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by the ancient Chateaux of the Valois during a t house in the same style, and considered it safer tc with the work, than by an English one whose | could be less thoroughly trusted. The French si particularly suitable to the surroundings of the Jacobean, or Adams, of which the country affords : that M. Lainé was called in only after Mr. Th declined to lay out the grounds for reasons he dic By the side of the grand chateaux of the 7 Chambord, for example, contains 450 rooms, the s its main features are borrowed from them; its tow its external staircases from Blois, though the latter ornate. Though far from being the realisation of a work has fairly fulfilled my expectations. M. Destailleur was a man of the highest cap conscientious, and of the most scrupulous honesty never was the smallest difference between us. [| conception of the needs of a large establishment, architectural features, and had the most supreme c This, perhaps, need not have surprised me, for | and musty house in a dingy back street which I to convince him that ladies need space for their can move at their ease and perform their ablutio: