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"Is there much use in denying the fact that he married the Archduke's daughter?" "We meet the case by saying that the Archduke in his youth may not have been exempt from manly follies. And Duboc was irresistible she drove one mad!" "Then why all this fuss?" "To avoid more fuss on a large scale." "But I have always heard that Mrs. Parflete has no intention of giving trouble.
Was she really so young? was she really so pretty? was she going on the public stage, or would she remain an accomplished, semi-royal amateur? No one referred openly to the late Archduke Charles, but the facts that Madame Duboc had been his Canonical wife, that Mrs.
"Does she resemble, in any way, I wonder, her good mother, Madame Duboc?" No, she had her own style although she was coquettish enough. And pretty? Delicious. "This is better," thought his Excellency, "much better. And do you think," he asked, aloud, "that she cares at all for Orange?" Castrillon smirked and put his hand, half instinctively, to his breast-pocket.
It brought tears to my eyes, but as evidence it was valueless for my purpose. She wept, stormed, and showed much feeling. I was reminded in many ways of her mother, Madame Duboc. M. de Hausée, of purer blood, is like those players who, in spite of an air of indifference at great losses, feel them none the less.
As a child, dressed up in ribbons and lace, with flowers in her hair, she had been the chief amusement and plaything of Madame Duboc to be held on her lap, perched upon the piano, placed on high cushions in the carriage, and lifted on the table of the drawing-room, where she entertained a brilliant, if dissipated company, by her talk, her little songs, her laughter, her mimicry, and her dancing.
Built by the Archduke Charles of Alberia for his morganatic wife, Henriette Duboc, and pulled down since for the erection of a convent, it is never mentioned in history, and it has been long forgotten by the few inhabitants of the neighbourhood.
Henriette Duboc had been compared, as a dancer, to La Guimard, said Sir Piers Harding to the Duchess of Lossett. And who was La Guimard? asked the Duchess. And was Mrs. Parflete at all like her mother? And did she bear the extraordinary resemblance, of which so much had been made, to Marie Antoinette? Sir Piers felt bound to own that the likeness was remarkable. And this de Hausée what of him?
"Get my raw eggs and milk." At nine o'clock that evening, a brilliant company were gathered in the Salle de Comédie. Most of the Foreign Ambassadors, and about fifty illustrious personages of great social importance, were present. Prince d'Alchingen had resolved that the daughter of Henriette Duboc should have every opportunity of making a successful début in England.
"Nothing intentionally, but some one had unfortunately told him that they were half French their mother was a Duboc, you know and he had been having a history lesson that morning, and had just heard of the final loss of Calais by the English, and was furious about it.
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