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Updated: June 4, 2025
Near a ruinous donjon, called the Chateau du Roi, and attributed to Louis VIII., now much overgrown with herbs and shrubs, I stood on a bastion of the town wall, overlooking the crescent-shaped hollow, covered with houses, bits of fortification older than the outer wall, ruined convents a chaos of lichen-tinted stones and tiles gilded by the warm yet tenderly softened sunshine of early evening.
It was when the great lilacs and laburnums in the old-fashioned gardens showed their golden and purple wealth above the lichen-tinted walls, and when there were calves still young enough to want bucketfuls of fragrant milk.
"Well," said he, "let us go round. Not one of your cases, Watson mental, not physical. All right; come if you want to. Now, Mr. Soames at your disposal!" The sitting-room of our client opened by a long, low, latticed window on to the ancient lichen-tinted court of the old college. A Gothic arched door led to a worn stone staircase. On the ground floor was the tutor's room.
"Well," said he, "let us go round. Not one of your cases, Watson mental, not physical. All right; come if you want to. Now, Mr. Soames at your disposal!" The sitting-room of our client opened by a long, low, latticed window on to the ancient lichen-tinted court of the old college. A Gothic arched door led to a worn stone staircase. On the ground floor was the tutor's room.
Yet in its virginhood, before pain or joy or achievement had entered there, before spade struck the ground which was to send up food, my holding on the earth's surface made me feel prince of a principality. The men hewed a slab settle, and stationed it before the hearth, a thing of beauty in its rough and lichen-tinted barks, though you may not believe it.
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