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Updated: May 15, 2025
She would have been handsome, but for rouge and minauderie would have been civil, but for overstrained airs of patronage and condescension would have had an agreeable voice, had she spoken in her natural tone and fine eyes, had she not made such desperate hard use of them.
The little plump Cleopatra, dressed to as much advantage as her taste could devise, and seated upon her embroidered cushions like Venus in her shell, neglected nothing that effrontery and minauderie could perform to draw upon herself some portion of the King's observation; but Charles was not in the vein, and did not even pay her the slightest passing attention of any kind, until her boatmen having ventured to approach nearer to the Queen's barge than etiquette permitted, received a peremptory order to back their oars, and fall out of the royal procession.
"I am sure I don't wish it," I said quite frankly he is not the sort of man with whom one would ever think of minauderie, "but Madeleine will be miserable about me." "And so you would really care to stop here," said he, with a smile of wonder on his face, "if it were not for that reason?" "Naturally I would," said I. "I feel already as cosy as a tame cat here.
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