Mr. Britling Sees it Through coverSECTION 21
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BOOK 2 · CHAPTER 4: In the Web of the Ineffective

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And then as if it were something that everyone in the Dower House had been waiting for, came the message that Hugh had been killed.
The telegram was brought up by a girl in a pinafore instead of the boy of the old dispensation, for boys now were doing the work of youths and youths the work of the men who had gone to the war.