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1 X | foundered thereabouts in 1778 with a~cargo of treasure
2 IV | In the Emigration of 1789 there were some traces of
3 IV | Hanover at this day.~ ~In 1814 the noblesse of France were
4 VII | the~meeting-house.' Now 1815 was your battle of Dreux.
5 IV | consummated, which is to say, in 1816. By that time the~revolution
6 IV | more~notably the case in 1820. The Faubourg Saint-Germain
7 X | catastrophe of~the story.~ ~In 1823 the Duc de Langeais was
8 X | through five years. Only in 1829 did the Duc de~Navarreins
9 IX | scorned the guillotine of '89 as a foul revenge.~ ~Another
10 IV | the aristocracy~that lay a-dying, and would not so much as
11 X | from the walls before the~Abbess, followed by the nuns, returned
12 IX | Religious ecstasy is the aberration~of a soul that has shaken
13 IX | holds his~younger brother in abhorrence; he would be glad to think
14 II | enfold you, and I shall abide~here under the brown shroud
15 VIII| as she would perform her ablutions.~ ~She would sponge love
16 VII | nonsense with its pretension to abolish~God."~ ~Theological and
17 IV | by the Revolution and the abolition of the law~of primogeniture
18 VIII| about her. "Armand! this is abominable of you! ~Come, leave the
19 III | ill-health, asked for leave of absence, and forthwith took his~
20 III | Holy~Father himself shall absolve you of your oath. I will
21 VIII| consult his cornac, was abstracted and ill at~ease. M. de Ronquerolles
22 IV | connubial couch was~exhibited so absurdly to visitors at the Palais
23 IX | exquisite refinement of~accent, an urbane courtesy, and
24 VIII| end into~the most musical accents in which a woman could find
25 III | ages; the fact is always accepted~by the people; its "reasons
26 VII | man is bound to nothing by accepting the gift. Who will assure~
27 IV | soon as they cease~to be accessories and take the chief place
28 II | the sound of the sea for accompaniment.~ ~Storm was without, and
29 I | sighing after~the long suicide accomplished in the breast of God. No
30 X | these bold spirits, with one accord, determined to take the
31 V | service. In the artillery, accordingly, the~general rule of the
32 III | foundations of her clear accurate language, and a~language
33 VIII| If I chose, I might be accuser and judge in my cause, and~
34 VIII| was not~that in itself an acknowledgment of her power?~ ~"Nothing
35 VI | with ceremony, or a mere acquaintance in whom I~felt but slight
36 VI | known, however, through his acquaintances, among the principal~men
37 IX | brother say that he was acquainted with~him."~ ~Mme de Langeais
38 VII | Theological and political disputes acted like a cold douche on~Montriveau;
39 VII | Armand's eyes; she was~not acting, she was genuine; the unhappy
40 III | lower spheres of social~activity, emphasised by differences
41 VII | through~which the fair actress appeared to find it hard
42 IV | ineffectual high aspirations, the actual pettiness, the~coolness
43 IX | extraordinary thing, he is very acute. He was~dining at the club
44 VII | gift of her heart save by~adding the gift of her person.
45 VII | has~allowed herself to be addressed as a Divinity, and thereby
46 IX | muttered M. de Navarreins, addressing the Vidame.~ ~The Princess
47 VII | kind which never~deserts an adept in the formulas of feminine
48 X | Langeais bade her a graceful adieu and went up~to her room.
49 IX | toilette; in a moment she had adjusted her dress and restored her~
50 VI | in~the least details. He admired Mme de Langeais herself
51 VI | Talleyrand, one of~her great admirers, said, she knew how to take
52 IV | had set~their minds upon admission to those inner sanctuaries.
53 VIII| have no love for me"~ ~"Admit, at any rate, that at this
54 III | nor anything~else that admits of a precise definition.
55 VI | reflections.~ ~He could not help admitting to himself that of all the
56 IV | damaged its cause, nor yet adopt the policy that might have~
57 X | His~plans were made and adopted in a moment. They would
58 IV | So far,~moreover, from adopting a policy of redemption,
59 X | Theresae, and her motto, Adoremus in aeternum. Suddenly~his
60 I | intervening chapels which adorn almost all cathedrals, nor~
61 IX | understood what studied adornment and the most~minute attention
62 II | when she threw off worldly~adornments for the veil and the Carmelite'
63 IV | made it a boast that he had adroitly~argued some few heads out
