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SIX WEEKS IN LA CHED&E PETITE BUETAGUSTE...
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« — It Was Late In The Afternoon When We...
stone de-lis su icture pported frames _^ y _^ which knig , formed hts in comp part of te the armour very " wall the o remained ld carved
tooand p were remarkably fresh and perfect . It was impossible to i t , ancien templa t te dignit all this and ruin beaut without althoug long h neither ing * to I reinstate nor iRene all held in
the s oinions which y this venerable y , house and dame remained to represen door remained p t . The to chapel tell wh was at it roofless had been , and . bu I crossed t a stone the crucifix moat by at the the
little all was drawbrid neglect ge , and which showed led the into povert the old y of stone the - mis walle tress d garden of the house ; here ;
the an served old strai to gardener fri ht ghten walk , so the with old most some tha cowardl t he fruit for y crows eviden the house , came tly useless . hobbling I passed , and alon him onl g y , g
and behind a yew hedge which had once been a dipt wall of green , the bu garden t now last . Unshorn remains This lily of spread -garden ancient but was di over gni evidentl ty the and weed y stat the y pa e pride th and , I found t of tha the t time house lily , -
day— dis almos tinct t ni and ght , the —the farthest effect of lost troops in and the troops lo , om of was lilies sin , the gularl near y g
this beau ones tiful , of almos lilies t supernatural and it seemed ; it to was spread too dark out to to the , see dark the limits horizon of .
I mysel stood space f in struck those by fields the , strangeness of trackless of lilies the impression where the , almos Saints t b walk elieving in
converse 13 ut I wi had th not our long Lady stood of Mercies thus when . I heard a low cry like that
foo of t some for bird I knew in pain this ; was in sp the ite child of myself ' s cry I which trembled Hene from had head told me to
haun , ted the old Chateau . I lad to hasten back to the housewhere I found dinner was
on the tab g leand my hostess and Kane awaiting , my return , in a tapestry room where , dou , the bled large the gloom curtains of and evening of fleurs dark . de blu A li e heavy damask for branc , aments and hed the silver tood old
candlestickwith wild boars --s orn , s in all the home centre - , of and the of table home ; this - , and flax the _exqiiisite were the linen only which articles was of
lthe spun dinner-service was grown of the commonest , earthenware , and there uxury were , many signs of poverty in their contrasts with little
things The . old ladasked Rene about his success in his American :
voyages to th , at and disastrous he y , much wreck to my of astonishment the Central , told Amer her ica his when adventures he lost
up short all he , and had did marve not llous allude ly gained to his in gallant California conduct . There in he , savin mention he g stopped the the old
romantic New stopped York short gr merchant ati in tude his story ( at trul the , y and risk American I of saw his the ) life of old , nor the lad did y old was man left . with Re the n 6
impression that Hene returned poor as lie left the old country . I ,
Six Weeks In La Ched&E Petite Buetaguste...
SIX WEEKS IN LA CHED & E PETITE _BUETAGUSTE- 191
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/47/
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