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258 THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR
still haunts my dreams. For the men who lay on
the hill-sides or in the trenches of 203 suffered no
longer ;
their deaths, though terrible, had been
sudden and easy. But the survivors, those whom
the shock did not kill on the spot, these remnants
of men who suffered agonies for weeks before re-
leased by death, or those others who may live or
rather exist for years, mended and patched up by
skilful surgeons into a semblance of living beings,
without arms, without legs, very often blind, with
their bodies torn and their whole system thoroughly
shattered by the fearful shock, those are the men
to be pitied. I saw—well, never mind—
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