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Updated: May 11, 2025
But his first emotions on recovering from the shock of hearing from Isaura's lips that she was irrevocably affianced to another, were not those of self-reproach. They were those of intense bitterness against her who, if really so much attached to him as he had been led to hope, could within so brief a time reconcile her heart to marriage with another.
A word now on Isaura's chief correspondent. Madame de Grantmesnil was a woman of noble birth and ample fortune. She had separated from her husband in the second year after marriage. She was a singularly eloquent writer, surpassed among contemporaries of her sex in popularity and renown only by Georges Sand.
Well, then, in Isaura's invented hero, though she saw the archetypal form of Graham Vane, saw him as in her young, vague, romantic dreams idealized, beautified, transfigured, he would have been the vainest of men if he had seen therein the reflection of himself.
Louvier, though gathering to his own salons authors and artists, very rarely favoured their rooms with his presence; he did not adorn Isaura's party that evening. But Duplessis was there, in compensation.
As Graham at night pursued his journey to Vienna, there came into his mind Isaura's song of the Neapolitan fisherman. Had he, too, been blind to the image on the rock?
It was not till the third day after her interview with Madame Savarin that Isaura left her own room, she did so to receive Mrs. Morley. The fair American was shocked to see the change in Isaura's countenance.
She so adores me, and is so headstrong! She is capable of going to Isaura showing my letters making such a scene!" Here he checked the carriage at a cafe on the Boulevard descended, imbibed two glasses of absinthe, and then feeling much emboldened, remounted his coupe and directed the driver to Isaura's apartment. Yes, celebrities are of rapid growth in the salons of Paris.
I see I have to deal with a wolf of younger vigour and sharper fangs than myself, so much the better: obey my orders now; leave it to time to say whether I obey yours later. Au revoir." Isaura's apartment, on the following Thursday evening, was more filled than usual.
There were drawbacks to his happiness, none to hers, drawbacks partly from reasons the weight of which the reader will estimate later; partly from reasons the reader may at once comprehend and assess. In the sunshine of her joy, all the vivid colourings of Isaura's artistic temperament came forth, so that what I may call the homely, domestic woman-side of her nature faded into shadow.
But he regarded Isaura's genius as of a lower order, and a thing in itself very marketable. Marry her, and the bread and cheese were so certain that he might elaborate as slowly as he pleased the verses destined to immortal fame. Then he should be independent of inferior creatures like Victor de Mauleon.
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