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He remembered all his life the first dinner at the Château / d'Esclignac, where from the terrace he saw the Rhone lying under the / early moonlight and the shadows falling around the castle of good / King René.
As he passed in, his sword clanking -- for he went in full dress / uniform to dine with the Marquise d'Esclignac -- he saw the picture the / two ladies made in their drawing-room: the marquise in a very / splendid dress (which he never could remember) and her niece, a young / lady from a country whose name it took him long to learn to / pronounce, in a dress so simple that of course he never could forget / it! He remembered for a great many years the fall of the ribbon at / her pretty waist, the bunch of sweet peas at her girdle, and he / always remembered the face that made the charm of the picture.