4/44 The sound of the guns grows louder." "So it does," said John, bending an ear--he had forgotten that a battle was raging somewhere, "but we're behind the French lines and it cannot touch us." "It was a wonderful victory. Our soldiers are the bravest in the world are they not, Mr.Scott ?" John smiled. They were still talking English. He liked to hear her piquant pronunciation of it, and he surmised too that the bravest of hearts beat in the bosom of this young girl whom war had suddenly made a woman. How could the sister of such a man as Lannes be otherwise than brave? |