Waldie's Select Circulating Library Volume 9. Books Group
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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 924 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231098912
Download Link: Waldie's Select Circulating Library Volume 9
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...abdication of the emperor! Were such things to be credited by those who had so long relied on the ascendant star of Napoleon? Too speedily, however, and too authentically, was it made known to the unhappy Margaret, that her evil auguries were more than fulfilled--that the young Baron d'Armentieres had not only fallen, but fallen a recreant and a traitor! Within a few hours of their last interview, Leon was reported to have been seen at the Prussian head-quarters; was said to have undertaken, on certain conditions, to bring over his detachment; and to have been sacrificed by his men at the moment of attempting to shake their fidelity to the emperor. To obtain more exact details, was impossible. Margaret had not even tho comfort of knowing in what spot of earth the head she loved was laid in the dust. His name had already become a word of reproach among his men. They admitted that the body had been stripped for burial, when the advance of the enemy caused their position to be suddenly evacuated: what became of the corpse of the renegade, they neither knew nor cared. " So gallant--so noble--yet to die the death of a traitor!" exclaimed Margaret, as she sat, many weeks afterwards, resting her heavy head against the trunk of the old lime tree, under whose branches they had so often played of yore, and where they had sat together at her first visit to the chateau, after her ill-starred marriage. Her heart sickened as she looked upon the summer sky, and felt the lightsome breath of the summer breezes upon her cheek; and remembered that Napoleon was pining in exile and captivity, and his young soldier lying in a dishonoured grave? But, above all, Breteuil was enjoying the fruits of his treachery; and she trembled at the certainty that the letters be had a...
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