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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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n rising over the sea,and for the song of the thrush in the bush. The Frenchman, more easily and with simplerart than any of his modern brethren, can changethe prose of our dull, practical life into poetry; hecan turn lyrical at a moments notice. He pos-sesses the power of transmuting the commonplaceinto the idyllic, by merely clapping on his capand turning his back on the haunts of men. Hehas retained a singular—an almost ideal sensitive-ness, of mental cuticle—such acuteness of sensa-tion, that a journey to a field will oftentimes yieldhim all the flavor of a long voyage, and a suddenintroduction to a forest, the rapture that commonlycomes only with some unwonted aspect of nature.Perhaps it is because of this natural poet indwell-ing in a Frenchman, that makes him content toremain so much at home. Surely the extraordi-nary is the costly necessity for barren minds; therichly-endowed can see the beauty that lies theother side of their own door-step. CHAPTER IX. A NOEMAN HOUSEHOLD.
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HERE were two paths in thevillage that were well worn.One was that which led thevillage up into the fields. Theother was the one that led thetillers of the soil down intothe village, to the door-step ofthe justice of the peace. A good Norman is no Norman who has not alawsuit on hand. Anything will serve as a pretext for a quarrel.No sum of money is so small as not to warranta breaking of the closest blood-ties, if therebyones rights may be secured. Those beautifulstripes of rye, barley, corn, and wheat up yonderin the fields, that melt into one another like sea-tones—down here on the benches before the jugede paix—what quarrels, what hatreds, what evilpassions these few acres of land have broughttheir owners, facing each other here like so manydemons, ready to spring at the others throats!Brothers on these benches forget they are brothers,and sisters that they have suckled the same mother. THREE NORMANDY INNS. 85 Two more yards of the soil that should have beenFillettes instead of

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