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Updated: May 14, 2025
"I'm all unstrung," confided Constance, with an assumed air of languor, as she dropped into a chair. Charmant, as fresh as if she had just emerged from the proverbial bandbox, nodded knowingly. "A Turkish bath, massage, something to tone you up," she advised.
The Frenchman declared immediately that he was le Prussien le plus charmant he had ever seen. The Sister took him to her motherly heart, and the doctor was constantly at his bedside. He was able to give him a great deal of attention without neglecting his duty, as there were few very severe cases under his care, and no new ones came in Paris had surrendered and a truce was declared.
"It gives me pleasure to dance with him," answered Sara, both with pride and insolence, as she withdrew; and the mother, wounded and displeased, returned to her seat. The Countess Solenstråle lavished compliments on Elise on account of her children. "They are positively the ornament of the room," said she; "charmant! and your son a most prepossessing young man so handsome and comme il faut!
At that moment M. Delacour opened the door of the boudoir: 'Forgive me, he said, 'for interrupting you, but I wanted to tell that every one has read your article. It is a great success, spirituel, charmant, surtout tres parisien, that's what is said on every side.
C'est charmant!" said the mother, with a smile, faithfully repeated by the daughter. "Don't you think so, Lise? it's just the thing for you. Painted as Pysche! Quelle idée délicieuse! But what a picture! Quite a Correggio! I have heard and read much about you, but I had not the least idea of your talent." "What the deuce am I to do with them?" thought the artist.
The chariot still flew on with lightning haste; the horses increased their speed till at last they made a hundred leagues an hour. During six hours they kept up this rate and then drew up at the foot of the stairs of Prince Charmant. The whole palace was illuminated and all the courtiers were waiting at the entrance in their most magnificent costumes to welcome the princess and the prince.
The picture was like one she had seen on the easel in the Rue du Chevalier Bayard. "Mais c'est charmant!" exclaimed the ambassador; and the adjective was echoed in every key by the rest of the little coterie. "I expect him here this evening," said Madame; "and I shall be very much gratified if you will permit me to present him to your excellency." The ambassador bowed.
But when, in a beautiful and melodious voice, she sang a romance, composed by herself on the happiness of being good and beloved there was an outbreak of admiration, the enthusiasm became general and her sisters almost fainted with jealousy and envy. Charmant was transported with admiration.
Stossen reluctantly; in moments of flurry such French as she knew was not under very good control. "La, a l'autre cote de la porte, est un cochon " "Un cochon? Ah, le petit charmant!" exclaimed Matilda with enthusiasm. "Mais non, pas du tout petit, et pas du tout charmant; un bete feroce "
Formerly in Anna Pavlovna's presence, Pierre had always felt that what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte's stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. Now everything Pierre said was charmant.
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