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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: had been given out in the usual hurried, slovenly manner and the men had received in brandy what they should have received in food, the consequence was that they were all roaring drunk, with a drunkenness that vented itself in obscene songs, varied by shrieks and yells. The heavy train rolled slowly onward; pipes were alight and men could no longer see one another through the dense clouds of smoke; the heat and odor that emanated from that mass of perspiring human flesh were unendurable, while from the jolting, dingy van came volleys of shouts and laughter that drowned the monotonous rattle of the wheels and were lost amid the silence of the deserted fields. And it was not until they reached Langres that the troops learned that they were being carried back to Paris. ' Ah, nom de Dieu exclaimed Chouteau, who already, by virtue of his oratorical ability, was the acknowledged sovereign of his corner, they will station us at Charentonneau, sure, to keep old Bismarck out of the Tuileries. The others laughed loud and long, considering the joke a very good one, though no one could say why. The most trivial incidents of the journey, however, served to elicit a storm of yells, cat-calls, and laughter: a group of peasants standing beside the roadway, or the anxious faces of the people who hung about the way-stations in the hope of picking up some bits of news from the passing trains, epitomizing on a small scale the breathless, shuddering alarm that pervaded all France in the presence of invasion. And so it happened that as the train thundered by, a fleeting vision of pandemonium, all that the good burghers obtained in the way of intelligence was the salutations of that cargo of food for powder as it hurried onward to its destination, fast as steam could carry it. At a sta...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217325646 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217325645 |
| Weight | 1.29 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.89 In |
| List Price | $47.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 400 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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