A quarter of an hour later a carriage was at the door, a portmanteau well filled with clothes placed behind, and with the sergeant trotting alongside, the boys left the chateau where they bad been so hospitably entertained, promising to come over without fail the next morning.

It would have been a misfortune if you had visited my chateau and I had been unable to have a word with you.

Presently they perceived before them a small village lying on the sea-shore, to the left of which stood a large chateau, half hidden among trees.

They told us, they had not strength to labour, because they had not their usual quantity of breadthat their good lady, whose chateau we saw at a distance, had been guillotined, or else they should have wanted for nothing"Et ste pauvre Javotte

I reached the chateau.

" After half an hour's walking they approached a large chateau, surrounded by smaller buildings.

In the cool gray dawn of Wednesday morning, September second, when I opened my shutters and looked out into the little square that faces the chateau, I was amazed to see that the refugees who had halted there were in carts and wagons whose signs were most familiar.

The pride of the noblesse is succeeded by the pride of the merchant the influence of wealth is again realized by cheap purchases of the national domainsthe abandoned abbey becomes the delight of the opulent trader, and replaces the demolished chateau of the feudal institution.

We knew they were shelling the chateau.

Two blond soldiers in blue-gray saluted, took my luggage, showed me to a carriage, and drove to a village about a mile awaya little white village with a factory chimney for the new days, a dingy chateau for the old, and a brook running diagonally across the square, with geese quacking in it and women pounding clothes.

Far behind them a little dark pinnacle jutting over a grove of trees marked the chateau which they had left, while on the extreme horizon to the west there came a quick shimmer and sparkle where the level rays of the early sun gleamed upon the magnificent palace which was their goal.

The viceroy occupies a chateau called the Viceregal Lodge, perched upon a hill overlooking the town, and from his porches commands as grand a mountain landscape as you could wish to see.

He gave me permission, so armed with my long walking-stick (a billiard cue with the thin part cut off, which I found on passing another chateau one night)

She seems to have been received with the greatest cordiality in whatever chateau she chose to visit.

Lord Hartfield rented a chateau on the slope of an olive-clad hill, where he and his young wife, whose health was somewhat delicate at this time, spent a winter in peaceful seclusion; while Lesbia and her brother travelled together in Italy.

After the town house he bought a chateau in the country, horses and carriages, which he placed at the disposal of the young couple; he kept up an army of servants for them, and replenished their cellars with the choicest wines.

A wall of timber, dark and impenetrable as the woods round an old chateau, rose at the farther end of these fieldsthe road cutting through it like a tunneland on the brow of the ravine, commanding the road and the little plain, was a line of trenches.

At two o'clock in the morning, General Douay occupied the Trocadéro; and at about four o'clock his soldiers, after a short struggle, captured the chateau of La Muette, making about six hundred prisoners, and then, advancing in the direction of Porte Maillot, they joined the troops of General Clinchant, who had got within the ramparts on that side.

They moved from St. Remy, selling the chateau, and built a house on the top of a green hill near Rouen, quite shut in by big trees, and with a lovely view from the Rond Pointthe highest part of the garden, over Rouenwith the spires of the cathedral in the distance.

It was said the great Napoleon himself would some day build a chateau among them.

"What would you advise us to do?" "Well, to speak plainly, I should advise you to shut up the chateau, leave a guardian, and open your Paris apartment.

"Surely you were speaking just now about a chateau, the scene of some pleasant adventure.

Arriving at La Roquelle, our cicerone pointed out to us the ruined walls of what once had been a very splendid chateau; its former owner being an inveterate gamester, having lost large sums of money, at length staked the chateau to an Englishman, who won it.

Upon arriving to take possession, he was disappointed to find that he had only gained the chateau, and that the large estate attached to it was not in the bond.

At the hotel we got the chateau on the wire and asked for the victoria at once.