This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...understand each other at once with a glance. They leave the two cousins together. See how Louise's tears run down her cheeks. Edith is dismayed. She neither questions nor entreats. As Papa Bouchaud says, young girls understand each other. One tear was enough. Edith has turned pale; she murmurs, as if half ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...understand each other at once with a glance. They leave the two cousins together. See how Louise's tears run down her cheeks. Edith is dismayed. She neither questions nor entreats. As Papa Bouchaud says, young girls understand each other. One tear was enough. Edith has turned pale; she murmurs, as if half unconscious: " Robert is killed!" "No, my dear, no," replies Louise, with a thousand caresses, " they will save him, on the contrary. Only wounded! And under such glorious circumstances. Henri wrote to me, you know. Robert is a hero." She has done well. Edith's sorrow bursts forth. There are convulsive sobs and floods of tears and broken confessions of a tender heart unloading itself. "I love him so much now, Louise, if you knew. I felt that I was about to lose him.... Each day I am more attached to him... but I do not dare tell him... What a fool I was, my God! You understand, Louise, when he was employed in the Meilleur Marche I despised him. Do you remember? I said to you: 'It is so commonplace to marry a clerk!' The truth is that I did not know Robert. Evidently one has no need of heroism to sell gloves. It would have been ridiculous to use it there where it was so little needed. But I demanded it at any cost. I said to you: 'If only he were an aviator!' And he noticed my scorn. Meanwhile, he possessed all the qualities of his own spirit and I would not see them. Now I do not dare to tell him straightforwardly what I feel for him. That is to say, yesterday, I did not venture. My God! My God! Why did I not tell him before he dies?" "But, my dear, we hope that he will soon recover." And Louise discusses before her distracted cousin each one of the expressions of the letter scribbled by Monsieur Henri: "He lost much blood; the stretcher-bearers...
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Translated by Lucy Humphrey Smith. A fine attractive copy in a jacket with a few tiny chips and light use. 177 pp. 12mo, A novel involving a bookseller.
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