64 IV | still; she lives on incense, adulation, and honours. No beauty,~
65 V | the service the chances of advancement were not many. ~There are
66 VI | any rate, he had all the advantages of wealth. The King's~government,
67 X | went out on that terrible adventure which~so drew me to you,
68 VI | Montriveau by war and a life of adventure--these know what it is~to
69 VI | Montriveau left France.~ ~An adventurous spirit, a loftiness of thought
70 X | the nature of comment or~adviceLet us chat and laugh together,"
71 IV | outset the Crown lacked an adviser~equal to so great a crisis,
72 X | other hand, a mysterious, aerial descent~which should persuade
73 X | and her motto, Adoremus in aeternum. Suddenly~his companion
74 IX | sounds may traverse from afar. In her tense~self-concentration,
75 VI | Rochefide, it seems), that affair made it clear to my mind
76 VI | changes of~movement, the one affectation that could be laid to her
77 IX | the Duchess~kissed with affectionate respect.~ ~"Yes, dear mother;
78 IX | She kissed her niece very affectionately on the forehead, and~continued
79 VIII| you. You~are wasting your affections on her when they might be
80 II | coarse serge. She~who had affirmed her love last evening in
81 VII | women feel that they cannot afford to lose time or to~quibble
82 VI | that unexplored Central Africa which occupies the~learned
83 VI | forgotten like his~studies of African dialects, his discoveries,
84 VII | selfish of you to ask~my whole after-life of me for a moment of pleasure.
85 IX | was, the Duchess seemed agitated,~yet she replied in a natural
86 III | love. If your remorse long ago was~sincere, you ought not
87 IV | tired woman,~was ready to agree to anything; never was mismanagement
88 IX | four was a thin voice that~agreed peculiarly well with their
89 IX | own interests. Let us~look ahead a little. If you persist
90 IX | the moment, the Marquis d'Aiglemont, was a~fine, tall man.~ ~
91 X | me alone with Antoinette. Ail three of you come and dine~
92 II | heart; it blossomed upon the air--the air~that a man would
93 VI | Mme de Beauseant and M. d'Ajuda (for he is going to marry
94 VIII| love, but it was certainly akin to other feelings which~
95 VIII| chest of drawers with an alarum clock by way of ornament,
96 VII | the formulas of feminine algebra. If so many~women, and even
97 IV | Congress, the taking of~Algiers, and not a few names that
98 IV | nobles of the Court which alienated them from itself--all these~
99 X | albeit I shall still be alive, you yourself~will not think
100 IV | Saint-Germain existed at all--which is to say, ever~since
101 II | whom he was~staying. In the all-absorbing joy which comes in such
102 II | pleasure of finding that~all-important nothing which had come to
103 II | dim dusk of the room; an all-pervasive thought nowhere~definitely
104 IV | not whole-hearted in its allegiance to the~Tuileries, and so
105 IX | perhaps, blame me for seeking alleviations, but you will~certainly
106 X | Montriveau in a~deserted alley, and said with a smile, "
107 X | single imprudence means an allowance and a wandering~life; it
108 III | If~by any chance a nation allows its head to fall at its
109 IX | recorded year by year in the~Almanach de Gotha, wherefore without
110 VI | how to plead, to beg for alms, to wait? And~as for the
111 IV | which hitherto they held aloof, and took their~place high
112 VII | he is conscious that the alphabet and phraseology of~music
113 VII | concerned, at my~fancy, as you alter the hands of a watch. If
114 III | realities undergo no essential alteration.~
115 VIII| enough to bear such sudden alternations from the height~of happiness
116 | although
117 V | way she satisfied a man's ambitions. A~lover constantly bears
118 IV | diminished, they grew less amenable to discipline; and as in
119 III | Italy, Spain, Sicily, and~America. Love burned more brightly
120 X | crew of the~vessel were all American sailors, who spoke nothing
121 IX | classic rouge. An appalling amiability in~her wrinkles, a prodigious
122 IX | bonds of flesh; whereas in~amorous ecstasy all the forces of
123 X | de~Grandlieu, "but it all amounts to nothing when your jointure
124 I | arranged~for the most part amphitheatre-wise above a picturesque harbour,~
125 III | phenomenon which presents~ample matter for reflection to
126 VIII| him that his lungs drew an ampler breath.~ ~In the course
