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Let's just be patient a little very likely I can sell a few bits of land before long that will give us some money in hand and then this small person shall bedizen herself and the house as much as she pleases. And meanwhile, madame ma femme, let me point out to you that your George never professed to be anything but a very bad match for you!" Letty remembered all his facts and figures perfectly.
The last line is, "Quelle est donc cette femme?" et ne comprenda pas." "The music of that is not my father's best but you ask it, yes." Then she began, first playing after her own heart little dancing airs, gay and fantastic, and at last slid into a plaintive strain, and recited the accompaniment of rhythmic words.
Madame Apponyi was in London during the debates on the Reform Bill of 1867, and, like all foreigners and not a few Englishmen, was much perplexed by the "Compound Householder," who figured so largely in the discussion. Hayward explained that he was the Masculine of the Femme Incomprise.
The cultivated Jewess no longer cuts off her hair at her marriage. The British matron has discarded her cap and her conscientious ugliness; and a bishop's wife at fifty has more of the air of a femme galante than an actress had at thirty-five in her grandmother's time.
Madame Romain, however, lived well up to her reputation as being "incontestablement la plus jolie femme de Paris." By 1824 the fame of the establishment had begun to wane and in 1826 it expired, though the "Almanach des Gourmands" of the latter year said that the proprietor was the Véry of limonadiers, that his ices were superb, his salons magnificent and his prices exorbitant.
"It is sometimes just as poignant to say, 'Cherchez l'homme' as, 'Cherchez la femme." "You mean?..." "That what had happened was another man." "Ah!..." in quick surprise; and after a short, tense silence, "Then why in the world?..." But again she stayed him with a little arresting hand. "You wonder why she engaged herself to you?... When you have the clue it is quite simple.
Yvonne Deschamps Femme Orchestre, Messieurs et Dames, queen of the lyrical world, the musical marvel of the century, artist by appointment to the President of the Rplublique Franaise and all the crowned heads of Europe. How will that do?" "Beautifully. And you what will you do?" "I Oh, I will pass the hat." She laughed. "So! You intend to live in luxury at my expense.
All the reasons for this mode of conduct will serve perhaps for debate, certainly for conversation when we return. Madame Suard says that those societies are most agreeable where there are fewest women: if there were not women superior to her I should not hesitate to assent to her proposition, and I should with pleasure read Madame de Stael's book called Le Malheur d'etre femme.
'But after all it was not so very dreadful, I thought, as I fastened the door. 'Do I care for his femme de ménage? The great door of the house would be open now, and the stairs no longer affrighting, and I might slip unobserved away. But I could not bring myself to leave until I had spoken with Diaz, and I would not wake him. It was nearly noon when he stirred.
I know I have never seen him anywhere outside his own house, and it was a great surprise to see him now. We once ventured to invite him and his wife to dinner one evening, when the Prince and Princess Metternich were dining with us; and we got this answer: "Merci, de votre invitation pour ma femme et moi. Nous regrettons de ne pouvoir l'accepter.
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