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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV BOIS FLEURI Eably in June we went to the country, to the villa we had taken for the summer. It was?the mind thinks persistently in the past tense, of that lost time before the world was for ever changed for us and we, alas for it?it was not far from town; not twenty minutes in a motor, indeed, from the Quartier Leopold and the Legation, so that we could be out and in. And yet it was in such a retired spot, hidden away in its little grove of fir-trees, that one could imagine one's self leagues away from all that suggests the town, all that is inimical to seclusion and repose. To reach it we drove out the Avenue de Tervueren, the new street that Leopold II, the great builder, had laid out on the uplands east of town; and at Woluwe-Saint-Pierre we were already in the country on a pleasant road that soon was winding through the Foret de Soignes, where in the solemn shadows of lofty beeches there was always the dreaming peace of some vast cathedral. The sunlight filtered through the boughs far overhead, touching to a vivid green the tiny branches, delicate as ferns, that sprouted from the massive green-grey boles, and it dappled the thick bed of leaves and mould and mosses that lay at their base. We emerged then by the old Chaussee de Bruxelles at Quatre-Bras?not the Quatre-Bras that evokes the memory of Napoleon, of Wellington and of Waterloo, but one of the many score of Quatre-Brasscattered over Belgium?there by the estaminet where on pleasant afternoons there were always gay throngs of bicyclists and pedestrians, taking the air and sipping their beer or their coffee at the little tables set out on the sidewalk. And then just beyond the lisiere of the forest was Bois Fleuri; such was its perhaps too poetic name. It was built in the modern French style, of red brick with...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217728607 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021772860X |
| Weight | 1.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.99 In |
| List Price | $26.16 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 446 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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