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," said the young girl, raising a rounde

d," said I, looki

will come to a thick

ou, made

e contour of her own lovely arm, "you must turn to the left, and

outstretched arm. "You ar

h stretched out all glittering with moist gr

ed up at me again, I felt her eyes on me for a m

s on the citadel of Strasbourg. It was so distant, so indistinct, that here in this peac

ficult to 22 believe that there is war any

the world," she sa

now it, m

ently,"

r, in detail, from the tips of her small wooden shoes to the scarlet velvet-banded skirt, then slowly upward, noting the laced bodice of v

tend turke

he replied, raising her ey

n you read Monsieur

ess, mo

are

ired in France?" sh

etend to be, an Alsa

e are my turke

our wooden shoes, and there also, mademoiselle, are your so

wise for a hus

have asked you a questio

across her shoulders with

are not a hussar, but an officer

MEADOW,' SAID