Immortal Great War Quote 21

The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end, and for the English to go away - as soon as their money was spent. And that the clause about the money was always repeated in case God should miss it. 

Robert Graves, in "Good-bye to all that"

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