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1503 II | frolicsome mien at her will. Her neck was rather long,~allowing
1504 III | trimmings of a pelerine a la neige, and ruthlessly~crushing
1505 IV | stuck-up landowners of~the neighborhood rarely fail to make an excursion
1506 IV | young birds to the charming neighborhoods of Aulnay, Antony,~and Chatenay.
1507 IV | months had been living on a neighboring estate.~Her partner was
1508 VIII| an attentive ear to her neighbors'~conversation, overheard
1509 IV | pillar. Emilie, as much~nettled by his politeness as she
1510 II | Supremely impertinent to all newly-created nobility, she made every~
1511 VIII| In fact, he ruined a very nice thoroughbred that I~had
1512 III | difficult to quit them~in the nick of time. So during the first
1513 II | princess in the Arabian Nights, Emilie~was rich enough
1514 II | education. At the age of nineteen Emilie de Fontaine had not
1515 VIII| continued, "and he is the~noblest soul living----"~ ~"Do you
1516 VII | or any man who~lives more nobly than he does. Does he do
1517 | nobody
1518 VIII| Maximilien Longueville, who nodded~slightly to her partner.~ ~"
1519 V | future be gentler, less noisy, and less~wilful, that she
1520 I | magnate~announced to him his nomination as marechal de camp, or
1521 IV | singing the air of Cara non dubitare, in the~"Matrimonio
1522 V | talking nonsense----"~ ~"Nonsense, by Gad! Is it nothing to
1523 V | But instead of talking nonsense----"~ ~"Nonsense, by Gad!
1524 IV | parliamentary families on the~northern side of the Channel who
1525 III | snuff, carefully wiped his nose, arranged the tongs and
1526 V | for he~has, I think, a notebook in his hand. My word, I
1527 II | had sold firewood. This noteworthy~change in the ideas of a
1528 VII | Exchanging such sweet nothings, they slowly made their
1529 III | young marrying men have~you noticed Monsieur de Manerville?"~ ~"
1530 VIII| in hand; but~this was a notion as insulting to the uncle
1531 IV | with all the~fascination of novelty. It often happens that we
1532 VII | mornings in the month of November, which show the boulevards
1533 II | themselves happy without the nuptial poetry~of their day-dreams.
1534 V | was not unlike a gnarled oak-~stump, with a few leaves
1535 VI | who does not sow~his wild oats in the spring sows them
1536 II | princes in the world. Her objections were each more preposterous
1537 II | the~young lawyer were the objects of a ceremonious formality
1538 II | too lately Baronified~to obscure the fact that his father
1539 IV | powerful motive.~ ~All these observations cost Emilie only a minute'
1540 V | old man, desiring him to observe that he was living at a
1541 IV | The most clear-sighted observer, on seeing this stranger,~
1542 V | passion so effectually as an obstacle, there was a~time when Mademoiselle
1543 I | daughter. To understand all the obstacles we must~make our way into
1544 VIII| Monsieur de Fontaine~also obtained a peerage, the reward due
1545 I | the upstarts of the Empire obtaining some of the~offices reserved,
1546 III | But, my~dear, the expenses occasioned by these marriages, and
1547 III | Fontaine had~on several occasions brought out all his forces,
1548 VII | vulgar origin~or vulgar occupations; nay more, his manner of
1549 VI | or that she was too fully occupied to~torment other people,
1550 IV | to the sound of the band occupying the centre of this~circular
1551 I | monarch's~benevolence. It occurred to him to mention only one
1552 VI | expect you."~ ~"What an odd little old man!" said Longueville
1553 I | a rule which allowed the officers of the Catholic~armies to
1554 I | Empire obtaining some of the~offices reserved, under the old
1555 I | without any~solicitation, ex officio, the crosses of the Legion
1556 IV | complexion was of a manly~olive hue. His mouth seemed ready
1557 III | air the room a little by~opening the window."~ ~The Count
1558 II | visited, how few favorable openings would~henceforth be offered
1559 V | giving her his box at the opera, this time amused~himself
1560 II | covered a careless heart; the opinion--common to~many young girls--
1561 II | Although she had for~a while opposed the happiness and fortune
1562 VI | people, she explained~it, as oracles are explained, in the sense
1563 IV | than because fashion~has ordained that every woman who has
1564 III | The Count multiplied his orders, putting Joseph out of breath,
1565 IV | enchanting.~Perhaps it is quite ordinary, and owes its fame only
1566 IV | French Warriors received by~Ossian. Emilie fancied that she
1567 VI | of the Receiver-General's ostentatious mansion. Though his~conversation
1568 | otherwise
1569 I | spoiled everything at Saint Ouen."~ ~The Count, in despair,
1570 VII | knowing what might be the outcome~of the inquiry which he
1571 V | might fancy she wanted to outflank that worthy~man, who looks
1572 VII | he been a filibuster, an outlaw, a pirate?"~ ~"I knew I
1573 VI | force that attracted her outside herself; she~tried to resist,
1574 VIII| perhaps, that there was no~outward and visible difference between
1575 I | all.~Notwithstanding this ovation, none of these august persons
1576 II | a little court round the~overbearing Emilie. This treaty between
1577 VIII| neighbors'~conversation, overheard one of those dialogues into
1578 V | was the name Emilie had overheard--was not English, and the~
1579 VI | because curiosity never overstepped~the bounds of good breeding.~ ~
1580 I | fresh storm,~threatening to overwhelm the legitimate monarch and
1581 II | beauty. In the absence of the overwhelming~sentiment which, sooner
1582 II | word to which the throne owed so~many partisans, and his
1583 IV | it is quite ordinary, and owes its fame only to the stupidity~
1584 IV | enthusiasm of a young American owning an immense~fortune, who
1585 V | heart of the tree, fifteen paces away.~ ~"You see, my dear
1586 VII | thoughts.~ ~After slowing pacing a few steps in long silence,
1587 VIII| indulge family affection. The Padrona~della case would not give
1588 II | daughter the more important pages of the mysterious book of
1589 II | qualification; and they paint in fancy a model to~which,
1590 II | sisters had not enjoyed;~painted pretty well, spoke Italian
1591 IV | his portrait taken by a painter. His attitude, though full
1592 VI | had come to the handsome pair, in the midst of~country
1593 VII | corner of the Rue de la Paix. As soon as they were~in
1594 IV | arriving at this rustic palace of Terpsichore~either in
1595 VII | lines and red~patches; the paleness of her cheeks seemed every
1596 III | see my coat-of-arms on~the panels of my carriage among the
1597 III | midst of the labyrinth~of papers piled in some places even
1598 I | bounties, bestowed without parade, and~as secret as the favor
1599 VII | expend her fury in senseless~paradoxes, heaping on all men engaged
1600 III | man it was a crime. These paradoxical views were~amusing, thanks
1601 II | clearness when she was minded to paralyze~a partner's indiscreet tongue.
1602 VII | stranger" held in his hand a parcel of patterns, which left
1603 V | the way?"~ ~"I beg your pardon, monsieur. But I did not
1604 IV | to be supposed that~the Parisians are right. But Sceaux possesses
1605 II | the throne owed so~many partisans, and his second to a magistrate
1606 VIII| important~revelations, it was partly due to the skill with which
1607 IV | please in the matter of~partners. Her movements did not betray
1608 I | a~rich but revolutionary parvenu, who valued the alliance
1609 I | if the expression may pass--which at that time was rife.
1610 VII | some ridiculous dress or passer-by; but her laughter~was spasmodic.
1611 VII | with yellow lines and red~patches; the paleness of her cheeks
1612 III | relieved of the heaviest of~paternal functions. I know not whether
1613 IV | on the~contrary a sort of pathetic grace. There was too much
1614 VIII| degree that, I believe, in my patriotic mania, I could talk to the~
1615 V | foot-pace like a gendarme on patrol in~the Paris streets. One
1616 Add | Government Clerks~ ~Manerville, Paul Francois-Joseph, Comte de~
1617 VII | regard to my family."~ ~A pause, terrible to Emilie, followed
1618 VI | monsieur."~ ~"What, you pay for all you have?"~ ~"Punctually;
1619 I | silkworm to the leaves~of the Pay-List. Thus, by the King's intervention,
1620 IV | marriage as a foe to my peace of mind."~ ~An uncle of
1621 I | very precise ideas of the~peaceful domain of the civil service,
1622 IV | disappointed, of seeing young peasant girls, as~wily as judges--
1623 I | his~three sons, and the pecuniary advantages derived from
1624 IV | powder the philosophical pedestrian with dust. The~hope of meeting
1625 IV | representatives of an ancient~pedigree. Deep silence had fallen;
1626 II | in France but that~of the peerage--the only families that might
1627 III | the dainty trimmings of a pelerine a la neige, and ruthlessly~
1628 IV | airs, and sharpened her pencils for the~scenes she proposed
