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At Creil, where we stopped to lunch, we left the canoes in another floating lavatory, which, as it was high noon, was packed with washerwomen, red-handed and loud-voiced.

The church at Creil was a nondescript place in the inside, splashed with gaudy lights from the windows, and picked out with medallions of the Dolorous Way.

But there was one oddity, in the way of an ex voto, which pleased me hugely: a faithful model of a canal boat, swung from the vault, with a written aspiration that God should conduct the Saint Nicolas of Creil to a good haven.

But the Saint Nicolas of Creil, which was to be tugged for some ten years by patient draught-horses, in a weedy canal, with the poplars chattering overhead, and the skipper whistling at the tiller.

At Creil, as at Noyon, Saint Joseph seemed a favourite saint on the score of punctuality.

But there was something worse than foolishness placarded in Creil Church.

Suppose you were to imitate the exciseman, mesdames, and even if the souls in purgatory were not greatly bettered, some souls in Creil upon the Oise would find themselves none the worse either here or hereafter.

Like the ladies of Creil, having recited my rosary of toleration, I look for my indulgence on the spot.

At Creil, a captain tried to induce Guillot and Demonts to point out the houses of the richest inhabitants, and their refusal cost them harsh treatment.

After talking to Gen­eral Ebener, Gallieni went on to see Maunoury at Creil on the Oise, thirty miles north of Paris.

Senlis and Creil, after Kluck’s Army had passed over, were in flames and the Mayor of Senlis dead.

Within a month Charles’s physical recovery had progressed well enough for Harsigny to take him to the castle of Creil high above the river Oise, where he could enjoy “the best air in the region of Paris.