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Book 1. Ingredients
Book 1. Ingredients - Prologue
_ BOOK I. INGREDIENTS
PROLOGUE
If the red slayer thinks he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
EMERSON: _Brahma_.
The best kind of revenge is not to become like him.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS.
Otway told this story in a dug-out which served for officers‘ mess of a field-battery somewhere near the Aisne: but it has nothing to do with the War. He told it in snatches, night by night, after the manner of Scheherazade in the _Arabian Nights Entertainments_, and as a rule to an auditory of two. Here is a full list of:
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE
NARRATOR.
Major Sir Roderick Otway, Bart., M.C., R.F.A.
AUDIENCE AND INTERLOCUTORS.
Lieut. John Polkinghorne. R.F.A., of the Battery.
Sec. Lieut. Samuel Barham, M.C. R.F.A., of the Battery.
Sec. Lieut. Percy Yarrell-Smith. R.F.A., o
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