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"Don't you think it would be far better if, instead, you discussed the matter with your brother, Charles Le Fenu?" "So you know all about that?" Vera cried. "Yes, I do. I have seen him to-night. Gurdon has already had an interview with him an interview that almost cost him his life.
I noticed a Russian stove in one corner and a samovar in the adjoining room. The sargootchay had been newly appointed, and arrived only a week before. I presume his housekeeping was not well under way. The interview was as interesting as one could expect where neither party had anything important to say to the other.
"Of the meeting of the emperor with the King of Prussia," returned Kaunitz, quietly. "Yesterday they met at Neisse. It was a glorious interview. The two monarchs embraced, and the emperor remarked-" "Enough, enough!" cried Maria Theresa, impatiently. "You affect to misunderstand me. I speak of Antoinette's engagement to the dauphin. It must be broken. My daughter shall not go to France."
On the 5th June Villeroy had expressed a wish for a very secret interview with Mendoza, on the subject of the invasion of England. "It needed not this overture," said that magniloquent Spaniard, "to engender in a person of my talents, and with the heart of a Mendoza, venom enough for vengeance.
Vittorio, Luigi, and I met there the next morning. I knew the chief officer, and he had promised me an interview. Vittorio was crying, rubbing his knuckles in his eyes, utterly broken up and exhausted. He and Luigi had spent the night together. An hour before, the two had stood at Francesco's bedside in the hospital of San Paulo.
She would have laughed at his authority, and slipped through his fingers easily. How quickly he had turned away at the first hint that she found his presence at our brief interview undesirable, flushing like a boy, too!
"It was not," as she expresses herself in a letter to a friend, "for the world that she did so not in the least but she was unwilling to cut the Gordian knot, or tear herself away in appearance, when she could not in reality". The day after this interview, she set out upon a visit to the country, where she spent nearly the whole of the month of March.
The emperor suddenly approached the members of his suite, and they heard him say in a loud and angry voice: "If that is all you wish to say to me, hasten to inform your emperor that I had not thought at all of such conditions when I applied for an interview with him; I should only have shown him my army; and, as to the conditions, relied on his honesty.
Petersburg, his objections to court dress were more sympathetically received. Count Nesselrode, who found this uncompromising American possessed of redeeming qualities, put himself to no little trouble to arrange an interview with the Czar.
"The fact is," he said to Guillaume, "you don't keep quiet. I always find you in a state of feverish emotion which is the worst possible thing for you. You must calm yourself, my dear fellow, and not allow anything to worry you." A few minutes later, though, just as he was going away, he said with his pleasant smile: "Do you know that a newspaper writer came to interview me about that explosion?
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