1629 III | least two centuries.~ ~"Pending such a fortunate accident
1630 IV | valley of the Bieve are peopled with artists who have~traveled
1631 III | families. I hope to make you perceive more truly the difficulties
1632 VII | had not hindered him from perceiving in Emilie the~prejudices
1633 VIII| tone and manners changed perceptibly.~Instead of amusing herself
1634 VI | prohibited any suspicion~of perfidy. There was a moment when
1635 VI | using the notes set~down by Pergolesi or Rossini as faithful interpreters
1636 III | keep his dark hair, then--perhaps----"~ ~"What can you say
1637 V | young girls are, of the perils of love and marriage,~she
1638 I | leaders during this stormy~period of modern history, he was
1639 VIII| without impatience to his periodical narratives~of the battles
1640 VII | de Rostein-Limbourg,~who perished on the scaffold in 1793.
1641 VII | him; but I will await your~permission before I tell him so."~ ~"
1642 VIII| desire your happiness than I; permit me to assure~you of this,
1643 III | dressing-gown restoring it to its~perpendicular position; then he swept
1644 VIII| by this dangerous young~persecutor.~ ~Not long after, the Ministry
1645 II | shrewdness too often to persevere in a task so difficult as~
1646 VIII| brought him his~stick with a persevering devotion that made the cynical
1647 VI | brother, whom the~servants persisted in honoring with the noble
1648 VI | dinner, and put an end to the persistency of the ladies by saying~
1649 III | which bore witness to a persistent catarrh. Finally, the old
1650 VII | life. He had,~therefore, persistently kept a silence to which
1651 VIII| surprise that was full of perspicacity. A suspicion flashed upon
1652 VIII| all his~drives; she even persuaded him that she liked the smell
1653 V | prettily when you are not pert--would have set everything~
1654 II | appointments must at last pertain, in a quite constitutional~
1655 VI | gathered daisies to pull the~petals off, and sang the most impassioned
1656 III | it had been least used by~petitioners, set it at the side of the
1657 VI | all~sincerity the gracious petting and little attentions which
1658 IV | and by~a sort of moral phenomenon somewhat resembling this,
1659 VI | countenance as to judge of this phoenix of~men, who had earned honorable
1660 VI | meaningless, in which the emptiest phrases are those which~cover the
1661 VII | of her~parents and of the physician restored her to her family.~
1662 VI | that he was a very good pianist; one evening he~delighted
1663 II | English, and played the piano~brilliantly; her voice,
1664 IV | caricaturists so gladly pick up. The haughty young lady
1665 VII | out the change for a gold piece to one of the~workwomen
1666 V | her features.~The girl's piercing eyes were fixed in a sort
1667 III | with the hanging "ailes de pigeon," completed his~venerable
1668 IV | to lean against another pillar. Emilie, as much~nettled
1669 IV | roof supported on elegant pillars. This rural~baldachino shelters
1670 II | are resting on the same~pillow. Monsieur de Fontaine calmly
1671 VIII| seventy-two to embark as pilot on board the Belle Emilie
1672 III | father. He daintily took a pinch of snuff, cleared his throat
1673 I | taking his family, as he had piously done every Sunday, to cry~"
1674 V | horse, took out one of his pistols, and~the bullet was lodged
1675 III | trembled to think that the pitiless world might already be~laughing
1676 V | But, unless you have other plans, I beg you will come to
1677 I | thin sharp tones, "Amicus Plato sed magis amica Natio."
1678 VI | every one, down to the player~who was about to miss his
1679 I | the satisfaction of her playful desires, so now, at fourteen,
1680 VII | admiration, hunts~well, plays wonderfully at billiards,
1681 II | who, like kings, make a~plaything of everything that comes
1682 VI | ease,~polite manners, a pleasant voice with a ring in it
1683 VI | singer, he baffled them so pleasantly~that he did not afford these
1684 VII | life when such~vagueness pleases youthful minds. Just because
1685 II | brother, faithful to his plebeian doctrines,~married Mademoiselle
1686 I | or fruit, or as the rural plenty which had been the joy of
1687 VIII| Maximilien's head the hereditary plumes of the French peer's hat.
1688 VII | world; but now," she~added pointedly, looking at him in a perfectly
1689 V | at Chevreuse; and, after pointing this out to him, he hurried
1690 VI | That sort of discussion is pointless in these~days. As for me,
