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-A Gothic Romance / Bury me where the soldiers of retreat / Are buried, underneath the faded star. / -Stephen Vincent Benet
It was one of those old, old cottages in the country which are supposed to be picturesque, which the English go to for weekends or for a month in the summer in a year when they can't afford the high Alps or Venice or Sicily or Greece or the Riviera, a year when they don't want to see their infernal gray ocean.