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Updated: June 26, 2025
It is not so, except on state occasions, at Paris. Difficult there to retire into solitude with your next neighbour. The guests collected by Duplessis completed with himself the number of the Sacred Nine the host, Valerie, Rochebriant, Graham, Isaura, Signora Venosta, La Duchesse de Tarascon, the wealthy and high-born Imperialist, Prince , and last and least, one who shall be nameless.
The reasons might have been many and various. But we all acknowledge the fact. La Dame aux Camelias, Marie Duplessis, was, to our fancy, a much more feminine, and admirable, and moral, and human person, than the adored Clorinda. And yet what she said was the legitimate result of the state of our fashionable society.
In short, the mortgage is to be paid off by instalments at the convenience of Duplessis. Alain's marriage with Valerie is to take place in a few weeks. The fournisseurs are already gone to fit up the old chateau for the bride, and Louvier is invited to the wedding. "I have all this story from Alain, and from Duplessis himself.
"On the day that the news of the armistice reached it, in order to be able to enter Paris the first day its gates were open. And you where have you been?" "In London." "Ah! in London!" said Duplessis, paling. "I knew I had an enemy there." "Enemy! I? Bah! my dear Monsieur. What makes you think me your enemy?" "I remember your threats." "A propos of Rochebriant.
Colonel Armand, Colonel Laumoy, the chevaliers Duplessis and Gimat, were the Frenchmen who went with me. A scout of my men, with whom was Mr. As my little reconnoitering party was all in fine spirits, I supported them.
That would disenchant me. Take the Marquis by all means." Meanwhile Alain, again looking down, saw just under him, close by one of the pillars, Lucien Duplessis. He was standing apart from the throng, a small space cleared round himself, and two men who had the air of gentlemen of the 'beau monde, with whom he was conferring. Duplessis, thus seen, was not like the Duplessis at the restaurant.
Drawing his chair near to Alain, he said: "We have not seen much of each other lately, nay, no excuses; I am well aware that it could scarcely be otherwise. Paris has grown so large and so subdivided into sets, that the best friends belonging to different sets become as divided as if the Atlantic flowed between them. I come to-day in consequence of something I have just heard from Duplessis.
Sonoy was sustained in his rebellion in North Holland, not only by the Earl's partizans, but by Elizabeth herself. Her rebukes to Maurice, when Maurice was pursuing the only course which seemed to him consistent with honour and sound policy, were sharper than a sword. Well might Duplessis Mornay observe, that the commonwealth had been rather strangled than embraced by the English Queen.
Duplessis was seated near the entrance, by the side of a distinguished member of the Imperial Government, with whom he was carrying on a whispered conversation.
"You have that chance to-morrow evening, Monsieur Duplessis," said Enguerrand. "What! at M. Louvier's dinner? Nay, I have no other acquaintance with M. Louvier than that of the Bourse, and the acquaintance is not cordial." "I did not mean at M. Louvier's dinner, but at the Duchesse de Tarascon's ball. You, as one of her special favourites, will doubtless honour her reunion."
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