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Continuation of 12th Dec 44--

There is something very
awful in that stillness within
when all without is noise
and uproar-- destruction and
perhaps death-- (as in this
case it was) A number of soldiers
passed and a-- a man bearing
a huge lighted torch-- enough
to frighten any one if there
were sound of fire did not
suffice-- for about a 1/4 of
an hour all was again quiet
and I went to bed-- not to sleep
but dream think of fire and
all sorts of horrors-- prvt Ewin
too was ill Battery and between one
thing and another I was awake
almost all night--

13th Very ill in morning staid in
bed for breakfast--
private ill and in bed all
day-- treatment of invalids
here-- poor child as I like
his mother I considered