127 VII | commonplaces, no rhetorical amplifications. No. She had a~"pulpit-tremor"
128 VII | with a woman whose prattle amuses you?--a woman whom you~take
129 V | the strength of~which she analysed the love that she had never
130 X | so that~she might lie at anchor in safety half a league
131 I | distance from the coast of Andalusia.~ ~If the rumour of the
132 VII | of the spirit~and senses. Andiamo mio ben can draw tears of
133 VI | to prescribed~rule. The anecdotes which people were pleased
134 I | view~to boot? The Duc d'Angouleme was still in Spain; and
135 VI | talk was interesting and animated, and full of those first~
136 VI | extraordinary debate in the annals of travel. The~district
137 IX | wishing that she could annihilate everything that lay~between
138 VII | himself. A set purpose was annihilated by a~word, and definite
139 IX | them betrayed any sign of annoyance over the Duchess's~escapade,
140 IX | lifetime, only~keeping an annuity. She made over the Guebriant
141 VII | husband; a marriage long since annulled was no great~sacrifice to
142 VII | thoughts and motives, in the answers which he framed and could~
143 III | differently situated; and of their antagonism there is~bred a seeming
144 IV | nor less, had neither the antecedents of~the petits maitres of
145 IV | arrangements of the kind. Two more~antipathetic dispositions could not well
146 III | there is~bred a seeming antipathy produced by the performance
147 IX | consequence.~ ~This curious antique, seated in a low chair by
148 VI | uncompromising uprightness worthy of~antiquity, or perhaps it was known
149 II | be quite impossible for anybody whatsoever; but,~strict
150 | anywhere
151 III | and the rich who always ape the~great nobles, build
152 II | he would have known how appallingly~thin she had grown; and
153 VII | stopped~his mouth with an appeal for mercy. She would not
154 VIII| rate, the natural woman appears in their~love without any
155 IX | win for that~monarch his appellation of le Bien-aime. Of her
156 IX | in life, fear loses~its appetite for common food. She reached
157 VI | might, perhaps, have been applied by Montriveau to his~own
158 VIII| Saint-Germain. He had made an appointment at a house~not far from
159 I | had met in the intuitive~apprehension of the same poetry. So at
160 X | that secure the island from approach in this direction. If~fishing
161 VI | going.~ ~The next moment she approved the exchange of pleasures
162 VI | after the manner of the Arabs~among whom he had lived;
163 I | the winds are~so high, the architect was unable to build the
164 III | themselves--unity, in short? Architecture, music, and~poetry, everything
165 X | bliss that is foreseen~and ardently desired. Alas, my friend,
166 IV | boast that he had adroitly~argued some few heads out of the
167 IX | impartially until some poet~shall arise to tell how joyfully the
168 IV | continually assimilates aristocrats made~by chance; and finally
169 VI | everything he was rigorous as arithmetic; he never~permitted the
170 IV | whole was none the less armed with all the great~principles
171 VII | forger of the Duchess's armoury of scruples. ~ ~That an
172 VIII| criminal, so that I may~arouse your conscience. If you
173 I | its close-huddled roofs, arranged~for the most part amphitheatre-wise
174 IX | calling upon one another, arranging to read her a~homily and
175 IX | France, that the observer arrives at a true comprehension
176 IV | scruples~degenerated into artifice. With more wilfulness than
177 VIII| Is this another of your~artifices? or is it not? You have
178 VIII| with~her brains what less artificial women do with"~ ~"What is
179 IV | to it. ~This was a woman artificially educated, but in reality
180 III | nobles. The shopkeeper and artisan are just going to bed when~
181 VI | high virtues, to reward~artists and stir new life with noble
182 II | these three forms~of poetry ascend to God, in whom all passion
183 X | way along the corridors, ascertain~whether the sister's names
184 VIII| took out his watch, and ascertained the~hour with a truly appalling
185 X | companions took the men ashore in the~ship's longboat,
186 VI | her feet.~ ~"Madame, in Asia your feet would be worth
187 IX | to the ball. He was fast asleep.~ ~"Have you been here all
188 IV | semi-passion,~the ineffectual high aspirations, the actual pettiness, the~
189 VII | to "Yes."~ ~"I am a great ass," he said, kissing her hands.
190 I | below high-water mark. Any assault is made impossible by~the
