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she [[strikethrough]] looked [[/strikethrough]] ^[[seemed]] stunned.

"She has two more sons at the front" some one said. ^[[one of them she has not heard from for two months.]] 

All the nurses looked tired, I noticed, as they went about their work, some of the auxiliaries had been crying.

I sat down next to the little man with the bad leg.  The [[strikethrough]] f [[/strikethrough]] broken arm and the bayonette wound.  Then I looked at the faces of the wounded in the ward and I read in each the question "will I be the next?" and I thought to myself [[strikethrough]] yet [[/strikethrough]] never a word of complaint, never a murmur against the powers that break them [[strikethrough]] on the rock of agony. and [[/strikethrough]] ^[[X and]] It seemed ^[[to me]] as if ^[[suddenly]] Leo was not ^[[after all]] the last of the Children of the Zodiac.  For surely it is [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] true that [[strikethrough]] a breed of little men ^[[strange]] give up]] there sprang up a breed of little men, whimpering and flinching and hurting because the Housed Killed them and Theirs, who wished to live forever without pain"., [[strikethrough]] but rather Leo's spirit [[?]] permeating [[/strikethrough]]

Transcription Notes:
the Children of the Zodiac was an allegory by Kipling where the 6 children are rule by 6 houses--kind of Zodiac-like inventions