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During the three years that she had been married, she had not left the Val de Ciré, where her husband possessed two cotton-mills. She led a quiet life, and although she had no children, she was quite happy in her house among the trees, which the work-people called the château. Although Monsieur Vasseur was considerably older than she was, he was very kind.
"What is the good of my turning away when every bit of him bites into my consciousness?" she thought. The road stretched ahead of them like ciré satin with a piping of lights. She had changed her position a little, restless under the constraint of his eyes. A lamp lit her up for him, her face white and drawn, her eyelids pulled over her eyes like a heavy curtain.
On verra tout ce camp s'enfuir, Comme l'on voit s'évanouir; Une épaisse fumée; Comme la cire fond au feu, Ainsi des méchants devant Dieu, La force est consumée. L'Éternel est notre recours; Nous obtenons par son secours, Plus d'une déliverance. C'est Lui qui fut notre support, Et qui tient les clefs de la mort, Lui seul en sa puissance.
The room which I occupy is not furnished in a dashing style, nor has it a parquet ciré, but it is on the first floor, and thrice as large and lofty and half as dear as that I had at Meurice's on the quatrième; and a Titan might stretch himself down at ease on the bed in which I sleep. Gargantua would cry for mercy. For all this, and a bottle of wine, I pay three francs.
There are spaces of intense light, and cool shadows and shrines of glass mosaic, inside them Buddhas in marble or bronze the bronzes are beautiful pieces of cire perdu castings flowers droop before them, and candles are melting, their flame almost invisible in the sunlight, and two little children play with the guttering wax.
The bronze effigies of Henry III. and Eleanor, at Westminster, were the work of a goldsmith, Master William Torel, and are therefore finer in quality and are in some respects superior to the average casting in bronze. Torel worked at the palace, and the statues were cast in "cire perdue" process, being executed in the churchyard itself.
In casting in the "cire perdu" process, Benvenuto Cellini warns you to beware lest you break your crucible "just as you've got your silver nicely molten," he says, "and are pouring it into the mould, crack goes your crucible, and all your work and time and pains are lost!" He advises wrapping it in stout cloths. The process of repoussé work is also much the same to-day as it has always been.
Il n'eut pas besoin, comme Ulysse, de se lier au mat du navire, ni de se boucher les oreilles avec de la cire; il ne redoutait pas le chant des Sirenes il le dedaignait; il se fit marbre et fer pour executer ses grands projets. Napoleon ne se regardait pas comme un homme, mais comme l'incarnation d'un peuple.
A French invalid-artillery soldier, from his injuries and a peculiar mask he used to hide them, was known as "L'homme a la tete de cire." The Lancet gives his history briefly as follows: During the Franco-Prussian War, he was horribly wounded by the bursting of a Prussian shell.
A light wind playing about the room had perhaps blown it into some corner. I assisted her in the search. "It surely was in an envelope?" I said to the innocent woman. "Yes monsieur, yes, and with a seal, for I got the cire you call it wax myself and held it for her, la bonne soeur." "It is not always wise to leave such letters about," I put in as meekly as I could "Where was it you saw it last?"