Category: Historical Novels

The Spanish farm

Mottram, R. H. (Ralph Hale), 1883-1971; Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933 [Author of introduction, etc.]· 2 chapters· 54,012 words

A farmer stood watching a battalion of infantry filing into his pasture. A queerer mixture of humanity could not have been imagined. The farmer wore a Dutch cap, spoke Flemish by preference, but could only write French. His farm was called Ferme l’Espagnole--The Spanish Farm--...

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1. PART I

A farmer stood watching a battalion of infantry filing into his pasture. A queerer mixture of humanity could not have been imagined. The farmer wore a Dutch cap, spoke Flemish b...

2. PART II

Madeleine went to Amiens, but it hardly describes what happened to say that she went by herself without other companions than chance fellow-travelers, for, in her, there entered...