The Path of Honor: A Tale of the War in the Bocage (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Burton Egbert Stevenson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1527696820 ISBN 13: 9781527696822

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Path of Honor: A Tale of the War in the Bocage

I thanked God that we of Touraine had not yet been caught in the eddies of that maelstrom. Danton had been too busy at home to cast his eyes in our direction, and if our peasants ran away it was at least without leaving behind them blackened walls and outraged bodies. So we had lived our lives in peace, undisturbed by massacres, by the worship of Reason, Or by that grim machine which toiled so ceaselessly upon the Place de la Revolution.

But as I topped a rise in the road, I saw that the instruments of war at least had at last invaded even this peaceful country. Under a tree by the roadside a group of soldiers were sitting, and it needed no second glance to tell me they were Republicans. They were lolling about, talk ing idly among themselves; only their officer was on his feet, but he was watching the road intently and the instant his eyes met mine he uttered a sharp command. In a breath his men had sprung to arms and deployed across the road.

I was a peaceful-traveller, intent on my own business; so telling myself that I had nothing to fear from even the most rabid Of Revolutionists, I continued on without hesitating. It could not be for such a small and inoffensive fish as I that a net so elaborate had been spread.

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About the Author:

Stevenson was the founder of the American Library in Paris and its Director. He was Librarian of the City Library of Chillichothe, Ohio for 58 years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1527696820
• ISBN 13: 9781527696822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 331