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Chargement... The Belgian Twinspar Lucy Fitch Perkins
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The children clung to her, weeping, as she finished. "There, there," she said soothingly: "I had to tell you this so you would be ready to do your best and not despair, whatever might happen, but be sure, my lambs, nothing shall harm you if I can help it, and nothing shall separate us from one another if God so wills. Now, go to sleep!" Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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So begins the adventure. These are ordinary, but very sensible, children. They know where their mother went and follow her into town. The town is empty and they join the line of refugees heading vaguely toward Antwerp. On the way they meet people who help them: an old eel seller who shelters them and a young family who live on a canal boat and make their living transporting produce from farms to the city markets.
The Germans are not portrayed as monsters or caricatures. Bullies, yes, who had little patience with the civilian population, still dangerous but not men who cut off the hands of children.
If there is one flaw it is that the last two chapters are very sentimental. I confess I got a lump in my throat, but I also whimper when I read the last chapter of Black Beauty. The novel was written, I suspect, for American children to have a reason they could comprehend about why Papa, Uncle George, or Brother Ben was going off to fight in another country.
It worked surprisingly well and is still a good read. The book is available for free at Project Gutenberg. I listened to the free audio at Libervox. The links are below.
https://librivox.org/search?q=belgian%20twins&search_form=advanced
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3642 ( )