The Birds Fall Down
“The hotel was the one large and solid building in a square of tall old houses, themselves crooked, with pale shutters hanging slightly crooked on their crookedness. In the gravelled centre of the square a market bubbled and boiled, the crowd here and there divided by strings of cattle being led away, past stalls hooded by tarpaulins, shaking and bellying in a high wind, which was making the white linen caps of the women rock on their heads like little ships on a rough sea. She hoped the Channel... would be smooth for her father’s crossing. Presently Professor Saint-Gratien put his head into the carriage and explained that he had had to keep them waiting because he had forgotten something: that the most important ball of the year was held in this hotel on this very night, and the place was upside-down. All the same, he had got rooms for them, and what was more, two men strong enough to help her grandfather up the staircase, which was, it appeared, for a staircase, quite a staircase. This hotel had been a nobleman’s palace in the time of Louis Quinze, and it had its grandeurs, which were sometimes inconvenient, but these two men could handle anything; and when they came that seemed plausible enough.MoreLess
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