Identifier: inoutofthreenorm03dodd (find matches)
Title: In and out of three Normandy inns
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Dodd, Anna Bowman, 1855-1929
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ise gracious and most graceful offarewells. Why cannot we all attain to an innkeep-ers altitude, as a point of view from which to lookout upon the world ? Why not emulate his calm,when people who have done with us turn theirbacks and stalk away ? Why not, like him, countthe pennies as not all the payment received whena pleasure has come which cannot be footed up inthe bill ? The entire company of the inn household wasassembled to see us start. Not a white mouse butwas on duty. The cockatoos performed the mostperilous of their trapeze accomplishments as a lasttribute; the doves cooed mournfully; the mon-keys ran like frenzied spirits along their gratingsto see the very last of us. Madame Le Mois consid-erately carried the bantam to the archway, thatthe lost joy of strutting might be replaced by thepride of preferment above its fellows. Adieu, mesdames. Au revoir—you will return—tout le monde re-vient—Guillaume le Conquerant, like Caesar, con«quers once to hold forever—remember
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THREE NORMANDY INNS. 249 From Monsieur Paul, in quieter, richer tones,came his true farewell, the one we had looked for: The evenings in the Marmousets will seemlonely when it rains—you must give us the hopeof a quick return. Hope is the food of those whoremain behind, as we Normans say ! The archway darkened the sod for an instant;the next we had passed out into the broad high-way. Jean, in his blouse, with Suzette besidehim, both jolting along in the lumbering char-a-banc, stared out at us with a vacant-eyed curiosity.We were only two travellers like themselves, alonga dusty roadway, on our way to Caen; we were ofno particular importance in the landscape, we andour rickety little phaeton. Yet only a momentbefore, in the inn court-yard, we had felt ourselvesto be the pivotal centre of a world wholly peopledwith friends! This is what comes to all men wholive under the modem curse—the double curse ofrestlessness and that itching for novelty, whichmade the old Greek longing for the

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