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In truth, the warning was better given in that way than any other, and a word from Florac was more likely to be effectual than an expostulation from me. I had never thought of making it, perhaps; except at the expressed desire of a lady whose counsel in all the difficult circumstances of life I own I am disposed to take. Mr.
After she became acquainted with certain circumstances, Madame de Florac was very interested about Ethel Newcome, and strove in her modest way to become intimate with her. Miss Newcome and Lady Kew attended Madame de Moncontour's Wednesday evenings.
It was on that day when Barnes had determined to take up Madame de Florac; when he was bent upon reconciling her to her husband. In spite of all Mrs.
A few years ago we visited the district; and while proceeding in the old-fashioned diligence which runs between Alais and Florac for the district is altogether beyond the reach of railways a French contractor, accompanying a band of Italian miners, whom he was taking into the mountains to search for minerals, pointing to the sterile rocks, exclaimed to us, "Messieurs, behold the very poorest district in France!
She had promised to be ready. We were going to drive to Florac, to one of the hill towns, and it would take two hours to get there.
His father was lately dead, and M. Paul de Florac might sign himself Duc d'Ivry if he chose, but he was indifferent as to the matter, and his wife's friends indignant at the idea that their kinswoman, after having been a Princess, should descend to the rank of a mere Duchess.
We dined with a tremendous French swell, the Vicomte de Florac, officier d'ordonnance to one of the princes, and son of some old friends of my father's. They are of very high birth, but very poor. He will be a duke when his cousin, the Duc d'Ivry, dies. His father is quite old. The vicomte was born in England. He pointed out to us no end of famous people at the opera a few of the Fauxbourg St.
Try and go round by Paris on your way home, and pay your visit, and carry your father's fond remembrances to Madame la Comtesse de Florac. I don't say remember me to my brother, as I write Brian by this mail. Adieu, mon fils! je t'embrasse! and am always my Clive's affectionate father, T. N." "Isn't he a noble old trump?" That point had been settled by the young men any time these three years.
"The French are a wonderful people," he said rather crossly, "everybody says that Florac is ruined, that he's living on ten francs a day allowed him by a kind grandmother and yet since I have been standing here he's dropped, at least so I've calculated, not far short of four hundred pounds!" A grin came over Pargeter's small neat face, and lit up his odd, different-coloured eyes.
There is a beautiful one Florac is the name of it but we must start early in the morning. To-day there will be only time to drive as far as the point you have been admiring all the morning. The road winds through the rocks, and you want to see the ilex trees." "My dear, I want to see you." "Well, you're looking at me. Come, don't be disagreeable." "Disagreeable, Doris!
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