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A French crowd is never dangerous or unmanageable till it has tasted blood, and besides it has or at least in those days it used to have sentiments, to which it was possible with a little tact to appeal successfully. The opposition to our progress came to an end. Mrs. Leare and old Mammy were helped back into the cart, and a man offered them some wine. They brought some also to Hermione.
"Why, Miss Leare," I said, laughing, "you cannot have been many years in society." "I am twenty," she said frankly, "and we came to Europe about three years ago. But before that time I had been in company a good deal. Not in the city, for I was not 'out, but in the hotels at Newport, at the Springs and in the country.
Every now and then we passed through villages along whose straggling streets the population was aswarm, eager for news and wondering at our muddy procession. In one of the villages I suggested stopping, but Mrs. Leare was now as frantic to get home again as she had been to get away.
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