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The most noticeable feature of the ritual was the prominence assigned to women; "ce sont les femmes qui le pleurent, et qui l'accompagnent a sa tombe. Elles sanglotent eperdument pendant les nuits, c'est leur dieu plus que tout autre, et seules elles veulent pleurer sa mort, et chanter sa resurrection."
In the version of the prose Lancelot Gawain, during the night, sees twelve maidens come to the door of the chamber where the Grail is kept, kneel down, and weep bitterly, in fact behave precisely as did the classical mourners for Adonis "Elles sanglotent eperdument pendant la nuit." behaviour for which the text, as it now stands, provides no shadow of explanation or excuse.
I acknowledge, also, that there is something vastly prepossessing in the frankness of his manners; he has behaved admirably well about this abominable letter; but, what is better than all in a lady's eyes he is eperdument amoureux." "Not eperdument, I hope," said Belinda.
"Admirers! yes, adorers, you may say encore, if you added lovers, you would not be much wrong; dying for love eperdument epris! See, there, he who is bowing now Monsieur le Marquis de Beaulieu homme de cour plein d'esprit homme marquant very remarkable man. But Ah! voila que entre of the court. Did you ever see finer entree made by man into a room, so full of grace?
"Then, as you do not think it necessary for your hero to be eperdument amoureux, I presume," said Lady Delacour, "you do not think it necessary that a heroine should be in love at all. So love and marriage are to be separated by philosophy, as well as by fashion. This is Lady Anne Percival's doctrine! I give Mr. Percival joy. I remember the time, when he fancied love essential to happiness."
"And how ought I to be loved?" asked Lady Augusta, impatiently. "La belle question! Eh! don't every body, de stupidest person in de world, know how dey ought to be love? Mais passionnement, eperdument dere is a a je ne sais quoi dat infailliblement distinguish de true lover from de false." "Then," said Lady Augusta, "you really don't think that Mr. Mountague loves me?"
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