Tatterdemalion
Book Description
Her predilection for thin Frendi came from childish recollections of school-days in Paris, and a hasty removal thence by her father during the revolutio Dof 48, of later travels as a Uttle maiden, 1diligence, to Pau and the then undiscovered Pyrenees, to a Montpellier and a Nice as yet unspoiled. Unto her seventy-eighth year, her French accent had remained imruffled, her soul in love with French o...
MoreHer predilection for thin Frendi came from childish recollections of school-days in Paris, and a hasty removal thence by her father during the revolutio Dof 48, of later travels as a Uttle maiden, 1diligence, to Pau and the then undiscovered Pyrenees, to a Montpellier and a Nice as yet unspoiled. Unto her seventy-eighth year, her French accent had remained imruffled, her soul in love with French oves and dresses; and her face had the pale, unwiinkled, slightly aquiline perfection of the French marquise type it may, perh)s, be doubted whether any French marquise ever looked the part so perfectly. How it came about that she had settled down in a southern French town, in the summer of 1914, only her roving spirit knew. She had been a widow ten years, which she had passed in the quest of perfection; all her life EJ ie had been hatmted by that iostinct, half-emothered in ministering to her husband, children, and establishments in London and the country.
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