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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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were beautiful, the château dating from the time
of Richelieu, in its vast park of secular
lime-trees, was beautiful, the Louis XVI furniture in
my sumptuous room was beautiful, the big St.
Bernard dog who followed me upstairs was
beautiful—everything was beautiful. So was
the Countess in her simple white frock with a
single La France rose in her waistband. I
thought her eyes had grown bigger than ever.
The Count was altogether another man, with his
rosy cheeks and wide-awake eyes. His charming
welcome took away at once my shyness, I was
still a barbarian from Ultima Thule, I had never
been in such sumptuous surroundings before.
M. l’Abbé greeted me as an old friend. The
Count said there was just time for a stroll in the
garden before tea, or would I prefer to have a
look at the stables? I was given a basket full
of carrots to give one to each of a dozen
magnificent horses who stood there in their
well-groomed coats aligned in their boxes of polished
oak.

“You had better give him an extra carrot to
make friends at once,” said the Count. “He
belongs to you as long as you are here, and this
is your groom,” he added, pointing to an English
boy who lifted his hand to his cap to salute me.

Yes, the Countess was wonderfully well, said
the Count as we strolled back through the
garden. She hardly ever spoke about her colitis,
went to visit her poor in the village every morning
and was discussing with the village doctor the
turning of an old farm into an infirmary for sick
children. On her birthday all the poor children

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