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The increasing emigration, the open avowal of its objects, and the threatening attitude of the European cabinets, all cherished the fear that the king might adopt such a determination. Then, for the first time, the assembly sought to stop the progress of emigration by a decree; but this decree was a difficult question.
Montague regarded him somewhat skeptically, as he made this eager avowal, but it was almost immediately followed by a look of anxiety. "I hope you will you certainly owe me that much after all that I have done for you," she returned. "Mind you," she added, "I never would have yielded this point if I had not been driven to it." "Driven to it! How?" inquired her nephew, regarding her searchingly.
Oh, yes! perhaps, Charles, you may think that because I fail to express what I feel in that spirit of ambiguity which a love not confident in the truth, purity, and rectitude of its own principles must always borrow that because my heart fails to approach yours by the usual circuitous route with which ordinary hearts do approach yes, you may imagine for all these reasons that my affection is not but " and here she checked herself "why," she added, with dignity, whilst her cheeks glowed and her eyes sparkled, "why should I apologize for the avowal of a love of which I am not ashamed, and which has its strongest defence in the worth and honor of its object?"
D'Artagnan had seized as an avowal the hesitation of the poet, and his eagerness to conceal the piece of brass which a first movement had induced him to take out of his pocket. His attention, therefore, once awakened on this point, he surrounded himself with a circumspection which gave him a superiority on all occasions.
You have made your avowal of feeling as much like a poem as your education would admit. Indeed it was a pretty letter, promising not so much the trustful love of an earnest and devoted heart, as the fervor of a passion which consumed you, and glowed like a furnace through the lines of your letter.
"Very well; I will tell you everything; but, mother, you must be brave as I am." She buried her head lower still on her mother's breast, and recounted to her, in a low voice, without looking up once, the terrible revelation which had been made to her, and which her husband's avowal had confirmed. Madame de Tecle did not once interrupt her during this cruel recital.
The birthplace of that love, the arbor where Rousseau made his first avowal, the room where he blushed at his first emotions, the yard where he gloried in the most humble offices to serve his beloved protectress, the spreading chestnut-trees beneath which they sat together to speak of God, and intermingled their sportive theology with bursts of merriment and childish caresses, the landscape, mysterious and wild as they, which seems so well adapted to them, have all, for the lover, the poet, or the philosopher, a deep and hidden attraction.
Alexius by pretending sympathy got from their leader an avowal of his doctrines and then had him burnt . But in neither of these cases did violent suppression achieve its purpose.
In it he said that he had long loved another, which love alone could have rendered him insensible to her attachment; that he, nevertheless, should always recall her memory with equal interest and admiration; and then, with a tact of flattery which the nature of the correspondence and the sex of the person addressed rendered excusable, he endeavoured, as far as he was able, to soothe and please the vanity which the candour of his avowal was calculated to wound.
In truth, the candid personal avowal seemed to her to hold up Vittoria's sacred honour in a crystal, and the more she thought of it, the more she respected him, for his shrewd intelligence, if not for his sincerity; but on the whole she fancied him a loyal friend, not solely a clever maker of phrases; and she was pleased with herself for thinking such a matter possible, in spite of her education.
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