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Faringhea, having remarked this emotion, thus spoke: "If, like the proud and brilliant king-bird of our woods, you prefer numerous and varied pleasures to solitary and monotonous amours handsome, young, rich as you are, my lord, were you to seek out the seductive Parisians voluptuous phantoms of your nights charming tormentors of your dreams were you to cast upon them looks bold as a challenge, supplicating as prayers, ardent as desires do you not think that many a half-veiled eye would borrow fire from your glance?
We are going out for three days to the outposts, we fall in at five o'clock to-morrow morning." "You are going to risk your life," she said, indignantly, "for the Parisians, who have no idea whatever of risking theirs. I call it madness." "You are going against your own doctrines, Miss Brander. Before you were indignant with me for doing nothing and being in earnest about nothing.
The monarch himself, without armor or helmet, was fortunately not recognized; his secretary, De Boville, and two Parisians of the name of Gentien, whom Philip had always about his person, were slain before his eyes. The King withdrew, but it was to arm, mount on horseback, and cry out to his followers to stand their ground.
You have proved to me to-day how unpleasant it is to be turned away, and I desire to spare other applicants the same inconvenience." "But suppose the Parisians should wish to see Count Falkenstein?" "They will have to submit to a disappointment." "Should any one seek an audience of the count?" "The count receives visitors, but gives audience to no one. His visitors will be announced by his valet.
"Yes, but the meridian of the Palais-Royal is the most exact." I laugh heartily. "Why do you laugh?" "Because it is impossible for all meridians not to be the same. That is true 'badauderie'." My friend looks at me for a moment, then he laughs likewise, and supplies me with ample food to ridicule the worthy Parisians.
As a political body Napoleon despised them himself, and yet he wanted the nation to respect them. But respect was impossible, and the volatile Parisians made the Peers a constant object of their witticisms. The punsters of Paris made the following somewhat ingenious play upon words. It was thus the lower orders behaved while the existence of France was at stake.
But even on its first performance it had not been hailed with more rapturous cheering than shook the whole house on this occasion; and Joseph had the satisfaction of believing that his sister's hold on the affection and on the respect of the Parisians was securely established. He was less pleased at the races in the Bois de Boulogne, which he visited the next day.
The writer said that the slanderers had got the ears of the king, and that I was no longer a persona grata at Court, as he had been assured that the Parisians had burnt me in effigy for my absconding with the lottery money, and that I had been a strolling player in Italy and little better than a vagabond. Such calumnies are easy to utter but hard to refute in a foreign country.
More than this: during the first few days after my arrival I suffered physically from the ugliness of things, from the gray light of the North after your golden sun: the masses of dull houses, the vulgar lines of certain domes and monuments, which had never struck me before, hurt me cruelly. Nor was the moral atmosphere any more to my taste. "And yet I have no complaint to make of the Parisians.
We asked how the present Empress was liked in France. "Not at all by the Parisians; she is too haughty, has the Austrian scornful lip, and sits back in her carriage when she goes through the streets." The same complaint was made against Marie Antoinette. On what small things the popularity of the high and mighty depends!
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