1691 III | was not a success. The Poitevin gentleman had always been
1692 I | of the oldest families in Poitou,~had served the Bourbon
1693 VIII| coming to this ball; but good~policy will always allow us to
1694 II | then startled the~oldest politicians, might carry him up to the
1695 VI | yet have been to the Ecole~Polytechnique--is it not so, monsieur?"~ ~"
1696 III | married secured him a splendid popularity.~He perhaps found some covert
1697 IV | himself there~to have his portrait taken by a painter. His
1698 II | on a Receiver-~General, possessed, indeed, of some old hereditary
1699 IV | Parisians are right. But Sceaux possesses another attraction not~less
1700 II | hand to none but the man possessing~this or the other qualification;
1701 VII | made her to some extent the possessor of a heart worthy to be
1702 I | constitutional system is the worst~possible government, and can never
1703 VII | minds. Just because each had postponed~speaking too long, they
1704 V | V~Clara made a little pouting face, bent her head, and
1705 I | of old adherents, whose~powdered heads, seen from above,
1706 I | but he used his terrible~powers with moderation. As soon
1707 II | sufficiently large share in~practical government by its elective
1708 VI | not afford these women, practised as they were in the art~
1709 IV | she were criticising or praising a study of a head,~a painting
1710 V | He had played too many~pranks in the years 1771 and soon
1711 VI | of newcomers, her witty~prattle, and the inexhaustible eloquence
1712 II | in the King's tacit and precarious friendship, he trembled
1713 II | but whose~name was not preceded by the little word to which
1714 I | he had blindly obeyed its precepts when he thought it fitting~
1715 I | system, few persons had very precise ideas of the~peaceful domain
1716 V | love you as my~own child, precisely because you are the only
1717 III | her~caprice might give a preference. Incapable of repeating
1718 VII | harvest of anguish that~prejudice and narrow-mindedness ever
1719 VII | perceiving in Emilie the~prejudices which marred her young nature;
1720 VII | interesting to her~than these preliminary thoughts, when a slight
1721 II | in their own way with the premeditated~purpose of eclipsing them
1722 II | objections were each more preposterous than~the last: one had too
1723 II | daughter of a rich banker; the President very sensibly found a wife
1724 III | moved, he took her~hand, pressed it, and said with deep feeling: "
1725 VII | express~themselves by a pressure of hands which interpreted
1726 V | means to follow them~under pretence of admiring the views from
1727 VIII| of his illness, and you pretend not to see him. Make him
1728 V | introducing you to five of the prettiest~women in Paris. So, so,
1729 V | of those you~can make so prettily when you are not pert--would
1730 VI | There is nothing to prevent it, madame," replied the
1731 VII | none but a peer's son. My priggish sisters have played me~that
1732 II | friendship. The philosophical prince had taken pleasure in~converting
1733 III | the Directors-General, the~princely Amphitryons, and the official
1734 VI | with the noble DE, were the principle~guests. For the first time
1735 VII | in muslins, calicoes, and printed~cotton goods, live there.--
1736 II | made up to them now~for the privations so bravely shared in La
1737 II | tried to solve the difficult problem of settling a haughty and~
1738 III | believed that this~time the procession of suitors would not be
1739 VIII| inexhaustible. I should like to proclaim to all the world how good
1740 VIII| to use his influence to procure an~appointment to Russia
1741 VIII| thanks to his increased prodigality, a kind of consolation~which
1742 VII | disturbing because it~was produced by the simplest and most
1743 II | diminishing the regard they professed in public,~degenerated sometimes
1744 VI | find out~whether he were a professional singer, he baffled them
1745 I | hoped~to derive greater profit from this journey into a
1746 II | slender wisdom, had drawn up a~programme to which a suitor must conform
1747 VI | modest and candid manner prohibited any suspicion~of perfidy.
1748 II | the secret of these royal projects, had~insensibly become one
1749 V | replied the young man, promptly cocking his pistol; he~aimed
1750 III | shall not refuse to take proper steps and help~you, only
1751 I | emigration would prove more propitious to him than his past devotion.~
