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"Exulting to find Marie Antoinette in his power, the Cardinal left Versailles as privately as he arrived there, for Vienna. His next object was to ensnare the Empress, as he had done her daughter; and by a singular caprice, fortune, during his absence, had been preparing for him the means.
No poet will ever entirely compass it, as no poet will ever quite ensnare in speech the measureless joy of those festival mornings in June when Nature seems on the point of speaking in human language. But this rapture is inward; it has its source in the earliest perception of the richness of life and man's capacity to appropriate it.
And Bean strolled off to enjoy a vision of himself defeating her purpose to ensnare the Hollins youth. Once he would have considered it crass presumption, but that was before a certain sarcophagus on the left bank of the Nile had been looted of its imperial occupant. Now he merely recalled a story about a King Cophetua and a beggar maid.
He lay perdu for some days near the left bank of the Vaal, while a net with spacious meshes was being cast to ensnare him.
Most Irish legends and stories convert him into a perfect hero and patriot; while other Irish writers of graver order are inclined to dwell altogether upon the wrongs done to him, and the perfidies employed to ensnare him by those who acted for the English government.
Mrs. Spencer thinking me the same type as herself, without conscience, character, or morals, had evolved this plan either to test me or to ensnare me. To test me, because she is jealous of you; or to ensnare me because she wants to win out diplomatically or both, it may be. I am a poor hand at pretence; but I played the game, as you would say, to the best of my ability.
She soon became the wife of a well-to-do country store-keeper, and made his home a pandemonium, which ended by him employing a regular lawyer to procure a divorce, when the foregoing facts were elicited. Who Practice it, How it is Perpetrated, and upon Whom The Birds who are Caught and the Fowlers who Ensnare them With other Interesting Matters on the same Subject.
He who, in riper years, seeks happiness in sensual gratification, is a child in understanding: he only changes his toys. Ed. 'Trapan' is the Saxon verb to ensnare, modernized to trap. Ed. Ed. Upon the brittle thread of life hang everlasting things. Mason.
"Madame," he said, addressing her, "I can see quite clearly that all this comes from you and not from brother-in-law Charles. It was you who planned this massacre to ensnare me into a trap which was to destroy us all. It was you who made your daughter the bait. It has been you who have separated me now from my wife, that she might not see me killed before her eyes!"
But Misnar, recollecting the many devices which the enchanters had prepared to ensnare him, was very doubtful what course to take.
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