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402 THE SOERGWS OF ESTELLE LAMAGE*
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¦* »¦ The Other Day I Walked With Madame...
These were the gardens of the chateau of M . de Bonneval , and thither we hastened , a melancholy remembrance of the old peasant
woman A shad cling y road ing * to passed us . in front of it , and standing upon a slope
was the chateau with its grey walls and moss-covered slate roofs _. Formerlit had been a lace of historic importance , but the greater
portion de Bonneval y of the of edifice the tim , which p e of Fran had cis been I ., the was abode dismantled of the , Marechal and the
massive walls of the outer court formed pleasant terraces rising above a modern flower garden which filled the ancient moat on three
sides of the chateau . On the fourth , which faced the road , lay the extensive farm buildings ; and one of the remaining round towers
belonging to the earliest portions of the chateau , with its peaked slate roof , its bright quaintly-shaped casements , looking forth from
ivy-covered wallsj extended into the farm-yard , and appeared as if tail inhabited lay sleep by the ing b in ailiff the or sunshine steward . upon A large a bench white among cat with milk a bush -pans y
ranged the to air autumn near sk to an on open their door , while home rooks to the hovered elm trees cawing behind in y way
the chateau sunny gardens . A glimpse of a portion of an old flower garden was series caug of parterres ht through with a cli a pped sun-dial archway and ; statue it was , and a square orange statel trees y
, caleche arranged "Whilst in observing long jolting formal these along line features the . road of and the old seated place within , a dirt it y somewhat one-horse
came , , man loudly dressed laughing in and fustian talking — with we her recognised companion the — young a handsome woman young whom
we had noticed grey in the cottage of the Holy Well . To our surprise , as they drove into the courtyard of the chateau , roadside hed
shower some children of stones , standing at the up back from of behind the ealeche the , cry - ing out ge :: , " flung Allez a -
vous-enMonsieur and Madame Bourreaux ; receive your recompense . " the The mouth whi , p appeared of the caliche vigorousl _^ but the y gesticulating urchins were beyond already the far wheel away from over
the stubble fields . " Depend upon it , " said we to each le other , " there is some curious
history " We connected will inquire with about these them peop from . " Colette , the Cure's housekeeper , " she knows all the affairs of the
observed Madame de M , " village village . Let contains us now within turn our it heroes steps and towards heroines Monsieur of many le strange Cure ' s .
histories Every " pursued my friend , " and whatever story Colette may have to relate , concerning the young couple we have seen , it will proearlin Monsieur le
b Cure ably ' not life be more About strange forty than years an agoin y a passage woody hollow near St .
s own . , Eloia little village five miles distant from this place , there lived a , childof five old
poor In the farmer early with spring a , wife when the onl violet y s were , a out boy , this child years Rene and
402 The Soergws Of Estelle Lamage*
402 THE SOERGWS OF ESTELLE LAMAGE _*
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 402, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/42/
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