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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918

1918-04-22 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2

There was a stirring little incident at the house tonight. This is St. George's day. In France everybody whose name is George celebrates it as a fete day. One of our number is Lieutenant George B. Parks. Just at the close of dinner tonight Madame Martine marched in from the kitchen bearing a big boquet and presented it to Lieutenant Parks, made a pretty little presentation speech, and wrung his hand. Her kind face was all flushed with the excitement of the thing - she was blushing like a young girl. Parks was taken completely by surprise and so lost his usual excellent command of French that he could only repeat several times, "Oh, madame Martine, vous etes tres gentile."  The rest of us too were so impressed we didn't know what to do until Captain Adams saved the situation by grabbing his harmonica and blowing the opening bars of "The Star Spangled Banner" whereupon we all stood up and came to attention. Martine's embarrassment had by that time become so acute that she fled to her kitchen. Bless her motherly soul, wasn't it thoughtful of her? She was so earnest about it! She had gone out and spent a lot of her hard-earned sous for the pretty bouquet. And she was quite serious and sincere in the presenting it as a token of her respect and affection for one of her boys. She is a fine

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There was a stirring little incident at the house tonight. This is St. George's day. In France everybody whose name is George celebrates it as a fete day. One of our number is Lieutenant George B. Parks. Just at the close of dinner tonight Madame Martine marched in from the kitchen bearing a big boquet and presented it to Lieutenant Parks, made a pretty little presentation speech, and wrung his hand. Her kind face was all flushed with the excitement of the thing - she was blushing like a young girl. Parks was taken completely by surprise and so lost his usual excellent command of French that he could only repeat several times, "Oh, madame Martine, vous etes tres gentile." The rest of us too were so impressed we didn't know what to do until Captain Adams saved the situation by grabbing his harmonica and blowing the opening bars of "The Star Spangled Banner" whereupon we all stood up and came to attention. Martine's embarrassment had by that time become so acute that she fled to her kitchen. Bless her motherly soul, wasn't it thoughtful of her? She was so earnest about it! She had gone out and spent a lot of her hard-earned sous for the pretty bouquet. And she was quite serious and sincere in the presenting it as a token of her respect and affection for one of her boys. She is a fine