She was accustomed to soldiers' stories and shrewd enough to know which men exaggerated their prowess and which pretended not to have been nauseated by the horrors of the dead and wounded. Привыкшая к солдатским байкам, она легко угадывала тех, кто прикрывал громкими словами ужас и отвращение, внушаемые новичкам видом убитых и раненых.
