A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 187: what you’re looking at

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A SERVANT OF SATAN. ie their short dark woolen petticoats, blue or pink aprons, lace fichus, and white caps, which look like the wings of a _ gigantic butterfly, presented a scene not only animated, but also exceedingly picturesque, which appealed strongly to Frederick’s artistic instincts. -T'aking his sketch-book with him, he went down stairs again, with the intention of mak- ing a few sketches of this queer little town and its quaint inhabitants. He walked over to St. Servan, and, after spending some © time in taking a sketch of the walls and turrets of St. Malo, he hired a boat and rowed over to the island of Grand | Bey, where he intended to visit Chateaubriand’s monument. When he returned to the Hotel de France, he ordered his dinner to be brought up to his sitting-room; and long after the piquant little chambermaid had removed the cloth, and ~ noiselessly left the great dark room, he sat wrapt deep in thought, brooding over the past and planning out the future; which seemed very uncertain to him at that moment, | Gomicbooks ‘CO =)