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She would have been a beautiful girl, had she not looked bored and unhappy. "You're new suit is beautiful, Mame," said Sara over her shoulder. "Do you think so? I simply cannot bear it. I never have anything like other girls." "That is Maine's old cry," said Sara when she was beyond hearing. "She is the best-dressed girl in school and she has a father who is devoted to her.
I knew, at least, all the while, I think; and I have never ceased to thank God. And it was through your hands that the letter came to me to go to Fotheringay. And it was in your house that I was taken.... And it was Mr. Maine's beads that they found on me when they searched me here the pair of beads you gave me." Again she stared at him, blind and bewildered.
The reading being finished, that prince spoke, casting his eyes upon all the assembly, uncovering himself, and then covering himself again, and commencing by a word of praise and of regret for the late King; afterwards raising his voice, he declared that he had only to approve everything just read respecting the education of the King, and everything respecting an establishment so fine and so useful as that of Saint-Cyr; that with respect to the dispositions concerning the government of the state, he would speak separately of those in the will and those in the codicil; that he could with difficulty harmonise them with the assurances the King, during the last days of his life, had given him; that the King could not have understood the importance of what he had been made to do for the Duc du Maine since the council of the regency was chosen, and M. du Maine's authority so established by the will, that the Regent remained almost without power; that this injury done to the rights of his birth, to his attachment to the person of the King, to his love and fidelity for the state, could not be endured if he was to preserve his honour; and that he hoped sufficiently from the esteem of all present, to persuade himself that his regency would be declared as it ought to be, that is to say, complete, independent, and that he should be allowed to choose his own council, with the members of which he would not discuss public affairs, unless they were persons who, being approved by the public, might also have his confidence.
The superiority of the 'natural affections' thus depends on a double pleasure, their intrinsically pleasureable character, and the superadded pleasure of reflection. The natural or spontaneous predominance of benevolence is goodness; the subjection of the selfish by effort and training is virtue. Maine's historical investigation into the condition of early societies.
Palfrey, History of New England, ii. 13; quoted in Maine's Village Communities, New York, 1876, p. 201. Konigswarter, Etudes sur le developpement des societes humaines, Paris, 1850. This is, at least, the law of the Kalmucks, whose customary law bears the closest resemblance to the laws of the Teutons, the old Slavonians, etc. The habit is in force still with many African and other tribes.
That old woman must surely think herself immortal, for she still hopes to reign, though at the age of eighty-three years. The Duc du Maine's affair is a severe blow for her. She is, nevertheless, not without hope, and it is said not excessively grieved. This fills me with anxiety, for I know too well how expert the wicked old hussy is in the use of poison.
Maine's Treatise on Ancient Law is exceedingly interesting and valuable. Gibbon's famous chapter should also be read by every student. There is a fine translation of the Institutes of Justinian, which is quite accessible, by Dr. Harris of Oxford. The Code, Pandects, Institutes, and Novels are of course the original authority, with the long-lost Institutes of Gaius.
Here is a fine old book, Sir Henry Maine's Ancient Law. You know it, of course?" "All all! I know them all," murmured the little Doctor, standing with two books under his arm and plucking out a third. "I look back sometimes and stand amazed at the immensity of my reading. Benjamin Kidd ha! He won't be in so many libraries when I get through with him.
The proof of Maine's alertness is to be found in the number of her extra short, or entirely closed, seasons on game. For example: Cow and calf moose are permanently protected. Only bull moose, with at least two 3-inch prongs on its horns, may be killed. Caribou have had a close season since 1899. On gray and black squirrels, doves and quail, there is no open season.
After all, it must be admitted, however, that the measures they took and the men they secured, were strangely unequal to the circumstances of the case, when the details became known; in fact, there was a general murmur of surprise among the public, at the contemptible nature of the whole affair. But let me relate the circumstances accompanying the discovery of M. du Maine's pitiable treachery.
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