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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 482

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nary. Whenhe was no longer young his servants had to button his clotheson the run. He spun and pirouetted continually, one handthrust in his pocket, his cap pulled over one ear, and alwayswhistling. His daughter, the Grande Mademoiselle, tells inher Memoirs of a visit she paid as a child to her… … CHAMBORD little girl arrived, called to her to come to him. As she flew upone flight her frolicsome parent ran down the other; puzzled,she gave chase only to find when she reached the bottom thathe was again at the top. Monsieur laughed heartily to seeme run so fast in the hope of catching him,…

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