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196 SIX WEEKS IN LA CHERE PETITE BRETAGN...
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« — It Was Late In The Afternoon When We...
It was now July , iiot and lovely weather , and the noble old lady seemed to . revive under the genial influence walked into of the Rene lil ' s loving
reverence and there . had One her day chair with broug his hel h p t she to her . Justine came y- and _garden sat , threw himself the ground looking at the
two were at her women a feet , and before in Rene a him icture with while a queer the amused on in rather expression a low voice , as if began they y
the eternal group discussion p about , Honore , and whether he would be lucky or not in drawing . Justine this said would she not had doand £ 4 : saved their , faces and
became Madame overcas said she t had and I £ 20 sa , w but _! Rene could not stand , it any longer , and I knew very , well what he was going to do , for much he must had been
ha pre ve pared ? " and for pulling this denouemen out his purse t . H with e said bri , g " ht How new Napoleons in it , he threw them one by one into Justine * s lapsaying" They are for
, , y when our ddt he , is Justine drawn , — or that if you is if like you it like better him you . " can Amid save the Honore wildest 3 fo ? i SeiSainte
exclamations of _JMon Dieu / Mon Dieit ! ! gneur / / / Vierge til 120 / J he went ling on in and her on lap , throwing Never the did glit I tering see such bits a of curious gold
un scene old lad of full exci were tement of y titude . Rene and was also . pleased distrust and : whence joyous did as the a boy money , the gra
comefor y Rene was ruined ? Was it his friend ' s doing ? and she looked , at with such a questioning lance that I was obliged to
me g was come not forward and that and it say was that he I who was had a poor been rat the , but generous —but—that friend Rene to
wrec me al k ways of , the , no Central t I to him America ; then , strange I told and her wonderful Rene ' s story to her after ears the , and their
so little used to the riches of Americans generous eccentricit So y I . made her understand that Ren 6 was richvery richand that
to jh . e her was so the because homeward he had risked from all to save the gold a human country , life . , that I , described terrible voyage
niht of stormthe cabin with its floor a mass of gold which few dared g to steal , I told her of some weighed down with their golden
R treasure ene ' s coura , sinking . and , and devotioii of others j in shor saved t I by told the her mere all that t plank strange ; of ge
his wreck tory of , the the very Central strangest America , wildest in 1857 , sad . dest of any shipwreck , the h Smiths
And I rapidly sketched the character of Luther Ralpon , left the great in his New lace York in the merchant possession , and of one then of told the her greatest R 6 ne fortunes was now in
p , Rene America about The ' s the old no . ble lad coura y . was she ge expressed , astonished and repeatedl herself and deli strangel aske ghted d me at " the I hope . t recital ails it , will but of
. not make him money a heretic / ' was her first expression y . . Then Rene
196 Six Weeks In La Chere Petite Bretagn...
196 SIX WEEKS IN LA CHERE PETITE BRETAGNE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/52/
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