1752 IV | like a person out of all proportion with the rest.~ ~The stranger,
1753 IV | frame~recalled the noble proportions of the Apollo. Fine black
1754 V | should know. Ah, ha! And I propose to make up~to you for my
1755 II | seeing the world and its prosaic round, by dint of~observing
1756 VI | name of the old admiral's protege, every one, down to the
1757 I | than the brave men who had protested, sword in hand,~against
1758 III | sisters are richly and happily provided for. But, my~dear, the expenses
1759 III | forth I shall think only of providing~for your mother, who must
1760 VI | her; she was constantly provoked to find that she had~betrayed
1761 V | still amuse~yourself by provoking duels----"~ ~"White hairs!"
1762 I | commission was ended,~the High Provost found a seat in the Privy
1763 VI | They gathered daisies to pull the~petals off, and sang
1764 V | Stop," said the Count, pulling Emilie's horse by the bridle, "
1765 VI | pay for all you have?"~ ~"Punctually; otherwise we should lose
1766 IV | Receiver-General had lately purchased in~this part of the world
1767 Add | Kergarouet, Comte de~ The Purse~ Ursule Mirouet~ ~Louis
1768 V | as the eager search she pursued~might have allowed her to
1769 IV | to be able to stand up or push~forward as her fancy moved
1770 IV | find in the rotunda some quadrilles~made up of persons who seemed
1771 II | possessing~this or the other qualification; and they paint in fancy
1772 III | to us."~ ~And these rare qualifications would count for nothing
1773 II | families of the Saint-Germain quarter.~ ~These sentiments had
1774 I | his "friend Fontaine" to a quatrain,~harmless enough, which
1775 I | the bloody battle of Les Quatre Chemins. Though ruined by~
1776 I | hackney cab~he had left on the quay. With the restive spirit,
1777 II | in a room~was to be its queen; but, like sovereigns, she
1778 VI | was Clara,~in fact, who questioned Emilie; she had meant to
1779 VII | What is your object in questioning me as to my birth?"~ ~She
1780 III | slippers, pulled out his little~queue of hair which had lodged
1781 VI | flirtation never turned so quickly into a love match,"~said
1782 III | still more difficult to quit them~in the nick of time.
1783 I | ruinous in effect. He was--~to quote the wittiest and most successful
1784 VIII| him his favorite paper La Quotidienne in the midst of clouds~of
1785 VII | completely concealed the rage~in her heart, and answered
1786 I | servant in a torrent of rain; borrowed on his lands to~
1787 VIII| Ministry being compelled to raise a levy of peers~to support
1788 I | for his service without~raising a scandal! By Heaven! the
1789 VI | roused.~ ~"He is a cunning rascal!" said the Count, coming
1790 I | calculation one of these rash speculations which~promise
1791 II | declared that Emilie, at any~rate, should marry in such a
1792 V | No, he is running; I rated him soundly."~ ~"Oh, yes,
1793 III | do~not pout, let us talk rationally.--Among the young marrying
1794 II | Emilie's sarcasm. Logical readers will be surprised~to see
1795 VI | they were in the art~of reading feelings, the least chance
1796 II | woes, which become very real though built on an imaginary
1797 II | taking~their dreams for reality; secretly, in their long
1798 II | of revolts in her little realm. Scenes, which~the highest
1799 VII | the~heart of a young girl, reaped the richest harvest of anguish
1800 IV | wide field--the metaphor is reasonable--whose~splendor and coloring
1801 III | rich have always excellent reasons for not~handing over twenty
1802 V | would rather take a hundred rebuffs from a~Longueville than
1803 I | formidable than the anger of a rebuke. One of the~King's most
1804 VII | Monsieur de Fontaine, trying to recall~among all the information
1805 I | gentleman had~been invited to recast. This little success stamped
1806 | recent
1807 III | and ample fortune as on reciprocal esteem. This happiness is,
1808 II | engaged in the task of general reconciliation, which was~to result in
1809 I | and~nowadays one cannot recover the money advanced for his
1810 V | urged by curiosity, she recovered~herself. The diplomatic
1811 II | impulse of a breeze and recovers its glad serenity when the
1812 III | my children's fortune, by recruiting the regiment of~dancers
1813 III | vote of their parliamentary recruits.~ ~The Honorable Deputy
1814 III | accession of~Charles X., he redoubled his efforts, seconded by
1815 III | debated over. When Joseph had~reduced this chaos to some sort
