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He chatted awhile with Bertha; then his eyes chanced to fall upon the salver which Madeleine had prepared. It called to mind her request. "What have you here? Chocolate? Did you find it well made?" The countess took no notice of the inquiry. "These are very fine strawberries," persisted Maurice. "Did you enjoy them? And these cakes," he tasted one, "used to be favorites of yours."
All manner of beautiful and curious plants were there; and Christie walked among them, as happy as a child who finds its playmates again. Coming to a bed of pansies she sat down on a rustic chair, and, leaning forward, feasted her eyes on these her favorites.
If the King had been restored, all the fruit of the revolution would have been lost; there would have been a renewed reign of frivolities, insincerities, court scandals, venalities, favorites, and disguised Romanism, yea, an alliance would have been formed with the old tyrants of Europe.
She would not spend her time in the niceties of love-making, as did Elizabeth; but beneath the surface she had a sort of tigerish, passionate nature, which would break forth at intervals, and which demanded satisfaction from a series of favorites. It is probable that Bourdelot was her first lover, but there were many others whose names are recorded in the annals of the time.
The costly and grateful lounges, the heavy and downy carpets, the rich velvet and silken hangings about the walls, the picturesque and lovely groups of female slaves that laughed and toyed with each other, mingling in pleasant games, the rich though scanty dress of these favorites of the Sultan, all were confusing and dazzling to her untutored eye, and when, after a few moments' minutes, a dozen of these lovely girls crowded about her with curious eyes to know who was the new comer that was to be their companion, the poor girl shrunk back half abashed, for she could not speak to them.
Parties were formed in Parliament, of which sometimes one was in the ascendency and sometimes the other, and all was turmoil and confusion. When Richard was about twenty years old, one of his uncles his uncle Thomas, at that time Duke of Gloucester gained such an influence in Parliament that some of Richard's favorites were deposed from office and imprisoned.
In that period she had met many men of the usual types that are attracted by footlight favorites, and they had pressed attentions upon her, but so long as she had been recognized as the Lady Unobtainable they had not forced their unwelcome advances. Now, however, that a scurrilous newspaper story had associated her name with that of a wealthy man, she began to note a change.
He looked at these two for a moment. Langhetti's eyes were closed. Mrs. Compton and her son were talking apart. Despard looked upon the lovers. "Let them love," he murmured to himself; "let them love and be happy. Heaven has its favorites. I do not envy them; I bless them, though I love without hope. Heaven has its favorites, but I am an outcast from that favor." A shudder passed through him.
There the people could see for the first time how much the taille and the salt tax actually took from them, and how much the king spent on himself and his favorites. Necker was soon followed by Calonne, who may be said to have precipitated the momentous reform which constitutes the French Revolution.
They were Jack's favorite poets, and they became Abe's favorites, too. At the Rutledge Tavern, where Abe lived for a while, he met the owner's daughter, Ann Rutledge. Ann was sweet and pretty, with a glint of sunshine in her hair. They took long walks beside the river. It was easy to talk to Ann, and Abe told her some of his secret hopes. She thought that he was going to be a great man some day.
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