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"Can anything be hidden in that closet in the queen's dressing-room wall?" mused Eagle. "I believe I could find it in the dark, Sophie told me so often where the secret spring may be touched. When the De Chaumonts took me to the Tuileries I wanted to search for it. But all the state apartments are now on the second floor, and Madame Bonaparte has her own rooms below.
"It met me at the foot of this hill. The goose girl told me." "Oh, you have been hurt!" she said, looking at me. "Your face is all seamed. Don't tell me about Mittau to-day. Paul and I are taking possession of the estates!" "Napoleon has given them back to you!" "Yes, he has! I begged the De Chaumonts to let me come alone! By hard posting we reached Mont-Louis last night.
Women who hoe corn, dig in a garden, and wash clothes, earn the wholesome bread of life. To-day Paul brought the first bluebells of spring, and put them in water for me. They were buds; and when they bloomed out he said, "God has blessed these flowers." We have to nurse the sick. The goodness of these pioneer women is unfailing. It is like the great and kind friendship of the Du Chaumonts.
Charges must at once be settled with Doctor Chantry, who would willingly stay in Paris while the De Chaumonts remained there. Beyond the voyage I did not look. The first faint tugging of my foster country began to pull me as it has pulled many a broken wretch out of the conditions of the older world. Paris was horrible, with a lonesomeness no one could have foreseen in its crowded streets.
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