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Title: Three Vassar girls abroad. Rambles of three college girls on a vacation trip through France and Spain for amusement and instruction. With their haps and mishaps
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ipated. The tattered flags that chronicled Napoleonsvictories seemed to droop sadly over his tomb, and the old veteransso cozily established in the comfortable hotel recalled to their mindsthose who had followed the great general in his campaigns, and whonever would believe that he was dead. Their little gardens withchild-play of fortifications and battle-field were interesting and touchingas well. One veteran had arranged his in imitation of the Rock atSt. Helena, with a little lead image of the man in the redingolegrise^^ the heavy gray overcoat which was characteristic of the firstNapoleon. There had been men in the institution, so their guide said,who had wounds for nearly every one of Napoleons great campaigns,a star-shaped, powder-blackened scar in the cheek, received in Italy,—of which the owner vv^as as proud as of a medal of honor; an eyedestroyed by scorching desert sands at the time of the battle of thePyramids; a sabre cut on the arm at Austerlitz; four fingers frozen on
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DOME DES INVALIDES. PARIS. 35 the march back from Moscow; a wound in the leg, the most triflingof all, but the one that rankled most, received at Waterloo. Barbaras letter, when it went to her father, was not a coldstatement of facts and dates, but a vivid and enthusiastic sketch of thecareer of the great conqueror. She was beginning the study of history in a new way, not by drydates and names, but from monuments of heroic or brilliant deedsand souvenirs of touching episodes. The great book lay open beforeher. She had read but one leaf, and henceforward she was aninsatiable student. Other characters kept coming up as centres ofinterest, their lives overlapping and interlacing, making the mostromantic and fascinating of continued stories. I shall read andread, she said to herself, and perhaps, by and by, I shall find ou*-what to do with my own little life. 36 THREE VASSAR GIRLS ABROAD. CHAPTER II. W FRENCH SOCIETY. WHERE a-re^>^^u going to paint to-day, Maud ? Barbara askedone ^11 i

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