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"Entrez," cried a voice, in answer to my rap. I obeyed the signal, and found myself in a room of tolerable dimensions and multiplied utilities. A decayed silk curtain of a dingy blue, drawn across a recess, separated the chambre a coucher from the salon.
Soon wilt thou be my own. 'As soon as the Queen's COUCHER is over! I have but to change to a traveling dress. 'At the foot of the winding stair. Sweetest be brave! 'I fear nothing with thee to guard me. See, the Queen is rising. Elizabeth was in effect rising to make her respectful progress to the rooms of the Queen-mother, to bid her good night; and Eustacie must follow. Would Diane be there?
'Something, said I, 'might burst in your inside any day of the week, and there would be an end of you, if you were locked into your room with three turns of the key. 'Cependant, said he, 'coucher dehors! 'God, said I, 'is everywhere. 'Cependant, coucher dehors! he repeated, and his voice was eloquent of terror.
This became the subject of conversation one evening at the coucher of Louis XV. 'You will see, Sire, said a courtier, whose office placed him in close communication with the King, 'that all this will make it absolutely necessary to assemble the States General!
"France!" cried Heyward, advancing from the shadow of the trees to the shore of the pond, within a few yards of the sentinel. "D'ou venez-vous ou allez-vous, d'aussi bonne heure?" demanded the grenadier, in the language and with the accent of a man from old France. "Je viens de la decouverte, et je vais me coucher." "Etes-vous officier du roi?"
Then commenced what was called the 'petit coucher', at which only the specially privileged remained. That was short. They did not leave until be got into bed. It was a moment to speak to him. Then all left if they saw any one buckle to the King.
She talked of this little occurrence all the time of her 'coucher'; though she only complained that one of Monsieur's guards should have had the effrontery to speak to her. Her Majesty added that he ought to have respected her incognito; and that that was not the place where he should have ventured to make a request.
I am very old to be surprised at anything; and yet I should be surprised if England did not see the greatness of the part she is called upon to play under existing circumstances. For many years she sustained in Europe, by war, the policy of respect for the laws of nations; will she not uphold it to-day by peace? Adieu, my dear Sir, je suis fatigue. Je vais me coucher, et tout a vous,
Louis XVI. determined once to accompany the Queen to a masked ball; it was agreed that the King should hold not only the grand but the petit coucher, as if actually going to bed.
It was jet black once, and fell right to my feet. I little thought, then I little thought!" The coucher accomplished, the Countess lay down in her bed; Perrote took leave of her, and put out the light, admonishing Amphillis to be quick. Then she left the room, locking the door after her. "There!" said the voice of the Countess through the darkness.
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