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If he had cut her , he would have shown less contempt than in that stiff raising of the hat . Julie turned and walked straight down to the Condamine , forgetting that her shoes were tight . -LSB- Illustration : CHAPTER NINE -RSB- THE LAST WORD OF MADEMOISELLE -LSB- Illustration : R -RSB- Rosemary chose the toys for the children of the rock village , and then the `` picnic '' began . The car whizzed them up the zigzag road to La Turbie , while the noon sunshine still gilded Caesar 's Trophy . They lunched in the Moorish restaurant , and then sped on along the Upper Corniche , with a white sea of snow mountains billowing away to the right , and a sea of sapphire spreading to the horizon , on their left . Out from orange groves and olives they saw the hill of Éze rising like a horn ; while on its almost pointed apex , the old town hung like some carved fetish , to keep away the witches . The car swooped down , and up again ; but half way up the rocky horn the wide white road turned into a stone paved mule path , old as the Romans .