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  1 Note|         manners and~customs of the old Breton family, a social
  2 1   |           continue faithful to the old manners and customs~which
  3 1   |          more years and even~these old cities will be transformed
  4 1   |          elms.~ ~The houses of the old town have suffered no change;
  5 1   |     thought of Art, which in those old days gave life to inanimate
  6 1   |           from the du Guaisnics.~ ~Old as the granite of Brittany,
  7 1   |         the shields of many of the old families. Here it is,~such
  8 1   |           far as the~relics of the old designs allow us to judge,
  9 1   |    garlands of golden flowers. Two old~buffers face each other;
 10 1   |        Guaisnics are in 1830, four old~goblets, an ancient embossed
 11 1   |       garden is magnificent for so old a place. It covers half
 12 1   |           grace, and candor of the old~and noble Brittany still
 13 2   |      During his stay in Dublin the old Breton, despite~his fifty
 14 2   |          was then twenty-one years old. The Baron du~Guenic came
 15 2   |         final name of Louis.~ ~The old and loyal Breton was now
 16 2   |         tall, straight, wiry, lean old man. His oval~face was lined
 17 2   |        resemblance to those choice old men whom Van Ostade, Rembrandt,~
 18 2   |            shaving had obliged the old man to~let his beard grow,
 19 2   |            beyond all else in this old lion of Brittany with his~
 20 2   |          But, examining~that grand old man with sustained observation,
 21 2   |         the character of these two old~people (for the sister lived
 22 2   |           triumphant Bourbons, the~old sister, so saving and miserly
 23 2   |           from interest," said the old man.~"Besides, it is for
 24 2   |           of the du Guenics.~ ~The old Vendean, the old Chouan,
 25 2   |               The old Vendean, the old Chouan, had, some years
 26 2   |           line to line, nor to his old blind sister,~heroically
 27 2   |       friends~and the baroness and old Mademoiselle du Guenic by
 28 2   |         sister, he sat down in his old arm-~chair and ordered supper
 29 2   |     weakness and somnolence of the old man. The fresh defeat and~
 30 2   |            rejoice the eyes of the old baron. What a~charming,
 31 2   |         and the~sacred life of the old man's wife by surrounding
 32 2   |         the~household.~ ~These two old persons brought out in fine
 33 2   |         one of those coquetries of old age~which prove that pride
 34 2   |        band the atmosphere of that old room and burnished~the now
 35 2   |           its shining cloth on~the old oak table, enlivening the
 36 2   |         but~making no inquiry. The old woman studied the causes
 37 2   |          are not asleep," said the~old woman, slyly.~ ~At this
 38 2   |             He~was forty-two years old, and had been twenty-five
 39 2   |       charge of the household, the old maid~kissed the baroness
 40 3   |           de Pen-~Hoel," cried the old maid, eagerly.~ ~"Ah! mademoiselle,"
 41 3   |            The young girls and the old women all say that he is
 42 3   |    demoiselle was a thin, dried-up old maid, yellow as the~parchment
 43 3   |         bought at Guerande, and an old bonnet-shape, renewed every
 44 3   |          an~immutable pattern. The old lady still used the cane
 45 3   |            punished him," said the old lady; "he has nothing but~
 46 3   |           it was he~who helped the old maid to invest her savings.~ ~
 47 3   |       slightest attention that the old woman could~construe as
 48 3   |          supremacy accorded to her~old friend Zephirine and the
 49 3   |           France.~ ~Thus this rich old maid was nobility, pride,
 50 3   |            on the evening when the~old baron, the young chevalier,
 51 3   |      collected by him,charging the old hero to~offer the whole,
 52 3   |            usual indulgence of the old~women of the old school,
 53 3   |            of the old~women of the old school, but she held in
 54 3   |          competent officers of the old navy. He had won the confidence~
 55 3   |         had astonished the doughty old~admiral, Comte d'Estaing.
