ng a walker about a housewherever he goes. In the streets—roughly pavedserpentine thoroughfares—loll brown-faced youthsand dark-eyed maidens, rugged old men, wrinkledwomen, and aggressively grubby urchins, as thoughthere were little else in the wide world to do butblink In the sun and ruminate upon… … OLD WASHING HOUSES, RENNES FROM A DRAWING BY G H LENFESTEY lay patrons, there is nevertheless an indescribablecharm and freshness about la ville aiix vieiks rues,as Victor Hugo called it. Time cannot wither norcustom stale the infinite variety of its heavily gabled,rickety old houses, sheltered by…
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