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21st century BC(22nd century BC - 21st century BC - 20th century BC - other centuries)(4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC) Events:
Significant persons: Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions:
the midst of a kind of forest of wooden stakes, that came as high as our
single light on the horizon. We wandered about in this vineyard for
any limit, for we kept retracing our steps.
"At length Boivin fell against a stake that tore his cheek and he
long and resounding hallos, while I screamed 'Help! Help!' as loud as I
to keep up my courage.
"At last a belated peasant heard us and put us on our right road. I took
garden, the door opened suddenly and his wife appeared, a candle in her
since dark, she screamed, as she darted toward me:
"'Ah, scoundrel, I knew you would bring him back drunk!'
"My, how I made my escape, running all the way to the station, and as I
train was not due for half an hour.
"That is why I never married, and why I never go out of Paris."
Letore, who had just returned from a trip to Switzerland.
The Letore household had left nearly five weeks before. Madame Henriette
where some business required his attention, and had come to spend a few
Madame Roubere was reading in the twilight in an absent-minded way,
in a travelling cloak. And without any formal greeting, they clasped
give each other another hug. Then they talked about their health, about
jerking out hurried, broken sentences as they followed each other about,
was brought in, she scanned her sister's face, and was on the point of
other's appearance.
On her temples Madame Letore had two large locks of white hair. All the
each side of her head, ran, as it were, two silvery streams which were
nevertheless, only twenty-four years old, and this change had come on
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