191 IX | department of the Constituent Assembly was sure to compound with~
192 X | read as a boy."~ ~"Yes," assented Montriveau, "it is nothing
193 IV | France were called upon to assert their~superiority over the
194 VI | Yet, after two~months of assiduities, she saw with a vague dread
195 X | her agony.~ ~"You owe this assignation to your eighty-four years,
196 IV | of cold; they should have assimilated him, as the~English House
197 IV | House of Lords continually assimilates aristocrats made~by chance;
198 IX | gentleman, he will come to our assistance. We will bring these~children
199 IX | affected~Canning in a court of assize. Not one of the women who
200 VIII| returned she, smiling with~assumed grace. "And when is my head
201 VII | never! Nothing gives me assurance of your love. You speak
202 VII | accepting the gift. Who will assure~me that love will last?
203 III | time. France~has been led astray many a time, but she is
204 X | new creature? a creature athrob with the life~but just begun
205 IV | fashion she had~her dames d'atours, her ladies, who modelled
206 II | he is a priest specially attached to the~services of the house
207 VI | of a woman to whom no man attaches himself? Oh, she is~heartless,
208 VI | despise it; living without attaching themselves to life, because~
209 VIII| call her servants, she was attacked by~several men, who rapidly
210 IV | leisure; the higher education attainable at a much~earlier age; and
211 II | thoughts of him. Love~seldom attains to solemnity; yet surely
212 X | jest; but now and again the attempted illusion~faded, the spell
213 IX | problem~before him if he attempts to consider love in all
214 IX | gain a dispensation from attendance on the~Princess and from
215 IX | at the servant who had attended her~to the ball. He was
216 IX | the respect, none of the attentions of love. Had~I not reason
217 VIII| will~untie you. But listen attentively to what I have the honour
218 IX | Comtesse de~Granville, the attorney-general's wife.~ ~While the Chateau,
219 VIII| with a semblance of love to attract an unfortunate creature
220 VII | so baffled~the physical attraction which at times showed her
221 III | intellectual simplicity of an idea attracts them;~they like the incisive
222 II | and the brightness of His attributes shines through it.~ ~And
223 VII | this feat. ~With all his audacity, he lacked this precise
224 II | sent a shiver through the audience that~raised the hair on
225 III | Montorgueil. ~Sint ut sunt, aut non sint, the grand words
226 II | permission, subject to an authorisation from the Archbishop,~for
227 X | people at the inn and the~authorities asked no more questions.~ ~
228 VII | absolute power than~the Autocrat of all the Russias. I have
229 X | off like~a bullet down the avenue.~ ~Two days after the fruitless
230 X | no feeling towards me but~aversion, which implies both contempt
231 VII | What would I not do to avert the calamities with which
232 IX | mark with diamonds, and so avoiding~people's questions. In short,
233 X | violence of the passion~awakened in either soul will doubtless
234 X | prettiness. In some~faces love awakens amid the wrinkles carved
235 IV | political physician; so well aware of~its feebleness, or so
236 II | God for her, to snatch her away--a rash scheme,~which appealed
237 VII | Mme de Langeais was silent awhile.~ ~"At least," she said,
238 IX | elegant~rendering of the legal axiom, "The form is of more consequence~
239 VIII| will never get~beyond the A B C. But you are in love with
240 VI | ambitious~souls; to listen to a babbler with every appearance of~
241 VIII| was lying on a couch in a bachelor's lodging, her hands and~
242 IV | in continuity, was always backed up by the~central power,
243 IV | their Faubourg, with their backs against the Chateau, or
244 II | gestures became when love must baffle lynx eyes and tiger's~claws!
245 IX | the Duc de Navarreins.~ ~"Bah!" returned the Princess.~ ~"
246 IX | For the Duchess, on the balcony of the Tuileries with the~
247 VI | love feel like a worthless bale flung into the deep,~while
248 II | caressing notes; it fell like balm~on the lover's burning heart;
249 I | to climb upon the narrow balustrade in the~gallery to look down
250 VI | taste leads them to avoid banalities, refrained from~overwhelming
251 VIII| other door by~which the band had entered was likewise
252 III | been shaven; there was a bandage round her forehead and about
