High-Ways and by-Ways, or Tales of the Roadside, Picked Up in the French Provinces, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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As they moved onwards, following the course of the Seine, along its southern side, the hum of the city gradually died away. They lefi the Hotel of the Invalids behind them towards the left, and passed parallel to the military school, and the Champ de Mars, where the Pontde Jena now stands, and opposite to the since projected site of the palace of the king of Rome. The night was dark, and the river was visible below them only by the light of the lamm which lined its banks, reflected deep into its bosom, and seem ing a regular colonnade of brill'nnt pillars rising from the bottom of the stream. Cornelius was silent, for his mind was filled with thought, and.

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