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I will soon be quite all right. Rather strange that some of the fellows who were repatriated are not so badly injured as three of us who arrived here with the last batch. One has a leg and one an arm amputated. I am being fitted with a bottom plate – more expense –
With regard to appearances, you must certainly look for a change in me, I fancy. Twelve month ago I was told that I resembled a certain personage whose name or title I had better not mention – Yesterday morning I was told that I resembled a painting I will not mention, and last night Mrs. Doubleday told me that a lady whom I had met but twice, expressed a wish to paint my portrait as, (what do you think?) Saint Somebody or Other. Now I ask you?
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