Greifenstein
By F. Marion Crawford
29 Oct, 2019
Brief Extract: Poverty is too insignificant a word to describe the state in which the mother and daughter lived, and had lived for many years. They had no means of subsistence whatever beyond the pension accorded to the widow of Lieutenant von Sigmun
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Brief Extract: Poverty is too insignificant a word to describe the state in which the mother and daughter lived, and had lived for many years. They had no means of subsistence whatever beyond the pension accorded to the widow of Lieutenant von Sigmundskron, ‘fallen on the field of honour,’ as the official report had expressed it, in the murderous war with France. Less