1816 VII | friend to institute with~reference to the family of Longueville,
1817 VI | saw in this behavior a refinement of art. They supposed~that
1818 VII | seated on a rustic bench, was reflecting on all that had~happened
1819 III | as though they were the refrain of the melody, she kissed~
1820 VIII| about two in the morning, refreshments were~served in an immense
1821 III | actor in it, disgusted by a refusal, seemed to be waiting for
1822 II | Fontaine still hoped to regain, was attacked by the malady
1823 I | the chests of the Catholic regiments. He~discovered, a little
1824 I | confusion of 1815, when~the regulations were evaded, he passed into
1825 VIII| Maximilien Longueville still reigned~over that inexorable heart.
1826 V | young man was drawing the reins~even, she caught a glance
1827 II | proposals which she~invariably rejected.~ ~Nature had bestowed on
1828 VII | slowly made their way back to~rejoin the company. Mademoiselle
1829 II | whose~lightest look could rekindle love in the coldest heart.~ ~
1830 VII | I will put to you!"--~He released her arm, and the girl suddenly
1831 III | unhappy at finding myself relieved of the heaviest of~paternal
1832 I | retorted the~King, who did not relish any pleasantry, however
1833 VII | Count, "then I know what remains for me~to do."~ ~"Do you
1834 VI | in silence. A sarcastic remark of her uncle's suddenly~
1835 II | enjoy. Her beauty was so remarkable that, for her, to appear
1836 VI | that one of the ladies remarked that he must have~passed
1837 VI | that made~her endeavor to remedy the defects her education
1838 I | supposed, to the monarch's remembrance, he was no longer satisfied~
1839 V | them happy. Their happiness reminds me~of the good times of
1840 II | on the Middle Ages or the Renaissance; pronounced at~haphazard
1841 VII | held out her hand as if to renew the alliance.~ ~"You thought
1842 II | year--an~age when men rarely renounce their convictions--was due
1843 VIII| and my sister Clara have renounced their share of~my father'
1844 VIII| the lovers' separation. He repaid his fair partner with interest
1845 I | with dignity, all claims to repayment. At this moment the~events
1846 I | form of a~trinity. Nay, if report is to be believed, the monarch
1847 IV | continent, to the living representatives of an ancient~pedigree.
1848 IV | Those who in this assembly represented the ruling~power, that is
1849 VI | homage to love, and a bitter reproach to herself?~She desired
1850 I | effectually because his requests for an interview were never
1851 III | style of~housekeeping you require of your mother, have made
1852 IV | answered to~perfection the requirements of good style and of the
1853 VII | know what such a choice requires of me. Love gives~everything,"
1854 III | glance did not fulfil the requisite conditions did not even
1855 I | speech was introductory to a rescript giving Monsieur de~Fontaine
1856 VIII| heard to say that he had rescued his niece as a castaway
1857 IV | moral phenomenon somewhat resembling this, Mademoiselle de~Fontaine
1858 III | to find a fresh~fount of resignation in some religious thought;
1859 II | had led, met with strong~resistance in the bosom of his family.
1860 II | their long meditations, they~resolve to give their heart and
1861 I | himself, the spirit and resources of the representative system.~
1862 III | To hear her, people of respectable corpulence were incapable
1863 VI | she talked of~painting, he responded as a connoisseur; if she
1864 VI | ring in it which found a~response in the hearer's heart-strings,
1865 VIII| Feraud, de~Montcornet, and de Restaud, Madame de Camps, and Mademoiselle
1866 VIII| tables were arranged as in a~restaurant. By one of those accidents
1867 II | other when their heads are resting on the same~pillow. Monsieur
1868 I | left on the quay. With the restive spirit, which is peculiar
1869 VII | parents and of the physician restored her to her family.~
1870 III | that of his dressing-gown restoring it to its~perpendicular
1871 VII | innocent circumstances. The~restraint under which the young girls
1872 I | speculations which~promise splendid results on paper, and are ruinous
1873 III | sinecure-holder did not share his retainer's favorable~opinion. Before
1874 VI | silence into which she had retired. Emilie generally~displayed
1875 VIII| her old husband,~who, on retiring to his rooms at night, to
1876 IV | Fontaine, to soften this saucy~retort, "Emilie, like you, will
1877 III | indefinable something that will reveal~it. Then, again, you have
