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DELIGHTFUL SURPRISES.
This vicarage of Longueval was far from being a palace.

The same apartment on the ground floor served for dining and drawing-room, communicating directly with the kitchen by a door, which stood always wide open.

This room was furnished in the most scanty manner; two old arm chairs, six straw chairs, a sideboard, a round table.

Pauline had already laid the cloth for the dinner of the Abbe and Jean.
Mrs.Scott and Miss Percival went and came, examining the domestic arrangements of the Cure with a sort of childish wonder.
"But the garden, the house, everything is charming," said Mrs.Scott.
They both boldly penetrated into the kitchen; the Abbe Constantin followed them, scared, bewildered, stupefied at the suddenness and resolution of this American invasion.
Old Pauline, with an anxious and gloomy air, examined the two foreigners.
"There they are, then," she said to herself, "these Protestants, these accursed heretics!" "I must compliment you," said Bettina; "it is so beautifully kept.