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She gave him such a sweet, enticing, and voluptuous smile that the cardinal trembled with desire and joy. "When you in the capitol adorn Corilla with the laurel-crown, then will she willingly lay her myrtle crown at your feet," said she, with a charming expression of maiden modesty. The cardinal again pressed her passionately to his bosom.
You demand a laurel-crown, which only the pope has the power to bestow, and he has sworn that you shall not have it so long as he lives!" "Will he, then, live eternally?" cried Corilla, beside herself with rage. The cardinal gave her an astonished and interrogating glance.
Is it the Love of Woman, in its truth and deep devotion, that inspires you? See it here! Is it Glory, as the world has learned to call the pomp and circumstance of arms? Behold it at the summit of its exaltation, with its mailed hand resting on the altar where the Spirit ministers. The Poet's laurel-crown, which they who sit on thrones can neither twine or wither is that the aim of thy ambition?
It delighted the critics as well, and one of the most distinguished of them, Théophile Gautier, wrote: "A new Greek is born to us, and his name is Gérôme!" This picture, which was to prove the first leaf in a laurel-crown to be awarded the painter in his lifetime, and not, as is so often the case, by the tardy hand of Death, was the work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, a young man of twenty-three.
Applause, too, is unanimous, antique or modern. Those authors who work well in this field though their reward, instead of a handsome percentage, or royalty, may be but simply the laurel-crown of the victors in the great Olympic games will be dearest to humanity, and their works, however esthetically defective, will be treasur'd forever.
And by his side do you not see who the man is close by him? "It is old Horapollo. He is taking the laurel-crown off his wig! Alexander is going to speak."
And thus the years passed on, quiet and peaceful, though sometimes interrupted by new losses and sorrows. In the year 1821 the hero, the emperor, to whose laurel-crown the halo of a martyr had now also been added, died on the island-rock, St. Helena. In the year 1824 Hortense lost her only brother, Eugene, the Duke of Leuchtenberg.
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