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He was always extremely weak, too, with respect to lovers, who chose to make him their confidant. The Duc de Saint Simon was one day exceedingly annoyed at this weakness of my son, and said to him, angrily, "Ah! there you are; since the days of Louis le Debonnaire there has been nobody so debonnaire as yourself." My son was much amused at it.
He was not thought at that time to be cruel by nature, but was usually spoken of, in the conventional language appropriated to monarchs, as a prince "clement, benign, and debonnaire." Time was to show the justice of his claims to such honorable epithets.
About half-past two their fire slackened and Pole-Carew was directed to push on. That debonnaire soldier with his two veteran brigades obeyed the order with alacrity, and the infantry swept over the ridge, with some thirty or forty casualties, the majority of which fell to the Warwicks.
I was aghast at the freedom of treasonable speech with which this very debonnaire gentleman ventured to address an utter stranger. "But tell me, Monsieur de Lesperon," resumed my host, "how is it with you?" I started in fresh astonishment. "How how do you know that I am Lesperon?" I asked. "Ma foi!" he laughed, "do you imagine I had spoken so unreservedly to a man of whom I knew nothing?
I need not say that the invitation was eagerly accepted, nor that I left Philippe le Debonnaire impressed with the idea of his being the most admirable person in Europe. What a fool a great man is if he does not study to be affable: weigh a prince's condescension in one scale, and all the cardinal virtues in the other, and the condescension will outweigh them all!
"Well, that's what I am, you see," continued the man who had now regained his former debonnaire manner, "so the next time look out and don't be taken in. There are gentlemen who are thieves, sonny, and then again there are thieves who are gentlemen at least I hope so."
'You must come and see me, Aunt Kitty, he said; 'I am not available for coming in to see you. I'm reading, and I've made a resignation of myself, he added, with a slight blush, and debonnaire shrug, glancing to see that his father was occupied with James. They were to dine with Lady Conway on the following Tuesday.
He lay back in his corner of the carriage, too much tired to talk; though, by-and-by, he began to smile over his own musings, or to make some lazily ludicrous remark to amuse Virginia. His aunt caressed her wounded hero, and promoted his intercourse with Isabel, to his exquisite amusement, in his passive, debonnaire condition, especially as Isabel was perfectly insensible to all these manuoevres.
He had never seen her so radiantly debonnaire; yet her heart was full of annoying anxiety. "There's so much I want to say to you," he answered more seriously. "So very much?" "Very much indeed." She looked up the road. "I can give you ten minutes," she said. "Suppose we walk up and down under these trees. It is shady and quiet here. Now proceed, monsieur. Is it my money or my life?"
His natural lines were all upward curves, his smile most ingratiating, his eye so frank, even his trick of rubbing his clean, well-feel, English-looking hands, had something about it coaxing and debonnaire, something that actually decoyed you into trusting your money into hands so prepossessing.
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