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When the lively French clock on the mantelpiece a base of malachite surmounted by a flying bronze Mercury with its arms spread gracefully in the air, and not remotely suggestive of Mademoiselle Olympe in the act of executing her grand flight from the trapeze when the clock, I repeat, struck nine, Van Twiller paid no attention to it. That was certainly a triumph.
After seeing the Maja desnuda at the Prado you realise that Manet's trip to Madrid was not without important results. Between the noble lady who was the Duchess of Alba and the ignoble girl called Olympe there is only the difference between the respective handlings of Goya and Manet. The noblest castle in Spain is the museum on the Prado.
To be weak and to scorn your weakness, and not to be able to conquer it, is, as has been said, a hard thing; and I suspect it was not with unalloyed satisfaction that Van Twiller found himself taking his seat in the back part of the private box night after night during the second engagement of Mademoiselle Olympe. It was so easy not to stay away!
Marguerite was a woman in the same position as Olympe, and yet I should never have dared say to her the first time I met her what I had said to the other woman. I loved Marguerite. I saw in her instincts which were lacking in the other, and at the very moment in which I made my bargain, I felt a disgust toward the woman with whom I was making it.
As for me, I laugh at such ideas, but you might be displeased. She would revere you as her benefactress, but never as her superior. It can't be otherwise; she is wild and free like the swallows her mother's blood counts for a good deal in what she is." "Who was her mother?" "Doesn't madame know the story?" said Olympe.
Olympe gazed with haggard eyes at the servant as he opened the gate; she saw the horse, and then, without a word, she ran to the chateau like a madwoman; when she reached it she fell to the ground beneath the general's windows crying out: "Monsieur, they have murdered him!"
"Well, if my girl had never known that scamp, she would now be Still, she was in luck, all the same, you will say, for Monsieur Grenouville fell so much in love with her that he married her " "And what brought that about?" "Olympe was desperate, madame.
First, he has a good breakfast in the morning; then, before the play, he dines, to be 'up to the mark, as he says; in short, he is a born lover of billiards and drams. 'But that is not following a trade, as I said to Olympe." "It is a trade men follow, unfortunately," said Josepha.
Good heavens I That was something possible only with the discovery of perpetual motion. Taken from her theatrical setting, from her lofty perch, so to say, on the trapeze-bar, Olympe Zabriski would have shocked every aristocratic fibre in Van Twiller's body. He was simply fascinated by her marvellous grace and élan, and the magnetic recklessness of the girl.
When the lively French clock on the mantel-piece a base of malachite surmounted by a flying bronze Mercury with its arms spread gracefully on the air, and not remotely suggestive of Mademoiselle Olympe in the act of executing her grand flight from the trapeze when the clock, I repeat, struck nine, Van Twilier paid no attention to it. That was certainly a triumph.
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