253 IX | ready, Armand," she said, bandaging her eyes.~ ~"Can you see?"~ ~"
254 VII | souls), he would have been a banished man~forever, accused and
255 III | time it was~occupied by a banker. Later still, the noblesse
256 II | indisposition, to preside at~the banquet given by the town to the
257 IX | etat~for a woman as that barber's knife-thrust, which so
258 IX | start~up under the stinging barbs of irony? Then Mme de Langeais
259 X | inside the parlour. The rest, barefooted,~took up their posts along
260 IX | The first of~these was the Baron de Maulincour. That young
261 X | not believe them. The du Barry, my dear,~was quite as good
262 IX | felt by men of~ability for bartering their ideas for such pitiful
263 IV | domaine-argent alike, the only solid bases of an organised~society;
264 VIII| the door as~if he were the basest of wretches. Here my mind
265 II | the last~rumblings of the bass sent a shiver through the
266 VI | still moist from~the scented bath, has a soft freshness, a
267 IV | And what is the marshal's baton~without the innate power
268 IV | Saint-Germain took to playing with batons, and~fancied that all the
269 VII | even rejoiced over those battles. He mistook the~Duchess'
270 X | our trysting place shall~be--in heaven. Strength and
271 X | was firmly~planted in the beach at their feet. With ingenuity
272 VIII| horse or~other fearsome beast; she will certainly drop
273 X | count up the losses of the~beaten side. And in any case I
274 I | that ever set a man's heart beating~opened out widely before
275 X | were alone, the Princess beckoned her niece to~a little low
276 | becomes
277 VIII| straight to~the Duchess's bedroom.~ ~"This is an unheard-of
278 VIII| of ornament, a~very low bedstead with a coverlet flung over
279 VIII| dreadful misfortune will befall you before this day is out."~ ~"
280 VII | there was a stateliness befitting a dignitary of the Church;
281 VI | dressing-gown ingeniously befrilled, lying languidly~stretched
282 X | her on~either cheek, and begged him to go at once. He must
283 VIII| mystics, in ecstasy, to~behold the Light of God. Love would
284 IV | Faubourg~Saint-Germain, beholding his material superiority,
285 IX | and~men are ungrateful beings. When I was in Germany,
286 I | triple-arched~Gothic doorways, belfry towers, and filigree spires,
287 VI | His~wounds kept him in Belgium he was not present at the
288 II | the bright, youthful eyes belied the wrinkles that~furrowed
289 I | the wonderful sound of bells pealing~out over the open
290 IV | whole party to which he belongs;~there is Coligny, for instance,
291 VII | and senses. Andiamo mio ben can draw tears of joy or
292 III | could be popularised. The benefits of political~harmony are
293 III | whiteness and the colour of the Bengal rose, had given place to
294 III | for the~Duc de Maine--the Benjamin among his legitimated offspring.
295 IV | rejoicings over the Duc de Berri's marriage. The Court~and
296 IX | through the rooms she was beset with enquiries and~regrets.
297 III | strike the imagination, the~best-modulated melodies are taken over
298 VI | Langeais gives me liberty to bestow my~heart; but law and custom
299 VI | nearly~always the first to betray the secret?--a secret of
300 X | forever in a single night. A betrayal of the secret was~impossible;
301 IX | perhaps; and if the~trustee betrays your confidence, your children
302 IX | each in its own land, to~a betrothed bride, full of love, made
303 II | she is a woman still; she betrothes herself to a Heavenly~Bridegroom.
304 IV | youth that blended all her bewildering~characteristics in a certain
305 IX | believe me. But now, let us bid each~other goodbye. I like
306 VIII| Ronquerolles would very likely have bidden him~compromise the Duchess
307 IX | monarch his appellation of le Bien-aime. Of her past charms of~feature,
308 IV | the~light of a prudish and bigoted Court turned full upon the~
309 IX | day she wrote. It was a billet of the kind in which the~
310 VII | the quick volubility of a~bird-organ. Nor, truly, was there anything
311 IV | above enumerated are the birthright of the French~noblesse,
312 VII | glances~exchanged with the bishop-designate told him that here was the~
313 VII | of Lords, had no bench of bishops. Nevertheless, the Abbe~
314 VIII| you feel something that bites more deeply than the knife
315 IX | people,' could only be a~black-hearted scoundrel. I can see Monsieur
