I am so thankful I can pronounce Jerusalem and Hebron , ' she said . ` They give me a real comfortable feeling after Przemysl and Brest-Litovsk ! Well , we have got the Turks on the run , at least , and Venice is safe and Lord Lansdowne is not to be taken seriously ; and I see no reason why we should be downhearted . ' `` Jerusalem ! The ` meteor flag of England ! ' floats over you -- the Crescent is gone . How Walter would have thrilled over that ! '' 18th December 1917 `` Yesterday the election came off . In the evening mother and Susan and Gertrude and I forgathered in the living-room and waited in breathless suspense , father having gone down to the village . We had no way of hearing the news , for Carter Flagg 's store is not on our line , and when we tried to get it Central always answered that the line ` was busy ' -- as no doubt it was , for everybody for miles around was trying to get Carter 's store for the same reason we were . `` About ten o'clock Gertrude went to the ` phone and happened to catch someone from over-harbour talking to Carter Flagg . Gertrude shamelessly listened in and got for her comforting what eavesdroppers are proverbially supposed to get -- to wit , unpleasant hearing ; the Union Government had ` done nothing ' in the West . `` We looked at each other in dismay . If the Government had failed to carry the West , it was defeated . '' ` Canada is disgraced in the eyes of the world , ' said Gertrude bitterly . '' ` If everybody was like the Mark Crawfords over-harbour this would not have happened , ' groaned Susan . ` Yhey locked their Uncle up in the barn this morning and would not let him out until he promised to vote Union . That is what I call effective argument , Mrs. Dr. dear . ' `` Gertrude and I could n't rest after all that . We walked the floor until our legs gave out and we had to sit down perforce .
Mother knitted away as steadily as clockwork and pretended to be calm and serene -- pretended so well that we were all deceived and envious until the next day , when I caught her ravelling out four inches XXXXX her sock .
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