id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-012 chapter-012 .txt text/plain 4159 187 77 Behind the house at the Rue Fossette there was a gardenlarge, considering that it lay in the heart of a city, and to my recollection at this day it seems pleasant: but time, like distance, lends to certain scenes an influence so softening; and where all is stone around, blank wall and hot pavement, how precious seems one shrub, how lovely an enclosed and planted spot of ground! Doubtless at high noon, in the broad, vulgar middle of the day, when Madame Beck's large school turned out rampant, and externes and pensionnaires were spread abroad, vying with the denizens of the boys' college close at hand, in the brazen exercise of their lungs and limbsdoubtless then the garden was a trite, trodden-down place enough. ./cache/chapter-012.txt ./txt/chapter-012.txt