Lorraine

A Romance

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A poem addressed to Lorraine says that when Yesterday shall dawn again, thine own shall come to thee. One speaker says darkly, "I have no confidence in Uhlan officers." Molly says the base of supplies, so long cut loose from, is there under the willows, and that she sees six feet two of Cecil Page carrying a case of bottles. The boat rubs its nose against the mossy bank; Lady Hesketh places her fair hands in Ricky's chubby ones and springs to the shore.

The text describes a young man who had sat sketching at Sadowa where the needle-guns sent a shower of lead over his rocky observatory. One man understood sabre and lance and bullets, but did not understand ropes. One passage says every drop of French blood that drenched the mother-land seemed drawn from her own veins.

About the author

Robert W. Chambers

Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) was an American artist turned prolific author of romance and adventure fiction. He is remembered almost entirely for the early horror tales of The King in Yellow, whose influence on supernatural and cosmic-horror writing far outlasted his popular novels.