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Whatever you say or do at court, you may depend upon it, will be known; the business of most of those, who crowd levees and antichambers, being to repeat all that they see or hear, and a great deal that they neither see nor hear, according as they are inclined to the persons concerned, or according to the wishes of those to whom they hope to make their court.
A man, who shews us any house or building, takes particular care among other things to point out the convenience of the apartments, the advantages of their situation, and the little room lost in the stairs, antichambers and passages; and indeed it is evident, the chief part of the beauty consists in these particulars. The observation of convenience gives pleasure, since convenience is a beauty.
"Yes, but if there should ever happen to be any rain in this part of the world, they will never be able raise more than their common stock except indeed they amuse themselves with running up and Down these horrid old galleries and Antichambers." This was too much my dear Charlotte, for I am certain that he had the impudence by that look, of pretending to suspect the reality of mine.
"Yes, but if there should ever happen to be any rain in this part of the world, they will never be able raise more than their common stock except indeed they amuse themselves with running up and Down these horrid old galleries and Antichambers." This was too much my dear Charlotte, for I am certain that he had the impudence by that look, of pretending to suspect the reality of mine.
Whatever you say or do at court, you may depend upon it, will be known; the business of most of those, who crowd levees and antichambers, being to repeat all that they see or hear, and a great deal that they neither see nor hear, according as they are inclined to the persons concerned, or according to the wishes of those to whom they hope to make their court.
After I had ended my discourse, the young gentlemen prayed me to go with them into the castle; I accepted the proffer, and we passed through a great many halls, antichambers, bedchambers, and closets, very well furnished, and arrived at last in a spacious hall, where there were ten small blue sofas set round, and separate from each other, upon which they sat by day, and slept by night.
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