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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
LA Grande Breteche

LA Grande Breteche

Marriage, Ellen
Bell, Clara
De Balzac, Honore

Paperback

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 151482227X
ISBN13: 9781514822272
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 4 2015
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Ah! madame, replied the doctor, I have some appalling stories in my collection. But each one has its proper hour in a conversation-you know the pretty jest recorded by Chamfort, and said to the Duc de Fronsac: 'Between your sally and the present moment lie ten bottles of champagne.' But it is two in the morning, and the story of Rosina has prepared us, said the mistress of the house. Tell us, Monsieur Bianchon! was the cry on every side. The obliging doctor bowed, and silence reigned. At about a hundred paces from Vendome, on the banks of the Loir, said he, stands an old brown house, crowned with very high roofs, and so completely isolated that there is nothing near it, not even a fetid tannery or a squalid tavern, such as are commonly seen outside small towns. In front of this house is a garden down to the river, where the box shrubs, formerly clipped close to edge the walks, now straggle at their own will. A few willows, rooted in the stream, have grown up quickly like an enclosing fence, and half hide the house. The wild plants we call weeds have clothed the bank with their beautiful luxuriance. The fruit-trees, neglected for these ten years past, no longer bear a crop, and their suckers have formed a thicket. The espaliers are like a copse. The paths, once graveled, are overgrown with purslane; but, to be accurate there is no trace of a path.

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