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I know there are some who cannot sympathise with such sentiments of limitation; I know there are some who would feel no touch of the heroic tenderness if some day a young man, with red hair, large ears, and his mother's lozenges in his pocket, were found dead in uniform in the passes of the Vosges.
A portion only of this tract, to which belongs the central mass of the Vosges and the Black Forest, was lifted during the Silurian epoch, which also enlarged considerably Wales and Scotland, the Bohemian island, the island of Bretagne, and Scandinavia.
Still, his instructions were to make a stand, at all hazards, in the Vosges; and he now prepared to obey the orders not hoping for victory, but trusting in the natural courage of his men to enable him to draw them off without serious disaster.
This will be seen from the account of another excursion made with French friends living in Strasburg. It is a beautiful drive to Blaesheim, southwest of the city, in a direct line with the Vosges and Oberlin's country.
In these actions the French mountaineers were pitting their skill against the mountaineers from Bavaria. By midsummer the lines on both sides of the western front were an elaborate series of field fortifications. The shallow trenches of the preceding fall were practically things of the past. And these fortifications extended from the Vosges to the North Sea.
Amongst the forests on the Vosges Mountains were discovered long single and double walls, the course of which follows the crest of the ramparts overlooking the valley of the Zorn, between Lutzelbourg and Saverne. It would be merely fastidious to multiply instances, we will content ourselves with describing a few of the most interesting of these antique fortifications.
Lisbeth, well aware of this dreadful scourge of Parisian households, determined to manage Valerie's, promising her every assistance in the terrible scene when the two women had sworn to be like sisters. So she had brought from the depths of the Vosges a humble relation on her mother's side, a very pious and honest soul, who had been cook to the Bishop of Nancy.
The trench wall still lies for four hundred miles across the fair face of the country from the Vosges to the North Sea, and the invader rules some of her richest provinces, in all an area equal to something less than a tenth of the whole.
"I formerly lived at Leigoutte in the Vosges. My father's name was Jules, my mother's Louise, and my little sister Louison where is Louison?" At last a ray of reason broke from the disfigured eyes, and she whispered: "Jacques, my dear Jacques! I am Louise, your mother, and the wife of Jules Fougeres!"
At times, the forest was so thick that they could see no glimpse of the sky, and the trunks of the trees seemed to make a wall, all round them; then again, it would open, and they would obtain a glimpse over the country far away, rise beyond rise, to the plain of Champagne or if the view were behind, instead of in front of them they could see the tops of the highest range of the Vosges, rising hill above hill, and often wooded to the very summit the Donon, one of the highest points of the range, being immediately behind them.
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