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‘Qui est celui-ci?’ demanded the small female, impatiently. ‘C’est—mon ami le plus intime; so you were about to leave London, without telling me a word,’ said Francis Ardry, somewhat angrily. ‘I intended to have written to you,’ said I: ‘what a splendid mare that is.’ ‘Is she not?’ said Francis Ardry, who was holding in the mare with difficulty; ‘she cost a hundred guineas.’
The century which produced that most appalling instance of spiritual exposure, the "Journal Intime" which it is impossible to read without blushing that one thus looks upon the author's soul in its nakedness, leaves small chance for self-unconsciousness.
That he ate entrées with his fingers at Buckingham Palace, expressed a desire to have the Lord Chamberlain bowstrung, and conceived a violent and unholy passion for an amiable society lady somewhat inclined to embonpoint, we are most of us aware; but beyond this, the Shah's vie intime remains, to the majority of us at least, a sealed book.
In the volume called "Grains de Mil," published in 1854, and containing verse written between the ages of eighteen and thirty, there are poems addressed, now to his sister, now to old Genevese friends, and now to famous men of other countries whom he had seen and made friends with in passing, which, read side by side with the "Journal Intime," bring a certain gleam and sparkle into an otherwise somber picture.
"Qui est celui-ci?" demanded the small female impatiently. "C'est mon ami le plus intime; so you were about to leave London without telling me a word," said Francis Ardry somewhat angrily. "I intended to have written to you," said I: "what a splendid mare that is!" "Is she not?" said Francis Ardry, who was holding in the mare with difficulty; "she cost a hundred guineas."
There are also to be recorded some public and semi-public appearances of Chopin as a virtuoso. On February 25, 1838, the Gazette musicale informs its readers that Chopin, "that equally extraordinary and modest pianist," had lately been summoned to Court to be heard there en cercle intime.
She was always anxious, too, to hear everything concerning Mr. Floyd his friends abroad, his habits, his vie intime at certain houses which had been his favorite lounge for years while he was minister at . Garrulity was by no means my habit in those days, but I had talked to her very freely: indeed, she could do with me what she wished. But why had she suddenly given me up?
With women, the real talk is intime talk; the world of politics, books, men, facts, incidents, is merely a setting; and when they talk about them, it is merely to pass the time, as a man turns to a game. At Hapton, Musgrave chatted away about his neighbours, his boys' club, his new organ, his bishop, his work. I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!
She is already afraid of you in a little while she will look upon you with loathing and disgust tant pis pour vous, tant mieux pour moi!" I had of course attained the position of ami intime at the Villa Romani.
Was the child's mother that other natural protector of the child, who had died or deserted her Nancy tried not to wonder too much which it was that she had done, an Irish girl, or was Collier Pratt himself of that romantic origin? "Oui, Mademoiselle, I mean, yes, thank you. I do not think I will say to you Miss Martin. We only say their names like that to the people with whom we are not intime.
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