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At the Villa Rose

CHAPTER VI
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Celie between Mme.

Dauvray and myself.

But in that case the lights would be turned out first, and it would be really my hand which held Mme.
Dauvray's.

And whether it was the cabinet or the chairs, in a moment mademoiselle would be creeping silently about the room in a little pair of soft-soled slippers without heels, which she wore so that she might not be heard, and tambourines would rattle as you say, and fingers touch the forehead and the neck, and strange voices would sound from corners of the room, and dim apparitions would appear--the spirits of great ladies of the past, who would talk with Mme.Dauvray.Such ladies as Mme.

de Castiglione, Marie Antoinette, Mme.


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