The French Prisoners: A Story for BoysMacMillan & Company, 1884 - 234 pages |
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afternoon asked battle of Sedan Bockelow boys brothers called camp captive CHAPTER coachman Commander comrades crowd dark dear Doctor Stallbaum's door duty Enderlein escape exclaimed eyes face father felt Finaud fortress France French language French officer Fritz German glacis glad guard gymnasium hand heart Herr Krakel Herr Pastor honour hospital Huber intercourse Jean Jacques Rousseau kind Lamain latter live looked Luxembourg Gardens madman master militiamen Molière morning mother never old Jockel once Paris patriotic peace pity Ponto the Ninth poor fellow primus prisoners Prussian Quartier Latin rampart replied round Schimmelpfennig schoolboys seemed shouted siege of Paris silent sleep soapboiler soldiers soon street tell thank things thought tion told took town Turco Vicar Vicarage voice waiting walk Wasserloch Wilhelm words wounded young Frenchman youth
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