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Lastly, in the apartment to my right, resided a lady, upon whose door was nailed a small visiting-card engraved with these words: Teacher of Languages. I had resided in the house for months before I ever beheld this Mademoiselle Hortense Dufresnoy.
Is it not rather that we desire not to efface the last lingering tradition of the age of chivalry not to reduce to prose the last faint echoes of that poetry which tempered the sword of the Crusader and inspired the song of the Trouvère?" "Were it not better that the new age created a new code and a new poetry?" said Mademoiselle Dufresnoy.
Mademoiselle Dufresnoy colors up, looks both haughty and amused, and ends by laughing. "In truth, Monsieur," she says merrily, "if your politeness threatened at first to be too universal, it ends by becoming unnecessarily particular." "Say rather, Mademoiselle, that you will not have the book on any terms!" I exclaim impatiently.
The number of the dead was never ascertained; Dufresnoy says "about a hundred," which is probably below the mark, as an eye-witness saw three railway trucks loaded with the slain. To this day they find mouldering human remains, relics of that battle, hidden away in crevices of the rocks. Although, once roused, the Tripolitans fought like demons, they were worsted the others were too numerous.
"True kindness, Monsieur, is neither bought nor sold," says the lady, with the loveliest smile in the world, and closes her door. What thing is Love, which nought can countervail? Nought save itself even such a thing is Love. My acquaintance with Hortense Dufresnoy progressed slowly as, ever, and not even the Froissart incident went far towards promoting it.
This struck me as overdoing the "pacific penetration" policy; and he thought so too, more especially as there is a commemorative stone to some preposterous native bigot at the very place.... I shall be sorry to leave Dufresnoy at Metlaoui. In him I often admire that fine trait of his race: the clarifying instinct.
Dufresnoy, in whose Dissertations these documents are republished, mentions that Bouchel, in his Bibliotheque du Droit Francois, d. v. 'Louage, treats of the legal aspect of haunted houses. Thus the profession has not wholly disdained the inquiry.
Dufresnoy tells me that those barren slopes where the mines lie, and where the different races now work together in apparent amity, were once the scene of a sanguinary primitive battle.
There is no doubt that the sisters firmly and piously believed in the story, which has the contemporary evidence of Adrien de Montalembert. Dufresnoy learned that a manuscript copy of the tract was in the library of the Jesuits of Lyons. He was unaware of an edition in 12mo of 1580, cited by Brunet. To come to the story, one of our earliest examples of a 'medium, and of communications by raps.
"Good fellows," said Dufresnoy. "They will slit your throat for a you." The surface phosphates having already become exhausted, the mineral is now pursued into the dim recesses of the earth.
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