 56 3   |         this glorious relic of the old Breton navy the pension~
 57 3   |      faubourg Saint-Germain of the old Breton province, where~no
 58 4   | reimbursement in case they won. An old bachelor~could allow himself
 59 4   |        offered ten counters to the old maids, but under the honest
 60 4   |            of great emotion to the old blind sister. The baroness~
 61 4   |           recollections.~ ~"So the old Duc de Lenoncourt is dead,"
 62 4   |            gay smile played on the old woman's lips. Whenever the
 63 4   |           heir; she has married an old ambassador. My~visitor told
 64 4   |           property?" continued the old maid. "Oh, she is running
 65 4   |           and the rector. The four old people had gone to~their
 66 4   |            pockets of hers,for the old blind woman no longer~repressed
 67 4   |          her page had gone in, the old lady answered, confidentially,
 68 4   |            chevalier would let his old father~go to the field without
 69 4   |           A woman over forty years old!" exclaimed the baroness. "
 70 5   |          cutting it with a~pair of old scissors, took up once more
 71 5   |        these Catholic souls, these old people~exclusively concerned
 72 5   |            the dear boy," said the old sister, taking a~silver
 73 5   |         name, I suppose," said the old man. "I was called 'l'Intime,'~
 74 5   |           Mariotte?" exclaimed the old baron. "A Guenic~marry a
 75 5   |    baroness.~ ~"The Maupins are an old family," said the baron; "
 76 5   |           be an actress," said the old man. "Really,~Fanny, if
 77 5   |          not understand," said the~old woman, turning toward him.~ ~ ~"
 78 5   |         and sacred beliefs."~ ~The old maid rose, and solemnly
 79 5   |      making Fanny weep?" cried the old man, waking with a start
 80 5   |           My dear Fanny," said the old baron, with a jaunty air, "
 81 5   |            a Turk, and forty years~old. Our dear Calyste was certain
 82 5   |           you can then imagine the old baron~entering the lists
 83 6   |           herself by what right an old woman exercised so~absolute
 84 6   |          des Touches was two years old when her mother died,~killed
 85 6   |           Monsieur de Faucombe, an old man sixty years of age,
 86 6   |          those manias which enable old men to fancy themselves
 87 6   |           but abstained from deed. Old Faucombe was enchanted with
 88 6   |            books, which the~worthy old gentleman believed were
 89 6   |        works~of Beethoven, and her old friend Faucombe. In 1812,
 90 6   |       twenty-one years of age, the old archaeologist handed over
 91 6   |      resolved to leave Nantes; but old Faucombe~falling ill with
 92 6   |          she was twenty-five years old. She knew~nothing of marriage;
 93 6   |     childhood; her guardian~was an old archaeologist. Chance had
 94 6   |        with the mournful~period of old age. In Mademoiselle des
 95 6   |         dread she felt of a lonely old age; she~wanted to confide
 96 7   |       erected on the~ruins of some old castle formerly perched
 97 7   |      painted gray,~is furnished in old mahogany with green silk
 98 7   |            in~mahogany frames. The old staircase, of wood with
 99 8   |         Marquise de Rochefide. The old marquis (whose~family is
100 8   |             whose~family is not as old as yours), after marrying
101 8   |         Casteran, was twenty~years old at the time of her marriage
102 8   |         abnormal beings of us. Her old grandmother, the dowager
103 8   |        wine into a goblet, and the old housekeeper in~the background
104 8   |            a woman on the verge of old~age, I shall tell you that
105 8   |           up her~worsted-work; the old aunt took out her knitting.
106 8   |           Calyste," said his blind old aunt, interrupting~him. "
107 8   |          be found here," added the old~aunt in a low voice, with
108 8   |             After dinner, when the old aunt had taken up her knitting,
109 8   |          youth. Besides, how would old women end if it were not
110 9   |     hearing. The chevalier and the old maid, believing themselves~
111 9   |        woman of forty."~ ~Here the old people turned to retrace
112 9   |          Fanny to the baron.~ ~"An old Norman family, allied to
113 10  |            you a horrible parting; old~age you knew would end the
114 10  |           written above," said the old maid, interrupting Calyste, "
115 10  | Saint-Nazaire~after her," said the old blind woman to Mariotte,
116 10  |          like so many magpies. The old maid was~questioning Gasselin
117 10  |            to see her, dragged her old sister forward, paying no~
118 10  |          the viscountess boldly.~ ~Old Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel,
119 10  |          mother has had," said the old maid, taking her~niece's
120 10  |           telling lies?" asked the old~maid.~ ~"Since the Pen-Hoels
121 10  |            with her?" demanded the old maid.~ ~"I have been, but
122 11  |           the Portendueres, and to old Admiral~de Kergarouet, whose
123 11  |          rubbed his hands. The two old~maids were as lively as
124 11  |          teapot and some beautiful~old English china sent to the
125 11  |      marquise.~ ~"I am forty years old, and I love him!" said Mademoiselle
126 11  |           within the walls of that old mansion.~ ~Feverish irritability,
127 12  |      astonished mother. To her the old mansion seemed to have~taken
128 12  |            of the chevalier?" said old Zephirine, addressing~her
129 12  |          mistress," he~said to the old gentleman in a whisper.~ ~"
130 12  |       think, she is young and I am old; her~heart is full of treasures,
131 12  |       myself, I am not forty years old; I have not bent my pride~
132 12  |            all about it," said the old~chevalier, striking an attitude. "
133 12  |         listened pleasantly to the old hero, who, faithful to the~
134 12  |          Thisbe was eighteen years~old.~ ~The baroness ran up to
135 12  |          step upon the sands of my~old Brittany will bless them
