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                       The Girls From Fieu Dayol

                          By ROBERT F. YOUNG

                      They were lovely and quick
                       to learn--and their only
                       faults were little ones!

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
             Worlds of If Science Fiction, September 1961.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Up until the moment when he first looked into Hippolyte Adolphe Taine's
_History of English Literature_, Herbert Quidley's penchant for old
books had netted him nothing in the way of romance and intrigue.
Not that he was a stranger to either. Far from it. But hitherto the
background for both had been bedrooms and bars, not libraries.

On page 21 of the Taine tome he happened upon a sheet of y