Excerpt from The White Flame of France Who of us has not at some time stood in a crowded railway station, or on some great street through which pours the epic Of a nation, and been struck with certain wonder that all these people should be nothing to him, nor he to them, that these people know sorrow and love, suffering and remorse and peace and hope, like himself, but they are eternally strangers to him, are already flowing away from him forever. 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.