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    SIX WEEKS IN IA CHEBE PETITE BRETAGNS. 1...

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    « — It Was Late In The Afternoon When We...

    with no saddle , very like Joan of Arc , ) we stopped at the cottage of wooden-shoe makerThe ceiling and the walls were all covered

    a . ¦ with wooden shoes ; we entered , and saw four or five healthy children eating raw periwinkles out of a big black iron pot , and

    t throwing hree from the the shells mass , on dirtier the floor and . blacker Justine than picke the d out rest , one and Theodor boy said of ,

    roar de " H Houx ere at , being messieurs , " whereupon ar , ated this the from is the small his little Breton periwinkles Comt gave e Eugene . a He most was Rene tremendous certainly a e

    but fine I boy saw , as Rene well sep was as we quite could shocke jud d ge to throug see his h the little gloom nephew and so dirt un- ,

    cared-for . The foster-mother , who had had the little fellow since his which

    was mother more ' s death like , an was immense lying ill bookcase in the great than family other oak , bed bed , out of any dis

    course Brittany on . the Rene merits went of up her to little her , foster and - she son poured and begged out a Rene long not

    to let Madame take him away until he was , six , as all the little De Keinecs and De Houxs had stayed with their foster-mothers

    until five , and he , poor little orphan , would be so dull with his old grandmother and no little brothers and he sisters should . Rene wish , it the seemed little

    to me , rather damped her by saying fellow irits to were go raised to his b grandmother the siht of very the soon handsome , but the bit poor of mother gold he ' s y g

    left sp on her patchwork counterpane . Rene also asked her to sell him some beautiful old white six-sided [ French china plateswhich

    , she had received as a present from his mother , and as they were to into the " old family" again , and what he offered was

    tempting go , she gladly promised the whole set . "We three mounted again , and all the way home , Justine talked

    to us of her Honore , who was , according to her , the " plus brave gargon de toute la Bretagne . " She told at us school how , when she ht was she a

    little had been girl , called and she had to receive done something slaps in the hand very from naug the master y , ' s up out her little hand shonl

    rulerand how each time she put ( e was y blow six ) another , and that little was han Honore d darted 'swho out stood above behind hers her and and received so on the for ;

    Honore troubles all the , ten , and She years there tol since d was _iis , the she nothing brave meant , in (/ argon the to cut world had off always she all her would taken hair not and all do her sell for

    . it to add to the sum Madame was trying to scrape together to buy off Honore if he should be drawn ; whereujpon Rene hastily

    interrupted her , and asked her not to cut it until after he had spoken to his aunt . Justine promised , and seemed to look upon

    Rone as the natural head of the family , to be obeyed in all things . She told him all Madame ' s troubles for moneyand how

    Made-, moiselle Marthe had gone into a convent without any " d 6 t" and

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    Six Weeks In Ia Chebe Petite Bretagns. 1...

    SIX WEEKS IN _IA CHEBE PETITE BRETAGNS . 193

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 193, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/49/