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The Chevalier du Cévennes occupied the apartment on the first floor of

the Hôtel of the Silver Candlestick, in the Rue Guénégaud The

apartment consisted of three rooms In all Paris there was not to be

found the like of theant, they were siance is always closely allied to sis upon whichprayer; Moorish tapestries hung froround for the various pieces of ancient and modern

armor; here and there were Greek s filled the gaps left between one tapestry and

another So

and old, in these rooms; and the famous kitchens of Madame Boisjoli,

the landlady of the Candlestick, supplied the delicacies of his tables

Ordinarily the Chevalier dined in the cheery asseourmands of refinement, he believed that there is as

much appetite in a man's ears and eyes as in his stoht, a co of old and

new faces, the ru

At thisabout

in the ater, laughing with the joyous heart of a boy With the

ue perfuh he was, fearless as a Bussy, the Chevalier was so fop, but one who loved physical

cleanliness, who took pride in the whiteness of his skin, the clarity