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need to work having managed to accumulate some 1,000 francs in the Caisse d'Épargne or Savings Bank, and the old chap being a retired State school master was receiving a small pension.
His wife was like all French women: practical and business headed. They had suffered by loss and strict rule in spirit more than physically for three years in the hands of the German invaders and were of course, like any French person, bitter against Germany. At the same time they had, to my mind, an over estimation of the prowess of the French soldier and the share of France in the war, and would frequently
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