Peter Clement Layard: Extracts From His Letters (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Until the war broke out the profession of soldier appeared to be the very last that Peter would be likely to adopt. Indeed, so early as his seventh year, with the inexorable logic of childhood, he had definitely put a stopper on any such suggestion. He had once heard me say that a man could not live on his pay in the army. Shortly afterwards, his mother happened to ask him if he would like to be a soldier. To her surprise he answered reproachfully and with tears in his voice: No, Mummy, for I should either have to starve or be killed. For to his childish understanding the only alternative to living on his pay was dying on his pay, and he naturally found no attraction in that.

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