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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

which were Germanized. If we take into account all the abovementioned, we can
understand why the teacher of Lithuanian was unable to answer the seemingly simple
question of his inquisitive pupil…

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In France Alexander and I went through the customs without any problem, like all
others though. We did not book a car for rent beforehand, because there was no way to
do that the day before the flight. Therefore, on arriving in Paris, we went to the airport
car rental service, hoping that we could rent a vehicle right on the spot. On spending
some time in line, we were informed that we could not get a car there without an
advance order. It disappointed us a little, but I asked the manager of the company
whether we could rent a car without a pre order. He advised us to go to the "Hertz"
company. There we could not only get a car without any pre-order but also choose a
quite spacious vehicle.

I picked out a Mercedes-Benz which turned out to be silver and almost new. On
dealing with all the formalities, we were ready to move, but came across a problem.
The GPS was in French and we failed to load new data into it. Alexander took the wheel
and we drove, hoping that we would see road signs which would indicate the direction
we needed but that did not happen. On circling around for about 30 or 40 minutes in
search of the necessary exit in the direction of the city of Tours, we decided to stop and
try another approach, since we had the GPS in Russian. It required just several minutes
to connect to the French navigational system, Alexander entered the address of our
Château and finally we got what we wanted–the device began to work! Everything
went all right afterwards. Many kilometres lay ahead of us. On making myself
comfortable in the seat, I became "disconnected" from time to time, because of the
monotony of the road and lack of normal sleep for a long time. In approximately an
hour we had a situation. Alexander "switched off" for several seconds. He had not slept
for several nights too.
So, we were both "out" for several seconds. When Alexander fell asleep, my
protection system worked. I woke up immediately and said "wake up" to Alexander. It
happened at the last moment, when the car rushed toward the concrete road safety
barrier at a speed of 130 km/h. Alexander woke up at once; his reaction was instant–
the car just slightly touched the barrier with its wheels. After a while Alexander stopped
the car and examined it. To our surprise everything was all right. There was not even a
scratch, not to mention anything serious. If it were not for my protective system, on
hitting the concrete barrier, the car, probably, at such a speed would have turned over
on the road in intensive traffic with all the effluent consequences.

But my protection and Alexander snapped into action very well. So, we deprived
the parasites of the pleasure of burying Svetlana and me at one and the same time.
Thereon our travelling adventures were over. There are a lot of toll roads in France; the
payment is relatively small, but still... Thanks to our GPS, we got right to the gate of
the Château. I called Frederic and she came in ten minutes and told us that the Château
had been sealed up by the Gendarmerie and that we could not even enter the kitchen
which was not sealed before. It was getting pretty dark and I declined Frederic’s offer
to make a tour of my property. She gave me the address of the hotel where she had

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