Shemade him feel old and important, and he stroked her hair with a paternalproprietary feeling. De La Rey found no spare horses here, she told him, and he lookedpuzzled. The Germans are threatening todisallow all medals won by what they call the inferior races, the blacksand the Jews, she said in a loud voice. He could tellby the way they walked and carried their shoulders; this big strutting,sullen black was big trouble.
We called it a great game and thought it was going to be the glory ofa lifetime that would make us men and heroes. He had longago given up trying to comfort her. Below them the scree slope plunged downwards at a steep angle, and theground was Tiven with gorges and ravines, all of them choked with rankthorny undergrowth. To argue further would merely confirm his decision.
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