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Author, musician, teacher, moralist, critic, poser, egotist, femme d'esprit, and friend of princes, her romantic life would fill a volume and cannot be even touched upon in a few lines. After ten years of exile she returned to Paris, and her salon at the Arsenal was a center for a few celebrities. Many of these names have small significance today.
"That is not Freedom as I understand it," piped the little man, and one believed him, but could not refrain from murmuring with the poet: C'est que la Liberte n'est pas une comtesse Du noble Faubourg St. Germain, Une femme qu'un cri fait tomber en faiblesse, Qui met du blanc et du carmin; C'est une forte femme.
Clavering would return to his native place and country, his wife's fortune would pay his encumbrances off, and his son and heir would be one of the first men in the county. "And Miss Amory?" Laura asked. Laura was uncommonly curious about Miss Amory. Strong laughed. "Oh, Miss Amory is a muse Miss Amory is a mystery Miss Amory is a femme incomprise." "What is that?" asked simple Mrs.
The Duchesse was at that time in delicate health; and as the Duc's suspicions naturally fell on the servants, especially on the femme de chambre, who was in great favour with his wife, he did not like to alarm Madame, nor through her to put the servants on their guard.
But did she tell you of her mother, too, and the fruit-barrow?" "I knew her mother une brave femme." "I do not say not," said Madame Dépine, a whit disconcerted. "Nevertheless, when one's mother is a merchant of the four seasons " "Provided she sold fruit as good as this! Take another fig, I beg of you." "Thank you. These are indeed excellent," said Madame Dépine.
Lucien had refused this alliance on several different occasions; and at last the Emperor became angry, and said to him, "You see how far you are carrying your infatuation and your foolish love for a femme galante." "At least," replied Lucien, "mine is young and pretty," alluding to the Empress Josephine, who had been both the one and the other.
Oh, the Duchess understood son metier de femme the art and mystery of being a woman most marvelously well; she knew, to admiration, how to raise a man in his own esteem as he humbled himself to her; how to reward every step of the descent to sentimental folly with hollow flatteries. "You will never forget to come at nine o'clock." "No; but are you going to a ball every night?"
Vigo went straight on horseback to the Bonne Femme, but Peyrot had vanished. So he galloped round to the Rue Tournelles, whither he had sent two of our men before him, but the bird was flown.
To live in the shadow of his friend, become at once his brother-in-law and his ideal he did not dream of any other solution of his own destiny. The faults of Maitland, developed by age, fortune, and success we recall the triumph of his 'Femme en violet et en jeune' in the Salon of 1884 found Florent as blind as at the epoch when they played cricket together in the fields at Beaumont.
As for the landlord of the hotel, his curses against the English nation were violent for the rest of his natural life. He asked all travellers whether they knew a certain Colonel Lor Crawley avec sa femme une petite dame, tres spirituelle. "Ah, Monsieur!" he would add "ils m'ont affreusement vole." It was melancholy to hear his accents as he spoke of that catastrophe.
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