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M. d'Andilly had got her from me. She neither powdered nor curled her hair any longer, and had dismissed me solemnly with all the formalities required from a sincere penitent. I discovered, by means of a valet de chambre, that, captain of the Marshal's Guards, had as free access to Meilleraye's lady as myself. See what it is to be a saint!
The counting-house of a manufacturer of woollen cloth is as inaccessible as the boudoir of a Marquis; while the flowered brocade gown and well-powdered curls of the former offer a much more imposing exterior than the chintz robe de chambre and dishevelled locks of the more affable man of fashion.
'They are from the conservatory of the Comte Meurien, at the château: I meant to have planted them to-day, said Julia. 'Who gave them to you? 'Mme Lavine, the femme de chambre. 'Ah, diable! I hope you have nothing else from that château? 'I have nothing else, replied Julia, blushing, and somewhat discomposed, as she remembered Victor.
It was scarcely possible that he could have interfered in any way, and yet.... She would talk to her husband face to face, she would tell him the things that were in her heart. She rang the bell for the second time. Only the femme de chambre answered the summons. Madame's maid was not to be found. Madame had not once retired so early. It was possible that Susanne had gone out.
Madame de L-, in passing from her brother's apartments to her own, hearing so much jollity below stairs, rung up her fille de chambre to ask about it; and, hearing it was the English gentleman's servant, who had set the whole house merry with his pipe, she ordered him up.
This was, I think, in order to avoid confusion with regard to fees; the double service of waiter and valet de chambre entitling him to a particularly generous douceur.
Montespan, old Maintenon, and all the femmes de chambre have made her believe that she did my son honour in marrying him; and she is so vain of her own birth and that of her brothers and sisters that she will not hear a word said against them; she will not see any difference between legitimate and illegitimate children.
"Her letters are forwarded to London." "Then the marquise is not a young girl who...?" "Ah!" said the postman, interrupting the valet de chambre and observing him attentively, "you are as much a porter as I'm..." Laurent chinked some pieces of gold before the functionary, who began to smile.
The first, as you said, contains two ladies with their femmes de chambre; the second contains the footmen, provisions, and necessaries." "That is well," replied the king in an agitated voice. "Please to go and tell those ladies that a cavalier of the court wishes to pay his respects to them alone." The officer set off at a gallop.
The faithful valet de chambre goes on in an attempt to defend his master: "Others perhaps would have succumbed oftener.
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