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the Nazis to surrender Paris without any resistance, and that as a consequence the city would be spared from attack.

A blind terror of falling bombs seized the Rousseaux sisters as a result of the frightening stories. Although the farm lay almost hidden in the shelter of two hills, Anna, with the boys' help gathered heaps of branches and laid them on top of the farm roof as camouflage protection for the house.

At the end of June the stream of refugees suddenly halted. On the first of July divisions of German Panzers swept through the area.

Anna withdrew into herself in anguish and shame. Marguerite was speechless, and the paralyzed Louise kept up her meaningless moans, like a mad dog baying to the moon. Then Spring came. The fields waited. And Anna, answering their call, forgot herself in the mercy of work, the dull round of routine, while the shame of invasion swept over France.

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