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Martin Edelweiss’s tutor deems Cambridge student Darwin “ ‘a splendid specimen.’ ” Darwin’s studies at Cambridge were interrupted by the Great War: he spent three years in the trenches, “ ‘and not a scratch, either morally or physicially.’ ” And he’s published a book of short stories that, the narrator tells us, “connoisseurs were raving about.”


Martin has to say something back, yes? But that last sentence will prove prophetic.

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