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Mme. de Bargeton, moreover, looked more thoughtful and dignified than was necessary now, when no barriers stood between her and happiness. Gentil and Albertine waited upon them, and while they were present Lucien could not complain.
The attitude was suspicious enough to satisfy Stanislas; he turned sharply round upon Chatelet, who stood at the door of the salon. Mme. de Bargeton sprang up in a moment, but the spies beat a precipate retreat like intruders, and she was not quick enough for them. "Who came just now?" she asked the servants. "M. de Chandour and M. du Chatelet," said Gentil, her old footman.
Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-servant, and Albertine, the maid, not a little irksome on the way.
Then the silence caught the tremor, and quivered, and a thrill of sound hovered and spread its wings, and sailed forth from the night. "Spirto gentil dei sogni miei " Ah, Signorina Edvigia, you know that voice now, but you did not know it then. How your heart stopped, and beat, and stopped again, when you first heard that man sing out his whole heartful you in the light and he in the dark!
They are more gentil I do not know the word in your language which expresses it they carry themselves better; they are not so rough; they are more polite. There are advantages in both systems, but for myself I like yours much the best. My brother is, to some extent, a convert to my view.
Here are some French words for which it would not be easy, nay, in most cases it would be impossible, to find exact equivalents in English or in German, or probably in any language: 'aplomb, 'badinage, 'borne, 'chic, 'chicane, 'cossu, 'coterie, 'egarement, 'elan, 'espieglerie, 'etourderie, 'friponnerie, 'gentil, 'ingenue, 'liaison, 'malice, 'parvenu, 'persiflage, 'prevenant, 'ruse, 'tournure, 'tracasserie, 'verve. It is evident that the words just named have to do with shades of thought which are to a great extent unfamiliar to us; for which, at any rate, we have not found a name, have hardly felt that they needed one.
In a few hours I shall be beyond the want of earthly riches, but you, senor, are young, and look forward to a long life; doubtless, like other men, you have already indulged in many a bright day-dream which the possession of wealth would go far to realise. Listen, gentil senor; I must be brief, for I feel that I have no time to lose. I have been shipwrecked once before.
It is said that each member of the august family succeeded remarkably well in his or her pursuits; big Monsieur's little notes are still cited. At a minuet or sillabub, poor Antoinette was unrivaled; and Charles, on the tightrope, was so graceful and so gentil that Madame Saqui might envy him. The time only was out of joint.
"Si ton gentil esprit prend bien cette science, Tu mettras en repos ta bonne conscience." Upon this, M. de Laubardemont demanded the girl's name; but Grandier assured him it should never pass his lips, none knowing it but himself and God. Thereupon M. de Laubardemont ordered Pere Lactance to insert the third wedge.
Le Gentil, in his Travels in the Indian Seas, says: "The monks are the real rulers of the provinces.... Their power is so unlimited that no Spaniard cares to settle in the neighborhood.... The monks would give him a great deal of trouble." St. Croix. St. Croix. No official is allowed, under any pretence, to serve more than ten years in any of the Asiatic magistracies.
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