# The Conscript Mother

Author: Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67218

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Conscript+Mother+Herrick&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

WHEN I met the signora at the tram station that May morning she was evidently troubled about something which was only partly explained by her murmured excuse, “a sleepless night.” We were to cross the Campagna to one of the little towns in the Albanian hills, where young Maironi was temporarily stationed with his regiment. If we had good luck and happened upon an indulgent officer, the mother might get sight of her boy for a few minutes. All the way over the flowering Campagna, with the blue hills swimming on the horizon before us, the signora was unusually taciturn, seemingly indifferent to the beauty of the day, and the wonderful charm of the Italian spring, to which she was always so l...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscript-mother-67218/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscript-mother-67218/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-conscript-mother-67218/chapters/1/index.md)