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The Two Vanrevels (Paperback)
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The Two Vanrevels (Paperback)
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Loot Price R393
Discovery Miles 3 930
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It was long ago in the days when men sighed when they fell in love;
when people danced by candle and lamp, and did dance, too, instead
of solemnly gliding about; in that mellow time so long ago, when
the young were romantic and summer was roses and wine, old Carewe
brought his lovely daughter home from the convent to wreck the
hearts of the youth of Rouen. That was not a far journey; only an
afternoon's drive through the woods and by the river, in an April,
long ago; Miss Betty's harp carefully strapped behind the great
lumbering carriage, her guitar on the front seat, half-buried under
a mound of bouquets and oddly shaped little bundles, farewell gifts
of her comrades and the good Sisters. In her left hand she clutched
a small lace handkerchief, with which she now and then touched her
eyes, brimmed with the parting from Sister Cecilia, Sister Mary
Bazilede, the old stone steps and all the girls: but for every time
that she lifted the dainty kerchief to brush away the edge of a
tear, she took a deep breath of the Western woodland air and smiled
at least twice;
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