A Song of a Single Note: A Love Story

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Barr Amelia E.. A Song of a Single Note: A Love Story

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER I. RED OR BLUE RIBBONS

CHAPTER II. THE FAIR AND THE BRAVE

CHAPTER III. LIFE IN THE CAPTIVE CITY

CHAPTER IV. A SONG OF A SINGLE NOTE

CHAPTER V. LOVE'S SWEET DREAM

CHAPTER VI. THE INTERCEPTED MESSAGE

CHAPTER VII. THE PRICE OF HARRY'S LIFE

CHAPTER VIII. THE HELP OF JACOB COHEN

CHAPTER IX. THE TURN OF THE TIDE

CHAPTER X. MARIA GOES TO LONDON

CHAPTER XI. THE QUESTION OF MARRIAGE

CHAPTER XII. LOVE AND VICTORY

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It was the fourth year of the captivity of New York, and the beleaguered city, in spite of military pomp and display, could not hide the desolations incident to her warlike occupation. The beautiful trees and groves which once shaded her streets and adorned her suburbs had been cut down by the army sappers; her gardens and lawns upturned for entrenchments and indented by artillery wheels; and some of the best parts of the city blackened and mutilated by fire. Her churches had been turned into prisons and hospitals, and were centres of indescribable suffering and poisonous infection; while over the burnt district there had sprung up a town of tents inhabited by criminals and by miserable wretches whom starvation and despair had turned into highwaymen.

But these conditions were the work of man. Nature still lavished upon the captive city a glory of sunshine and blue skies, and winds, full of the freshness and sparkle of the great sea, blew through all her sickly streets. Wherever the gardens had not been destroyed, there was the scent of mays and laburnums, and the indescribable beauty of apple blossoms on the first day of their birth.

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"He serves our turn now, and once is nae custom."

"Let alone the fact that girls' friendships are naething but fine words and sugar candy. I shall put a stop to this one at the very outset."

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