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قراءة كتاب A Song of a Single Note: A Love Story
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Song of a Single Note, by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Title: A Song of a Single Note
A Love Story
Author: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Release Date: February 22, 2011 [eBook #35358]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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![A SONG OF A SINGLE NOTE A LOVE STORY By AMELIA E. BARR Author of "The Bow of Orange Ribbon," "The Maid of Maiden Lane," etc. [Decoration] New York DODD, MEAD & COMPANY 1902](@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@35358@35358-h@images@002.png "A SONG OF A SINGLE NOTE A LOVE STORY By AMELIA E. BARR Author of \"The Bow of Orange Ribbon,\" \"The Maid of Maiden Lane,\" etc. [Decoration] New York DODD, MEAD & COMPANY 1902")
Copyright, 1902,
By Dodd, Mead & Company.
First Edition published October, 1902.
THE BURR PRINTING HOUSE,
NEW YORK.
TO
MY FRIEND,
DR. STEPHEN DECATUR HARRISON:
An American who loves his country "Right or Wrong,"
And who always believes she is "Right,"
This Novel
IS WITH MUCH ESTEEM
DEDICATED.
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
- Red or Blue Ribbons 1
- The Fair and the Brave 21
- Life in the Captive City 50
- A Song of a Single Note 75
- Love's Sweet Dream 103
- The Intercepted Message 134
- The Price of Harry's Life 160
- The Help of Jacob Cohen 185
- The Turn of the Tide 211
- Maria Goes to London 253
- The Question of Marriage 283
- Love and Victory 306
List of Illustrations
PAGE
- The Song of a Single Note—Frontispiece.
- Maria lay dressed upon her bedfacing 100
- The drummers and fifers in front did not see himfacing 208
- He caused the small boat to put him on shorefacing 320
PROLOGUE.
Lovers still will sigh and kneel;
Freedom sets her trumpets ringing
To the clash of smiting steel."
So I weave of love and glory,
Homely toil, and martial show,
Fair romance from the grand story
Lived a century ago.
A Song of a Single Note
CHAPTER I.
RED OR BLUE RIBBONS.
It was the fourth year of the captivity of New York, and the beleaguered city, in spite of military pomp and display, could not hide the desolations incident to her warlike occupation. The beautiful trees and groves which once shaded her streets and adorned her suburbs had been cut down by the army sappers; her gardens and lawns upturned for entrenchments and indented by artillery wheels; and some of the best parts of the city blackened and mutilated by fire. Her churches had been turned into prisons and hospitals, and were centres of indescribable suffering and poisonous infection; while over the burnt district there had sprung up a town of tents inhabited by criminals and by miserable wretches whom starvation and despair had turned into highwaymen.
But these conditions were the work of man. Nature still lavished upon the captive city a glory of sunshine and blue skies, and winds, full of the freshness and sparkle of the great sea, blew through all her sickly streets. Wherever the gardens had not been destroyed, there