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Updated: June 1, 2025
Moina, beautiful and fascinating from childhood, was Mme. d'Aiglemont's favorite; loved beyond all the others with an instinctive or involuntary love, a fatal drawing of the heart, which sometimes seems inexplicable, sometimes, and to a close observer, only too easy to explain.
At four o'clock dear Moina drives in the Bois. In the evening dear Moina goes to a ball or to the Bouffes. Still, it is certainly true that Mme. d'Aiglemont has the privilege of seeing her dear daughter while she dresses, and again at dinner, if dear Moina happens to dine with her mother.
Alfred was too corrupt; Moina too clever to believe the revelation; the young Countess would turn it off and treat it as a piece of maternal strategy.
Mr. de Lara's earlier works, 'The Light of Asia, 'Amy Robsart, and 'Moina' failed completely. There is better work in 'Messaline' . The musical ideas are poor in quality, but the score is put together in a workmanlike manner, and the orchestration is often clever.
The countess was silent; she wanted to answer with a sharp repartee; her heart was bounding with anger, but she could find nothing better to say than, "He will make them, perhaps." All the women looked at each other with mysterious significance. When Marie de Vandenesse departed Moina de Saint-Heren exclaimed: "She adores him." "And she makes no secret of it," said Madame d'Espard.
It is many years ago since I looked at Ossian, and I never did much delight in him, as that fact proves. Since your letter came I have taken him up again, and have just finished 'Carthon. There are beautiful passages in it, the most beautiful beginning, I think, 'Desolate is the dwelling of Moina, and the next place being filled by that address to the sun you magnify so with praise.
If some cautious old person or morose uncle here and there condemned the course with "Perhaps Mme. d'Aiglemont may be sorry some day that she gave up her fortune to her daughter; she may be sure of Moina, but how can she be equally sure of her son-in-law?" these prophets were cried down on all sides, and from all sides a chorus of praise went up for Moina.
"It is my duty, my child, to warn you in one of the most serious crises in the lives of us women; you have perhaps reached it unconsciously, and I am come to speak to you as a friend rather than as a mother. Bear in mind, Moina that you are married to a man of high ability, a man of whom you may well be proud, a man who " "I know what you are going to say, mother!" Moina broke in pettishly.
They took away my mother first; they dragged her off crying, and I never saw or heard of her again. When she was gone I cried for her, and could not eat till they gave me sugar and sweet dates. At Dár el Baïda I was sold in the market auction to a shareefa named Lálla Moïna, wife of the mountain scribe who taught the kádi's children.
"Helene, my child!..." she cried, with her arms about her daughter. Helene was silent. Her own babe had just drawn its last breath on her breast. Moina came into the room with Pauline, her maid, and the landlady and the doctor.
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