The Guns of Easter (2013)
“He tried to tell her about the terrible things he’d seen in Sackville Street and about the strange, mad atmosphere. He couldn’t explain it properly, but she seemed to understand. She hugged him tightly.
‘There’s nothing we can do about that, Jimmy,’ she said. ‘There’s nothing we can do about anything now. All we can do is survive and hope.’Jimmy found himself crying in her arms. Normally he was ashamed of crying, but now the whole world seemed suddenly so strange that he didn’t mind. There ...was nothing normal left anyway. He felt very tired – exhaustion seemed to come from deep inside him. It was as if he’d gone through too many emotions today; he was used up.Lily Conway felt him slump in her arms. She looked at him carefully, and felt his forehead.‘You must go to bed, Jimmy,’ she said. ‘You’ve had a long day. I don’t want you getting sick too. Your forehead is hot.’Reluctantly, Jimmy went to bed, and as soon as he lay down he fell asleep, and spent a restless night dreaming of war.MoreLess
‘There’s nothing we can do about that, Jimmy,’ she said. ‘There’s nothing we can do about anything now. All we can do is survive and hope.’Jimmy found himself crying in her arms. Normally he was ashamed of crying, but now the whole world seemed suddenly so strange that he didn’t mind. There ...was nothing normal left anyway. He felt very tired – exhaustion seemed to come from deep inside him. It was as if he’d gone through too many emotions today; he was used up.Lily Conway felt him slump in her arms. She looked at him carefully, and felt his forehead.‘You must go to bed, Jimmy,’ she said. ‘You’ve had a long day. I don’t want you getting sick too. Your forehead is hot.’Reluctantly, Jimmy went to bed, and as soon as he lay down he fell asleep, and spent a restless night dreaming of war.MoreLess
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