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Title: The Christmas kalends of Provence and some other
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Janvier, Thomas Allibone, 1849-1913
Subjects: Christmas Festivals -- France Provence Provence (France) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York London : Harper
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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had galloped heroff the Baux rock into Eternity. It was theProvencal costume — with full sleeves andflaring cap—of sixty years back; but a littlegayer than the strict Aries dress of that period,because her mother was not of Aries but ofBeaucaire. It was not so graceful, especiallyin the head-dress, as the costume of the pres-ent day; nor nearly so becoming—as Magalishowed by looking a dozen years older afterputting it on. But Magali, even with a dozenyears added, could not but be charming; andI think that the little old bowed grandmother—who still was a bit of a coquette at eighty—would have been better pleased had she beenspared this encounter with what must haveseemed to her very like a meeting with herown young ghost, raised suddenly from thedepths of the distant past. By long experience, gained on many suchoccasions, the Vidame knew that the culmi-nating point of the supper would be reachedwhen the family drummer swam the riverand headed the French charge at Arcolo. 100
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MAGALI CDe Cbristmas H^l^nas of Provence Therefore had he reserved until a later period,when the excitement incident to the revivalof that honourable bit of family history shouldhave subsided, a joy-giving bomb-shell of hisown that he had all ready to explode. AnAmerican or an Englishman never couldhave fired it without something in the way ofspeech-making; but the Vidame was of a shytemper, and speech-making was not in hisline. When the chatter caused by Magaliscostuming had lulled a little, and there camea momentary pause in the talk, he merelyreached diagonally across the table andtouched glasses with Esperit and said simply:To your good health. Monsieur the Super-intendent of the Lower Farm! It was done so quietly that for some sec-onds no one realized that the Vidames toastbrought happiness to all the household, andto two of its members a life-long joy. Es-perit, even, had his glass almost to his lipsbefore he understood to what he was drink-ing ; and then his understanding came

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