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And then we had coats of arms, too! Azure, a fesso engrailed or, between three fleurs-de-lys of the same, two of them being near the top and the third in the point.

Ah! it was indeed beautiful in the days of long ago!" He stopped a moment, tapping the frame with his fingers to shake off the dust.

Then he continued: "At Beaumont they still have a legend about the Hautecoeurs, which my mother often related to me when I was a child.

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