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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ATHANASIUS. War It was. The horsemen grew scarce on the wide prairies of Opelousas. Far away in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, on bloody fields, many an Acadian volunteer and many a poor conscript fought and fell for a cause that was really none of theirs, simple, non-slaveholding peasants; and many died in camp and hospital often of wounds, often of fevers, often of mere longing for home. Bonaventure and Zose'- phine learned this much of war: that it was a state of affairs in which dear faces went away, and strange ones came back with tidings that brought bitter wail- ings from mothers and wives, and made les vieux the old fathers sit very silent. Three times over that was the way of it in Sosthene's house. It was also a condition of things that somehow changed boys into men very young. A great distance away, but still in sight south-westward across the prairie, a dot of dark green showed where dwelt a sister and brother-in-law of Sosthene's vieille, wife. There was not the same domestic excellence there as at Sostheue's; yet the dooryard was very populous with fowls; within the house was always heard the hard thump, thump, of the loom, or the loud moan of the spinning-wheel; and the children were many. The eldest was Athanase. Though but flfteeu he was already stalwart, and showed that intelligent sympathy in the f amily cares that makes such offspring the mother's comfort and the father's hope. At that age he had done but one thing to diminish that comfort or that hope. One would have supposed an ambitious chap like him would have spent his first earnings, as other ambitious ones did, for a saddle; but 'Thanase Beausoliel had bought a fiddle. He had hardly got it before he knew how to play it. Yet, to the father's most welcome surprise, he remai...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217448666 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217448666 |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $20.59 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 210 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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