316 III | heaven, I would"~ ~"Do not blaspheme."~ ~"So do not fear the
317 VI | continued his~march, with some blasphemings against science; he was
318 VII | petticoat, betook himself to blasphemy and railed~against Providence.
319 VIII| behind the curtains grow to~a blaze, as if blown up by a pair
320 IV | the scutcheon of power is~blazoned; our modern aristocracy
321 VI | strength failing,~his feet were bleeding, he asked if they should
322 VI | they seem~to mingle and blend.~ ~"I have kept you waiting,"
323 II | sense of things divine are blent with a grandeur~unknown
324 III | me to pray for~heaven's blessing on you. I never pray for
325 III | have changed, and worn,~and blighted it? I ought to have given
326 IX | her eyes.~ ~"You must be blindfolded; you must not see a glimpse
327 II | and a God hidden by the blinding light of the~Sanctuary.
328 VI | any plausible~pretext, nor blinked the consequences of a fact.
329 II | moment," said the confessor, blinking. "I will speak about~it."~ ~"
330 VIII| be a woman. On that most blissful~evening, the sweetest prelude
331 X | end of the island, a sheer block of granite, afforded even
332 X | by so much~love might yet bloom for the two lovers. These
333 III | charm of youth~that once bloomed there, all the fair contrast
334 X | him seemed to break into~blossom again at the breath of that
335 II | lover's burning heart; it blossomed upon the air--the air~that
336 VIII| which she had just seen were~blowing up the fire, no doubt; the
337 VIII| curtains grow to~a blaze, as if blown up by a pair of bellows;
338 VIII| only softened by~repeated blows; and as suffering develops
339 V | returned~home, she often blushed at the story that had made
340 IV | lampoons of a man who made it a boast that he had adroitly~argued
341 VI | of humiliating~those who boasted of their progress in her
342 III | let yourself down into a boat at the foot of the cliffs. ~
343 X | according to the self-styled boatswain's mate, were looking for~
344 IX | is a~rare exception, and boeotianism is current coin in every
345 VIII| it was ready, heated, and boiling. ~Lightnings flashed from
346 VI | would have frightened the boldest;~something in his face seemed
347 X | difficulties to men~who combined boldness and a convict's dexterity
348 V | Joubert's side at Novi. Bonaparte had placed his son~at the
349 VII | had not to wait for her bond-slave's request to guess~his desire.
350 VII | vulgar desires. ~We become bond-slaves when we give ourselves body
351 VI | yoke of the senses, and his~bondage made the heavier by his
352 X | I forbid you to kiss my bones. Old people~have a courtesy
353 I | and the end in view~to boot? The Duc d'Angouleme was
354 VI | appeared in a ballroom in boots and a black tie, nobody
355 VIII| red cloth with~a black key border--all these things made part
356 VII | of~the world, while they borrowed extremes of degradation
357 I | so deeply buried in the bosom of the Church, that~hitherto
358 VII | I certainly can open the bottom of my heart~to you; you
359 X | her heart. She reached the Boulevard d'Enfer, and~looked out
360 III | gardens beyond~the line of the boulevards began to fill with houses,
361 V | Napoleon; his interests were bounded by himself, any~day he might
362 VIII| come at your call. You have boundless~power over men: but remember
363 II | victory of the House of Bourbon."~ ~"I told them the reason
364 V | patronising, friendly, or freezing~bows, with the air natural to
365 IX | know all about it. Little boys grow up into men, and~men
366 VI | source of the coxcomb's bragging~so common in France; for
367 IV | required to have a capacious~brain-pan. Skill and knowledge and
368 X | so as to present to the breakers that particular curve~discovered
369 X | the life~but just begun breaks forth for him alone, from
370 II | the~effluence of a soul breathed forth with love in the words
371 IX | fragrance to~the flower that breathes it forth. We soon leave
372 IX | their wit than for~their breeding and political consistency,
373 X | took her own measures, and bribed M.~de Montriveau's man,
374 II | betrothes herself to a Heavenly~Bridegroom. Of the monk you may ask, "
375 X | instinct. Fragile as these bridges were, they were always~ready
376 VIII| the gleams of flame grew brighter, and she fancied that three~
377 X | Duchess displayed all the brilliancy of~her wit; she was more
378 VII | splendour. And she~talked brilliantly.~ ~The Church, she maintained,
379 I | mountainsides, set down on the brink of precipices, in every~
380 VIII| The broken-spirited, broken-hearted woman looked up, her eyes~
381 VIII| and will strike."~ ~The broken-spirited, broken-hearted woman looked
382 IX | a Montriveau is a man of bronze," said they;~"he insisted
383 II | story of long melancholy~broodings, of the slow course of her
384 X | revolting. Those are the~brothels of French history.~ ~"This
385 IX | Serizy's courtyard; your brougham may~likewise be found in
386 II | monastery of the order of St. Bruno~without a special permission
387 II | under her veil,~perhaps to brush tears away, "I am Sister
388 VIII| look for death; but if the brute shows a milder mood and
389 IV | at full length over the Budget, a single blow cut the thread
390 I | and windows of monastic buildings. From the side~of the town,
391 VIII| she wondered? Would~that bull-necked man dash out her vitals
392 X | mare, who sped off like~a bullet down the avenue.~ ~Two days
393 VI | duck~upon occasion to avoid bullets. He was kindly; but his~
394 IV | gilding it with~poetry, these bunglers in the Government chose
395 IV | wrongs~more easily than bungling.~ ~If the noblesse meant
396 IX | all the~noblest houses of Burgundy. If the Dulmen branch of
397 IV | something pitilessly cruel to burn the dead~body of it with
398 VI | looked~almost black, like burnished gold.~ ~"I have made a mistake,"
399 IX | all of you, my~forehead burns hotter than your fire!"~ ~
400 VII | a woman is, as it~were, bursting with a certain quantity
401 II | any number of motives for burying himself in a monastery;
402 III | unseemly surroundings than the bustle, the mud, the street~cries,
403 X | she longed to know; and so busy~was she ransacking the inner
404 IX | oh, that~no one can deny, but--ill regulated to the last
405 I | unable to build the flying buttresses~and intervening chapels
406 IV | court and traditions of bygone feuds~between the nobles
407 IV | in the~last days of the Byzantine Empire, everyone wished
408 VIII| never get~beyond the A B C. But you are in love with
409 X | Montriveau, down in the cabin, was left alone with Antoinette
410 IX | power in the land. The whole Cabinet des~Chartes was entered
411 X | out of the water. Then two cables of iron wire were fastened~
412 X | particular curve~discovered by Cachin, the immortal creator of
413 VII | would I not do to avert the calamities with which you~threaten
414 III | London, in Geneva as in Calcutta. ~Given a certain number
415 VI | as furnished a Lope or a Calderon with~the plot of the Dog
416 VIII| Parisienne to what~the world calls "a slip"; in spite of all
417 VII | douche on~Montriveau; he calmed down; he could not return
418 IV | was safe.~ ~So the Duke calmly did as the grands seigneurs
419 X | below, I know nothing~worse calumniated than God and the eighteenth
420 IV | by opening out roads and canals, and taking an active and~
421 IV | please in the choice of candidates; the~Faubourg had good taste,
422 VI | flickering light of a single candle at the~further side of the
423 VIII| simplest terms. A triple~candle-sconce of Egyptian design on the
424 IX | knife-thrust, which so affected~Canning in a court of assize. Not
425 X | is nothing. Let us tie a~cannon ball to both feet and throw
426 IX | talk. This~philosophical cant will be just as dangerous
427 IV | he is required to have a capacious~brain-pan. Skill and knowledge
428 IV | folk took a~dislike to any capacity that did not issue from
429 VIII| of herself a~`point?' A capital point indeed; you will permit
430 IV | Skill and knowledge and capital--these three points~mark
431 VIII| discipline; when the brain has~capitulated--then, perhaps, passion may
432 X | use; high waves and the caprices of the sea could not~throw
433 IV | the innate power of the captain in the man who wields it?~ ~
434 VII | sparkling wit, her most captivating wiles;~and when at last
435 VI | survive~the horrors of that captivity; but his miraculous escape~
436 IX | dancing, and went to the~card-tables. Her experiments were fruitless.
437 IX | goes there for his~game of cards) found him there to his
438 VII | because I ask~you to be careful."~ ~In her heart of hearts
439 X | thereabouts in 1778 with a~cargo of treasure from Mexico.
440 X | never discovered that Mlle Caroline~was the illustrious duchess
441 VIII| surface of the walls. A green carpet covered the floor. ~A black
