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"Armageddon! " said Gareth several times aloud to himself. "Armageddon.... " And then, with a proud upward jerk of the head: "Jellicoe and the Grand Fleet! " After a pause: "... 'And the shores of Ireland will be defended by her armed sons, North and South together! "... He broke off, once more to rumble, with a curious slow relish: "Armageddon."
For he was not yet muted to the thrill of this thing that the summer of nineteen-fourteen had brought along with it; and which had made of him a nervous responsive instrument for all the unwonted word-fragments swarming about haphazard, as men fumbled to express the new conditions, to find a language significant of their new emotions: