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Updated: May 4, 2025
A good many of Constant's speeches were written by Madame De Stael, and when they traveled together through Germany he no doubt was a great help to her in preparing the "De l'Allemagne." But there was a little man approaching from out the mist of obscurity who was to play an important part in the life of Madame De Stael.
Constant's room on the morning of December 4th, and saw that the staple of the bolt had been wrested by the pin from the lintel, I jumped at once to the conclusion that I had broken the bolt. Now I admit that this was so, only in things like this you do not seem to conclude, you jump so fast that you see, or seem to.
"You must change your shoes," he cried eagerly. "Your hobnails spoil all." I put one of his gossip's shoes on the floor beside my foot. "Now, monsieur, I ask you, how am I to get into that?" "Shall I fetch you Vigo's?" he grinned. "No, Constant's," I said instantly, thinking how it would make him writhe to lend them. "Constant's best," he promised, disappearing.
Many of the beauties of the time did their best to confirm him in this good opinion of himself, and as Madame de Remusat says of him, he in his court was not unlike the Grand Turk in his harem. "The Emperor," we read in Constant's Memoirs, "used to say that a good man was to be known by the way he treated his wife, his children, and his servants.
She went downstairs, with no foreboding save that the kettle would come off second best in the race between its boiling and her lodger's dressing. For she knew there was no fear of Arthur Constant's lying deaf to the call of Duty temporarily represented by Mrs. Drabdump. He was a light sleeper, and the tram-conductors' bells were probably ringing in his ears, summoning him to the meeting.
It was consoling to think of the time when Stephen might be told everything; and she wished almost unconsciously that it was his help which she had to rely upon now. True to his word, Si Maïeddine was waiting in Madame Constant's hideous sitting-room, when Victoria returned to the hotel from Djenan el Djouad.
"We must follow our conviction," said I to him. This reply was dictated by enthusiasm; but, I confess, if I had foreseen what I have suffered since that day, I should not have had the firmness to refuse M. Constant's offer of renouncing his project, in order not to compromise me.
The heroine is not particularly interesting with her morbidness and hysterical posing; she probably stands for one of Balzac's principles, and his principles are the most tedious thing about him. With the Muse of the County, which the author declared to be Constant's Adolphe treated realistically, we are back in the truer Balzacian manner.
One evening we would spend at Constant's, Rue de la Gaieté, in the company of thieves and housebreakers; on the following evening we were dining with a duchess or a princess in the Champs Elysées.
"From the time that the Empress arrived," we read in Constant's Memoirs, "we had felt the keenest anxiety; every one in the palace had been most uneasy about the Emperor. At last he arrived, unharmed, but very tired; his dress in disorder, his face scorched, his clothes and stockings all blackened and singed by the fire.
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