1878 VI | of her, intended to delay~revealing her merits, so as to dazzle
1879 VIII| benefit of these important~revelations, it was partly due to the
1880 VII | for which she might have revenged~herself. She exhausted her
1881 II | unfrequently, the cause of revolts in her little realm. Scenes,
1882 III | a certain liveliness of rhetoric. The Count felt~nevertheless
1883 I | account.~ ~"Though I see the rhyme of it, I fail to see the
1884 IV | counting-house.~A black ribbon, to which an eye-glass was
1885 VII | way, "I~know where true riches are to be found for a wife."~ ~"
1886 VII | a young girl, reaped the richest harvest of anguish that~
1887 III | and your two sisters are richly and happily provided for.
1888 VII | as~she pointed out some ridiculous dress or passer-by; but
1889 I | pass--which at that time was rife. It is well~known that he
1890 II | of peer. One of his~most rigid principles was to recognize
1891 II | lake, which by turns is rippled by~the impulse of a breeze
1892 V | de Fontaine, seeing them rise and walk~round the place
1893 III | said Monsieur de Fontaine, rising.~ ~But he suddenly lifted
1894 VII | for he would~no sooner risk the fate of his love than
1895 II | clever perhaps than his rival, acted~in a contrary direction.
1896 III | fragrant with truffles,~rivaled the famous banquets by which
1897 VI | the detriment of so many~rivals. A simple but elegant style
1898 V | bank which rose from the~roadside. Then, abruptly drawing
1899 II | purpose of eclipsing them or robbing them of admiration. Hence,
1900 IV | was so very like pleasure robed in~satin, and that the girls
1901 II | mother, belonged to the Rohans. Although she had for~a
1902 I | Sunday, to cry~"Vive le Roi" in the hall of the Tuileries
1903 VI | set~down by Pergolesi or Rossini as faithful interpreters
1904 VII | person of the old Duc de Rostein-Limbourg,~who perished on the scaffold
1905 III | in his deep chair, whose rounded back~screened him from draughts,
1906 III | after spring, you put to rout. You have already~been the
1907 I | his lands to~follow the routed monarchy, without knowing
1908 IV | herself at the end of the row~formed by the family party,
1909 I | the short~banishment of royalty, Monsieur de Fontaine was
1910 II | folks all get their corners rubbed down; the Comte de~Fontaine'
1911 III | chairs square, shake the rug, and~lay it quite straight.
1912 I | results on paper, and are ruinous in effect. He was--~to quote
1913 IV | assembly represented the ruling~power, that is to say, the
1914 V | only look!"~ ~"No, he is running; I rated him soundly."~ ~"
1915 I | his former comrades in the rush for places and dignities~
1916 VIII| procure an~appointment to Russia for Auguste Longueville
1917 VII | thoughts, when a slight rustling in the leaves~announced
1918 III | pelerine a la neige, and ruthlessly~crushing its endless frills
1919 I | children, and came to Paris. Saddened by seeing the~greediness
1920 I | city of Paris, where he was safe from~changes in Legislature.
1921 V | would laugh~at us if we sailed under the wrong flag. You
1922 V | sdeath, sir, last evening,~sailor-like, I had taken a drop too
1923 I | Beugnot spoiled everything at Saint Ouen."~ ~The Count, in despair,
1924 VII | like the late Chevalier de Saint-~Georges. He has a thorough
1925 VII | niece had vanished "like~Saint-Elmo's fires," to use his favorite
1926 VIII| by the severe climate of Saint-Petersburg, had placed on~Maximilien'
1927 VI | believed it was chiefly for her sake. This~discovery gave her
1928 I | were~to receive a handsome salary. He had the good sense to
1929 II | millionaire, had traded~in salt; and the third brother,
1930 VII | Hitherto no direct avowal had sanctioned the~feelings which bound
1931 III | books and furniture of this sanctum, where the~interests of
1932 V | out a slender young~birch sapling, pulled up his horse, took
1933 VII | venerable gentleman retorted~sarcastically.~ ~Emilie was silent for
1934 VIII| retorted the Italian, with a sardonic~smile, "that a Parisian
1935 VIII| weaned from French faces, and satiated with Germans, to such~a
1936 I | remembrance, he was no longer satisfied~with taking his family,
1937 I | government has this~advantage; it saves Us the trouble We used to
1938 VIII| in an undertone. "After saving up a little capital my~brother
1939 Add | Paris~ ~Portenduere, Vicomte Savinien de~ Scenes from a Courtesan'
1940 II | perfect hailstorm of sharp sayings~could hardly mitigate. So
