Excerpt from The Passing of the Old Order in Europe With these same thoughts ever persistent I went back to my home this foggy afternoon, and found there a tall soldier, a real giant of the Semenofi Imperial Guard regiment. He had come up to say farewell to his sister, a maid in the household, before returning to the front. He had been slightly wounded, but, after a quick recovery, was going back. He was in the midst of a story of the battlefield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.