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He stood long before the mirror when he was ready, and had poured over his handkerchief a libation of "Rose d'amour." Certainly he was a fine-looking fellow his natural sincerity obliged him to acknowledge it. Possibly his nose stuck out too much to balance perfectly the low forehead and the rather square chin. Possibly his cheek-bones were too prominent. But what of that?
Catherine, you come to the placid Minne Water, or Lac d'Amour, not far from the shores of which is one of those curious beguinages that are characteristic of Flanders, and consist of a number of separate little houses, grouped in community, each of which is inhabited by a beguine, or less strict kind of nun.
If you will give me a poudre d'amour such as I doubt not your great knowledge enable you to make of a power that cannot to be resist, while still at the same time of a harmless character toward the life or the health of such that I shall succeed in its use to gain the affections of that emperice of my soul, I hesitate not to give you such price as it may please you to nominate up as high as to $l,000 nay, more.
"But unless I'm a Dutchman, it used to be The Gabriel's antimacassar" and with that Mr. "A gage d'amour, I'll bet any man a sovereign. Come now!" "I assure you " "And you two pretending before everyone that you're at daggers drawn! Trust an old one for slyness!" "Oh, but this is too rich!" Mr.
He was equally bold in resisting the demand of Henry III. for a tenth of the Church revenues. Amid his absorbing labours as a Churchman, he found time to be a copious writer on a great variety of subjects, including husbandry, physical and moral philosophy, as also sermons, commentaries, and an allegory, the Chateau d'Amour.
Here are the expensive and tasteful gifts, the gages d'amour, not often disinterested, as bright and beautiful as when they left the hands of the jeweller; but the givers and the receivers where are they? Mouldered in the grave long, long years ago! Through how many hands may these objects not have passed since Death snatched away the persons for whom they were originally designed!
To be a poet and romancist, a weaver of wonderful thoughts into musical language, this seemed to her the highest of all attainment; the proudest emperor of the most powerful nation on earth was, to her mind, far less than Shakespeare, and inferior to the simplest French lyrist of old time that ever wrote a "chanson d'amour."
Each, in passing out, takes a dip and a sprinkle. In this basin you will see the small jewelled hand immerse its finger-tips, and the next moment adroitly deliver a carte d'amour to some cloaked cavallero. Perhaps you may see the wealthy senora, in the safe disguise of the serape, leave the church in a direction opposite to that by which she came.
I shall know this look as long as I live; it is ever most clearly marked upon your visage, when you have some misfortune to announce." "Then this stony smile must have but little expression to-day, for I do not come as a messenger of evil tidings; but if your royal highness will allow me to say so, as a sort of postillon d'amour."
And the room was still sweet with the fragrance of that strange perfume, "Parfait d'Amour made from California flowers." There was also luggage enough to last for a few days, the rest had been sent on by train to San Francisco. Nick enjoyed hearing Angela exclaim, "This is like Algeciras!" "That's like the Italian Riviera!" as the car ran on.
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