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Monsieur le Duc d'Orleans Wishes to be Governor of a Province. The King's Reply. He Requires a Fauteuil for His Wife. Another Excellent Answer of the King's. In marrying Monsieur, the King consulted only his well-known generosity, and the richly equipped household which he granted to this prince should assuredly have made him satisfied and content.
It was fauteuil, and he threw one arm over that of the chair, suffering his well-preserved white hand always suggestive of poultices to me with its signet ring, to droop in front of it a hand which he moved up and down habitually, as he conversed, in a singularly soothing and mechanical fashion his "pendulum" we used to call it in old times, Evelyn and I, when it was one of our chief resources for amusement to laugh at "Cagliostro," our sobriquet for this ci-devant jeune homme, it may be remembered.
As he laid aside the last sheet a sudden pallor overspread his face, and for a moment he leaned back in the fauteuil, quite faint and exhausted. "Dearest sir!" cried the steward, hurrying toward him, "are not the papers all in order?" "It is just as I feared," said the count, sighing.
More people stand and walk, than sit genteelly. Awkward, ill-bred people, being ashamed, commonly sit bolt upright and stiff; others, too negligent and easy, 'se vautrent dans leur fauteuil', which is ungraceful and ill-bred, unless where the familiarity is extreme; but a man of fashion makes himself easy, and appears so by leaning gracefully instead of lolling supinely; and by varying those easy attitudes instead of that stiff immobility of a bashful booby.
The next evening at six o'clock he was at the house of the Marquise. He found her in her boudoir, surrounded by all her regal luxury. She was half buried in a fauteuil in the chimney-corner, looking a little pale and fatigued. She received him with her usual coldness and self- possession. "Good-day," she said. "How are you?" "Not very well," replied Camors. "What is the matter?"
Maltravers entered the room adjoining that which contained the sufferer the same room, still gay and cheerful, in which had been his first interview with Florence since their reconciliation. Here he found the physician dozing in a fauteuil. Lady Florence had fallen asleep during the last two or three hours.
She sat in the very heart of the crimson glow, her glistening silken dress sweeping in rich waves, and quite sure that her attitude, like everything else about her, was perfect. She held out her hand to him, with a smile that would have bewildered any man older and wiser than he. "Sit down here," she said, pointing to a velvet fauteuil; "I am going to make you my judge.
She had only eyes and ears for the queen, who was just dismissing her with winning words, telling her to remain in the castle and return when she desired to see her. "I shall remain and await your majesty's commands," said Louise, withdrawing hastily. The queen now greeted the prince as if she had just observed him, and invited him to be seated on the fauteuil near her couch.
Now and then he would play a game of billiards with De Peyster or Haseltine, or stop to chat a moment in the vestibule with old Duane; but he was an altered man. When at the club, he was usually to be found in the small smoking-room upstairs, seated on a fauteuil fast asleep, with the last number of "The Nation" in his hand.
If you like only the things in a chair that have meaning, and grow to hate the rest you will, without any other instruction, prefer the next time you are buying a good Louis XVI fauteuil to a stuffed velvet chair. You will never again be guilty of the errors of meaningless magnificence. To most of us in America who must perforce lead workaday lives, the absence of beauty is a very distinct lack.
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