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Frances Waldeaux

CHAPTER XIII
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God forbid that he should tell her, even by a look, that she and her mother were of a caste different from his own.
But he was bored to the soul by the difference; he was tired of her ignorances, which she showed every minute, of her ghastly, unclean knowledges--which she never showed.
They came into the courtyard of the Chateau de la Motte, the ancient castle of the Breton dukes, which is now an inn.

The red sunset flamed up behind the sad little town and its gray old houses and spires massed on the hill, and the black river creeping by.

George's eyes kindled at the sombre picture.
"In this very court," he said, "Constance stood when she summoned the States of Brittany to save her boy Arthur from King John." "Oh, yes, you have read of it to me in your Shakespeare.

It is one of his unpleasant stories.

Come, Bebe.


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