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"Grand-aunt," pled the young woman, "you have felt like us in your day, the longing for a home, a sweet refuge from the wretchedness of life. You had a lover to make you feel how sweet it might have been." "Get these silly ideas out of your head," responded Madame l'Etiquette, ignoring Lecour, but speaking in a not unkindly manner. "Your rank demands an establishment, not a home.
The sound of a silver bell broke in, the signal that she was in request by old Madame l'Etiquette. A sigh escaped her, and she hastened to the house. To de Lotbinière, to have effected his point had not been enough.
"La cour se précipite pêle-mêle avec la foule, car l'étiquette de France veut que tous entrent
He saw the look of Madame l'Etiquette, the ribaldry of acquaintances at Versailles, the studious oblivion of the Princess de Poix, d'Estaing, Bellecour, and even Grancey; the mess-table derisive over the career of the pseudo-noble; Major Collinot striking his name from the list of the company; his arrest by Guardsmen disgusted at having to touch him; the stony visages of the court-martial; the Bastille; the oar and chain of the galleys.
"You," Madame l'Etiquette said, addressing Germain, "have dared to enact such a scene here. You, the apothecary's apprentice " "Madame," Cyrène cried, her eyes flashing, "withdraw those words! I demand it!" The situation aroused all his faculties. "Madame la Maréchale," said he quite coolly, "has taken, I observe, the word of my enemies without asking for the facts.
She preferred raillery to argument, and nicknamed the Comtesse de Noailles Madame l'Etiquette. The fetes which were given at Versailles on the marriage of the Dauphin were very splendid.
It was the cold, impassive, scrutinising face of an aged dame of such overweening pride and keenness that he seemed to feel himself pierced through by her gaze. He had heard of the severity of the Maréchale de Noailles "Madame l'Etiquette" Cyrène's patroness, and knew intuitively that this was she. The danger of his situation became instantaneously real.
She preferred raillery to argument, and nicknamed the Comtesse de Noailles Madame l'Etiquette. The fetes which were given at Versailles on the marriage of the Dauphin were very splendid.
Madame was seated alone, mumbling to the count of her rosary, but on their appearance dropped it in her lap and resumed her usual bearing of dignity. "Grand-aunt," began the Baroness, "we have a great boon to ask of you." "What is it, Baroness?" she said. "Grand-aunt," Cyrène repeated falteringly, "have you ever known what it is to love?" The question astonished Madame l'Etiquette.
She preferred raillery to argument, and nicknamed the Comtesse de Noailles Madame l'Etiquette. The fetes which were given at Versailles on the marriage of the Dauphin were very splendid.
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