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"No!" cried Goethe, and an indescribable expression of rapture and delight was manifest in his whole manner. "No, why should I deny it, how could I? It would be treason to the Highest and most Glorious. No, I long for my muse, my mistress, my " "Beloved!" interrupted the duke. "I pray you not to be so prudish, so reserved.
"You know the proverb," she replied. "There is no good fete without a morrow." In the matter of repartees literary celebrities are often not as quick as women. Raoul pretended dulness, a last resort for clever men. "That proverb is true in my case," he said, looking gallantly at the marquise. "My dear friend, your speech comes too late; I can't accept it," she said, laughing. "Don't be so prudish!
His prudish behavior on this day was diametrically opposed to the Nawin of old who on virtually every other day of his adult life but this one, from influences of feelings and underlying thoughts which he hardly recognized, had followed his carnal whims with women inordinately.
Not prudish, not morbid, not envious, not sentimental, and not indolent, she was perhaps especially endowed for the tantalising career which the stage offers to the ambitious of both sexes. Acting came to her as music comes to the true musician.
I should really rather not discuss it, Miss Madeleine." "Oh, for Heaven's sake, don't let us play the prudish or sentimental!" cried Madeleine, in a burst of impatience. "Of course, it isn't pleasant. Do you think I should " "bother with you," was on her tongue. She checked herself, and substituted "trouble you about it, if it were?
Capricious, variable, close, giddy, free, prudish, a virgin armed with claws, Erigone stained with grapes, she sometimes overturned, with a single dash of her white fingers, or with a single puff from her laughing lips, the edifice which had exhausted Malicorne's patience for a month.
Nay, even the tipsy crew at Bacchus's affected to treat her name with scorn: "The girl had made much noise about being called a trull, as if many a better than she wasn't one; and, after all, what was the prudish wench? a sort of she-butcher; they had no patience with her proud looks."
Though grave matrons shook their heads and looked prudish when the Countess Rosali was mentioned, yet to belong to her set was to receive the "stamp of fashion." No day passed without some amusement at the villa picnic, excursion, soiree, dance, or, what its fair mistress preferred, private theatricals and charades.
Pleasure, seemingly, was at their beck and call; they looked on the most virtuous and prudish as an easy prey, ready to surrender at a word, at the slightest impudent gesture or insolent look. I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
She was vexed with herself for her prudish weakness. An opportunity that might never be repeated was offered her, and she could not muster the courage to seize it. Blake, however, did not seem daunted. "You said you were delighted with the things my uncle showed you the last time you were here, and a friend has just sent him a fresh lot from Benares." He gave her an appealing look.
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