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Dust Jacket Synopsis for THE
BIG BLUE SOLDIER by Grace Livingston Hill:
"The
Big Blue Soldier" is the story of Lyman Gage, just back from
France and discharged from the army. He is almost penniless,
homeless, and bitter against women, having learned that the girl
he was to have married is engaged to another man, and having
spent most of his money in paying back a loan from her father.
Wishing to get away from the city and attracted by the name, he
goes to Purling Brook and there meets Miss Marilla Chadwick, a
dear old lady, who, after making great preparations for the
return of her nephew from duty in Germany, learned by telegram
that he cannot visit her. Meeting Gage, she impulsively asks him
to take her nephew's place and impersonate him for the benefit of
a young neighbor, Mary Amber, who has helped her with the dinner
of welcome. Gage accepts, though he does not relish meeting the
girl. Mary, having seen the partly burned telegram, is suspicious
of Gage. what follows increases the man's bitterness and the
romance thus begun so strangely seems destined for the rocks.
Things are at the breaking point when a crisis, a desperate
illness and a happy surprise dissipate the fog of
misunderstanding, and the contempt and indifference which Mary
and Lyman have shown each other prove but the mask of love.
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