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BY EDITH WHARTON
  • A SON AT THE FRONT
  • THE GREATER INCLINATION
  • THE TOUCHSTONE
  • CRUCIAL INSTANCES
  • THE VALLEY OF DECISION
  • SANCTUARY
  • THE DESCENT OF MAN
  • THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
  • THE FRUIT OF THE TREE
  • THE HERMIT AND THE WILD WOMAN
  • TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTS
  • ETHAN FROME
  • THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
  • XINGU
  • IN MOROCCO
  • FIGHTING FRANCE
  • ITALIAN BACKGROUNDS
  • A MOTOR FLIGHT THROUGH FRANCE
  • ARTEMIS TO ACTÆON
  • THE DECORATION OF HOUSES
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
A SON AT THE FRONT
BY
EDITH WHARTON
Something veil’d and abstracted is often a part of the manners of these beings.—Walt Whitman
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
MCMXXIII
Copyright, 1922, 1923, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Printed in the United States of America
Published September, 1923
IN MEMORY
OF
RONALD SIMMONS
BOOK I
A SON AT THE FRONT
3
I
John Campton, the American portrait-painter,stood in his bare studio in Montmartre at the endof a summer afternoon contemplating a battered calendarthat hung against the wall.
The calendar marked July 30, 1914.
Campton looked at this date with a gaze of unmixedsatisfaction. His son, his only boy, who was comingfrom America, must have landed in England that morning,and after a brief halt in London would join himthe next evening in Paris. To bring the moment nearer,Campton, smiling at his weakness, tore off the leafand uncovered the 31. Then, leaning in the window,he looked out over his untidy scrap of garden at thesilver-grey sea of Paris spreading mistily below him.
A number of visitors had passed through the studiothat day. After years of obscurity Campton had beenprojected into the light—or perhaps only into the limelight—byhis portrait of his                         
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