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Alain, as briefly as he could, stated his circumstances, his mortgages, and the hopes which his avow had encouraged him to place in the friendly disposition of M. Louvier. When he had concluded, Enguerrand mused for a few moments before replying. At last he said, "Will you trust me to call on Louvier on your behalf?
Enguerrand de Vandemar is elected a captain of the Mobiles in his, and Victor de Mauleon is appointed to the command of a battalion of the National Guards. But I soar above jealousy at such a moment, "'Rome a choisi mon bras; je n'examine rien." "You have no right to be jealous.
Besides her habitual devotees in the artistic or literary world, there were diplomatists and deputies commixed with many fair chiefs of la jeunesse doree; amongst the latter the brilliant Enguerrand de Vandemar, who, deeming the acquaintance of every celebrity essential to his own celebrity in either Carthage, the beau monde, or the demi-monde, had, two Thursdays before, made Louvier attend her soiree and present him.
Nevertheless he admired in Enguerrand the image of his own impulsive and fiery youth. "And you, I presume," resumed Enguerrand, "will fight too, but rather with pen than with sword." "Pens will now only be dipped in red ink, and commonsense never writes in that colour; as for the sword, I have passed the age of forty-five, at which military service halts.
Their tastes indeed differ Raoul is religious and moral, melancholy and dignified; Enguerrand is a lion of the first water, elegant to the tips of his nails. These demigods nevertheless are very mild to mortals.
"We must do our best to make Paris pleasant to you," said Raoul, still retaining in his grasp the hand he had taken. "Vilain cousin," said the livelier Enguerrand, "to have been in Paris twenty-four hours, and without letting us know." "Has not your father told you that I called upon him?"
But there was a special occasion for this fete, a marriage between a niece of the Duchesse and the son of a great official in high favour at the Imperial Court. The dinner at Louvier's broke up early, and the music for the second waltz was sounding when Enguerrand, Alain, and the Vicomte de Mauleon ascended the stairs.
"Monsieur de Cymier is coming to our house on Saturday evening, and I must get up a Spanish song that Madame Strahlberg has taught me, to charm his ears and those of other people. Oh! I can do it very well. Won't you come and hear me play the castanets, if Monsieur Enguerrand can spare you? There is a young Polish pianist who is to play our accompaniment.
I have some stories about cabin-boys who were not much older than I." "Let us hope that your friend Fred won't go away," said Giselle. "But why do you wish to be a cabinboy?" "Because I want to go away with him, if he does not stay here because I like him," answered Enguerrand in a tone of decision. Hereupon Giselle kissed her boy with more than usual tenderness.
Viollet-le-Duc is the authority for the statement that the apse and transept, chapels, choir, and two doorways of the west façade were quite complete before the influence of the perfected Gothic of the Isle of France was even felt. One Enguerrand was the chief designer of the new church, assisted by Jean d'Andeli as master mason.
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