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Updated: July 27, 2025
They are incapable of attaching themselves in anything to that degree that existence is illumined by the happiness of comprehending it. The Baron de Corbelle thought that it was his duty to come to the defense of society.
For the first time, the Count and the Duchess spoke of their mutual desires in veiled terms; and when they parted, a treaty of alliance had been concluded. At the other end of the room everyone was laughing at a story M. de Musadieu was telling to the Baroness de Corbelle about the presentation of a negro ambassador to the President of the Republic, when the Marquis de Farandal was announced.
Madame de Corbelle and her husband presented themselves at the same time, their voices full of tears.
"For my part, I say that men should be thin, because they are formed for exercises that require address and agility, incompatible with corpulency. But the women's case is a little different. Don't you think so, Corbelle?" Corbelle was perplexed, the Duchess being stout and his own wife more than slender.
She had hardly seated herself when the same servant announced: "Monsieur le Baron and Madame la Baronne de Corbelle." They were young; the Baron was bald and fat, the Baroness was slender, elegant, and very dark. This couple occupied a peculiar situation in the French aristocracy due solely to a scrupulous choice of connections.
He decided that she was graceful, and above all full of promise, for he had led so many cotillions that he knew young girls well, and could predict almost to a certainty the future of their beauty, as an expert who tastes a wine as yet too new. He exchanged only a few unimportant words with her, then seated himself near the Baroness de Corbelle, so that he could chat with her in an undertone.
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