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AUTUMN IMPRESSIONS
OF THE GIRONDE

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ANCIENT HEADDRESS IN AIRVAULT (DEUX SEVRES).

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Autumn Impressions
of the Gironde

BY

I. GIBERNE SIEVEKING

AUTHOR OF
"Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman," and
"A Turning Point of the Indian Mutiny."

Once or twice, in every life—it may be in one form, itmay be in another—there comes one day the possibility of aglimpse through the Magic Gates of Idealism. Some of usare not close enough to the opening gates to catch a sightof what lies beyond, but in the eyes of those who have seen—thereis from that moment an ineffaceable, unforgettablelonging.

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WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON
Digby, Long & Co.
18, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, E.C.
1910

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TO FRANCE—
The Country of Many Ideals

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PREFACE

To each man or woman of us there is the Country ofour Ideals. The ideals may be newly aroused; theymay be of long standing. But some time or other, insome way or other, there is the country; there is theplace; there is the sunny spot in our imagination-worldwhich calls to us—and calls to us in no uncertain voice.

It is true we are not always susceptible to that call:it is true we are not always responsive, but it is thereall the same. Sometimes there comes to us a day whenthat "call" is insistent, all-compelling, irresistible; aday in which it sounds with indescribable music, indescribablevibration, through that inner world into whichwe all go now and again, when days are monotonousor depressing.

It is impossible to conjecture why some country,some place, some woma

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