning.  PART NINE OF UNHAPPY FAR OFF THINGS THIS IS A LIBRAVOX RECORDING ALL LIBERVOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIEBRAVOX DOT ORG RECORDING BY BRYAN MURPHY UNHAPPY FAR OFF THINGS BY LORD DUNSTONEY PART NINE AFTER HELL HE HEARD AN ENGLISH VOICE SHOUTING PAPER PAPER NO MERE SPELLING OF THE WORD WILL GIVE THE INTONATION IT WAS THE VOICE OF ENGLISH TOWNS HE HEARD AGAIN THE VERY VOICE OF LONDON IN THE MORNING
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