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Such were these two charming letters, and I may immediately mention now that the lascivious picture dear Carry drew of a partie carrée we four the actors was afterwards realised to the utmost extent of every salacious enjoyment that the most experienced lubricity could suggest.
"We might imagine coming upon our former selves over there, and travelling round with them a wedding journey 'en partie carree'." "Something like that. I call it a very poetical idea," she said with a sort of provisionality, as if distrusting another ambush. "It isn't so bad," he admitted. "How young we were, in those days!"
She was only flesh and blood after all, and she, too, had felt her pulses throbbing wildly as they had walked along by the lake, when all the color and lights of the evening helped to excite her imagination and exalt her spirit. They had been almost alone, for the other pair who composed the partie carrée of this walk were several yards ahead of them.
Despite all appearance to the contrary, Mrs Fanshawe felt convinced that "the bore" had been brought down to engage her own attention, and so leave her son free to follow his own devices. She set her lips, and determined on a counter move. A partie carree was dangerous under the circumstances; safety lay in a crowd.
But for the present the fountain is even more attractive than the memory of the poet. The change from Avignon to Nismes is very trying to the latter place; for Nismes is not picturesquely or historically interesting. It is a prosperous modern French town with two almost perfect Roman monuments Les Arènes and the Maison Carrée. The amphitheatre is a complete oval, visible at one glance.
The Maison Carree at Nimes, a pretty little Roman temple, will seem to you as big as Notre Dame. You will see that the only liar in the Midi, if there is one, is the sun; everything that he touches he exaggerates.
"We might imagine coming upon our former selves over there, and travelling round with them a wedding journey 'en partie carree'." "Something like that. I call it a very poetical idea," she said with a sort of provisionality, as if distrusting another ambush. "It isn't so bad," he admitted. "How young we were, in those days!"
At five Zephania appeared with the tea things and the partie carrée gathered in the parlor and brought their several little histories up to date, and laughed and poked fun at each other, and drew more and more together as time passed. Perhaps you've been thinking that Wade's advent in Eden Village was the signal for calls and invitations to dinners, receptions, and bridge.
If the amphitheatre strikes you with an idea of greatness, the Maison Carree enchants you with the most exquisite beauties of architecture and sculpture.
It contrasts with the Maison Carrée as a wild legend of the dark ages would with a letter of Pliny; and though rough in its fabric, and uncertain in its history, dwells as strongly on the recollection as that highly-finished gem.
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