Reedle Откройте в мобильном приложении
Понятно
Понятно
Для того чтобы воспользоваться закладками, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Отмена
Для того чтобы воспользоваться озвучкой предложений, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Отмена
Озвучка предложений доступна при наличии PRO-доступа
Купить PRO-доступ
Отмена
551
It
was
good
to
be
hard
,
then
;
all
nice
people
were
hard
on
themselves
.
But
it
was
four
o
clock
and
Rosemary
kept
thinking
of
Dick
waiting
for
Nicole
now
at
the
hotel
.
She
must
go
there
,
she
must
not
make
him
wait
for
her
.
She
kept
thinking
,
"
Why
don
t
you
go
?
"
and
then
suddenly
,
"
Or
let
me
go
if
you
don
t
want
to
.
"
But
Nicole
went
to
one
more
place
to
buy
corsages
for
them
both
and
sent
one
to
Mary
North
.
Only
then
she
seemed
to
remember
and
with
sudden
abstraction
she
signalled
for
a
taxi
.
552
"
Good
-
by
,
"
said
Nicole
.
"
We
had
fun
,
didn
t
we
?
"
553
"
Loads
of
fun
,
"
said
Rosemary
.
It
was
more
difficult
than
she
thought
and
her
whole
self
protested
as
Nicole
drove
away
.
Отключить рекламу
554
Dick
turned
the
corner
of
the
traverse
and
continued
along
the
trench
walking
on
the
duckboard
.
He
came
to
a
periscope
,
looked
through
it
a
moment
;
then
he
got
up
on
the
step
and
peered
over
the
parapet
.
In
front
of
him
beneath
a
dingy
sky
was
Beaumont
Hamel
;
to
his
left
the
tragic
hill
of
Thiepval
.
Dick
stared
at
them
through
his
field
glasses
,
his
throat
straining
with
sadness
.
555
He
went
on
along
the
trench
,
and
found
the
others
waiting
for
him
in
the
next
traverse
.
He
was
full
of
excitement
and
he
wanted
to
communicate
it
to
them
,
to
make
them
understand
about
this
,
though
actually
Abe
North
had
seen
battle
service
and
he
had
not
.
556
"
This
land
here
cost
twenty
lives
a
foot
that
summer
,
"
he
said
to
Rosemary
.
She
looked
out
obediently
at
the
rather
bare
green
plain
with
its
low
trees
of
six
years
growth
.
If
Dick
had
added
that
they
were
now
being
shelled
she
would
have
believed
him
that
afternoon
.
Her
love
had
reached
a
point
where
now
at
last
she
was
beginning
to
be
unhappy
,
to
be
desperate
.
She
didn
t
know
what
to
do
she
wanted
to
talk
to
her
mother
.
557
"
There
are
lots
of
people
dead
since
and
we
ll
all
be
dead
soon
,
"
said
Abe
consolingly
.
Отключить рекламу
558
Rosemary
waited
tensely
for
Dick
to
continue
.
559
"
See
that
little
stream
we
could
walk
to
it
in
two
minutes
.
It
took
the
British
a
month
to
walk
to
it
a
whole
empire
walking
very
slowly
,
dying
in
front
and
pushing
forward
behind
.
And
another
empire
walked
very
slowly
backward
a
few
inches
a
day
,
leaving
the
dead
like
a
million
bloody
rugs
.
No
Europeans
will
ever
do
that
again
in
this
generation
.
"
560
"
Why
,
they
ve
only
just
quit
over
in
Turkey
,
"
said
Abe
.
"
And
in
Morocco
"