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These, however, have fallen out of favor in polite society. Children and servants are the chief supporters of the manufacturers of the gorgeous love-letters. In writing to a person who is the guest of another, take care to place the name of the host or hostess on the cover of your letter.
At the Jacobins, when he speaks there are sobs and cries of emotion, and men stamp as though they would bring the hall down. A young widow, Mme. de Chalabre, possessed of sixteen hundred pounds a year, sends him burning love-letters and is eager to marry him. We cannot seek in his character for the causes of his popularity.
I called out to him to surrender, and that I'd give him quarter: he called me a petit polisson and fired his pistol at me, and then sent it at my head with a curse. I rode at him, sir, drove my sword right under his arm-hole, and broke it in the rascal's body. I found a purse in his holster with sixty-five Louis in it, and a bundle of love-letters, and a flask of Hungary-water.
There was not much news in Bryngelly; it was difficult to make her letters amusing. Also the farcical nature of the whole proceeding seemed to paralyse her. It was ridiculous, having so much to say, to be able to say nothing. Not that Beatrice wished to indite love-letters such an idea had never crossed her mind, but rather to write as they had talked.
It's er there was a note in it." Sir Thomas gazed at the envelope again. Joviality and benevolence resumed their thrones. "And in a feminine handwriting," he chuckled. He eyed the limp peer almost roguishly. "I see, I see," he said. "Very charming, quite delightful! Girls must have their little romance! I suppose you two young people are exchanging love-letters all day.
With the money were his will and securities, also certain mementos of his youth and some love-letters together with a prayer-book that his mother had given him. These valuables, of which no one knew the existence except herself, we removed and then made our preparations for departure.
Gandrin, my friend, would not you and I give half our fortunes for one year of this fine fellow's youth spent at Paris? Peste! what love-letters we should have, with no need to buy them by billets de banque!" Thus he ran on, much to Alain's confusion, till dinner was announced.
There are bridges in it, and pens that may write well, maybe love-letters," she said, with sly and clumsy humor, "or even write, perhaps, the liberty of a race, as Lincoln's pen wrote it. Yes!" she said, her face full of luminous abstraction, "the cradle of civilization!"
I often happened to meet in the street other boys of my age, very proud of their slip of a sweetheart, who would exultingly show me love-letters, photographs, and flowers, and who asked me if I hadn't a sweetheart with whom to correspond. A feeling of inexplicable bashfulness tied my tongue, and I only replied with an enigmatic and haughty smile.
The people will not be made fools of; they will not believe in the story of the counterfeited letters and the forged signature." "No," shouted the crowd, laughing in derision, "we will not believe it. The queen wrote the letters; her majesty understands how to write love-letters!" "The queen loves to have a hand in all kinds of nonsense," thundered the brewer Santerre, in another group.
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