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He had agreed with the aged Madame Rocambeau. Sales types, both of them. "If it had been chagrin d'amour sorrow of love, Mademoiselle," said he, "I should not have been so insensible to the presence of two such charming young ladies." "We are polite, all the same," she remarked approvingly. She sipped her grenadine. Having nothing further to say he sipped his beer.
Alfred said that the idea of Rosamond had occurred to him, because his friend's absence of mind might be dated from the time of his last visit to Clermont-park; "but," said Alfred, "as Lady Frances Arlington was there, and as I had formerly fancied that her ladyship's wish to captivate or dazzle you, had not been quite without effect, I was still in doubt, and thought even your praises of Rosamond's disposition and temper, compared with her ladyship's, might only be ruse de guerre, or ruse d'amour."
They eat everything in France, and would serve you up the head of a monkey who has died of the smallpox, as singe au petite vérole that is, if you did not understand French; if you did, they would call it, Tête d'amour a l'Ethiopique, and then you would be even more puzzled. As for their wine, there is no disguise in that it's half vinegar.
I suppose your majesty knows what the queen said only a few years ago to the French minister?" "No, I do not, or perhaps I have only forgotten it," replied Napoleon, carelessly. "Did she want to make a postillon d'amour of him?" "Nearly so, sire. She told him she would willingly travel four hundred leagues in order to see General Bonaparte.
Ernest was yet engaged in the contemplation of the unfinished work or rather in dreaming of the bright original when a light tap was heard at his door. He opened it eagerly, and his poor studio was suddenly illuminated, as it were, by the radiant apparition of Rose d'Amour. She was dressed with a charming simplicity, which well became a sylph like form, that required no adventitious aid from art.
This crystal of Quartz, the queen of its tribe, Amethyst, Onyx, Chalcedony, Heliotrope, Agate, Some toiler of old Japan, the Artist fantastic, Has polished to likeness of ice, Ruining form to reveal it Fleche d'Amour That the marvelous, delicate, hairlike inclosures Of crystallizations foreign might please the beholder.
"As you acknowledge that you are not fit to hear yourself convinced," said Belinda, "I will not argue this point with you." "But you will allow," said Lady Delacour, "as it is said or sung in Cupid's calendar, that 'Un peu d'amour, un peu de soin, Menent souvent un coeur bien loin;" and she broke off the conversation by singing that beautiful French air.
"I don't think I will," said Nekhludoff. And feeling ashamed, without knowing himself whether for her or for himself, he blushed and hastily departed. "What does it mean? Comme cela m'intrigue," said Katherine Alexeievna, when Nekhludoff had left. "I must find it out. Some affaire d'amour propre; il est très susceptible notre cher Mitia." "Plutôt une affaire d'amour sale," Missy was going to say.
'Souvenir charmant du premier jour d'amour! The first night with Blake upon the balcony sprang back to memory, and with it the wonder, the delight, the illimitable sense of kinship with the universe. Again the spiritual sense lived in her, not warring with the physical, but justifying, completing it.
And yet being only an essayist in crime, still unhardened certain compunctions beset him as he approached himself, on the to-be eventful evening of that eventful day, to the door of Madame Jolicoeur's modestly elegant dwelling on the Pavé d'Amour. In the back of his head were justly self-condemnatory thoughts, to the general effect that he was a blackguard and deserved to be kicked.
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