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I am very careful about going out, and stay indoors most of the day.
This evening I went out with C. and sat down in the square in front of the house. It is a pretty square, the “Bayerische Platz”—tall fir trees and a building slightly resembling an old Roman temple. Children play about in the sand most of the day.
C. and I had such a nice long talk—but I am sorry to say, I do nearly all the talking. I like to talk a great deal, but it is rather different when one is in love with a girl—one always likes the girl to talk a little, now and then. English and American girls are very different—but there is something very charming about an American girl’s character and which the English girl lacks—and that is self-pride.
C. thinks I do not care for American people, but she is very mistaken. I don’t say I don’t tease her.
Molony, William O'Sullivan, Diary, 8 August 1914
Case Study:
A British Teenager Caught Up in the First World War: William O’Sullivan Molony
Creator:
Molony, William O'Sullivan
Source:
diary
Date:
8 August 1914
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Contributer:
McMaster University Libraries
Rights:
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.
Identifier:
00000563
Language:
eng
Type:
image
Format:
jpg
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