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194 {SIX WEEKS IJST LA CHERE PETITE BKET...
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« — It Was Late In The Afternoon When We...
how sense ashamed in her "way Madame of viewing had matters been . , J ustine qui _showed te won great our hearts good ..
Evidently she did not know the worst . of Madame ' s position , that terrible mortgage on the old estate , and that it must and would be sold unless she could £ 5000 during * the coming year ; which
pay , as far as she , Madame , was concerned , was an utter impossibility . How _Irene ' s face twitched with suppressed laughter as poor
Justine said Madame had said the tapestry and the blue damask and the old candlesticks must be sold next week , and that she ,
them Justine all , , knew as he that had horrid done every _notazre thing Monsieur else . " Chauvin Oh ! it is _wotdd Monsieur buy
Chauvin , is it , who has Madame in his hands ? _" said Rene ; theix thanks turning to to his me investments he added , " in I hav a certain e that ' New man comp York B tel ank y in . ' my power
At dinner Madame de Keinec told ] Rene _aboiit her money difficulties and cried over the prospect of the young Rene Theodore ,
who was born to poverty , with the curse , as she said , of " magni- _> ncent traditions" which -would make his lot more bitter . Kene
was , as she thought , strangely unfeeling , and laughed at the idea of conjuring up troubles for the fat little periwinkle and -eater have . lost " Ah all , "
said the old lady , " you are an American wretch , heart sympath to y see with the the cedars sentiments cut down of y and our sure race , it will h before t wound the your year
is the out tears , slaug rained htered down they the mus old t b wrinkled e ; , and all cheeks the enoug moat . I , trees could too not ! " have and
borne it if I had been Rene , but he did , only turning away to hide his emotion .
. Madame de Keinec had been a woman of great endowments , both moral and physical ; courageous and beautiful ; and by her own
accounts of the part she played as a . girl when the chateau was b and esie been ged , she more mus of t hav a heroine e shared than the Madame bloody excitement de la Jtochejacquelin of the time _^ .
She assured us she throw showers of wood ashes and boiling water from the top of the square tower , into the eyes of them the attacking down * :
in [ they Blues her halted , wrist while a where her little father , a blinded bullet and hit and brothers her bewildered as fired she imprudentl . and She shot showed y exposed us a scai her as _~ :
hand The above eveni the n parapet was sen wall t as of the t roof were . sitting round the great
chimney , in which g burnt p a few pine logs , for , the old lady felt it cold , thoug of the h wars it was in the Xia usu Vendee al June and weather X < a , _JBretagiie —and in listening ; she spoke to her with stories the
fire of an ardent partizan and with undoubting faith . She did not seem to know that there was any other family but tlie Bourbon with , or
any ot _^ Ler religion but the Catholic ; she regarded England _, horror , and thought that all the discoveries of modern world science in which were
inventions of the devil to bind men fast to this * ; ' "W ' ' * - •'' ¦¦ * ¦ »
194 {Six Weeks Ijst La Chere Petite Bket...
194 { SIX WEEKS _IJST LA _CHERE _PETITE _BKETAGO _TE _*
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/50/
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