1941 VII | Rostein-Limbourg,~who perished on the scaffold in 1793. He was the last
1942 II | families high in the social scale, and gifted by nature with
1943 I | service without~raising a scandal! By Heaven! the cross of
1944 II | girls,~she kept aloof and scarcely ever appeared; she complained
1945 IV | a reputation due to the scenery, which is considered enchanting.~
1946 II | a mania for composing a scheme of life, while casting~for
1947 VIII| he was the brother of her scorned lover.~ ~"And could you,
1948 VIII| yours?" she asked, with a scornful air.~ ~"Only my brother,"
1949 V | compromise my~dignity in order to screen your folly; whereas if you
1950 III | chair, whose rounded back~screened him from draughts, he looked
1951 VIII| The young attache shot a scrutinizing glance at the apparently
1952 V | color of their blood! But 'sdeath, sir, last evening,~sailor-like,
1953 Add | Louis-Stanislas-Xavier~ The Chouans~ The Seamy Side of History~ The Gondreville
1954 III | favorable~opinion. Before seating himself in his deep chair,
1955 IV | in the summer. The green seclusion of Sceaux answered to~perfection
1956 III | he redoubled his efforts, seconded by his three sons and~his
1957 V | thus begun had in a few seconds become so fierce that the~
1958 I | have, of dismissing Our~Secretaries of State. Our Council is
1959 III | choice of a husband~as may secure your durable happiness----"~ ~"
1960 I | sharp tones, "Amicus Plato sed magis amica Natio." Then,
1961 II | encourage the~political see-saw which enabled his master
1962 VIII| nature in which a wise woman sees a guarantee of~happiness.
1963 IV | dubitare, in the~"Matrimonio Segreto."~ ~As it happened, the
1964 IV | of the Department of the~Seine, it will be necessary to
1965 II | salaries.~They must therefore seize, as a boon from heaven,
1966 VII | cried the young~man, softly seizing Mademoiselle de Fontaine'
1967 I | which formed a respectful semi-circle before the~august family;
1968 VIII| I keep it for my little seminaries."~PARIS, December 1829.~ ~
1969 VII | much disturbed, "I will send to settle that account;
1970 I | public opinion sometimes sends strange travelers; however,
1971 VII | tried to expend her fury in senseless~paradoxes, heaping on all
1972 II | banker; the President very sensibly found a wife in~a young
1973 VII | to Emilie, followed these sentences, which she had~almost stammered
1974 III | bear an~Order, that the sentries may present arms to us."~ ~
1975 VIII| occasion of~the lovers' separation. He repaid his fair partner
1976 II | breeze and recovers its glad serenity when the air is~still. More
1977 IV | in~Paris only during the session. Though the fair Emilie
1978 VI | often admired together the setting~sun and its gorgeous coloring.
1979 V | have a brush,~at the age of seventy-three, with the son, or the grandson,
1980 VIII| to wait till the~age of seventy-two to embark as pilot on board
1981 IV | Emilie~seen a man's eyes shaded by such long, curled lashes.
1982 IV | However, as the poetic shades of Aulnay, the hillsides
1983 I | Honor and of~Saint-Louis.~ ~Shaken in his determination by
1984 VII | said Monsieur de Fontaine, shaking his head from side to side,~"
1985 II | Turks. She thus~dazzled shallow persons; as to deeper minds,
1986 IV | at the damsels' airs, and sharpened her pencils for the~scenes
1987 V | wrapped her in a cashmere shawl~with a lover's care, and
1988 VIII| and whose skin~had the sheen of satin. The intimate terms
1989 VIII| the~forehead, like Berri sheep, down to the third generation.
1990 IV | dress, a~hanging, a blank sheet of paper, with so little
1991 V | and seated her in a place sheltered from the~wind. Very soon
1992 IV | pillars. This rural~baldachino shelters a dancing-floor. The most
1993 VII | the bar sinister on~their shields."~ ~"Your ideas are much
1994 IV | have~saved for a month to shine for a day; and she perceived
1995 VI | manoeuvres as in handling a ship,~she endeavored to bring
1996 VIII| niece as a castaway after~shipwreck; and that, for his part,
1997 VIII| jealous,~but I shall always shiver a little at calling you
1998 IV | feet were small and well shod in boots~of Irish kid. He
1999 IV | a blue coat, and white shoes, which showed that the~damsel'
2000 VI | curiosity, a light of joy shone in Emilie's soul, for she
2001 III | with a hostile expression, shook off a few grains of~snuff,
2002 VII | own. I know that the boy shoots with a pistol to admiration,
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