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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918
1918-08-21 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 5
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exempt him from service, I looked upon them all as a race of cabs and quitters, and fled to Missouri lest I say to them what I really felt. Then I tried to make myself believe that the man might do more good on this side than the other; that he was really necessary to his old parents and to me; but I found that one can't love a person for whom one must continually be making excuses - And when my Prince came to me with his love, it seemed not a sacrifice but a divine privilege, to become his wife under the existing circumstances. To belong to him - to know that he loves me as I love him - now here comes the place where I can't express myself. It is too big a thing to express. It can only be thought of, and the thinking of it chokes me. And the other man - of course in a way one must feel sorry for him but in another way, not, most decidedly. This affair must have shown him the way, for he had enlisted, and is even now in France, and I believe he'll come back with a deal more self-confidence and ambition than he had originally. He was splendid, in many ways, before. I should like to
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exempt him from service, I looked upon them all as a race of cabs and quitters, and fled to Missouri lest I say to them what I really felt. Then I tried to make myself believe that the man might do more good on this side than the other; that he was really necessary to his old parents and to me; but I found that one can't love a person for whom one must continually be making excuses - And when my Prince came to me with his love, it seemed not a sacrifice but a divine privilege, to become his wife under the existing circumstances. To belong to him - to know that he loves me as I love him - now here comes the place where I can't express myself. It is too big a thing to express. It can only be thought of, and the thinking of it chokes me. And the other man - of course in a way one must feel sorry for him but in another way, not, most decidedly. This affair must have shown him the way, for he had enlisted, and is even now in France, and I believe he'll come back with a deal more self-confidence and ambition than he had originally. He was splendid, in many ways, before. I should like to
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