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She might have neither virtue, nor wealth, nor youth, but she would still be a Cadignan; it is like a prejudice, always alive and working.
Hence you need not ask whether he exerted over women the irresistible influences to which our nature yields" and the general looked at the Princesse de Cadignan "as vitreous matter is moulded under the pipe of the glass-blower; still, by a singular fatality an observer might perhaps explain the phenomenon the Colonel was not a lady-killer, or was indifferent to such successes.
The Vicomte de Grandlieu, the Duc de Rhetore, the Marquis de Chaulieu afterwards Duc de Lenoncourt-Chaulieu his wife, Madeleine de Mortsauf, the Duc de Lenoncourt's grand-daughter, the Marquis d'Ajuda-Pinto, the Prince de Blamont-Chauvry, the Marquis de Beauseant, the Vidame de Pamiers, the Vandenesses, the old Prince de Cadignan, and his son the Duc de Maufrigneuse, were constantly to be seen in this stately drawing-room, where they breathed the atmosphere of a Court, where manners, tone, and wit were in harmony with the dignity of the Master and Mistress whose aristocratic mien and magnificence had obliterated the memory of their servility to Napoleon.
Chesnel meanwhile drew the magistrate into a dark corner under the wall, and lowered his voice for his companion's ear. "If you are for the house of d'Esgrignon," he said, "Mme. la Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, the Prince of Cadignan, the Ducs de Navarreins and de Lenoncourt, the Keeper of the Seals, the Chancellor, the King himself, will interest themselves in you.
Now I admire you." The lawyer's lips wore one of those smiles which are as peculiar to them as dancers' smiles are to dancers. "Madame, can I come in?" said the maid. "What is it?" said her mistress. "Madame, the head lady's-maid came from the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse while you were out, and she will be obliged if you would go at once to the Hotel de Cadignan."
The sub-prefect read the words: Quo me trahit fortuna. Though he was not strong enough in French blazon to know the house that bore that device, Antonin felt sure that the Cinq-Cygnes would not send their chariot, nor the Princess de Cadignan a missive by her maid, except to a person of the highest nobility. "Ha! so you know the maid of the Princess de Cadignan! happy man!" said Antonin.
"But," said d'Arthez, with sarcastic airiness, "Madame la Princesse de Cadignan has one advantage over men: when they have put themselves in danger for her sake, she saves them, and says no harm of any one. Among the multitude, why shouldn't there be one woman who amuses herself with men as men amuse themselves with women? Why not allow the fair sex to take, from time to time, its revenge?"
"And judge," she cried, suddenly lifting herself with a spring and raising her hand, while lightning flashed from eyes where twenty chaste years shone "judge of the impression the love of a man like Michel must have made upon me. But by some irony of fate or was it the hand of God? well, he died; died in saving the life of, whom do you suppose? of Monsieur de Cadignan.
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