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Title: In and out of three Normandy inns
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Dodd, Anna Bowman, 1855-1929
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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narrow stairs. The ladies, a few seconds later, were wendingtheir way up the steep turret steps. They werepreceded by torches and followed by quite a longtrain of maids and lackeys. For a long hour, atleast, the little inn resounded with the sound ofhurrying feet, of doors closing and shutting; withthe echo of voices giving commands and of otherspurring in sleepy accents of obedience. Thenone by one the sounds died away; the lights wentout in the bedchambers; faint flickerings stolethrough the chinks of doors and windows. Thewatchman cried out the hour, and the gleam of alantern flashed here and there, illuminating theopen court-yard. The cocks crowed shrilly intothe night air. A halberdier turned in his sleepwhere he lay, on some straw beneath the coach-shed, his halberd rattling as it struck the cobbles.And over the whole—over the gentle slumber ofthe great ladies and the sleep of beast and man-there fell the peace and the stillness of the mid-night—of that midnight of long ago.
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