Though, of course, I can tell why you didn’t come down to the road, War’s terrible, isn’t it? All those nice boys going off— I feel just the way you do, darling—we just have to show them Whenever we can that we know they are fighting for us, Fighting for God and the South and the cause of the right— ‘Law, Chile, don’t you fret about whether you’s pretty or plain, You just do what you kin, and the good Lawd’ll brighten your tracks.’ That’s what my old mammy would tell me when I was knee-high And I always remember and just try to do what I can For the boys and the wounded and—well, that’s it, isn’t it, dear? We’ve all got to do what we can in this horrible war.” Sally agreed that we had, and drank from a cup. She thought. “Lucy Weatherby. Yes. I must look for a doll. I must make a doll with your face, an image of wax. I must call that doll by your name.”
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