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Women meandered around as gadabouts while consuming their chocolaty vulnerability like bonbons but, she told herself, she was not a lowly woman. She opened the bedroom door and walked out. She saw the fern in the living room. That one plant was intact, stagnant and alive in the purpose of its pot as she was in hers. She did not see any dirt anyplace.
The damsel answered in monosyllables, but she sat unmoved at needlework, and after ten minutes or so I was forced to beat a retreat. I returned to the charge at the next performance of Le Rêve, this time with a box of bonbons for the maid instead of the bouquet for the mistress. The damsel was quite amenable to a little conversation, quite willing that I should dally in her company.
"I am sensible of this step on your part; it proves to me that you have not altogether forgotten the duties imposed upon you by family ties." "You are reckoning, my dear aunt, without the affection we feel for you, and which of itself is enough . . . Baby, go and kiss your aunt." Baby whispers in my ear, "But, papa, I tell you she does prick." I place the bonbons on a side-table.
On the second was a library, a large wardrobe-room filled with beautiful clothes and every kind of linen, a music-room, a pantry with bins full of the best wines, and a store-room with all manner of preserves, bonbons, pastry and cakes, all of which remained as fresh as if just out of the oven.
It seemed to me as if I were a poor little bird shut in a great dark cage. My aunt, the abbess, Agnes de Morainville, took me to her room, gave me bonbons and pictures, told me stories, and kissed and caressed me, but her black gown and her bonnet appalled me, and I cried with all my might: "I want mother Catharine! I want Joseph! I want Bastien!"
I am a spoilt child who has had all it ever wanted, and bonbons no longer excite me. Poor things! I am sorry for them! "And who slandered me so?" "Victorin," said Crevel. "Then why did you not stop his mouth, the odious legal macaw! with the story of the two hundred thousand francs and his mamma?" "Oh, the Baroness had fled," said Lisbeth.
Behind the transparent glass the gilt binding of gift-books ascends like a gleaming wave under the gas-lights, rich stuffs of kaleidoscopic, tempting hues display their heavy, graceful folds, while the shop-girls, with their hair piled high upon their heads and ribbons around their necks, puff their wares with the little finger in the air, or fill silk bags, into which the bonbons fall like a shower of pearls.
Won't it be a box of literary bonbons for her to read in bed, poor darling! Let me see! I represent the cayenne lozenges, sharp but impressive; Margery will do for jujube paste, which I adore, mild, pleasant, yielding, delicious. 'Sticky and insipid! murmured Madge, plaintively. 'Not at all, my dear.
Molly grasped it, managing to get out a hurried "Thank you," under Sara's eyes; pulled at the string, whirled around a few times in search for a knife, though Morton was holding his out all the time, and finally, getting to the box, snatched at its cover and dropped the whole thing, the bonbons inside rolling all over the floor. "Oh, oh, oh!
The carnal side, atrophied for months, which had been stirred by the enervation of his pious readings, then brought to a crisis by the English cant, came to the surface. His stimulated senses carried him back to the past and he wallowed in memories of his old sin. He rose and pensively opened a little box of vermeil with a lid of aventurine. It was filled with violet bonbons.
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