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At this remark, embedded like a diamond in a rock, a shade of faintest color swam across Mrs. Smith's face and she swung him her profile and twirled at her rings. "And where Genevieve Remington's husband's interests are involved, ladies, need I go further in emphasizing your welcome into that little home?" "Heaven knows it would be a change from the boarding-house, Alys.
Gilbert, with the courtesy that Albinia's very presence had infused into him, gathered a pretty wild bouquet for each, and Albinia talked of cowslip-balls, and found that neither Gilbert nor Genevieve had ever seen one; then she pitied them, and owned that she did not know how to get through a spring without one; and Gilbert having of course a pocketful of string, a delicious ball was constructed, over which Genevieve went into an inexpressible ecstasy.
Esperance adored Racine and refused to study Corneille, before whom Genevieve bowed in enthusiastic admiration. "He is superhuman," she exclaimed, fervently. "That is just what I reproach him for," returned Esperance. "Racine is human, that is why I love him. None of Corneille's heroines move me at all, and I loathe the sorrows of 'Phaedre." "And 'Chimene'?" asked Genevieve Hardouin.
The fete ended with a performance of "Genevieve de Brabant," a grand spectacular pantomime, played to perfection by certain gentry of the neighbourhood; it made a great impression upon all the nuns and novices. Before going down into the gardens, the Abbess wished to present me formally to all the nuns, as well as to those persons it had pleased her to invite. Imagine her astonishment!
The tapers were burning about the tomb of St. Genevieve. Samson, with the jawbone of the ass, still crouched and sweated, or looked as if he did, under the weight of the pulpit. One might question how well the preacher in the pulpit liked the suggestion of the figure beneath it.
Left, or Northern Transept, east side, the history of Jeanne d'Arc; she hears the voices; leads the assault at Orleans; assists at the coronation of Charles VII. at Rheims; and is burned at Rouen. West side, St. Louis as a child instructed by Blanche of Castille; administering justice in the Palace; and a captive among the Saracens. North aisle, history of Ste. Genevieve and St. Denis.
The ladies received him graciously, and a faint blush might, to searching eyes, have been perceived upon Genevieve's cheek. There came a delicate exchange of compliments, after which we got to table, and for my part I did ample justice to the viands. I sat beside Genevieve, and vis-a-vis with Andrea, who occupied the place of the honoured guest, at the host's right hand, with Yvonne beside him.
She died in 509, and was buried on the hill of Lutetius, which ever since has borne her name. The faithful built a little wooden oratory over her tomb, which Clovis and his queen Clotilde replaced in 506 by a great basilica dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul, whose length the king measured by the distance he could hurl his axe and the famous monastery of St. Genevieve.
" Nowhere." "At the time of your arrest did you not reside in the house of a fruiterer in the Rue de la Montagne St. Genevieve?" "At the time of my arrest I was in a cabriolet. I lodged nowhere." "Where did you sleep on the evening of your arrest?" "Nowhere." "What were you doing in Paris?" "I was walking about." " Whom have you seen in Paris?" " I shall name no one; I know no one."
'I can't help it, said Sophy; 'I can't believe in him now! 'Yes, you ought to believe that he is really unhappy, and be more gentle and considerate with him. 'If it had been earnest, he would have sacrificed himself instead of Genevieve. 'Ah! Sophy, some day you will learn to make excuses for other people, and not be so intolerant. 'I never make excuses. 'Except for Maurice, said Albinia.
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