The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - The Last Drummer Boy

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Series: New York Weekly v. 52 no. 18 — page 5
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: New York Weekly, v. LII, no. 18, February 20, 1897 (Issue)
Author: EsparbeĢ€s, Georges D', 1864-
Date: February 20, 1897
First Sentence: After the passage of the Beresina by Marshal Victor, who on the evening of the 28th of November, 1812, had lost so heavily in attacking the bridges, the fragments of the French Army, having twice dispersed the Russian bands, were resting for a little in the suburbs of Smorgoni.
Last Sentence: The drummer continued through the plain to beat his drum; the pitiful battalion followed him; and as if muffled in funereal crape, the rolling of the drum reverberated against the rigid walls of that imperial soul; already distant, becoming vaguer and vaguer, dying upon the ear, it seemed to the emperor, like the tolling of brazen tongues, announcing a foregone conclusion, the supreme alarm, the irremediable knell of his puissant armies.

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