136 13  |          handsome woman," said the old~maid.~ ~"My dear," said
137 14  |   resembles the look-out towers of old castles,~from which the
138 14  |      stretch~as far as Batz. A few old men declare that in days
139 14  |         woman like herself do with old age, having~already drunk
140 14  |           the rock above them. The old Breton was~followed by Camille,
141 15  |         cautiously. No one in that~old manor-house was capable
142 16  |    diseased about the lad. The two old maids and the rector, pursuing~
143 16  |            her aunt, defending the old~sailor, combated.~ ~"I shall
144 16  |          doesn't say a word," said old Zephirine, "and there's
145 16  |            timidly.~ ~"Come, come, old gray-beard, you've forgotten
146 16  |         breakfast to-morrow," said old Zephirine to her friend~
147 16  |         him a few days' grace. The old~baron rubbed his hands with
148 16  |             He had divined in that old man an apostle of his~own
149 16  |         for life itself," said the old~man, pointing to Thisbe. "
150 16  |                Calyste thanked the old man, whose existence he
151 16  |           the coaxing wisdom of an old man.~ ~"We can talk of Madame
152 16  |          recovered a little of his old strength; he grew~younger
153 16  |         Demands were made upon the old woman for wood, father and
154 16  |          now the color of wax. The old woman~dropped her knitting,
155 16  |          and at length~drew out an old chaplet of black wood, on
156 16  |           fervor which gave to her old and withered face a splendor
157 16  |            vigorous that the other old woman imitated her friend,
158 16  |           Calyste."~ ~"She!" cried old Zephirine, "the author of
159 16  |          get~out of it," cried the old woman passionately. "She
160 16  |             replied Calyste.~ ~The old man dropped into a chair.~ ~"
161 16  |         sister-in-law's reply, the old maid ran her~hands through
162 16  |          by one, into her lap. The old Pen-Hoel gazed at this~performance
163 16  |     understand the attitude of his old blind friend, holding out~
164 16  |         his father's face, for the old man was exhausted by the~
165 16  |         the last sacraments to the old Breton warrior. The whole~
166 16  |        probable extinction of this old Breton race was~felt to
167 16  |          last hour of~the glorious old defender of the monarchy,
168 16  |            coming on of death. The old man died in his chair in~
169 16  |          leaning~on the arm of the old Chevalier du Halgaa spectre
170 16  |            house, and show you~the old carvings bathed in its beams,
171 16  |         the household~in charge of old Zephirine.~ ~ ~
172 17  |          Sabine, just twenty years old, was the~only disposable
173 17  |         the fallen standard of the old du~Guenics; show to this
174 17  |          your children~and of your old Breton house than of you
175 17  |           young brides and to many old women. All those who find~
176 17  |         disdainful rejection of an~old and faded beauty!~ ~Still,
177 17  |            have stepped~from those old tapestries as if to prove
178 17  |             the feudal system and /old/ France. The whole scene
179 17  |        that when we arrived at the old castle! The~rector came
180 17  |          like an opera chorus. The old men talked of Calyste's
181 17  |         continued, "that I was too old to be received among the~
182 18  |           live in the ruins of the old chateau.~Calyste, worried
183 18  |        disappear saying,~'I am too old for him!' that is ending
184 18  |           the interrogation of the old footman:~"Monsieur's name?"
185 18  |         francs.~Still served by an old footman, a maid, and a cook
186 18  |             On the first floor the old~servant opened, in order
187 18  |          mantel-shelf two cases~of old celadon, between which gleamed
188 18  |   continued with dignity, when the old man had left the room; "
189 18  |       Antoine," she said, when the old footman entered, "send this~
190 19  |           d like to see that grand old~name of Guenic become once
191 19  |           the greenish tinge of an old Venetian mirror.~ ~"You!
192 19  |            As for you, Calyste, an old woman like me understands
193 19  |             a~happy woman, and the old /accoucheur/, a confirmed
194 20  |            great dining-room of an old mansion,~served by silent
195 20  |          soon be thirty-five years~old."~ ~She refused to go to
196 21  |            am not thirty-six years old. In the eyes of~some men
197 21  |        face as white as that of an old woman, chilled by~priestly
198 22  |           circumstance, never grow old.~ ~As a husband, he was
199 22  |  four-footed harem, governed by an~old English groom, which cost
200 22  |         the name of her father, an old~soldier of the Empire, that
201 22  |     Schiltz, then about~nine years old, at Saint-Denis. Having
202 22  |            my dear marquis," cried old Prince Galathionne~as he
203 22  |           prince they wasted their~old age.~ ~"Listen to me," she
204 23  |            flower, given to him by~old Blondet of Alencon, father
205 24  |          will soon be twelve years old, and he finds in Madame~
206 25  |           between~himself and some old fellows who habitually sunned
207 25  |            reasons for distrusting old men.~ ~"Have you debts?"
208 25  |               The two /roues/, the old and the young, rose. As
209 25  |           is right. Don't you see, old fellow,~that generous actions
210 25  |         getting to be~eighty years old. Now, if you know how to
211 25  |           France. As for that poor old fellow," she continued,
212 25  |          She is thirty-seven years old, that Schontz of yours,
213 26  |           watch over her, although old Antoine~was always there
214 26  |          know nothing about it, my old fellow. When Arthur came
215 26  |         marries~me in spite of his old motherbut /you/'"~ ~"I see!
216 26  |           but the~vigilance of her old footman, Antoine, defeated
217 26  |        When Beatrix heard from the old servant who had called and