The Century Volume 45 by Books Group
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Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 644 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9781232276364
Download Link: The Century Volume 45
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...the charms of the ducal city of Uzes, and a proper desire to look upon the Pont du Gard, and a longing for the shade of an illusive forest, --we might have made the journey from Nimes to Avignon not in a week, but in a single day. Had we made the journey by rail, taking the noon express, we could have covered the distance in three minutes less than a single hour. The railroad, of course, was out of the ques tion. Geoffroi Rudel, even in the fever of his longing to take ship for Tripoli, and there breathe out his life and love together at his lady's feet, never would have consented to travel from Bordeaux to Cette by the rapide. To me, a troubadour's representative, the accredited Ambassador of an American poet to his friends and fellows of Provence, the rapide equally was impossible. Strictly, the nice proprieties of the case required that I should go upon my embassy on horseback or on foot. Consideration for the Ambassadress, however, forbade walking; and the only horses for hire in Nimes were round little ponies of the Camargue, not nearly up to my weight--smaller, even, than El Chico Alazan: whose size, in relation to my size, was wont to excite derisive comment among my friends in Mexico. The outcome of it all was that--compromising between the twelfth and the nineteenth centuries--we decided to drive. Copyright, 1893, by The Century Co. All rights reserved. By a friend in whom we had every confidence, we were commended to an honest livery-man, one No6 Mourgue. It was ten in the morning when we went to the stables. Outside the door a lithe young fellow--a Catalonian, with crisp black hair, a jaunty black mustache, and daredevil black eyes--was rubbing down a horse. To him we applied ourselves. "M'sieu' Noe is absent upon an affair," the Catalan...
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