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Updated: June 19, 2025
Gantheaume arrived, and Bonaparte gave him orders to fit out the two frigates, the 'Muiron' and the 'Carree', and the two small vessels, the 'Revanche' and the 'Fortune', with a two months' supply of provisions for from four to five hundred men.
She saw him seeking her out by the Maison Carrée, standing to watch her sketch and passing to her the compliment of candid praise. Then he had come nearer, but by such a little! She saw him silvered in the moonlight by the Druids' Tower, standing at her easel. Here he would surely have revealed himself if he had had thoughts to utter of inner feelings. But he had remained silent.
The summer weather, romantic scenery, and occasional picnics, which Smollett would have liked to repeat every summer under the arches of the Pont du Gard the monument of antiquity which of all, excepting only the Maison Carree at Nimes, most excited his enthusiastic admiration, all contributed to put him into an abnormally cheerful and convalescent humour. . . .
Yesterday I was in the Louvre, and when wearied with examination and debate I had gone there on a special errand I turned into the Salle Carree for relaxation, and there wandered about, waiting to be attracted.
When I look round on the objects of antiquity that meet my eye on every side, and above all on the Amphitheatre and Maison Carrée, I am forced to admit that Italy has nothing to equal the two last: for if the Coliseum may be said to surpass the amphitheatre in dimensions, the wonderful state of preservation of the latter renders it more interesting; and the Maison Carrée, it must be allowed, stands without a competitor.
For in his warm-hearted way, seeing that Morris was, as he had said, to tell his mother today about his happy and thoroughly suitable love affair, Mr. Taynton proposed to give a little partie carrée on the earliest possible evening, at which the two young lovers, Mrs. Assheton, and himself would form the table.
I had an hour of quiet, stealthy observation before my Coburg friend discovered me, and by that time I was glad of his company and had need of his confidence. But, before making use of him in the second capacity, I desired to make the acquaintance of the adjoining partie carree.
Nothing can be more rich and joyous to the eye than the rust which covers its ruins a complete gilding that one would say had been laid on by the hand of man. It has a little temple which is a wonder and has been compared to the ancient Roman temple the Maison Carree at Nimes. But how much warmer, more living are the stones!
As there were but few people in the house, the large dining-room was not in use, and their table was laid in the small restaurant that looks out on the Marina, and was placed close to the window. "At last we are repeating our partie carree of the Guiseppone," said Artois, as they sat down.
"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!"
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