Neighbors Henceforth - Classic Reprint Author:Owen Wister NEIGHBORS HENCEFORTH I FACES AND A SCAR As we went along the straight road, I began to see what was not there, while what was there dissolved slowly away from my open eyes. The April night, full of sounds and storm, had dropped upon the hills one last thin veil of snow, and this still stretched its gleamy film over their ridges. Below, it was go... more »ne from the wide flat lands, where blossoms expanded beneath the sun of the April day. These came by like white clouds caught in the twigs of the fruit trees. Along the road as we went, they showed above the tops of the high French walls, they shone mistily across the flat French distance. Among the taller trees, in the heights of the poplars and the willows, hung like a breath the faintly tinted web that betokened sap stirring, life awakening, leaves invisible but soon to come. Every early delicate hue of field and garden and wood beamed through skein upon skein of weaving exhalations. On either side the constantly straight
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; PART FIRST; IN THE FOO~rSTEPS OF THE HUN; PAGE; I F ACES AND A SCAR 3; II VICTIMS VARIOUS 6; III THE FRAGMENTS THAT REMAIN-I 11; IV LIFE FLICKERING 22; V AN INN OF THE SOUL 25; VI THE FRAGMENTS THAT REMAIN-2 42; VII SOME PEACE CONFERENCES 72; VIII LE PETIT Duc 87; IX KANSAS ON AN ISLAND 97; X A GLIMPSE OF THE POILU 109; XI TRANSFUSION FROM AMERICA 116; XII LUDENDORFF'S POCKET 125; XIII THE GREAT SHRINE 136; XIV THE TOWERS IN THE NIGHT 151; XV UPLIFT 157; XVI CHEMIN DE FER DE L'EsT 174; XVII BAR-LE-Duc 190; XVIII ALONG THE SACRED WAY 197; XIX WHERE"V E SLEPT "V ELL ?????????? 217; XX THE COOK AND THE DOUGHBOY 227; XXI LAST LAP TO THE ARMISTICE 234; -XXII VERDUN 267; x TABLE OF CONTENTS; PART SECOND; AFTER TWO YEARS; PAGE; XXIII Or,D ACQUAINTANCE ????????? 281; XXIV OVER THE SPILLED MILK ?? 295; XXV By THEIR FRUITS« less