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Title: With Those Who Wait

Author: Frances Wilson Huard

Release Date: December 15, 2006 [EBook #20111]

Language: English

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WITH THOSE WHO WAIT

BY

FRANCES WILSON HUARD

AUTHOR OF "MY HOME IN THE FIELD OF HONOUR," "MY HOME IN THE FIELD OF
MERCY," ETC.

WITH DRAWINGS BY CHARLES HUARD

McCLELLAND, GOODCHILD & STEWART

PUBLISHERS -------- TORONTO

Copyright, 1918,

By George H. Doran Company

Printed in the United States of America

A MES AMIES FRANCAISES,

HEROINES TOUTES

ILLUSTRATIONS

WITH THOSE WHO WAIT . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

VIEW OF CHATEAU-THIERRY

MONSIEUR S. OF SOISSONS WITH HIS GAS MASK

A VILLAGE ON THE FRONT

DOOR OF MADAME HUARD'S HOME--PARIS

VIEW OF ST. GERVAIS FROM MADAME HUARD'S PARIS HOME

THE COURTYARD LEADING TO MADAME HUARD'S CELLAR

A COURTYARD IN MONTMARTRE

MONSIEUR AMEDE

FLOCKING TO READ THE COMING COMMUNIQUE IN A LITTLE FRENCH CITY

MAXENCE

WITH THOSE WHO WAIT

I

Once upon a time there wasn't any war. In those days it was my custom
to drive over to Chateau-Thierry every Friday afternoon. The horses,
needing no guidance, would always pull up at the same spot in front of
the station from which point of vantage, between a lilac bush and the
switch house, I would watch for the approaching express that was to
bring down our week-end guests.

A halt at the bridge head would permit our friends to obtain a
bird's-eye view of the city, while I purchased a measure of
fresh-caught, shiny-scaled river fish, only to be had of the old
boatman after the arrival of the Paris train. Invariably there were
packages to be called for at Berjot's grocery store, or Dudrumet's dry
goods counter, and then H. having discovered the exact corner from
which Corot painted his delightful panorama of the city, a pilgrimage
to the spot almost always ensued.

A glance in passing at Jean de la Fontaine'