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The real Latin quarter (1901)

Smith, Frank Berkeley, 1869- · New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co. · leaf 35

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isBulliev night and she is going to the ballwith two friends of her cousin. In the twilight, and from my studio win-dow the swallows, like black cinders againstthe yellow sky, dart and swoop above theforest of chimney-pots and tiled and gabledroofs. 27 It is the hour to dine, and with thisthought… … CHAPTER II THE BOULEVARD ST. MICHEL ROM the Place St.Michel, this ever gayand crowded boule-vard ascends a longincline, up which thetired horses tug atthe traces of the fia-cres, and the bigdouble-decked steamtrams crawl, untilthey reach the Luxembourg Gardens,—and so on a level road as far as…

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