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III. City And Chateau Op Saumur?The CavAlry School?A New
Acquaintance, Via A Parasol. A few days, my dear Sylvia, after our
visit to the great Dolmen, the Chevalier drove your Tante into town
to see the Chateau. We rode in his pretty village cart behind the
trimmest of little ponies, Babette by name, and her steady
continuance in well trotting was our admiration; her legs were so
short and her pace so rapid and uniform that after each drive, if
she had understood English (but being a French pony this was not to
be expected), we might have commended her in these words: " Madame
Babette, you are a little trump." Several of our ladies with their
gallants had walked on before us. Chateau de Saumur stands upon a
rocky Acropolis visible from the whole surrounding country, and to
reach it from the city it is necessary to climb a narrow way, too
steep for carriages, at the foot of which little Babette halted and
looked grave. A hint to the wise being sufficient, we dismounted.
My Sylvia, I wish you could have walked up that steep, winding
incline with us. It is a strip out of the middle ages set into
thepresent day, after the crazy-quilt style, only more crazy still.
There were no sidewalks; the street was paved with water-worn
cobble-stones of different sizes, and fringed here and there with
spears of grass about their margins. The old stone houses, less
lofty and high-toned than those of Canon street, Edinburgh, seemed
to crowd upon the passer-by like a multitude of curious folk, as if
strangers were a great novelty and must needs be inspected. The
doors, generally, stood open. These were sometimes square and
sometimes arched. They gave passing vistas of peasant dishabille
and peasant occupation. The portals were secured by clumsy locks,
with rude heavy keys, or by ...
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