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"Sir," said Mirabeau, "M. de Malouet has assured me that you understood and approved of the grounds for the explanation I desire to have with you." "Sir," replied M. Necker, "M. Malouet has told me that you had proposals to make to me; what are they?"
I assure you that beneath her appearance much too frivolous, I admit she possesses in fact as much heart as she does sense." "That is precisely what I think, madam; as much one of as of the other." "Ah! that is really intolerable," murmured Madame de Malouet, dropping her arms in a disconsolate manner.
In point of fact, she is indifferent to me, but it's a little too much to hear her praised. "And now what am I to do?" I said to Madame de Malouet. She reflected for a moment, and replied with a slight shrug of her shoulders: "Ma foi! nothing; that's the best thing you can do."
Mirabeau, purple with rage at this frigid treatment by the man he had come to save, replied that he proposed to wish him good morning. To Malouet he said, "Your friend is a fool, and he will soon have news of me." Necker lived to regret that he had thrown such a chance away.
M. Malouet's observations would have carried the decree, but a deputy from Brittany exclaimed, with a shrill voice, that he had an amendment to propose which would render all unanimous. "Let us decree," said he, "that M. Malouet, and whoever else shall so please, may have leave to receive the King upon their knees; but let us stick to the decree." The King repaired to the chamber at mid-day.
"Never did political assembly combine so great a number of remarkable men," says M. Malouet, "without there being a single one whose superiority was decided and could command the respect of the others.
I did not deserve it I have nothing further to wish nothing further to hope I shall not regret anything." She fell into a slumber. Her parted lips are smiling a pure and placid smile; but she is taken at intervals with terrible spasms, and her features are becoming terribly altered. I am watching her while writing these lines. Madame de Malouet has just arrived with her husband.
Therefore Malouet made no impression when he urged that they were taking on themselves the maintenance not only of the priesthood, but of the poor; and that no surplus would be available as long as there was a Frenchman starving. In August, 1789, a committee on Church questions had been appointed, and in February, as it did not agree, its numbers were increased, and the minority was swamped.
M. Malouet observed that there was no occasion on which the nation, assembled in the presence of the King, did not acknowledge him as its head; that the omission to treat the head of the State with the respect due to him would be an offence to the nation, as well as to the monarch. He moved that the King should take the oath standing, and that the Assembly should also stand while he was doing so.
"My friend," he was saying yesterday to Monsieur de Malouet, "you know that I am no more jealous than any one else; but without being Orosmane, I do not pretend to be George Dandin. Well! one thing troubles me, my friend; have you noticed that apparently no one pays any attention to my wife?" "Parbleu! if that's what troubles you " "Of course it is; you must admit that it is not natural.
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