442 IX | your bed in the Place du~Carrousel? See now, just be a bit
443 VI | sylphide shrouded in a brown~cashmere dressing-gown ingeniously
444 IV | responsibility of~power?" They were cast on the top, like the lawyers
445 IV | the last forty years; even~caste-patriotism was extinguished by it,
446 II | had gone out into the air. Casting about for~a plea for prolonging
447 IV | The stateliness of the castles and palaces where nobles
448 X | will doubtless explain the catastrophe of~the story.~ ~In 1823
449 VI | early ripened passion, he~catches glimpses of the changeful
450 I | and crowned by a glorious cathedral front with triple-arched~
451 I | chapels which adorn almost all cathedrals, nor~are there openings
452 VII | madam, ought~to say, like Catherine de Medici, when she heard
453 VI | his love.~ ~The woman so cavalierly treated in his thoughts
454 VI | loving her, it is beyond cavil one of the great~inducements
455 IV | contemptible so soon as they cease~to be accessories and take
456 X | will shed the light of her ceaseless and ardent~prayer about
457 II | placed near the grating. The ceiling consisted of bare~unornamented
458 I | once. Mass, it is true, was~celebrated in state. In honour of such
459 VI | and coolness which won him celebrity~without his knowledge, and
460 X | men reached the dormitory~cells. They soon saw the position.
461 VI | honour with them~implies censure of themselves, a thing forgiven
462 III | causes that bring about this centralisation may do more than~merely
463 VIII| love gave her a thrill of cerebral excitement which custom
464 IX | tone of a~master of the ceremonies--"to return home, or to go
465 VI | whom I~could dispense with ceremony, or a mere acquaintance
466 VIII| Know this, madame, for a~certainty--I forgive you. My forgiveness
467 VII | military men. Montriveau chafed; his yoke~was heavy. Oh!
468 VIII| rising at once, he took a chafing-dish from the hearth, burnt~perfumes,
469 IV | knight-banneret of old wore a coat of chain armour~and a hauberk,; he
470 IX | love him, he keeps~you in chains. To everything that I said
471 V | his son~at the school at Chalons, with the orphans of other
472 IV | oratorical triumphs in the Chambers,~M. de Talleyrand's attitude
473 VII | the attitude of democratic champion is~scarcely compatible with
474 V | section of the service the chances of advancement were not
475 VI | catches glimpses of the changeful delight of her charm, the
476 II | laughter, now with tears. Her~changing moods, as it were, ran riot.
477 II | directs the music in the chapel."~ ~"Oh!" said the General,
478 I | buttresses~and intervening chapels which adorn almost all cathedrals,
479 IV | there was one appalling characteristic--she would never~forgive
480 IV | blended all her bewildering~characteristics in a certain completeness
481 IV | realised. There are noble characters here and there in the~Faubourg,
482 IX | the~last descendants of Charlemagne in the direct line. No~usurpation
483 IX | le Bien-aime. Of her past charms of~feature, little remained
484 X | Spain. The vessel had been chartered by several~distinguished
485 IX | land. The whole Cabinet des~Chartes was entered in duplicate
486 VII | on her feet, "you are too chastely tender to speak of~our happiness
487 IV | capricious, and must be happy~or chastised at her own good pleasure.
488 IX | She grew white; her teeth chattered; she struck her hands~together
489 IX | other day with that moneyed~Chaussee-d'Antin set. Your uncle (he
490 VII | demands of passion, only to cheat love at the last. He~was
491 IX | Passion is a hope that may be~cheated. Passion means both suffering
492 I | in spite of~this first check, during this very mass of
493 X | him to kiss her on~either cheek, and begged him to go at
494 VIII| beauty on a~sudden by some chemical process, and you, who are
495 X | creator of the harbour at~Cherbourg. Against this cunningly
496 VIII| two big easy-chairs,~a chest of drawers with an alarum
497 IV | accessories and take the chief place in existence. There~
498 IV | gentilhommes) could choose their~chiefs and obey them in the hour
499 VIII| advantage of other~hearts as child-like as my own, and it is my
500 VI | impossible to cross it. A sort of childish~impatience seizes him, he
501 VII | gave himself up to all the childishness that makes first~love the
502 VI | answered, with a little childlike shrug of the~shoulders;
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