ISBN: 9781153585224

Excerpt: ...done anything toward saving your life I cannot understand. In truth, it would be impossible for you to guess the great service you did me, said he, but my wife and daughters k… Mehr…

Excerpt: ...done anything toward saving your life I cannot understand. In truth, it would be impossible for you to guess the great service you did me, said he, but my wife and daughters know it well; I wrote to them of it at once. And I look upon it as one of the most remarkable occurrences of my life. And one that I ought to remember better than any other event of the war, said his lady, rising and affectionately embracing Caroline. Well, said the countess, neither I nor my husband ever heard the story. Please give us a full account of it. Oh, it is easily told, said the colonel. Hungry and thirsty, I entered the house in which Caroline and her parents dwelt, and, to tell the plain truth, I begged for some bread and water. They gave me a share of the best they had, and did not hesitate to do so, though their village and themselves were in the greatest distress. Caroline robbed every bough on her cherry tree to refresh me. Fine cherries they were--the only ones, probably, in the whole country. But the enemy did not give me time to eat them; I was obliged to depart in a hurry. Caroline insisted, with the kindest hospitality, that I should take them with me, but that was no easy matter: my horse had been shot under me the day before. I took from my knapsack whatever articles I could in a hurry, and, thrusting them into my pockets, I fought on foot until a hussar gave me his horse. All that I was worth was in my pockets, so that to make room for the cherries I was obliged to take the pocket-book out of my pocket and place it here beneath my vest. The enemy, who had been driven back, made a feint of advancing on us, and I led down my hussars in gallant style. But suddenly we found ourselves in front of a body of infantry concealed behind a hedge. One of them fired at me, and the fellow had taken good aim, for the ball struck me here on the breast. But it rebounded from the pocket-book; otherwise, I should have been shot through the body and fallen... Ella Rodman Church, Books, Fiction and Literature, Among The Trees At Elmridge Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153585224

Excerpt: ...done anything toward saving your life I cannot understand. In truth, it would be impossible for you to guess the great service you did me, said he, but my wife and daughters k… Mehr…

Excerpt: ...done anything toward saving your life I cannot understand. In truth, it would be impossible for you to guess the great service you did me, said he, but my wife and daughters know it well; I wrote to them of it at once. And I look upon it as one of the most remarkable occurrences of my life. And one that I ought to remember better than any other event of the war, said his lady, rising and affectionately embracing Caroline. Well, said the countess, neither I nor my husband ever heard the story. Please give us a full account of it. Oh, it is easily told, said the colonel. Hungry and thirsty, I entered the house in which Caroline and her parents dwelt, and, to tell the plain truth, I begged for some bread and water. They gave me a share of the best they had, and did not hesitate to do so, though their village and themselves were in the greatest distress. Caroline robbed every bough on her cherry tree to refresh me. Fine cherries they were--the only ones, probably, in the whole country. But the enemy did not give me time to eat them; I was obliged to depart in a hurry. Caroline insisted, with the kindest hospitality, that I should take them with me, but that was no easy matter: my horse had been shot under me the day before. I took from my knapsack whatever articles I could in a hurry, and, thrusting them into my pockets, I fought on foot until a hussar gave me his horse. All that I was worth was in my pockets, so that to make room for the cherries I was obliged to take the pocket-book out of my pocket and place it here beneath my vest. The enemy, who had been driven back, made a feint of advancing on us, and I led down my hussars in gallant style. But suddenly we found ourselves in front of a body of infantry concealed behind a hedge. One of them fired at me, and the fellow had taken good aim, for the ball struck me here on the breast. But it rebounded from the pocket-book; otherwise, I should have been shot through the body and fallen... Ella Rodman Church, Books, Fiction and Literature, Among The Trees At Elmridge Books>Fiction and Literature <

ISBN: 9781153585224

"The very same," replied his governess; "only that we are speaking now of the tree on which the olives grow. It is well said that the very name of 'olive' suggests the idea of Palestine a… Mehr…

"The very same," replied his governess; "only that we are speaking now of the tree on which the olives grow. It is well said that the very name of 'olive' suggests the idea of Palestine and the sunny lands of the East. The olive tree is one of the most prominent trees of the Bible. It is mentioned in the very earliest part of the Scriptures, in the book of Genesis. I wonder if some one can tell me about it?" Books Books ~~ Fiction~~ General Among-the-Trees-at-Elmridge~~Ella-Rodman-Church General Books LLC<