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Over Strand and Field, by Gustave Flaubert
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Title: Over Strand and Field
Author: Gustave Flaubert
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Language: English
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OVER STRAND AND FIELD
A Record of Travel through Brittany
by
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Simon P. Magee Publisher Chicago, Ill.
1904
OVER STRAND AND FIELD[1]
CHAPTER I.
CHÂTEAU DE CHAMBORD.
We walked through the empty galleries and deserted rooms where spiders spin their cobwebs over the salamanders of Francis the First. One is overcome by a feeling of distress at the sight of this poverty which has no grandeur. It is not absolute ruin, with the luxury of blackened and mouldy débris, the delicate embroidery of flowers, and the drapery of waving vines undulating in the breeze, like pieces of damask. It is a conscious poverty, for it brushes its threadbare coat and endeavours to appear respectable. The floor has been repaired in one room, while in the next it has been allow