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SIX WEEKS IK LA CBCEBE PETITE HRETAGKNE....
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« — It Was Late In The Afternoon When We...
sentiment I was more inclined to agree with , her than Eene was . She had never set foot in ja railway or steam-boat , and swore she
never would . "While she talkedher servants Jeanne and Justine sat spinning *
, in the room , but a little apart , taking * with absolute belief every word she uttered as gospel truth . h
quick Loyal and , devout sudden , in hosp temper itable , , Madame utterly la ' unselfish Comtesse , , and in her kind 91 , st thoug year , made still an impression of a most queenly woman , and I
understood and with why the Rene determination had come across of giving the world her last to days see her that once happ more iness , wished her
which he had it in his power to bestow . He knew she and daug he hter knew , the she nun , wished to be able to keep to give the something old estate to in her the communit family , and y ,
above all to restore the chapel and enlarge it for the benefit of her poor twent neighbours men . had So come respected to the was chateau the , offering family that their more labour than for poor
nothing y if the materials could be found . Rene and I saw these poor people , who told us they were strong which ly convinced at of the a back certain of
holiness in the ruin , and also in a well was the them chapel to reinstate , under the this exterior laceso wall dear , and to they their begged fathers of , in us to its hel old p p
, beauty During , and the dedicat first e week it again I spent to its with old Madame uses . de Keinec I heard
the strange cry three times distinctly , and Rene saw something' ; it something was long so before dreadful I could that induce he got up him left to his say room what , and but did it was not
, , , return until daybreak . I never dared ask for more particulars than I already knew of the child ' s cry—that it was supposed hus by
band the famil who y to was be cruell one of y guillotined the brothers with of said Madam an he elder had e de sister Keinec iven when ' s shriek he
their was at Nantes onl chateau y tw just elve at as the years the same _, blade of instant age fe . ll , It , which althoug was was h it heard was 30 by g miles his famil a distant y at . Francisco
Rene had lived for years in New York and in San in among the traditions the newest of of his new old ideas home , yet and he the returned host was and to believed him as real still g
an inhabita . nt of the old chateau as , his great aunt herself . Though which thrilled I by have the promised strange never cry , and to tell impressed the particulars by Rene ' s while recital he , of is
living other , than I cannot bats say , owls I felt , frogs certain , str that ange the noises ghosts of of wind the memories castle in emp were ty of _> ¦ chambersmiasmas from the moatand the ever present
bloody deeds , and evil times , accursed , spirits more or less tangible according to the sensibility of the human creature .
I must pass over the week spent in visiting our friends and neighbours , and describe our last days at the chateau . 2 p
Six Weeks Ik La Cbcebe Petite Hretagkne....
SIX WEEKS IK LA _CBCEBE PETITE HRETAGKNE . 195
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/51/
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