St. Nicholas, Volume 46Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1919 - Children's literature |
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Page 13
... Father eyed me , puzzled at the cause of my merriment , yet soon joined gaily . " I don't know what has started you ... Father's plate . The sight of it sobered us instantly . Papa looked at Grandpère , then turned to me . " It has come ...
... Father eyed me , puzzled at the cause of my merriment , yet soon joined gaily . " I don't know what has started you ... Father's plate . The sight of it sobered us instantly . Papa looked at Grandpère , then turned to me . " It has come ...
Page 14
... Father has gone , " I murmured . " But he will come back , my child ! " And she was still insisting that the war was impossible , when Madame Paul Bar- ton , with little Jacques , her son , and her daughter Heloise , came in to see us ...
... Father has gone , " I murmured . " But he will come back , my child ! " And she was still insisting that the war was impossible , when Madame Paul Bar- ton , with little Jacques , her son , and her daughter Heloise , came in to see us ...
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... fathers marched on . It was not for us to join that chorus - we who watched . The grim reality struck like iron into our hearts . We could but abide , mute and trembling , while the call was raised . to those who must bear the heavy ...
... fathers marched on . It was not for us to join that chorus - we who watched . The grim reality struck like iron into our hearts . We could but abide , mute and trembling , while the call was raised . to those who must bear the heavy ...
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... Father , with out- stretched hand . The two gripped hands and looked into each other's eyes for a moment . It was in the eyes that one read reso- lution and courage . Words came halt- ingly and seemed to have lost their mean- ing . A ...
... Father , with out- stretched hand . The two gripped hands and looked into each other's eyes for a moment . It was in the eyes that one read reso- lution and courage . Words came halt- ingly and seemed to have lost their mean- ing . A ...
Page 19
... Father had been at pains to warn me . He loved me doubly , for my own sake and because of that dear maman who had died when I was a baby , and he spoke to me of all he was interested in as if I had been grown up . To add to this ...
... Father had been at pains to warn me . He loved me doubly , for my own sake and because of that dear maman who had died when I was a baby , and he spoke to me of all he was interested in as if I had been grown up . To add to this ...
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