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Sons of the Soil

CHAPTER X
19/25

Michaud told me all about Dalmatia, for he was there.
Niseron, being so handsome a man, captivated a Montenegrin girl of Zahara among the mountains, who was not averse to the French garrison.
This lost her the good-will of her compatriots, and life in her own town became impossible after the departure of the French.

Zena Kropoli, called in derision the Frenchwoman, followed the artillery, and came to France after the peace.

Auguste Niseron asked permission to marry her; but the poor woman died at Vincennes in January, 1810, after giving birth to a daughter, our Genevieve.

The papers necessary to make the marriage legal arrived a few days later.

Auguste Niseron then wrote to his father to come and take the child, with a wetnurse he had got from its own country; and it was lucky he did, for he was killed soon after by the bursting of a shell at Montereau.


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