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C. N. Williamson

A Soldier of the Legion

Paperback (Forgotten Books Aug. 2, 2012)
Excerpt from A Soldier of the LegionThere he stood, this show young man, welt-groomed and smart in his full-dress uniform of second lieutenant of cavalry, the stripes and splashes of yellow suiting his dark skin: a slim, erect figure, not very tall, but a soldier every inch Of him, though the wide-apart blue eyes gave the square-chinned face a boyish air Of wistfulness, even when he smiled his delightfully childlike, charming smile. Girls glanced at him as they swung past in their partners' arms, noticing how tense was the look on the brown face, and how the straight eyebrows even blacker than the smooth dark hair were drawn together in expectant concentration.Suddenly the door Opened. The curtain-raiser was over. The drama of the evening was about to begin.It seemed wonderful that the band could keep presence of mind 'to go on playing the Merry Widow, instead of stopping short with a gasp and crash of instruments, to start again with the Tango Trance, her dance in Girls' Love.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
ISBN
1440066787 / 9781440066788
Pages
390
Weight
24.0 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.9 in.

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