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Jane Margaret Strickland. The Spanish conscript and his family
The Spanish conscript and his family
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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE MOUNTAIN HOME
CHAPTER II. THE CHILDREN’S PERIL.—THE CONSCRIPTION
CHAPTER III. THE MEETING ON THE MOUNTAIN ROAD
CHAPTER IV. THE INVASION
CHAPTER V. THE BATTLE OF BORODINO
CHAPTER VI. THE CONFLAGRATION
CHAPTER VII. THE ROUTE
CHAPTER VIII. THE SUPPLICANTS
CHAPTER IX. CAPTIVITY
CHAPTER X. THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE
CHAPTER XI. THE RETURN TO MOSCOW
CHAPTER XII. THE BRIDAL OF TERESA
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Jane Margaret Strickland
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Carlos was still within her arms, the child had actually sobbed himself to sleep; Teresa gently laid him down on the rugged floor of the cavern, while she bestowed a thousand caresses upon her brave defender. Rollo feebly returned her endearments, he was wounded in many places; Teresa feared he would never leave the cave alive, and then, she thought. “If the bear should recover, how dreadful still their fate might be.” The poor bear had however, received a mortal wound, a dull film was over her eyes, her huge limbs fluttered, and she fell dead upon her cubs. Fain would Teresa have left the grim trio in possession of their rocky sepulchre, but the awful raging of the storm kept her prisoner, and she sat between Carlos and poor Rollo, audibly praying for help yet fearing that her trials would never have an end. Gradually the tempest subsided, the clouds rolled away, and the beams of the sun, again gilded the magnificent mountain scenery, and the distant barking of the dogs, told the Spanish girl, that her father was searching for his lost children among these wild solitudes. She knew the instinct of the animals would lead them to the cave, which she did not intend to leave for fear of losing the skins of the she-bear and her cubs. In a little while, her father, attended by his dogs, and another shepherd, entered the cavern and beheld with wonder, the scene its arena displayed. With hearts full of gratitude and love the whole party quitted the den. Teresa and Carlos bearing the dead cubs, Diego carrying the faithful Rollo on his shoulders, and the stranger dragging the bear. Thus loaded, their progress was extremely slow, and it was night before they reached the hut of Blanca, whom they found in an agony of doubt and anxiety. The tender mother clasped her children to her bosom, unconscious that any other peril had assailed them beside the storm, what were her feelings, when she learned their fearful jeopardy. “Ah my children, my children,” said she, “never forget Him who hath delivered ye from the paw of the bear. He, who hath had mercy on you now, will preserve ye in all future dangers. Put your trust in Him.”
The children never forgot the words of their pious mother, they often had occasion to remember them in days of deeper peril.
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