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Rolle, her mother, read the Diary of an Ennuyee, and wondered when she saw "Mr. and Mrs. Her last book, Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, I like; there is a great deal of thought and feeling in it. Miss Edgeworth's Helen would never have been finished but for the encouragement shown by her sister Harriet, and her interest in the story.
"On Thursday," Bossi records, "I sketched her successfully in the character of a Muse; then on Friday she came to show me her arms, of which she was, not without reason, decidedly vain she is a gay and whimsical woman, she seems to have a good heart; at times she is ennuyée through lack of occupation."
She would not be induced to play or sing; she was not in the humor for sacred music; no, she did not want to read; and everything was slow and stupid. Bessie coaxed her into the garden at last, and the soft evening air refreshed her in spite of herself. "Don't you ever feel ennuyée and horrid?" she asked, in a sort of apologetic manner, presently.
The men, being all bent on marriage, do not attend to me, because they fancy I am not inclined to change the evils of my condition for those they could offer me. I have been thought so ennuyée as to accept very respectable offers, but I prefer remaining as I am to marrying a person to whom I am indifferent.
The woman who aims at being popular in her county, must not only listen patiently, but evince a lively interest in these intellectual occupations; while, if the truth was confessed, she is thoroughly ennuyée by these details of them: or if not, it must be inferred that she has lost much of the refinement of mind and taste peculiar to the well-educated portion of her sex.
But by the end of April even this affair had been served up often enough to have grown slightly stale; and Petersburg was now on the qui vive for a dénouement. It came, that dénouement well-timed: just when the clubs were full to the brim, the barracks crowded, the city overflowing with ennuyée men and women who were preparing for their summer flight.
"Mademoiselle de Montalais," she said, "will you have the goodness to inform your friend, Mademoiselle de la Valliere, that I am exceedingly sorry to disarrange her projects of solitude, but that instead of becoming ennuyee by remaining behind alone as she wished, she will be good enough to accompany us to Saint-Germain and get ennuyee there."
And now began a most active discussion upon agriculture, rents, tithes, and toryism, in which the ladies took but little part; and I had the mortification to perceive that Lady Jane was excessively 'ennuyee', and seized the first opportunity to leave the party and return to the house; while her sister gave me from time to time certain knowing glances, as if intimating that my knowledge of farming and political economy was pretty much on a par with my proficiency in botany.
And now began a most active discussion upon agriculture, rents, tithes, and toryism, in which the ladies took but little part; and I had the mortification to perceive that Lady Jane was excessively 'ennuyee', and seized the first opportunity to leave the party and return to the house; while her sister gave me from time to time certain knowing glances, as if intimating that my knowledge of farming and political economy was pretty much on a par with my proficiency in botany.
"To remain here alone, in this old castle, I who have enjoyed the delightful habit of listening to your songs, of pressing your hand, of running about the park with you. Oh! how I shall be ennuyee! how quickly I shall die!" "Do you wish to come to Paris?" Louise breathed another sigh. "You do not answer me." "What would you that I should reply?" "Yes or no; that is not very difficult, I think."
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