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SIX WEEKS IN I/A CHEUE PETITE BRETAGNE. ...
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« — It Was Late In The Afternoon When We...
for remembered sale , slowl them y drawn !—and by stopped great cream to listen -coloured to the oxen familiar — -how accent well of I
load the countryman We entered who the bargaine church d with where the we women had both for the made price our of first his
communion . and we stood silentl , y by the altar , both of us full of the the funeral same thoug , bassoon hts . As we came ing out the , we chant heard for the the deep dead notes . The of
accompany death solemn ' s-head procession and cross came -bones towards painted the church on one . side Black , and banners a radiant —a bierfamiliar faces
cross on the other—floated round the . Some ¦ were amongst the mourners le . Colonel " Q , ui porte-t ' wered on en terre bystander ? " asked
_Hen 6 e Another e . " Monsieur ' said , c ' est friend and , I " rememb ans ered a the deceased . had been gone a nei , hbour my and friend ; of Eene ' s in the olden time . g
"Where we looked for the greetings of the living , the dead were carried out to meet us . This was a sad beginning to our visit . footand
Two hours in the railway , and then we started on , about ei It ght stood o ' clock on a in lain the of evening sandy arrived pasture at and the the Chateau only trees de Kei in
nec . p , si approache ght were its d , those the sun which slates ' s last grew a rays on ire fell the of on borders old the . steep The of roof its bare moat of w the alls . tower As stood we , making spg
cold and grey mossy ; the hollow window spaces showing the greyer sky p throug illars h showed them . where "We entered had been the wher a great outer gate court there ; , and the had moat the been useless was crossed draw stone
jumped in brid by the a ge roug . gate this " h Her moat brid posts e , ge " , pursued are s of aid p the lank _Kene b holes s y , the " made bullets my e once father by of the the used republicans Blues to " tell for a ; Eene us here he ' s - ,
famil blood blood y ; were hi and stories well every which -known , stone had royalists and been every told and tree to catholics him we saw by of the , the recalled purest " , "Whites to Breton " him in
his childhood y and had made impressions as strong , if not stronger , than * ' On the this events , tree of were his' own hung strange sixty- and five eventful Blues , who life . were taken by
one of our farmers and his men , asleep in the wine-press chamber . Les Blancs were quite equal to the Blues in cruelty , and slowl I can
crossed assure you the outer we gave court no and quarter entered nor under received a strong any . square " "We -towered y houseinto
gateway , which was now used as a pigeon-, a square court house , surrounded a third part by onl buildings y roofed . and Pacing habitable us , was and that the a dwelling solitary
in square the [ tower Revolution to the a ri sh ght ell ; the of strong rest was stone exactl walls y as , roofless it had . been Three left
times had the old , place been set on fire by the Blues—it is wonderful so much remains . towerand
Rene * hurried on to the arched door of tlie square , I
Six Weeks In I/A Cheue Petite Bretagne. ...
SIX WEEKS IN I / A CHEUE PETITE BRETAGNE . 189
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/45/
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