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June 16June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining.
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Sometimes there was a scandal. Once a Belgian
suicide and the thing was hushed up, but dame! now that I know.html">know
and I revelled in my robes, my dancing, my new life.html">life of luxury!
"And then the war.html">war came. I was at Laeken, resting after a visit to
who came to my house, but I did not see how it could affect me,
assured me that, in a little while, the German army would be at
They were very elated and confident, these German friends of
city and a General quartered himself in my villa. It was he who
excusing myself; but all my life had been spent up to then in the
and admired by one who had the world at his feet. Parbleu! one
his headquarters. He was very epris with me, but you know his
vain and weak and arrogant as he is. But pardon! I was forgetting
susceptibilities..."
Desmond laughed drily.
"Madame," he said, "I hope I have preserved sufficient liberty of
sovereign. Most Germans have..."
"Alors," she broke in fiercely, her voice shaking with passion,
even enough decency of feeling to respect the troops of whom he
to the fighting to realize the blood and tears of this war. But
he did, within sound of the guns, with parties every night, women
fort! It awakened in me the love of country which lies dormant.
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