Chapter I: Front Matter

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_Seeing France With Uncle John_

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_Seeing France With Uncle John_

_By_

_Anne Warner_

_Author of "Susan Clegg and her friend Mrs. Lathrop," etc._

_With Illustrations by_

_May Wilson Preston_

_New York The Century Co. 1906_

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Copyright, 1906, by THE CENTURY CO.

_Published October, 1906_

THE DE VINNE PRESS

_List of Illustrations_

PAGE
"I held the guide-book and read the explanations,
while he kept up a running contradiction of
everything I read" _Frontispiece_

"She lies still and talks to M. Sibilet" 8

"While we walk" 9

Rouen--Maison du XV siecle 24

"'Richard Coeur-de-Lion--petrified, eh?'" 33

"'So that's the clock?'" 41

"'There's been no tampering with _this_ ruin'" 65

"'This is as good a time as we'll have to study up on Gisors'" 79

"'Tell her we want dinner for four, and prompt'" 93

Beauvais 96

"'What's that chopped-off creation before us?'" 99

"'Look how mad that old lady is'" 105

"We found our beloved relative" 116

"She took hold of our hands as if she'd been our long-lost
mother for years" 121

Dreux 150

"Elfrida says they are seeing Europe nicely on less than a
dollar a day, and Uncle said, 'Great Scott!'" 157

Falaise 160

"Paid the man at the entrance and let him go" 163

"The coming down was awful" 168

"'I'm happy that it will be out of the question for me ever to
travel again'" 177

"Lee was awfully rude and kept yawning, and I know she didn't
like it by the way she looked at him" 195

Caen 198

"He has his meals in his room, for he says he cannot even think
calmly of a stair-case yet" 205

Bayeux 216

"And it was Lee" 221

"We passed Elfrida and her sister to-day, pedaling along for
dear life" 228

"Miss Clara Emily is getting very much in earnest" 245

In Mont-Saint-Michel 276

"Uncle sitting on the ramparts with Miss Clara Emily" 281

"Mrs. Whalen has just come in to say she is going to Dol" 293

A Street in Auray 301

"When he went to wash I gave the waiter an extra tip to feed
us quickly" 303

"Broke the bell-rope ordering breakfast" 307

"He told Mrs. Clary that he had foreseen this finale to our
trip all along," etc. 315

_Seeing France With Uncle John_

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Seeing France With Uncle John