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Title: Children of the Market Place
Author: Edgar Lee Masters
Release Date: April 4, 2005 [eBook #15534]
Language: English
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CHILDREN OF THE MARKET PLACE
by
EDGAR LEE MASTERS
1922
TO GEORGE P. BRETT
CHAPTER I
I was born in London on the eighteenth of June, 1815. The battle of
Waterloo was being fought as I entered this world. Thousands were giving
up their lives at the moment that life was being bestowed upon me. My
father was in that great battle. Would he ever return? My mother was but
eighteen years of age. Anxiety for his safety, the exhaustion of giving
me life prostrated her delicate constitution. She died as I was being
born.
I have always kept her picture beside me.
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