Edwards, George Wharton, 1859- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company · leaf 220
he might. When I had explained my predicament, he and theother men who gathered about were loud in their expres-sions of wonder at my escape from a terrible death, forhad I but stepped a foot farther, I had fallen forty orfifty feet into a sluiceway from which they vowed I nevercould have escaped… … MEAUX Meurtries, 1916, his account of the early days of terrorin Meaux, gives a picture of the old priest who so de-votedly and courageously shepherded his little flock ofwomen and children, helpless before the invasion anddestruction of the town by the Germans: Where, meanwhile, was the venerable…
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