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The châteaux of Touraine (1906)

Lansdale, Maria Hornor, b. 1860, Guérin, Jules Vallée, 1866-1946, Mills, Harold Palmer. fmo · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 340

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t it. Everyone implored her not to think of doing anything so dan-gerous, they pointed out how much time had already been lost,and that a moments delay would now probably mean failure.But the Queen was obdurate—go on without her package shewould not. Accordingly, two of the grooms were sent backto… … • »:,M^^ xKl .-L- BLOIS mounted, and brought to the Queen. She was, as it turned out,justified in persisting in this case, for the missing bundle con-tained jewels to the value of a hundred thousand crowns, whichwere, in fact, all that the conspirators had to depend upon topay the expenses of the…

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