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Gerolt to Fish, August 11, 1870, with Inclosures: Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., Vol. I. No. 1, Part 1, Foreign Relations, pp. 219-221. Swiftly, and with ill-disguised alacrity, the French Cabinet took the next step in the duel. Some there were who saw the fearful calamity, the ghastly crime, then and there initiated. The scene that ensued belongs to this painful record.
Though his scruples had been respected in framing the scheme of reform, though he was consulted at every turn and clearly recognised the necessity to which he bowed, and though he was spared the resort to a coup d'état which he abhorred, he could not but feel humiliated by the ill-disguised subjection of the crown and the nobility to a single chamber of the people.
If you don't like him don't take him; but if he suits you, my dear child, I beg you to cure him of his ill-disguised ambition.
As I saw this noble woman bending gracefully before the social mendicant, the white billows of her beauty heaving under the foam of the traitorous laces that half revealed them, I should have wept with sympathetic emotion, but that tears, except as a private demonstration, are an ill-disguised expression of self-consciousness and vanity, which is inadmissible in good society.
'I should think they had not come to that sort of thing, said the great noble, with ill-disguised contempt. The first thing after the Cabinet is formed is the Household: the things you talk of are done last; and he turned upon his heel, and met the imperturbable countenance and clear sarcastic eye of Lord Eskdale. 'You have not heard anything? asked the great noble of his brother patrician.
When Meco's turn came, War Paint rushed in shouting jubilantly, attempting to drag a splendid black horse into the dining room. "My booty! My booty!" she cried, patting the superb animal on the neck. It resisted every effort she made until a strong jerk of the rope and a sudden lash brought it in prancing smartly. The soldiers, half drunk, stared at the beast with ill-disguised envy.
As I saw this noble woman bending gracefully before the social mendicant, the white billows of her beauty heaving under the foam of the traitorous laces that half revealed them, I should have wept with sympathetic emotion, but that tears, except as a private demonstration, are an ill-disguised expression of self-consciousness and vanity, which is inadmissible in good society.
"Madeleine," continued the count, with ill-disguised anger, and feeling that he had no alternative but to make a confession which humbled him to the dust, "this property was held in trust by me; my difficulties, my embarrassments, have been overwhelming: they have brought me to the verge of absolute ruin.
Only Guido Ferrari seemed still somewhat disturbed in his mind but even his uneasiness dissipated itself by degrees, and heated by the quantity of wine he had taken, he began to talk with boastful braggartism of his many successful gallantries, and related his most questionable anecdotes in such a manner as to cause some haughty astonishment in the mind of the Duke di Marina, who eyed him from time to time with ill-disguised impatience that bordered on contempt.
But this man, who had tried to induce me to speak when delusions had tied my tongue, now, when I was at last willing talk, would scarcely condescend to listen; and what seemed to me his studied and ill-disguised avoidance only served to whet my desire to detain him whenever possible. It was about the second week that my reformative turn of mind became acute.
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