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 hour 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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Page 64 - I had fainted : unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart : wait, I say, upon the Lord.
Page 52 - And the whole multitude sought to touch him : for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
Page 1 - That liberates and exempts me from them all. It turns submitted to my view, turns round With all its generations; I behold The tumult, and am still. The sound of war Has lost its terrors ere it reaches me, Grieves, but alarms me not.