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Foreigners bought out four editions of this French work which was proscribed in France, and made about eighteen hundred thousand dollars. Morley points out that Mme. de Pompadour died before the volumes containing "Poudre" and "Rouge" were published.
She too much blued her eyes, and bruised the skin in wiping, intense the contest between poudre blanche and poudre Rachel, violette and germandree, she manoeuvring among mirrors to catch each angle of view, but with a blind impatience; and, if she wanted something, she tripped running, breathless: such a disease of flurry, an eruption and conflagration of haste for nothing; yet, all the while, with a miserable sub- feeling of the penal creeping of time.
At night to sleep in a bag of fur and wool, by day the steely wind, or the air shaking with a filmy powder of frost; while the illimitably distant sun made the tiny flakes sparkle like silver a poudre day, when the face and hands are most like to be frozen, and all so still and white and passionless, yet aching with energy.
After more than a score of years I am no nearer a solution of the riddle. Twenty miles from the spot where the music-fond coyote sang, near the headwaters of the Poudre River, I rode one day in pursuit of a pair of marauding wolves. As soon as they discovered me tracking them, they took to an old game trail that climbed several thousand feet in ten miles distance and headed toward the timberline.
This bank, like almost all others pierced by outlet pipes or culverts, was not destined to be perfect. In 1867, four years after the completion, spurts of water showed themselves in the culvert in front of the puddle wall, which began to settle, and the water had to be drawn off to admit of repairs. This character of work is adopted on the North Poudre Irrigation Canal, in N.E. Colorado.
A day like this is called a poudre day; and woe to the man who tempts it unthinkingly, because the light makes the delicate mist of frost shine like silver. For that powder bites the skin white in short order, and sometimes reckless men lose ears, or noses, or hands under its sharp caress.
Worse still are words which seek to turn the edge of the divine threatenings against some sin by a jest; as when in France a subtle poison, by whose aid impatient heirs delivered themselves from those who stood between them and the inheritance which they coveted, was called 'poudre de succession. We might suppose beforehand that such cloaks for sin would be only found among people in an advanced state of artificial cultivation.
"But that she prepared secret poisons, one of which, called 'La poudre de succession, was specially designed for the use of those who wished to remove an inconvenient relative." This time the countess was silent; her brow contracted, and she shivered perceptibly. An involuntary cry burst from the lips of her son, which recalled her to a sense of her imprudence.
At night to sleep in a bag of fur and wool, by day the steely wind, or the air shaking with a filmy powder of frost; while the illimitably distant sun made the tiny flakes sparkle like silver a poudre day, when the face and hands are most like to be frozen, and all so still and white and passionless, yet aching with energy.
From Thompson's Fork Colonel Fremont's division marched to the Cache la Poudre River, and thence to the plains of Laramie until they came to the North Fork of the Platte. This river they crossed below the New Park and bent their way to the sweet water, reaching it at a point about fifteen miles below the Devil's Gate.
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