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...Hero. With a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder, the season's worst rainstorm began; the drenched and naked boy dozed fitfully, dreamed and woke...
...bullet whizzed through her handbag. Léon ran home, downed some sleeping pills, turned on the gas jets in the kitchen, aimed the pistol at his own head and pulled the trigger. Superficially wounded, he woke up in the hospital soon afterward to find himself charged with attempted murder. "But," he stammered, "she tried to murder me too!" "Eh, bien," the gendarmes sighed and went out after Madeleine...
...night last week before he left Wagna for Graz, the boy's restlessness awakened some of the other refugees. Suddenly they heard a high-pitched, quavering voice. It was Janos talking in his sleep. "I must wait five more years!" he cried in Serbian. When he woke next morning, he had lapsed again into helpless silence...
...Japanese prison camps. Said Kent Hughes in a dramatic and emotional speech: "Only those who have passed along the purgatorial path of ill-treatment, murder, lashings, and every brutality you can think of ... who have been driven to work in torrential rains and jungles . . . know how often we woke up screaming when we came home, and are still waking with nightmares." Then he abruptly changed his manner. "We also realize," he said, "the futility of trying to build anything on a foundation of continuous revenge or continuous hatred...
...noise of a late-lingering flock of wild geese going out to its day's feeding in the wheat fields woke me the next morning," Davis may write, with a mildness that is really intensely restrained affection. "The sky was already beginning to fill with light, and there were a few cold yellow sun streaks on the high ridges