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    The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France
    The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France
    The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France
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    The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France

    By Frank Earle Schoonover and Henry Van Dyke

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2004
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      The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France - Frank Earle Schoonover

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France, by Henry Van Dyke, Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover

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      Title: The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France

      Author: Henry Van Dyke

      Release Date: June 3, 2005 [eBook #15978]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BROKEN SOLDIER AND THE MAID OF FRANCE***

      E-text prepared by Michael Gray (Lost_Gamer@comcast.net)

      THE BROKEN SOLDIER

      AND

      THE MAID OF FRANCE

      Books by Henry Van Dyke

      The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France

      The Americanism of Washington

      The Christ Child in Art

      The Lost Boy

      The Mansion

      The Story Of The Other Wise Man

      Harper & Brothers,

      New York

      Established 1817

      THE BROKEN SOLDIER

      AND THE MAID

      OF FRANCE

      By

      HENRY VAN DYKE

      With Illustrations by

      Frank E. Schoonover

      New York and London

      Harper & Brothers Publishers

      MCMXIX

      CONTENTS

      THE BROKEN SOLDIER AND

      THE MAID OF FRANCE

      The Meeting at the Spring

      LONG the old Roman road that crosses the rolling hills from the upper waters of the Marne to the Meuse, a soldier of France was passing in the night.

      In the broader pools of summer moonlight he showed as a hale and husky fellow of about thirty years, with dark hair and eyes and a handsome, downcast face. His uniform was faded and dusty; not a trace of the horizon-blue was left; only a gray shadow. He had no knapsack on his back, no gun on his shoulder. Wearily and doggedly he plodded his way, without eyes for the veiled beauty of the sleeping country. The quick, firm military step was gone. He trudged like a tramp, choosing always the darker side of the road.

      He was a figure of flight, a broken soldier.

      Presently the road led him into a thick forest of oaks and beeches, and so to the crest of a hill overlooking a long open valley with wooded heights beyond. Below him was the pointed spire of some temple or shrine, lying at the edge of the wood, with no houses near it. Farther down he could see a cluster of white houses with the tower of a church in the center. Other villages were dimly visible up and down the valley on either slope. The cattle were lowing from the barnyards. The cocks crowed for the dawn. Already the moon had sunk behind the western trees. But the valley was still bathed in its misty, vanishing light. Over the eastern ridge the gray glimmer of the little day was rising, faintly tinged with rose. It was time for the broken soldier to seek his covert and rest till night returned.

      So he stepped aside from the road and found a little dell thick with underwoods, and in it a clear spring gurgling among the ferns and mosses. Around the opening grew wild gooseberries and golden broom and a few tall spires of purple foxglove. He drew off his dusty boots and socks and bathed his feet in a small pool, drying them with fern leaves. Then he took a slice of bread and a piece

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