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Updated: May 23, 2025
The day was on the wane, and a cooler air came in stronger puffs, and made a view of Epinal, which was fastened to the wall by two pins, flap up and down, the scanty window curtains, which had formerly been white, but were now yellow and covered with fly-specks, looked as if they were going to fly off and seemed to struggle to get away, like the old woman's soul.
She noticed that Julien was examining, with some curiosity, the uncouth pictures from Epinal, with which the screens were covered. "This," she explained, "is my own invention. My father is a little weak in the head, but he understands a good many things, although he can not talk about them.
The bells of Eulogius and Eucherius were rung freely on occasion; but Epinal has not since enjoyed any greater immunity from storms than the contiguous districts. One day an aged traveller, who had spent many years in Heathenesse and in whom some discerned a remarkable resemblance to the sorcerer, noticed the bell, and asked permission to examine it.
Belfort, Toul, Epinal, Verdun, Longwy, they ranged through the mountains northeast of France as guardians of their country against another German attack. To rush an army into France over this rough country and between these great fortresses was impossible. Modern armies carry great guns with them which cannot climb steep grades.
Julien, who followed him, then perceived, with alarm, in a sort of niche formed by two screens, entirely covered with illustrations from Epinal, a strange-looking being stretched in an easy-chair, which was covered with pillows and almost hidden under various woolen draperies. He was dressed in a long coat of coarse, pale-blue cloth.
Thus the evolution of English Lexicography has followed with no faltering steps the evolution of English History and the development of English Literature. The Erfurt Glossary is, to a great extent, a duplicate of the Epinal. Thus the first five Latin entries in ab- are abminiculum, abelena, abiecit, absida, abies, and the last five aboleri, ab borea, abiles, aborsus, absorduum.
Muttering apologies, and glad to be overlooked, Euschemon shrank into a corner, but slightly comforted by the honours his image was receiving at the hands of the good people of Epinal.
Wiz my fist zhust boy's fist, but so sharp." "I don't blame you," said Tom. "So zen I must flee. Even to be rude to ze Zherman soldier zis is crime. So I come to Americ'. Zey are looking for me, but I go by night, I sleep in ze haystack zis I show. Zis is what you call talisman. Yess? "So I come to Epinal across ze border, through ze pass in ze mountains. I am free!
Indeed the people of Épinal, not taking me for a traveller but simply for a wandering poor man, were very genial to me, and the best good they did me was curing my lameness. For, seeing an apothecary's shop as I was leaving the town, I went in and said to the apothecary
Railway traveling, at no time rapid, was extremely slow at this period; and it was evening before they arrived at Epinal, where they were to pass the night. The journey, shortened by innumerable songs and choruses, had scarcely seemed long.
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