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That fairies, in particular, came from the East, we are assured by that learned orientalist, M. Herbelot, who tells us that the Persians called the fairies Peri, and the Arabs Genies, that according: to the Eastern fiction, there is a certain country inhabited by fairies, called Gennistan, which answers to our fairy-land. Mr.
"There will never be any alliance between the granddaughter of Grevin and the Cinq-Cygnes." "Romeo came within an ace of marrying Juliet," remarked Achille Pigoult, "and Mademoiselle is more beautiful than " "Oh! if you are going to quote operas and opera beauties!" said Herbelot the notary, naively, having finished his game of whist.
"Can a man be called Paradise?" asked Madame Herbelot, who had joined her sister-in-law. "It tends to prove," continued the notary, "that the master is an angel; for when his tiger follows him you understand." "It is the road of Paradise! very good, that," said Madame Marion, anxious to flatter Achille Pigoult in the interests of her nephew.
He turned his eyeglass full on me, for by that time, I was in my balcony. Therefore, my dear Cecile, you see for yourself that you can't take that man for the hero of your romance." "Why not? Men of fifty are not to be despised, if they are counts," said Ernestine. "Heavens! what has age to do with it?" said Mademoiselle Herbelot.
"One room, mamma!" interrupted Ernestine. "The count occupies three rooms! The little groom, dressed all in black, is in the first. They have made a salon of the next, and the Unknown sleeps in the third." "Then he has half the rooms in the inn," remarked Mademoiselle Herbelot.
Antonin Goulard left the little group of young ladies, in which, besides Cecile and Ernestine, were Mademoiselle Berton, daughter of the tax-collector, an insignificant young person who played the part of satellite to Cecile, and Mademoiselle Herbelot, sister of the second notary of Arcis, an old maid of thirty, soured, affected, and dressed like all old maids; for she wore, over a bombazine gown, an embroidered fichu, the corners of which, gathered to the front of the bodice, were knotted together after the well-known fashion under the Terror.
"A residence was assigned him in the Rue de Prouvaires, at the house of one Laurent Herbelot, a grocer." "What! amongst dried peas and preserved plums?" "Precisely; but the house of Herbelot might then have been one of the most commodious buildings in all Paris. Alphonso was afterwards conducted to the palace, where he pleaded his cause before the king.
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