Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 13, 2025
"Silence!" said Madame de la Baudraye imperatively. "What do you want of me that brought you here?" "A power of attorney to receive our Uncle Silas' property." Dinah took a pen, wrote two lines to Monsieur de Clagny, and desired her husband to call again in the afternoon.
The King, who had found it hard to sit quiet and hear such insults, said to me that evening: "Go to Clagny. Let this stormy weather pass by. When it is fine again, you must come back." Having never run counter to the wishes of the father of my children, I acquiesced, and without further delay gladly departed.
"Well, Monsieur de Clagny," said Lousteau, "we were talking yesterday of the forms of revenge invented by husbands. What do you say to those invented by wives?" "I say," replied the Public Prosecutor, "that the romance is not by a Councillor of State, but by a woman. For extravagant inventions the imagination of women far outdoes that of men; witness Frankenstein by Mrs.
It was to this impulse of generosity on her part that a coalition was due, formed in Sancerre to secure the return of Monsieur de Clagny at the next elections. Madame de la Baudraye had dreamed of going to Paris in the wake of the new deputy.
Nevertheless, and in spite of the efforts of Messieurs de Chargeboeuf, Gravier, and de Clagny, of the Abbe Duret and the two chief magistrates, of a young doctor, and a young Assistant Judge all blind admirers of Dinah's there were occasions when, weary of discussion, they allowed themselves an excursion into the domain of agreeable frivolity which constitutes the common basis of worldly conversation.
We chose the large alley as our chief entertainment-hall, and the trees were all illuminated as in my park at Clagny, or at Versailles. There was no dancing, on account of the nuns, but during our repast there was music, and a concert and fireworks afterwards.
The little dwarf, full of rapturous delight, at sixty-four triumphed in the life which had so long been denied him; in the family, which his handsome cousin Milaud of Nevers had declared he would never have; and in his wife who had asked Monsieur and Madame de Clagny to dinner to meet the cure of the parish and his two sponsors to the Chamber of Peers. He petted the children with fatuous delight.
"It is quite intelligible," said President Boirouge; "the little man was very much startled, as I am told, at hearing that handsome young Milaud, the Attorney-General's deputy at Nevers, say to Monsieur de Clagny as they were looking at the turrets of La Baudraye, 'That will be mine some day. 'But, says Clagny, 'he may marry and have children. 'Impossible! So you may imagine how such a changeling as little La Baudraye must hate that colossal Milaud."
And with that he administered a blow to her. This indecency was reported to me. I did not take long in discovering what it was right to do with Adrien. I had him sent to Clagny, where I happened to be at the time.
Monsieur de Clagny threw the dice with a convulsive jerk, and dared not look up at the journalist. "A story, from you!" cried Madame de la Baudraye. "I should hardly have dared to hope for such a treat " "It is not my story, madame; I am not clever enough to invent such a tragedy.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking