The Slavs of the war zone . Ivi\er Nartiita, In the Valley of the Narenta : Bosnia—Herzegovina. [To face page 44. CHAPTER IV POLISH MEMORIES Russian Retreat in Poland—Desperate Fighting on the EasternFront. Out in the streets London pursues its normal self-complacent way. Entering a restaurant, one of a group, as theyseat themselves, ventures a remark that Poland is now entirelyin the hands of the enemy. Hearing the observation, a swiftflash of passionate, burning fury gleams for an instant in thetragic, dark eyes of a girl at the next table. Then the lids falland the young face becom
The Slavs of the war zone . Ivi\er Nartiita, In the Valley of the Narenta : Bosnia—Herzegovina. [To face page 44. CHAPTER IV POLISH MEMORIES Russian Retreat in Poland—Desperate Fighting on the EasternFront. Out in the streets London pursues its normal self-complacent way. Entering a restaurant, one of a group, as theyseat themselves, ventures a remark that Poland is now entirelyin the hands of the enemy. Hearing the observation, a swiftflash of passionate, burning fury gleams for an instant in thetragic, dark eyes of a girl at the next table. Then the lids falland the young face becomes still, colourless as marble. A yearago she had a home where the corn-fields are rich, and the forestsare dense enough to afford a last shelter to wild bison. Herfather was a Polish nobleman, a prominent and wealthy memberof the Szlach,ta,^ a class not to be confused with the past tense, when referring to both home and parentage, isused because to-day neither the one nor the other exist, bothhaving been swept away in the awful
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