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"'Well, madame, returned he, 'when the child is seven years old, an age at which a boy ought to pass out of women's hands' an indication of entire agreement on the mother's part 'if the child is really mine' another gesture of assent 'if there is a striking likeness, if he bids fair to be a gentleman, if I can recognize in him my turn of mind, and more particularly the Rusticoli air; then, oh ah! a new movement from the matron 'on my word and honor, I will make him a cornet of sugar-plums!
The man in livery handed him a note written in pencil: "'The carriage has been engaged for three days. Count Rusticoli de la Palferine is too happy to associate himself with Court charities by lending wings to Royal beneficence. "La Palferine now calls the civil list the uncivil list. "He was once passionately loved by a lady of somewhat light conduct.
On the day of Saint-Bartholomew they slew a goodly number of Protestants, and Charles IX. bestowed the hand of the heiress of the Comte de la Palferine upon the Rusticoli of that time. "From the time of the Valois till the reign of Richelieu, as it may be called, the Rusticoli played a most illustrious part; under Louis XIV. their glory waned somewhat, under Louis XV. it went out altogether.
Under the Restoration he would certainly have repaired the fortunes of a great and noble family so brilliant even as far back as 1100, centuries before they took the French title for the Rusticoli had given a pope to the church and twice revolutionized the kingdom of Naples so illustrious again under the Valois; so dexterous in the days of the Fronde, that obstinate Frondeurs though they were, they still existed through the reign of Louis XIV. Mazarin favored them; there was the Tuscan strain in them still, and he recognized it.
At that audacious falsehood Arthur bowed his head; he passed beneath the Caudine forks of submission. A real love descends at times to these sublime meannesses. Arthur behaved with Madame Schontz as Sabine with Calyste, and Calyste with Beatrix. Within a week the transition from larva to butterfly took place in the young, handsome, and clever Charles-Edouard, Comte Rusticoli de la Palferine.
He raised her with his grand manner, his 'Rusticoli air, as he calls it 'There, child! he said, 'I will do something for you; I will put you in my will. "Well," concluded Nathan, "I ask myself sometimes whether du Bruel is really deceived.
The Emperor made him a commander of the Legion of Honor and a count. "General Count Rusticoli, for he became a brigadier-general at Ratisbon and a general of the division on the field of Wagram, died at Vienna almost immediately after his promotion, or his name and ability would sooner or later have brought him the marshal's baton.
They invented the burlesque axiom, 'In the sight of man, all women are equal. The actual text is more vigorously worded, but as in my opinion the spirit is false, I do not stand nice upon the letter. "My friend, madame, is named Gabriel Jean Anne Victor Benjamin George Ferdinand Charles Edward Rusticoli, Comte de la Palferine.
My friend's grandfather wasted all that was left to the once brilliant house with Mlle. Laguerre, whom he first discovered, and brought into fashion before Bouret's time. Charles Edward's own father was an officer without any fortune in 1789. The Revolution came to his assistance; he had the sense to drop his title, and became plain Rusticoli. Rusticoli was one of the best colonels in the army.
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