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Updated: June 4, 2025
Then everything was motionless again; an interval of perfect peace settled upon the garden. It was broken by the apparition of Brace under the balcony, and the black-veiled and flowered head of Dona Isabel from the curtain above. "Crazy boy!" "Senorita!" "Hush! I am coming down!" "You? But Dona Ursula!" "There is no more Dona Ursula!" "Well your duenna, whoever she is!" "There is no duenna!"
When the dance, which was generally a long waltz, was over, he seated his partner, and then went to a little counter at the end of the room and bought his dulcinea a plate of the candies and sweetmeats provided. Sometimes she accepted them, but most generally pointed to her duenna or chaperon behind, who held up her apron and caught the refreshments as they were slid into it from the plate.
Grivois of the young woman. "Here are the notes which I have taken this morning," said Florine, putting a paper into the duenna's hand. "Happily, I have a good memory." "At what time exactly did she return home this morning?" asked the duenna, quickly. "Who, madame?" "Miss Adrienne." "She did not go out, madame. We put her in the bath at nine o'clock."
"To exploit a mine?" "Yes, Heloise," the officer replied, "a mine that will make the walls of Puebla totter." "In that case, good luck, my General!" said the duenna, presenting arms with her umbrella. Fanny could not repress a smile in spite of her tears. Her lover seized this moment to withdraw from her arms and reach the stairs.
This was better than sending her either to a convent or to the country, since she would still be within our reach, although to our great vexation we could not prevail so far as to hinder Madame Croquelebois from being installed as her duenna, the intendant himself returning to La Vendee.
Now when the duenna heard this, the light starkened in her sight and she feared from her mischief with sore affright, and said to her, "O my Lady Budur, what unseemly words are these?" Cried the Princess, "Woe to thee pestilent crone that thou art!
"Fetch her here; I want to see her." "She has gone away to the woods to gather evergreens. To-morrow is Christmas Day." "Yes, yes, I remember! And how do you celebrate the day?" added the lady. "In feasting and rejoicing," said the duenna, before the old man could answer. "And the poor? I have read some very pretty stories about the poor in your cities on Christmas Day."
"I suppose," she went on, with a little shrug of the shoulders, "that the proceeding is not strictly conventional, and that the absolutely correct thing would be for him to say good night when you and Julius do, and that there are those who would regard my permitting a young man in no way related to me to see me very often in the evening without the protection of a duenna as a very unbecoming thing."
Vigilance Lynx, licensed duenna. The Journey of Trial is so peculiar to the monikin system, and it might be so usefully introduced into our own, that it may be well to explain it.
"For heaven's sake, Dona Rodriguez, what ails my lady the duchess?" asked Don Quixote. "Adjured in that way," replied the duenna, "I cannot help answering the question and telling the whole truth.
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