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The loftiest point of the eastern heights is at Yvre l'Eveque, which was once crowned by a renaissance chateau, where Henry of Navarre resided when he reduced Le Mans to submission. Northward from Yvre, in the direction of Savigne, stretches the high plateau of Sarge, which on the west slopes down towards the river Sarthe, and forms one of the most important of the natural defences of Le Mans.
Miss La Sarthe's voice grew a little acid as she said: "This is our great-niece, Halcyone La Sarthe, Mrs. Anderton" and then "It is unfortunate that you should have been so long absent, child." "I am very sorry," Halcyone returned gently, and she shook hands. She made no excuse or explanation. Mrs. Anderton plunged into important matters at once. "Your father, Mr.
Old William, assisted by Hester and Priscilla, had been busy polishing most of the day while the cook and the "young person from the village" were contriving wonders in the vast kitchen. And punctually at seven in broad daylight, the three Misses La Sarthe, the two elder in their finest mauve silk evening dresses, awaited their guests in the Italian parlor.
The guitar had not been tuned for several days, and had run down into a pitiful flatness; Halcyone could hardly sit still, it hurt her so but it was only when Miss Roberta had begun a second warble that either she or Miss La Sarthe noticed the jar. Then a helpless look grew in the songstress's faded eyes. "Halcyone, dear I think you might tune the instrument for me," she said.
In the morning Yvonne had made some purchases in the town and later they had caught up with their friends near La Mesle, along the Sarthe, down which their road descended by easy stages to their destination. Alenon was in holiday garb and the tricolor flaunted bravely from many poles, though the beginning of the fte was not until to-morrow.
And at last he sat at his writing-table and wrote a letter to his friend and former pupil, John Derringham, in which he described his arrival at his new home, and his outlook, and made a casual reference to the two maiden ladies in these terms: "The park and house is still owned by two antediluvian spinsters of the name of La Sarthe exquisite specimens of Early Victorian gentility.
There the groups parted; some followed the Bretagne road towards the chateau; the others went in the direction of the river Sarthe. Then began the usual conversation, which for twenty years had echoed at that hour through this particular street of Alencon. It was invariably: "Mademoiselle Cormon looked very well to-night." "Mademoiselle Cormon? why, I thought her rather strange."
Halcyone, herself, put an end to all awkwardness after she very gently entered the room. There was no bounding or vaulting in the presence of the aunts. "Is it not kind of Mr. Carlyon to wish to teach me Greek?" she said, including both her relatives. "I expect he has told you about it though." The Misses La Sarthe were properly surprised and interested.
On the Italian frontier they were the "barbets"; in the North the "garroteurs"; in the Ardèche the "bande noire"; in the Centre the "Chiffoniers"; in Artois, Picardie, the Somme, Seine-Inférieure, the Chartrain country, the Orléanais, Loire-Inférieure, Orne, Sarthe, Mayenne, Ille-et-Vilaine, etc., and Ile-de-France to the very gates of Paris, but above all in Calvados, Finistère and La Manche where royalism served as their flag, the "chauffeurs" and the bands of "Grands Gars" and "Coupe et Tranche," which under pretence of being Chouans attacked farms or isolated dwellings, and inspired such terror that if one of them were arrested neither witness nor jury could be found to condemn him.
But the stream of Arve at Tillières is so much narrower than the stream of Sarthe at Alençon that French and Norman stood much nearer together at Tillières than Mansel and Norman stood at Alençon. Alençon again, as far as its history goes back, has always been a considerable town. Tillières is now a mere village, except so far as so many of these villages put on the character of very small towns.
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