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Yet, at the time... surely, Aline, that morning when you came to beg me not to keep my engagement with him in the Bois, you were moved by concern for him?" "For him! It was concern for you," she cried, without thinking what she said. But it did not convince him. "For me? When you knew when all the world knew what I had been doing daily for a week!"
Sunday, August 16. Fifteenth day of mobilization. Gray, cloudy day with occasional showers and westerly wind. Thermometer at five P.M. 17 degrees centigrade. I drove out in the Bois de Boulogne after lunch with the Duc de Loubat. The Bois was rather deserted; only a few couples were strolling about or seated on benches reading newspapers.
He called the Marquis de Bois l'Hery "my good fellow," imposed silence very sharply on the governor, whose enthusiasm was becoming scandalous, and made a solemn vow to himself to get rid as soon as possible of all that mendicant and promising Bohemian set, when he should have occasion to begin the process.
For we can see those who are far away from us better when we can form an idea of their surroundings." Chatting thus, they reached the end of the shady path, at a vast clearing where the tumult of the Bois was in full blast, carriages and equestrians alternating, and the crowd tramping in a fleecy dust which gave it, at that distance, the appearance of a disorderly flock of sheep.
Could we prevail if we did?" "Ah, my God! The question is should we come in time? At nine o'clock! And it wants but little more than a quarter of an hour. Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!" Madame clasped and unclasped her hands in anguish. "Do you know, at least, where in the Bois they are to meet?" "No only that it is in the Bois." "In the Bois!" Madame was flung into a frenzy.
"Why didn't you take me to see the maskers?" "The maskers, indeed! No, no, my dear. I prefer the Bois, and even the bottom of the lake, to them."
The wreath was finished, and Madeleine wound it about Bertha's picturesque little hat, not one of those unmeaning abominations which neither cover the head, nor shade the face, but a round straw hat, slightly turned up at the sides, and ornamented only by a single, black plume. "Look, M. de Bois," said Madeleine, "is not my chaplet successful? Could anything be more becoming to Bertha?"
There was, too, in the forest of Bois Chemin a famous beech-tree under which a stream of clear water flowed; and a superstition prevailed among the people of Domremy that fairies had blessed this tree and bestowed healing properties upon the waters of the stream.
From the western side there is a beautiful view of the town with the great western towers of the cathedral rising gracefully above the quarries in the Bois des Vignettes. Another feature of Coutances is the aqueduct. It unfortunately does not date from Roman times when the place was known as Constantia, for there is nothing Roman about the ivy-clad arches that cross the valley on the western side.
How is one to describe it shortly? In a sentence it was the world that rides in the morning in the Bois.