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tomorrow, I feel justified in assuring you that I am "in the pink"! It has been a strenuous holiday, has'nt it, but, believe me, it was well worth it. These little "busts" are simply grand and buck me up like anything. The really cheery times I've had in the last few months have bucked me up to no end, & I feel far fresher than I did when I was at Oxford where there was so little recreation, and it was all work. The brilliant general who instituted these fortnightly days of rest for training squadrons in the R.F.C. is a genius of the first water!

I certainly am feeling much bucked up at present and the glorious news from France has had a lot to do with it. The reaction is very great after the awful days we have been passing through with news getting worse & worse. I think the last month has been the darkest of the whole war – Russia hopeless and Italy going to pieces. Now the Italians have stopped the Huns for the moment at least and so the awful débacle that was so very near has been checked. Of course they are'nt out of the wood yet but I feel that they will stick it out. But the war is going to be won or lost on only one front and there is'nt the slightest doubt that we are masters there.

 

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