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Excerpt from A Summer in Touraine: With Twelve Illustrations in Colour by Maxwell Armfield Eighty-Seven Other Illustrations and a Map On which you have given me fruitful advice, I begin to realise that my indebtedness to you is fast growing beyond computation. Service ought by rights to be repaid by service, but I have long since abandoned all hope of ever being able to acquit my obligations in that way. Gratitude is now the only coin at my disposal, so let me acknowledge my years-old debt and the fresh increment which has been added to it in the shape of this record of our delightful summer in Touraine. This book is, indeed, as much yours as mine, since it would probably never have been written but for your suggestion and encouragement. I can imagine a familiar look of denegation appearing in your brown eyes as you read. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.