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But there are cases where this is so difficult that an impatient lover cannot be restrained from adopting the agency of a billet-doux in declaring his passion. The lady, before proposal, is generally prepared for it. It is seldom that such an avowal comes without some previous indications of look and manner on the part of the admirer, which can hardly fail of being understood.
But now a little billet-doux had done what all the orators in the world could not do. The arguments remained the same, but the Queen no longer "misliked that Leicester should have the authority." It was natural that the Lord Treasurer should express his satisfaction at this auspicious result.
I was transported with joy on reading the contents of this billet-doux, which I admired as a masterpiece of tenderness and elegance, and was already up to my ears in love with the author, whom my imagination represented as a lady of fortune, in the bloom of youth and beauty.
I tell you, our women do not read in order to live or to die like Lucretia. If you would inform us that a billet-doux was found in her cabinet after her death, or give a hint as if Tarquin really saw her in the arms of a slave, and that she killed herself not to suffer the shame of a discovery, such anecdotes would sell very well.
I long to be revenged on Melinda apply to Banter for his Assistance he contrives a scheme for that purpose which is put in Execution with great Success I make an Attempt upon the Heart of Miss Gripewell, but am disappointed grow melancholy at my Disappointment, and have recourse to the Bottle receive a Billet-doux am ravished with the Contents find myself involved in Intrigue, which I imagined would make my Fortune am confounded at my mistake, which banishes all Thoughts of Matrimony
Of course I intended to send back her letters, but not without the accompaniment of a billet-doux, the gallantry of which was not likely to please her.
"Ah! how very pretty!" interposed Desbarreaux. "See the villages marked out; here is Petits-Soins, Billet-Galant, then Billet-Doux!" "Oh! 'tis ingenious in the highest degree!" cried Vaugelas, Colletet, and the rest.
"With that grave brow of thine, and thy character for sobriety and early wisdom, you set the girls a-wooing, without waiting till they are asked; whilst I, their drudge and vassal, waste both language and leisure, without getting a kind word or look, far less a billet-doux."
So the glued envelope common, cheap, and necessary became the almost prevailing fashion for all notes as well as letters. The taste for colored note-paper with flowers in the corner was common among the belles of thirty years ago the "rose-colored and scented billet-doux" is often referred to in the novels of that period.
The brazen face of the knocker which the postman has just lifted, is related not only to the woodcuts of the Illustrated London News which he is delivering, but to the characters of the billet-doux which accompanies it. Between the painted window, the prayer-book on which its light falls, and the adjacent monument, there is consanguinity.
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