title: A Charmed Life: A Memoir
author:  Trevor Summons 
description: Trevor Summons was born in England two weeks before the start of WWII. On leaving school he went in to the world of sales and traveled throughout the world. In 1982 he immigrated to the USA and after retiring began writing professionally. This is his fourth published book.
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  A Charmed Life  
    
  
  
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  # A Charmed Life
  
  
  ### Richard Harding Davis
  
  
  
  
  
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  Prepared by Don Lainson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  She loved him so, that when he went away to a little war in which
  
  
  his country was interested she could not understand, nor quite
  
  
  forgive.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  As the correspondent of a newspaper, Chesterton had looked on at
  
  
  other wars; when the yellow races met, when the infidel Turk
  
  
  spanked the Christian Greek; and one he had watched from inside a
  
  
  British square, where he was greatly alarmed lest he should be
  
  
  trampled upon by terrified camels. This had happened before he and
  
  
  she had met. After they met, she told him that what chances he had
  
  
  chosen to take before he came into her life fell outside of her
  
  
  jurisdiction. But now that his life belonged to her, this talk of
  
  
  his 