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Voyage de ma Grandmère, I noticed something equivalent to an interlineation, but in her own writing like all the rest, and added in a perfectly unconcealed, candid manner, at the end of a paragraph near the close of the story. It struck me as an innocent gloss of the copyist, justified in her mind by some well-credited family tradition. It was this:
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Just as we [Françoise and Alix] were parting, she [Alix] handed me the story of her life. I had already called my friend's attention to the anachronisms, and she was in keen distress, because totally unable to account for them. But as I further pondered them, this gloss gained new significance and I mentioned it. My new inquiry flashed light upon her aged memory. She explained at once that, to connect the two stories of Françoise and Alix, she had thought it right to impute these few words to Françoise rather than for mere exactness to thrust a detailed explanation of her own into a story hurrying to its close. My question called back an incident of long ago and resulted first in her rummaging a whole day among her papers, and then in my receiving the certificate of a gentleman of high official standing in Louisiana that, on the 10th of last April (1889), this lady, in his presence, took from a large trunk of written papers, variously dated and
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a book of memoranda from which, writes he,
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I copy the following paragraph written by Madame S. de la Houssaye herself in the middle of the book, on page 29.
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And I kept it two years for want of an opportunity,
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Suzanne and Françoise, then Françoise, the younger and milder sister, would the more likely have to be content, sooner or later, with a copy. This, I find no reason to doubt, is what lies before me. Indeed, here (crossed out in the manuscript, but by me restored and italicized) are signs of a copyist's pen:
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Mais helas! il desesperoit de reussir quand' _il desespe_ rencontra, etc. Is not that a copyist's repetition? Or this:
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And here the copyist misread the original:
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Lorsque le maire entendit les noms et les _personnes_ prenoms de la mariée,