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1905.] My sister and I helped at the sale of their household possessions, and it was very sad indeed.

The Swiss custom-officers had surrounded the school property; they were even in the fields: and it was with difficulty that our vice-consul was able to get our luggage across Switzerland without paying duty.

I afterward had the great pleasure of seeing my favorite teacher, Mère Flavie, in Paris, when on her way to England to teach,



XI reigned king over Trance in the year 1461. Louis was very superstitious, He believed that a certain man whom he knew could forecast the future.

One time this man told Louis something that did not come true. The king was very angry. He was going to hang this astrologer who had told him such a falsehood. So he sent for the astrologer.

But when the astrologer came into the presence of the king and saw all the soldiers standing around he knew what Louis was going to do. So he fell to thinking what he should do. The king began to reproach him.

Then the astrologer said: “The stars may have made a mistake, or I did; but of one thing I am sure—that you will die a few hours after I die.”

So the king did not have the cunning astrologer hanged, for fear that he should die a few hours afterward.





the young king, Louis XVI, married the beautiful Austrian princess, Marie Antoinette, many of the old “grandes dames” of the French court were shocked by the young queen’s light and somewhat frivolous manners, and her disregard of old formal customs. Her chief lady of the bedchamber, the Duchess of Naoilles (an old court lady who, though well-intentioned, was somewhat