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At the Sign of the Sword: A Story of Love and War in Belgium
By William Le Queux
Length5h 29m
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Excerpt: "Warm, brilliant, and cloudless was the July noon. Beneath the summer sun the broad, shallow waters of the Meuse sparkled as they rippled swiftly onward through the deep, winding valley of grey rocks and cool woods on their way from the mountains of Lorraine, through peaceful, prosperous Belgium, towards the sea. That quiet, smiling land of the Ardennes was, in July in the year of grace 1914, surely one of the most romantic in all Europe—a green, peaceful land, undisturbed by modern progress; a land where the peasantry were still both honest and simple, retaining many of their primitive customs; a land where the herdsmen still called home the cattle by the blast of the horn as they had done for past centuries, where the feudal castles studding the country—mostly now in ruins—were once the abodes of robber-knights. In that long, deep green valley, which wound from Namur up past Dinant to the French frontier at Givet, the people had advanced but little. Legend and history, poetry and fiction, provoked an interesting reminiscence at almost every turn, for it was, indeed, a land that fascinated those used to the mad hurry of our modern money-making life. Not far from quaint, old-world Dinant, with its church with the slate-covered, bulgy spire nestling beneath its fortress-crowned rock, its narrow cobbled streets, and its picturesque little Place, lay the pretty riverside village of Anseremme, the favourite resort of artists, being situated at the junction of the Lesse—one of the loveliest of rivers—with the Meuse."
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length5 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 7, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One.
10Chapter Ten.
2Chapter Two.
11Chapter Eleven.
3Chapter Three.
12Chapter Twelve.
4Chapter Four.
13Chapter Thirteen.
5Chapter Five.
14Chapter Fourteen.
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6Chapter Six.
15Chapter Fifteen.
7Chapter Seven.
16Chapter Sixteen.
8Chapter Eight.
17Chapter Seventeen.
9Chapter Nine.
18Chapter Eighteen.
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