The Big Blue Soldier (Musaicum Romance Classics)

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Grace Livingston Hill. The Big Blue Soldier (Musaicum Romance Classics)

The Big Blue Soldier (Musaicum Romance Classics)

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CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

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Grace Livingston Hill

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Lieutenant Richard H. Chadwick

Miss Marilla tore the yellow paper hastily and crumpled it into a ball in her hands as she stared down the road through brimming tears. She managed an upright position, but her knees were shaking under her, and an empty feeling came in her stomach. Across the sunset skies in letters of accusing size, there seemed to blaze the paragraphs from The Springhaven Chronicle, copied afterward in the country Gazette, about Miss Marilla Chadwick’s nephew, Lieutenant Richard H. Chadwick, who was expected at his aunt’s home as soon as he landed in this country after a long and glorious career in other lands, and who would spend the weekend with his aunt, and “doubtless be heard from at the Springhaven Club House before he left.” Her throat caught with a strange little sound like a groan. Still, with her hand grasping the front gate convulsively, Miss Marilla stood and stared down the road, trying to think what to do, how to word a paragraph explaining why he did not come, how to explain to Mary Amber so that look of sweet incredulousness should not come into her eyes.

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