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The Dream

CHAPTER IV
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Hubert arranged his design by repassing with a little brush all the perforated lines of the drawing, and thus the ornamentation of the cope appeared in white on the red silk.

It was he who first resumed speaking.
"Ah! those ancient days were magnificent! Noblemen then wore costumes weighted with embroidery.

At Lyons, material was sometimes sold for as much as six hundred francs an ell.

One ought to read the by-laws and regulations of the Guild of Master Workmen, where it is laid down that 'The embroiderers of the King have always the right to summon, by armed force if necessary, the workmen of other masters.'.

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