The Tales Pool, and Other Tales (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Crossing some years later in the respectable company of an uncle and aunt to Calais, I saw my first French soldier in the flesh. He was dawdling along the railway line in Calais station a red-trousered figure, picturesque, but, to the eye of one accustomed to the stern parades of the nursery, untidy in his dress and in his bearing. True that in Paris I saw real cuirassiers at last, their horsehair plumes nodding about their helmets and their swords rattling as they walked. The picture of the soldier in Calais station stuck uneasily in my mind, and I doubted in my heart whether all could really be well with the armies of France.

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