Crossword-Solution: FILLES 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And the words of a French song came back into my memory, telling of the best of our mixed existence: 'Que t'as de belles filles, Girofle! Girofla! Que t'as de belles filles, L'Amour let comptera!' And I blessed God that I was free to wander, free to hope, and free to love.

Stephen was repaired and beautified in the year 16**, and how, during the celebration of its reopening, two girls of the parish (_filles de la paroisse_) fell from the gallery, carrying a part of the balustrade with them, to the pavement, but by a miracle escaped uninjured.

Not that his heroes are always attached to a _belle morte_ in some distant Aiden; not that they have been for long in the family sepulchre; not that their attire is a vastly becoming shroud--no, Aurelie and Sylvie, in _Les Filles de Feu_, are nice and natural girls; but their lover is not in love with them "in a human sort of way." He is in love with some vaporous ideal, of which they faintly remind him.

The passages are as touching and fresh, the originals I mean, as when first I read them, and one hears the voice of Sylvie singing: "_A Dammartin, l'y a trois belles filles_, _L'y en a z'une plus belle que le jour_!" So Sylvie married a confectioner, and, like Marion in the "Ballad of Forty Years," "Adrienne's dead" in a convent.

But for him 'les tavernes et les filles' of Laval meant a veritable paradise, and his sojourn in the country is proof enough of a limited cunning.