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The decision of Mad. de Coulanges was probably at last influenced materially by the gay ideas of "stars and dukes, and all their sweeping train," associated with Mad. Vanderbenbruggen's image.
In the mean time, Emilie and her mother were in an obscure lodging, at a haberdasher's near Golden Square. The pride of Mad. de Coulanges, at first, supported her even beyond her daughter's expectations; she uttered no complaints, but frequently repeated, "Mais nous sommes bien ici, tres bien we cannot expect to have things as well as at the Hotel de Coulanges."
In 1644, she was married to the Marquis Henri de Sévigné, who was killed six years later in a duel, but who had, in the meantime, succeeded in making a considerable gap in her immense fortune, in spite of the precautions of her uncle, the Abbé of Coulanges.
In these skirmishes, however, Mad. de Coulanges, though apparently the most eager for victory, never seriously lost her temper her eagerness was more of manner than of mind; after pleading the cause of Racine, as if it were a matter of life and death, as if the fate of Europe or the universe depended upon it, she would turn to discuss the merits of a riband with equal vehemence, or coolly observe that she was hoarse, and that she would quit Racine for a better thing de l'eau sucre.
Mad. de Coulanges, by Lady Littleton's advice, determined, however, to be cautious in what she wrote to send to France by this gentleman. Emilie took the letters to Mrs. Somers, and requested her opinion; but she declined giving any. "I have nothing to do with the business, Mlle. de Coulanges," said she; "you will be guided by the opinion of my Lady Littleton."
But sobs choked him, and he could not utter more. "'What is this? Will no one tell? cried the king, as a frown of dark omen shadowed his angry features. "'Your Majesty has lost a brave, an honest, and a faithful follower, Sire, said Monsieur de Coulanges. 'Arnoud de Gency is no more. "'Why, I saw him this instant, said the king. 'He asked me some favor for his boy.
This ready sympathy, and this promptitude to oblige in trifles, became extremely agreeable to Mlle. de Coulanges: perhaps from the contrast with Mrs. Somers' defects, Lady Littleton's manners pleased her peculiarly.
Somers "IF THAT be the case, Mlle. de Coulanges " "Oh, Mrs. Somers! do not begin to quarrel with me at this moment, for I shall not be able to bear it I am sufficiently unhappy already!" said Emilie. "I am extremely sorry that any thing should make you unhappy, Emilie," said Mrs.
But as the anxiety of the countess increased, at the time when she expected to receive the decisive answer from her steward's son, she talked with incessant and uncontrollable volubility of her hopes and fears her conjectures and calculations and of the Chateau and Hotel de Coulanges; and she could not endure to see that Mrs. Somers heard all this with affected coldness or real impatience.
She found her mother in no humour to receive any apology, even if it had been offered: nothing could have hurt Mad. de Coulanges more than the imputation of being frivolous. "Frivole! frivole! moi frivole!" she repeated, as soon as Emilie entered the room. "My dear Emilie! I would not live with this Mrs.
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