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"Marboeuf," he said, 'I know thou hast the two elements which, between ourselves, ensure the greatest happiness in this world a good digestion and a hard heart." "You compliment me, master." "Nay, I know thy worth, and hence I leave all things in thy hands: my honour and my vengeance." "Thy vengeance?" "Yes. If I live I shall expect to find all as I left it when I return hither.
"An Englishman, I believe; pray, sir, will you inform me whether the household troops in England wear the Marboeuf cuirass?" "Sir!" said Vivian. "I esteem myself particularly fortunate in thus meeting with an English gentleman. It was only at dinner to-day that a controversy arose between Major von Musquetoon and the Prince of Buttonstein on this point.
To my surprise, however, I discovered that the house was occupied by a detachment of the Marines of the Guard, proceeding from Marboeuf to the coast; with these, assuming the "camaraderie" of the service, I soon made acquaintance, and being possessed of some information about the army, my company was at once coveted by the sailors, who had no opportunity of learning the events of the campaign.
Strether had kept away from home all day, given himself up to the town and to his thoughts, wandered and mused, been at once restless and absorbed and all with the present climax of a rich little welcome in the Quartier Marboeuf.
No circumstance of any interest occurred on my journey to Marboeuf; my passport, made out in my own name as a sous-officier on leave, secured me against any interruption or delay; and on the third evening I reached the little wayside cabaret, about a league beyond the town, where I was informed by the count that the abbé would await me.
Corsican Napoleon declared himself in the youth of poverty and discontent, when he had dreams of rising to power by such patriotism as had ennobled Paoli. Charles Buonaparte, his father, went over to the winning side, and was eager to secure the friendship of Marboeuf, the French governor of Corsica.
Let him go, even though by his departure I am deprived of all opportunity to assist him in his pleasing games of war." As we have seen, the young Corsican was only ten years of age when, through the influence of Count Marboeuf, an old friend of the Bonaparte family, he was admitted to the military school at Brienne.
The alleyway led to a gate in the wall opening on the Rue Marboeuf, so a particularly discreet couple, let us say, could drive up to this gate, pass through the alleyway, and then, by the private stairs, enter Number Seven without being seen by anyone, assuming, of course, that they had a key to the alleyway door. And they could leave the restaurant in the same unobserved manner.
The premises are so extensive, that different rooms are appropriated for different studies, the one for drawing, another for writing, several for music, etc., etc.; there is a chapel attached to the establishment, which is adapted to those who are of the Catholic persuasion, whilst the English Protestant pupils are sent with a teacher of their own country, either to the Ambassador's or to the Marboeuf English chapel, both of which are near to the residence of Madame Loiseau.
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