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"Why?" "I do not know." "Let us go to see it." When they arrived before Bertin's picture two little peasant-girls taking a bath in a brook they found a group admiring it. The Countess was delighted, and whispered: "It is simply a delicious bit a jewel! You never have done anything better."
He had heard the scream of the man with the knife in him and paused. It was a dark night, and in the impasse there was but one lamp which stood near Bertin's door. There was a babble of many voices after that scream shouts of fury, the whining of the would-be assassin, and so on; he was about to pass on, when Bertin's door opened and a woman slipped out and stood listening on the pavement.
Any attack, any criticism or allusion unfavorable to her friend's talent always threw the Countess into a passion. "Oh," said she, "men of Bertin's importance need not mind such rudeness." Guilleroy was astonished. "What!" he exclaimed, "a disagreeable article about Olivier! But I have not read it. On what page?"
He was much my friend, a man with the courage and innocence of a good child; but his thought was not easy to follow. He gave Bertin's group another look under puckered brows, and then turned his back on it and began to talk of other matters. I might have known then that but I must tell my tale in order." "Bertin was not wise if it were nothing more to bring such a wife to Algiers.
It was brief and ugly, but it marked a stage passed in Bertin's career. And it was only two days later that Vaucher came to me in my quarters with a manner at once deprecating and defiant. He sat in my arm-chair and laughed quietly before he spoke." "'I am looking for friends, he said; 'for a pair of friends." "Then, of course, I understood. I bade him count on me.
IVR. 28, no. 1. Some specification of the kind of vessel meant. Inscriptions were written on various metals, gold, silver, antimony, lead, copper, etc. IVR. 20, no. 2. See above, p. 286. Published by Bertin in the Revue d'Assyriologie, no. 4, and translated by Sayce, Hibbert Lectures, p. 573. I adopt Sayce's translation, Bertin's publication being inaccessible to me. Probably 'horizon.
But from the moment when the Countess had yielded, she was assailed by fears for Bertin's constancy. Nothing held him but his masculine will, his caprice, his passing fancy for a woman he had met one day just as he had already met so many others! She realized that he was so free, so susceptible to temptation he who lived without duties, habits, or scruples, like all men!
She was almost without amusement or occupation that winter, as she was in mourning; so that, for lack of society and entertainments, her chief interest was within the walls of Bertin's studio.
It was known only to two of Bertin's friends, and Hallé learned it about seven years later, when he had become an intimate friend of Madame Bertin, and she had been for years one of his best pupils. Paganini created the difficulties which he performed. He had a style of his own, and was most successful in playing his own compositions.
Madame received this message with indignation, and instead of making ready to obey, went in hot haste to the queen's reception room. "I wish to drive to Bertin's to make some purchases," said Marie Antoinette, as her tormentor appeared at the door. "That is impossible, your majesty," said the guardian of the inferno of etiquette.