The Little Moment of Happiness
Auteur : Clarence Budington Kelland
Date de publication : Non disponible
Éditeur : Tulip City Publishing
Nombre de pages : 467
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Excerpt from The Little Moment of Happiness
They had not lifted into view suddenly, but had rather emerged from the east, solidifying slowly out of a slate-colored blur which to the eyes of unaccustomed voyagers might or might not have been land. There was no ebullition of spirits. The two thousand men and women aboard the vessel crowded to the rail and strained their eyes toward that land in which great events awaited them, for the most part in utter silence. Conversation failed. There was an impressiveness about the moment akin to the impressiveness of entering some great cathedral - there was awe! There, rising out of the east was France! France!