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Like a considerable number of women in Italy in the sixteenth century, and in France in the seventeenth, she had received a careful education. She knew Italian, Latin, and Spanish; she had for masters Menage and Chapelain; and she early imbibed a real taste for solid reading, which she owed to her leaning towards the Jansenists and Port-Royal.
There was a M. de Puimorin who, to be in the fashion, laughed at your once popular Epic. 'It is all very well for a man to laugh who cannot even read. Whereon M. de Puimorin replied: 'Qu'il n'avoit que trop su' lire, depuis que Chapelain s'etoit avise de faire imprimer. A new horror had been added to the accomplishment of reading since Chapelain had published.
Would that, through the ages, we could hear you after supper, merry with Boileau, and with Racine, not yet a traitor, laughing over Chapelain, combining to gird at him in an epigram, or mocking at Cotin, or talking your favourite philosophy, mindful of Descartes. Surely of all the wits none was ever so good a man, none ever made life so rich with humour and friendship. XIX. To Robert Burns.
The French Academy was founded; it was already commencing its Dictionary in accordance with the suggestion enunciated by Chapelain at the second meeting; the cardinal was here carrying out that great moral idea of literature which he had expressed but lately in a letter to Balzac: "The conceptions in your letters," said he, "are forcible and as far removed from ordinary imaginations as they are in conformity with the common sense of those who have superior judgment.
So, Master, may you sing against each other, you two good old anglers, like Peter and Corydon, that sang in your golden age. X. To M. Chapelain. Monsieur, You were a popular writer, and an honourable, over-educated, upright gentleman.
She is in the parlor, with Mlle. Gilberte and M. Chapelain." It was so. After his fruitless attempt to reach M. de Thaller, M. Chapelain had breakfasted there, and had remained, wishing, he said, to see Maxence. And so, as soon as the young man appeared, availing himself of the privileges of his age and his old intimacy,
Favoral and M. Chapelain entered a cab which had been sent for, and drove to M. de Thaller's. Left alone, Mlle. Gilberte had but one thought, to notify M. de Tregars, and obtain word from him. Any thing seemed preferable to the horrible anxiety which oppressed her.
I have not invited him to dinner: he will only spend the evening with us." And he mistook for a disposition to yield the cold tone in which she answered: "I beg you to believe that this introduction is wholly unnecessary." Thus, the famous day having come, he told his usual Saturday guests, M. and Mme. Desclavettes, M. Chapelain, and old man Desormeaux: "Eh, eh!
"I have just seen the Baron de Thaller." He had said so much the day before about having nothing more to do with it, that Maxence could not repress a gesture of surprise. "Oh! it isn't alone that I saw him," added M. Chapelain, "but together with at least a hundred stockholders of the Mutual Credit." "They are going to do something, then?" "No: they only came near doing something.
M. de Thaller's creditors might not think that mode of proceeding entirely regular." "Then they might sue," said M. Chapelain, laughing. "People can always sue; only when the papers are well drawn " Mlle. Gilberte stood dismayed. She thought of Marius de Tregars giving up his mother's fortune to pay his father's debts. "What would he say," thought she, "should he hear such opinions!"
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