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...nd bewildered by guides, innkeepers, and horse-owners, at this otherwise delightful place, as to become undesirous of further travel. Nor do invalids from distant parts frequent Vernet....

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...lightful place, as to become undesirous of further travel. Nor do invalids from distant parts frequent Vernet. People of fashion go to the Eaux Bonnes... ...ous of further travel. Nor do invalids from distant parts frequent Vernet. People of fashion go to the Eaux Bonnes and to Luchon, and people who are r... ...e meets crowds of Parisians, and the daughters and wives of rich merchants from Bordeaux, with an admixture, now by no means inconsiderable, of Englis... ...truly, at spots in the close vicinity of these famous moun- tain entrances from France into Spain, one can make com- parisons with Switzerland, Northe... ...almost entirely from towns not very far distant, from Perpignan, Narbonne, Carcassonne, and Bezieres, and the baths were not therefore famous, expensi... ... of the earth directly into the baths. There was accommodation for seventy people, and during the summer and autumn months the place was always full. ... ...thought of no matrimony for her- self, thought much of matrimony for other people; and over most of those cups of evening coffee and cognac a matrimon...

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...left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intima... ...one rainy morning in mid-September, for the charming little city of Tours, from which point it seemed possible to make a variety of fruit- ful excursi... ...of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view of its course which you get from the battlements and terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from t... ...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ..., rising straight through the building, with two courses of steps, so that people may ascend and descend without meeting. This staircase is a truly ma... ...of Toulouse. 108 A Little Tour in France XXII. I SPENT but a few hours at Carcassonne; but those hours had a rounded felicity, and I cannot do better... ...nd technical lore even of the most general sort are completely absent. For Carcassonne is moving, beyond a doubt; and the trav- eller who, in the cour... ...noon before him. When I say the town, I mean the towns; there being two at Carcassonne, perfectly distinct, and each with excellent claims to the titl...

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...ry to the proverbial pov- erty of hidalgos. Coming, light-footed, to Paris from the department of the Eastern Pyrenees, with the sum of eleven francs ... ...stigris, Schinner’s pupil, one of the heroes of “ A Start in Life” (Scenes from Private Life), and his brief apparitions in other Scenes. In 1845, thi... ...an illustrious man, he owns a charming house in the rue de Berlin, not far from the hotel de Brambourg, where his friend Brideau lives, and quite clos... ...tist takes his violon- cello, and show you how it is played,—in short, how people amuse themselves in Paris.” “It is a kaleidoscope with a circumferen... ...e a lower depth still?” asked Bixiou. “Yes, monsieur,” said the spy. “Some people give us infor- mation without knowing they do so, and without gettin... ... you stay in such a business!” cried the virtuous Gazonal. “It is amusing! People may cry up the pleasures of hunting and fishing as much as they like... ...to have King Louis-Philippe on his throne. Forgive his ambition, he’s from Carcassonne. One morning there entered to him a young rustic of his parts, ...

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...ed by the size of his tomes. The story of Orthon is almost verbally copied from him, and bears a curious resemblance to various German legends— such a... ...e interruption, “I told him that I should not have thought of one exempted from feudal service in the camp, by our noble Knight, being deficient in hi... ... will be but a bright dream to last for a moment. He cannot long be spared from the Prince’s side.” “You must go with him, then, sister, and see how I... ...em; while far away to the east, among higher hills, lay the French town of Carcassonne, a white mass, just discernible by the light of the setting sun... ...e trai- torous villains send off T ristan de la Fleche to bear the news to Carcassonne? We shall have the butcher of Bretagne at our throats before an... ...elf; for it is true as the legends of the saints, that T ristan is gone to Carcassonne, riding full speed on the Knight’s own black charger!” The news... ...urtyard, where they found warders placed, to keep back the dense throng of people. At the mention of Sir Eustace’s name they readily and respect- full...

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...sible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart...

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...out them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of th... ...llows. I don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce ... ...a provided yearly winter quar- ters for us, and Nauheim always received us from July to Septem- ber. You will gather from this statement that one of u... ... from this statement that one of us had, as the saying is, a “heart”, and, from the statement that my wife is dead, that she was the sufferer. Captain... ...th, the two months or so were only just enough to keep poor Florence alive from year to year. The reason for his heart was, approximately, polo, or to... ...ing more particularly what in England it is the custom to call “quite good people”. They were descended, as you will probably expect, from the Ashburn... ...lberg, not to Hamelin, not to Verona, not to Mont Majour—not so much as to Carcassonne itself. We talked of it, of course, but I guess Florence got al... ...ut her or groaned; I just wanted to marry her as some people want to go to Carcassonne. Do you understand the feeling—the sort of feeling that you mus...

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...y that was the mess hall. Chins down, chests out, legs twitching and tired from the afternoon’s drilling, the company stood at atten- tion. Each man s... ...s where violet arc lamps al- ready contested the faint afterglow, drooping from their iron stalks far above the recently planted saplings of the avenu... ...cky, they would have seen a liner come in through the Golden Gate, growing from a blur of light to a huge moving brilliance, like the front of a high-... ...od friend who’s a kike.” They were coming out of the movies in a stream of people in which the blackish clothes of factory-hands predominated. “I came... ...selli, “everything’s awful pretty-like. Picturesque, they call it. And the people wears peasant costumes … . I had an uncle who used to tell me about ... ...He had seen peoople make gestures like that in the movies, stout dignified people in evening suits. The president of the Company that owned the optica... ...word now. I’ve just had two weeks in the Pyrenees. Nimes, Arles, Les Baux, Carcassonne, Perpignan, Lourdes, Gavarnie, T oulouse! What do you think of ...