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You haf' a book printed in ze French feefty marks you must pay!" He waived his cigarette, as if it might have been a deadly sword, and hurled it over the rail. "After Germany took Alsace-Lorraine away from France," said Tom, unmoved, "and began treating the French people that way, I should think lots of 'em would have moved to France." "Many yess; but some, no. My pappa had a veenyard.
"You will drink zhust a leetle yess?" said the girl prettily. "It is make in our own veenyard." So the boys sipped a little of the wine and found it grateful to their weary bodies and overwrought nerves. "Now you can tell us of Armand," she said eagerly. Often during Tom's simple story she stole to the window and, opening the blind slightly, looked fearfully along the dark, quiet road.
Many years ziss veenyard is owned by my people my anceestors. Even ze village is name for my family Lateur. You know ze Franco-Prussian War when Zhermany take Alsace-Lorraine yess?" "Yes," said Tom. "My pappa fight for France. Hees arm he lose. When it is over and Alsace is lost, he haf' lost more than hees arm. Hees spirit! Where can he go? Away from ze veenyard? Here he hass lived always."
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