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Deaths gentleman, similarly circumstanced, opens the other door.html">door and also jumps
farther forward.
I was about to answer him, and pretty sharply, too, for I hail from the
one another in the face like two lions over a single sheep, and suddenly
good fellow Oscar, whom I had not seen for ten years, and who is a very
shrugged his shoulders, unable to understand it all. The two porters,
shoulder. We had the luggage put on the cab and drove off to the Hotel
first moments of expansion. "Don't you live.html">live in Paris?"
"I live in it as little as possible and have just come up from Les
which I pass a great deal of the year. Oh! it is not a chateau; it is
it. The country around is fresh and green, a clear little river flows
the background, a spreading valley, a steeple and its weather-cock on the
grumble? My wife.html">wife makes exquisite pastry, which is very agreeable to me
married. My dear fellow, I came across an angel, and I rightly thought
want to introduce you to my wife and to show you my little place. When
couple of cigars. It is settled, then--I am going back to-morrow morning
down my address on it."
All this was said so cordially that I could not resist my friend's
old companion haunting me, I felt a strong desire to take a peep at his
this steeple, beside all which he was so happy.
I reached Les Roches at about six in the evening and was charmed at the
buried in the trees; irregularly built, but charmingly picturesque. It
blackened mansard roofs with their rococo weather-cocks, to the bay
over the door, was in keeping. Over the thick tiles of the somewhat
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