Catharine's peril
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Catharine's Peril, or The Little Russian Girl Lost in a Forest, is a tale founded on fact by Mrs. M. E. Bewsher. The book carries other stories too, among them The Shabby Surtout and Jane Hill. Chapter I says that in the year 1812 Napoleon Buonaparte, after conquering nearly the whole of Europe, invaded Russia and led his victorious army to Moscow.
The text says that Catharine Somoff, the little daughter of a Russian merchant, had been separated from her relations and friends and, to her dismay, found herself alone in the crowd. A sutler's wife who noticed the lonely Catharine felt womanly compassion for her, took all possible care of her and treated her as her own child. A speaker says that the young gentleman, offered an umbrella, readily accepted it but held it in a manner better calculated to defend the widow than himself.
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- Author
- Mrs. M. E. Bewsher
- Pages
- 31
- Language
- English
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- Childrens Classics
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