Therefore I think it is up to me to do all I can to get back to France and finish what I began. If I fail to get there, it won't be my fault, and I won't worry about it. If I depended on the powers that be, I should probably be here for the duration of the war, and it is possible that I may be. But I am determined that it is not going to be my fault if I am.
I did not intend, when I sat down, to write you more than a brief note. I think my first sentence shows that. All the rest came of itself, and I hope you won't be bored stiff by reading it.
If you are ever up against it for cash, or if there is any other way that I can help you, I shall be very sore with you if you don't let me know.
If you want some good light reading to take your mind off Syriac and other ancient noises by which people communicated one with the other, try some of O. Henry's books--_The Four Million, Options, Whirligigs_ (very light reading and amusing), Hodder and Stoughton.
[*] Wall Biblical Scholarship, Dublin University.
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