The Daltons; Or, Three Roads In Life. Volume I (of II)
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By Charles James Lever
8 Sep, 2020
FROM THE PREFACE.........IF the original conception of this tale was owing to the story of an old and valued schoolfellow who took service in Austria and rose to rank and honors there, all the rest was purely fictitious. My friend had made a deep imp
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FROM THE PREFACE.........IF the original conception of this tale was owing to the story of an old and valued schoolfellow who took service in Austria and rose to rank and honors there, all the rest was purely fictitious. My friend had made a deep impression on my mind by his narratives of that strange life, wherein, in the very midst of our modern civilization, an old-world tradition still has its influence, making the army of to-day the veritable sons and descendants of those who grouped around the bivouac fires in Wallenstein's camp. Of that more than Oriental submission that graduated deference to military rank that chivalrous devotion to the "Kaiser" whicli enter into the soldier heart of Austria, I have been unable to reproduce any but the very faintest outlines, and yet these were the traits which, pervaded all my friend's stories and gave them character and distinctiveness. Less
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