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that, so she told herself, would be no hardship, and she could spend
almost the whole of the day in the charming garden.
The two friends arrived at Lacville late in the afternoon, and on a
Monday, that is on the quietest day of the week. And when Anna had
left Sylvia at the Villa du Lac, driving off alone to her own humbler
_pension_, the young Englishwoman, while feeling rather lonely, realised
that M. Polperro had not exaggerated the charm of his hostelry.
Proudly mine host led Mrs. Bailey up the wide staircase into the
spacious, airy room which had been prepared for her. "This was the
bed-chamber of Madame la Comtesse de Para, the friend of the Empress
Eugenie" he said.
The windows of the large, circular room, mirror-lined, and still
containing the fantastic, rather showy decorations which dated from the
Second Empire, overlooked the broad waters of the lake. Even now, though
it was still daylight, certain romantic-natured couples had lit paper
lanterns and hung them at the prows of their little sailing-boats.
The scene had a certain fairy-like beauty and stillness.


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