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  • They were called Delatour, but every one knew their history.

    A Soldier of the Legion 1889

  • "Let's see, the name of Frank's mother is Delatour -- why, what's the matter, Martel?" he added anxiously, as he saw the Frenchman turn white and start back at the mention of the name.

    Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive Homer Randall

  • At first Anne and I used to be afraid of blackmail, either from the Delatour woman (who went off at once, before she was really strong enough to travel) or from the doctor, who hurried her away as much for his sake as for hers, lest it should be found out by some neighbour that her boy had been changed for a girl.

    A Soldier of the Legion 1889

  • He thought of himself, and what he should do with life after his mission was finished; whether he should take the name of Delatour, which was rightfully his, or choose a new one; yet suddenly, in the midst of some pressing question, he would forget to search for the answer, as Sanda

    A Soldier of the Legion 1889

  • But Madame lost interest in life when she lost Delatour -- a fine fellow, well spoken of, though never strong since some fever he had contracted in the far South.

    A Soldier of the Legion 1889

  • The first thing he had heard was four or five years after, when he paid a visit to La Tour, and was told that Maxime Delatour had left the army and settled permanently in Algeria.

    A Soldier of the Legion 1889

  • Since then he had heard nothing of the Delatour family.

    A Soldier of the Legion 1889

  • Madame Delatour had sold her interest in the hotel to him, Anton Schreiber.

    A Soldier of the Legion 1889

  • It was from Madame Delatour, dated "Hotel Pension Delatour, Alger," asking guardedly if he would tell her where she might write to the American lady whose child had been born at the château.

    A Soldier of the Legion 1889

  • Delatour had added in a postscript that she and her husband were keeping

    A Soldier of the Legion 1889

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