Towards the Goal by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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Cathedral--The Abbé's Narrative--False Charges--Wanton Destruction--A
Sudden Change--Return of the French--Ermenonville--Scenes of Battle--Vareddes. No. 8 Battle of the Ourcq--Von Kluck's Mistake--Anniversary of the Battle--Wreckage of War--A Burying Party--A Funeral--A Five Days' Battle--Life-and-Death Fighting--"_Salut au Drapeau_"--Meaux --Vareddes--Murders at Vareddes--Von Kluck's Approach--The Turn of the Tide--The Old Curé--German Brutalities--Torturers --The Curé's Sufferings--"He is a Spy"--A Weary March--Outrages --Victims--Reparation--To Lorraine. No. 9 Épernay-Châlons--Snow--Nancy--The French People--_L'Union Sacrée_--France and England--Nancy--Hill of Léomont--The Grand Couronné--The Lorraine Campaign--Taubes--Vitrimont--Miss Polk--A Restored Church--Society of Friends--Gerbéviller--Soeur Julie--Mortagne--An Inexpiable Crime--Massacre of Gerbéviller--"Les Civils ont tiré"--Soeur Julie--The Germans come--German Wounded--Barbarities in Hospital--Soeur Julie and Germans--The French Return--Germans at Nancy--Nancy saved--A Warm Welcome--Adieu to Lorraine No. 10 |
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