Why should she not
also make her way to Lacville?
She opened the "Guide-Book to Paris and its Environs," of which she had
made such good use in the last month, and looked up "Lacville" in the
index.
Situated within a drive of the beautiful Forest of Montmorency, the
pretty little town of Lacville is still famed for its healing springs
and during the summer months of the year is much frequented by
Parisians. There are frequent trains from the Gare du Nord.
No kind fairy whispered the truth to Sylvia--namely that this account is
only half, nay, a quarter, or an eighth, of the truth.
Lacville is the spendthrift, the gambler--the austere would call her
the chartered libertine--of the group of pretty country towns which
encircle Paris; for Lacville is in the proud possession of a Gambling
Concession which has gradually turned what was once the quietest of
inland watering-places into a miniature Monte Carlo.
The vast majority of intelligent, cultivated English and American
visitors to Paris remain quite unaware that there is, within half an hour
of the French capital, such a spot; the minority, those tourists who do
make their way to the alluring little place, generally live to regret it.
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