... night that the Cure made up his mind to volunteer, and soon he was at the Front. Nearly three years passed before he and De Visgnes met again, both en permission, travelling back to Rheims to pass their "perm." Jean was now engaged to Liane de St. Pol who, with her parents, had remained in the bombarded town, refusing to desert their poor protegees. The two planned to marry, after the war; but Liane had been struck by a flying fragment of shell, and wounded in the head. ... — Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
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