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Indeed, he often boasted to his neighbours and friends how he had trained them up to be men, calling them his "boy-men," and his "jeunes chasseurs." And truly had he trained them to a complete self-reliance, as far as lay in his power.
I saw all that there was to be seen; I admired; and then I asked one who had already, before the war, established a style and a reputation I asked Friesz, I think "Et les jeunes?" "Nous sommes les jeunes" was the reply.
La belle Rose du Printemps, Aubert, admoneste les hommes Passer joyeusement le temps, Et pendant que jeunes nous sommes, Esbattre la fleur de nos ans. In the same mood, looking far down the future, thou sangest of thy lady's age, the most sad, the most beautiful of thy sad and beautiful lays; for if thy bees gathered much honey 't was somewhat bitter to taste, as that of the Sardinian yews.
The acute Major had easily learned from the garrulous Francois that the "Institut Pour les Jeunes Dames" was an intellectual property only; the fine old mansion belonging to a rich Genevese banker. Major Alan Hawke was now busied in writing upon a few leaves torn from his betting book. "Listen to me!" he gravely said. "Promise me that you will never let these papers leave you a moment."
He realized, even in the cloud of his fascination, that French jeunes filles are not wonted to lurk about palms at a ball. Was she a little Cinderella, then, slipping among the guests? Some poor companion, stealing in for fun?... She was too young. And there was that watch, that glitter of diamonds upon her wrist. "Have you just come to Cairo?" She shook her head. "For some time I have been here."
Yes," he pursued, "I have seen her rancours, her vanities, her levities not only here, but elsewhere: I have witnessed what bucklers me against all her arts: I am safe from poor Zelie." "And my pupils," he presently recommenced, "those blondes jeunes filles so mild and meek I have seen the most reserved romp like boys, the demurest snatch grapes from the walls, shake pears from the trees.
This whistling platoon, with towels round their necks, are on their way to the nearest convent, or asylum, or École des Jeunes Filles have no fear; these establishments are untenanted! for a bath. There, in addition to the pleasures of ablution, they will receive a partial change of raiment. Other signs of regeneration are visible.
This he believed and deplored until one day he found himself seated at a restaurant next to a too well-fed man whom, in spite of the ravages of comfortable living, he recognized as one of the jeunes of his own period. This one had been wont to describe himself and three or four others as the Hermits of the New Parnassus.
D'ailleurs moquezvous de mes amours tant qu'il vous plaira, je vous dirai que je respecte tant les jeunes dames, que je respecte meme les vieilles, pour l'avoir ete. Apre cela il y a souvent des liaisons entre les vieilles et les jeunes'. This would at once turn the pleasantry into an esteem for your good sense and your good-breeding.
The conditions of marriage, however, were somewhat complicated, as it was always necessary to secure the consent of three persons before a girl of the higher class could go to the altar in nuptial array. These three persons were her father or her guardian, her lord and the king. It was Hugo who likened the feudal system to a continually ascending pyramid with the king at the very summit, and that interminable chain of interdependence is well illustrated in the present case. Suppose the father, brother, or other guardian had decided upon a suitable husband for the daughter of the house, it was necessary that he should first gain the consent of that feudal lord to whom he gave allegiance, and when this had been obtained, the king himself must give his royal sanction to the match. Nor was this all, for a feudal law said that any lord can compel any woman among his dependants to marry a man of his own choosing after she has reached the age of twelve. Furthermore, there was in existence a most cruel, barbarous, and repulsive practice which gave any feudal lord a right to the first enjoyment of the person of the bride of one of his vassals. As Legouvé has so aptly expressed it: Les jeunes gens payaient de leur corps en allant
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