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... give you a fair idea of what the life of the franc - tireurs was , of what some of them actually went through , suffered , and per- formed . Yours sincerely , THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. PAGE I THE OUTBREAK OF WAR iv A Word to my ...
... give you a fair idea of what the life of the franc - tireurs was , of what some of them actually went through , suffered , and per- formed . Yours sincerely , THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. PAGE I THE OUTBREAK OF WAR iv A Word to my ...
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... give your mamma's compliments , and ask if your uncle and Madame Duburg will come in after they have dined . The young ones will make their dinner at our six o'clock tea . " In France early dinner is a thing scarcely known , even among ...
... give your mamma's compliments , and ask if your uncle and Madame Duburg will come in after they have dined . The young ones will make their dinner at our six o'clock tea . " In France early dinner is a thing scarcely known , even among ...
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... give up our house in two years , and go to England to reside . We have economized greatly during the seventeen years since our marriage . We can afford to live in England now . At sixteen , therefore , Milly will have good masters , and ...
... give up our house in two years , and go to England to reside . We have economized greatly during the seventeen years since our marriage . We can afford to live in England now . At sixteen , therefore , Milly will have good masters , and ...
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... give you my full consent to go . I should not have advised it ; at your age there was no absolute duty , still , if you feel it so , I will not stand in your way . Go , then , my boys , and may God watch over you and keep you , and send ...
... give you my full consent to go . I should not have advised it ; at your age there was no absolute duty , still , if you feel it so , I will not stand in your way . Go , then , my boys , and may God watch over you and keep you , and send ...
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... give you the money by the time his answer arrives . When the guns arrive those who can pay for them will do so , and the rest will be paid for by the subscriptions . Of course we shall want them complete with bayonets . If at the same ...
... give you the money by the time his answer arrives . When the guns arrive those who can pay for them will do so , and the rest will be paid for by the subscriptions . Of course we shall want them complete with bayonets . If at the same ...
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arms army arrived balloon Besançon Blamont boys Cambriels Captain Barclay cavalry Christine cloth Colonel Tempé coloured command corps despatches distance Doyle duty Edition enemy English Epinal Fcap fell fight fire forest France French G. A. HENTY Gambetta German gilt edges hair half hand HARRISON WEIR head heard honour horses hour hundred yards Illustrations lads laughed legion of honour Lieutenant looked Madame Duburg Major Tempé Maupas Melun miles Milly minutes Mobiles Molsheim Montargis morning Mutzig night o'clock officers once Orleans Paris passed peasant plain Post 8vo prisoners Prussians quarter Ralph and Percy Ribouville rifles road round Salbris Saverne schoolmaster sentries sergeant shot shouted side soldiers staff surgeon Teclier tell thing Tim's tireurs to-morrow told town Trochu troops turned Uhlans village Vosges walked Wasselonne wood wounded young Barclays Zouaves
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