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Many of those are certain to live and keep their hold, but it is by dint of long and elaborate preparation, description, analysis. A stranger intermeddleth not with them, though we can fancy Lucien de Rubempre let loose in a country neighbourhood of George Sand's, and making sonnets and love to some rural chatelaine, while Vautrin might stray among the ruffians of Gaboriau, a giant of crime.
Perhaps Mademoiselle may remember a little incident at the Palais de Dance in Berlin Anna vs. He of Lichtenstein. Or perhaps Mademoiselle will recall a little episode in the Eis Arena in Berlin during a certain New Year's Eve carnival when the restoration not the loss of her magnificent gold chatelaine bag caused her much embarrassment.
A heretic! a Protestant! Poor Cure; it was indeed that of which he had immediately thought on hearing the words, "An American, Mrs. Scott." The new chatelaine of Longueval would not go to mass. What did it matter to him that she had been a beggar? What did it matter to him if she possessed tens and tens of millions? She was not a Catholic.
She did not finish her sentence, but sat twisting the links of her chatelaine about her fingers, and looking almost timidly away from his face. "Go on," he said, "what did you hope?" "That this long absence might have that I hardly know how to say it without offending you." "You hoped I had learned to accept life more like a reasonable being, isn't that it?
The girl whom she had addressed as Louise shrugged her shoulders. "So do I, so do all of us," she answered, a little wearily. "What would you have? One must live somewhere." The Baroness sighed, and from a chatelaine hung with elegant trifles selected a gold cigarette case. An attentive waiter rushed for a match and presented it.
Miss Granger made an involuntary wry face, as if she had been eating something nasty. Mr. Granger gave a great yawn, and, as the rooms by this time were almost empty, made his way to Lady Laura in order to offer his congratulations upon her triumph before retiring to rest. For once in a way, the vivacious chatelaine of Hale Castle was almost cross.
She wore silks that seemed heirlooms, so thick were they, so substantial and imposing; and over these, when she was in her own domain, the whitest of aprons; while at her waist was seen no fiddle-faddle chatelaine, with breloques and trumpery, but a good honest gold watch to mark the time, and a long pair of scissors to cut off the dead leaves from her flowers, for she was a great horticulturalist.
It would do my lord baron's heart good only to cast eyes on the perfect make of that arblast! He has a lordly tread, and a stately presence, and, though he has a free tongue, and made friends with us as he dried his garments, he asked after my lord like his equal." "O mother, must you play the chatelaine?" asked Ebbo. "Who can the fellow be?
His own face was in shadow and the chatelaine could not distinguish its features. "Have I the honor to address the Lady Brilliana Harby?" he asked. "I am the Lady Brilliana Harby," the girl answered. "What is your business here?" "I come, madam," Evander replied, "a servant of the Parliament and of the English people, to safeguard this mansion in their name."
His life had been so full of beauty and fair things; wheresoever his lot had fallen at any time he had had fair days, fair nights, and earth's loveliness to behold. And all he had loved and joyed in, he had known she would love and joy in, too. What a chatelaine she would make, he had thought; how the simple rustic folk would worship her!
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