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He's as proud as the devil duchesses, you see so no airs with him. The Flower of Spain. A king of sport sits high at the table " He went on, apparently interminable; but Lavinia turned away to where tea was being laid in a far angle. Others approached over the tiled hall and the Marchese Sanviano entered with Cesare Orsi.
They invaded charmed circles, walked boldly up to archdukes and duchesses, talking to them cheerfully and easily without waiting to be spoken to, giving them a great deal of information upon all subjects, Austrian as well as American, and probably interested the very stiff Austrian royalties much more than the ordinary trained diplomatist, who would naturally be more correct in his attitude and conversation.
But awe and Cadge could not long live together. In a moment her mouth took a comically benevolent quirk. "And 'among those present' " she asked; "who was that leaving just as I got here?" "Mrs. Robert Van Dam, schoolmate of my cousins. But you're not writing me up, Cadge?" Cadge whistled. "Van Dam! How calmly the giddy child says it! Does your youngest cousin make mud pies with duchesses?
I recognized you the moment I set eyes on you, for all your grand clothes and your swell bouquets. I tell you I was just struck all of a heap; of course, I knew about your luck, but I hadn't realized it. There wasn't any one in the whole theatre who looked the lady more 'pon honor; you'd have no cause to blush in the company of duchesses.
"Shall we not all agree that duchesses exist for the envy and jealousy of mankind?" "Womankind?" put in Diana. The doctor smiled at her, and finished his oyster. Brave child! Had that odious young woman been behaving in character that morning? He would like to have the dealing with her!
A picture of the time preserves for us an evening in the great hall of the Château, where the King, with piles of louis d'or before him, sits at a large oval green table, throwing the dice, among princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses, ambassadors, marshals of France, and a vast throng of courtiers, like an animated bed of tulips; for men and women alike wear bright and varied colors.
"No Romans," said P. D.; and indeed they turned out to be Vicentines, the young man a student of law taking out his young cousins for a scampagnata. P. D. very characteristically made them write their names for him in his pocket-book, and bowed to the little girls as if they were duchesses. More characteristically still, my friend carried off the old beggar's stick to keep in his study. April 26.
To die penniless, after being the friend of duchesses, is distinctly bad form a slur on society. True, she might have bettered her state by accepting a lucrative proposal to write her autobiography, but she considered such literature a "degrading form of vanity" and refused the offer.
They got Lady Greswold to give their first concert, and enclosed programmes with the invitations, so hardly any of the Duchesses felt they could refuse, Octavia said, when they were certain of hearing the best singers for nothing; and it was a splendid plan, as many concerts have been spoilt by a rumour getting about that Melba was not really going to sing. Everybody smart is here.
Then what a hurly-burly; what a crowding; what a glare of a thousand flambeaux in the square; what a clamour of footmen contending at the door; what a rattling of a thousand coaches of duchesses, countesses, and Lady Marys, choking the way, and overturning each other, in a struggle who should be first to pay her court to the Citoyenne, the spouse of the twenty-first husband, he the husband of the thirty-first wife, and to hail her in the rank of honourable matrons, before the four days' duration of marriage is expired!
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