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Madame R., she said, was always coquetting with her own funeral; conversed with different artists on the arrangements of its details, and tempting now one, now another, with the brilliant hope of the "composition" of the scene. Madame M. offered me her services as cicerone to Paris, and so to-day out we went first to the Pantheon, of which, in her gay and piquant style, she gave me the history.
I murmured in confusion. "We owe you a thousand apologies." "Not at all," he said, addressing all his courtesy to William. Me, since my rejection of his beaker, he took pains to ignore. "Not at all," he said. "Your intrusion was quite natural under the circumstances. I take a pleasure in being your cicerone.
Pulling a bell which hung in the vestibule, a monk appeared as our cicerone, and we might have been pardoned a little misgiving in committing ourselves to such a guide through the bowels of the earth. His cloak was old and tattered, his face was scourged with scorbutic disease, misery or flagellation had worn him to the bone, and his restless eye cast uneasy glances on all around.
July passed quickly in this mode of life, Balzac acting as cicerone to the two ladies, and their identity was fortunately not discovered. In August he conducted them as far as Brussels on their way back to Dresden, and together they visited Fontainebleau, Orleans, Bourges, his much-loved Tours, Blois, Rotterdam, La Hague, and Antwerp.
"Why don't we begin?" "The Master of the Buck hounds, of course," replied my cicerone. "He's not come yet. You know, Kate, it's a political appointment, and they generally give it to somebody who hates hunting, and particularly stag-hunting, more than anything; so, of course, he wisely comes as late and goes home as early as he can.
The Blood-letting of plethoric Placemen. The Posada. Ingles and Benoliel. Amulets for successful parturition. Visits of a Moorish Taleb and a Berber. Three Sundays during a week in Barbary. M. Rey's account of the Empire of Morocco. The Government Auctioneer gives an account of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Morocco. Benoliel as English Cicerone. Departure from Tangier to Gibraltar.
Then my cicerone took me into the main building, filled up to the brim with what seemed to be little brick and stone boxes, and, halting in front of one, said, "This is your cell."
"I should certainly suppose so." "And where shall I find a cicerone?" "Apply to Rook." "In what terms? You see, dearest, this is rather a special matter, isn't it?" "Very special. But on no account hint that you are in Algiers for 'Catherine's' sake. It would get into the papers. It would be cabled to America. The whole reading world would be agog, and the future interest of the book discounted."
She had great admiration for this distinguished scholar, who combined with his linguistic attainments an intense love of art and a profound appreciation of genius, in whatever guise it was to be found. With such a cicerone she could not help making great acquisitions. He was like Jerome explaining to Paula the history of the sacred places; like Dr.
Mauleverer, approaching the father and daughter with his most courtly manner, insisted on taking the latter under his own escort, and being her cicerone through the round of preparations. As the crowd thickened, and it was observed how gallant were the attentions testified towards Lucy by the host, many and envious were the whispers of the guests!
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