Stories by English Authors in France

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was late in November 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull and flake after flake descended out of the black night air silent circuitous interminable. To poor people looking up under moist eyebrows it seemed a wonder where it all came from. Master Francis Villon had propounded an alternative that afternoon at a tavern window: was it only pagan Jupiter plucking geese upon Olympus? or were the holy angels moulting? He was only a poor Master of Arts he went on; and as the question somewhat touched upon divinity he durst not venture to conclude. A silly old priest from Montargis who was among the company treated the young rascal to a bottle of wine in honour of the jest and grimaces with which it was accompanied and swore on his own white beard that he had been just such another irreverent dog when he was Villon's age