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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918
1918-08-27 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 2
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chord that hung near the window, and -- presto -- chango! the door opened. I've never been quite sure whether it was jerking the chord or squeezing the bulb at the end of it that did the work. At any rate, he was the best lil' ol' Portier and had the dearest little wife. I loved both of them, which was a very low-brow, common sort of thing for the Herrschaften to do! They had two children who used to come to play with me when I was not busy, and before we left I took several picture of them. I remember one day I was getting a snapshot of Mama with them when zowie! Da kommt der Herr Offizier, who lived just across the garten haus from us. He permitted himself to glance in our direction but oh! what a withering glance. I suppose that in the eyes of an oberleutnant we were doing a dreadful thing, but his impudent nose in the
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chord that hung near the window, and -- presto -- chango! the door opened. I've never been quite sure whether it was jerking the chord or squeezing the bulb at the end of it that did the work. At any rate, he was the best lil' ol' Portier and had the dearest little wife. I loved both of them, which was a very low-brow, common sort of thing for the Herrschaften to do! They had two children who used to come to play with me when I was not busy, and before we left I took several picture of them. I remember one day I was getting a snapshot of Mama with them when zowie! Da kommt der Herr Offizier, who lived just across the garten haus from us. He permitted himself to glance in our direction but oh! what a withering glance. I suppose that in the eyes of an oberleutnant we were doing a dreadful thing, but his impudent nose in the
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