Realities never scared him -- only his imagination could do that . His colonel told me that Walter was the bravest man in the regiment . Rilla , I never realized that Walter was dead till I came back home . You do n't know how I miss him now -- you folks here have got used to it in a sense -- but it 's all fresh to me . Walter and I grew up together -- we were chums as well as brothers -- and now here , in this old valley we loved when we were children , it has come home to me that I 'm not to see him again . ' `` Jem is going back to college in the fall and so are Jerry and Carl . I suppose Shirley will , too . He expects to be home in July . Nan and Di will go on teaching . Faith does n't expect to be home before September . I suppose she will teach then too , for she and Jem ca n't be married until he gets through his course in medicine . Una Meredith has decided , I think , to take a course in Household Science at Kingsport -- and Gertrude is to be married to her Major and is frankly happy about it -- ` shamelessly happy ' she says ; but I think her attitude is very beautiful . They are all talking of their plans and hopes -- more soberly than they used to do long ago , but still with interest , and a determination to carry on and make good in spite of lost years . '' ` We 're in a new world , ' Jem says , ` and we 've got to make it a better one than the old . That is n't done yet , though some folks seem to think it ought to be . The job is n't finished -- it is n't really begun . The old world is destroyed and we must build up the new one . It will be the task of years . I 've seen enough of war to realize that we 've got to make a world where wars ca n't happen . We 've given Prussianism its mortal wound but it is n't dead yet and it is n't confined to Germany either .
It is n't enough XXXXX drive out the old spirit -- we 've got to bring in the new . '
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