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  Marsena
  and Other Stories of the Wartime




               Marsena
  and Other Stories of the Wartime

                 BY
           HAROLD FREDERIC

              NEW YORK
       CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
                1894




         Copyright, 1894, by
       Charles Scribner's Sons

           TROW DIRECTORY
  PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
              NEW YORK




  TO MY FRIEND
  EDMUND JUDSON MOFFAT




CONTENTS


                                     PAGE

  _Marsena_,                            1

  _The War Widow_,                     97

  _The Eve of the Fourth_,            149

  _My Aunt Susan_,                    185




Marsena




MARSENA


I.

Marsena Pulford, what time the village of Octavius knew him, was a
slender and tall man, apparently skirting upon the thirties, with
sloping shoulders and a romantic aspect