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Mademoiselle Cerise sang, with chic and abandon very fascinating to his own sensuous nature, a song with a charming air and sentiment. It was after a night at the opera when they had seen her in "Lucia," and the contrast, as she sang in his garden, softly lighted, showed her at the most attractive angles. She drifted from a sparkling chanson to the delicate pathos of a song of De Musset's.
Nanteuil was tormenting herself in this fashion in her box, when Jenny Fagette came to join her there; Jenny Fagette, slender and fragile, the incarnation of Alfred de Musset's Muse, who at night wore out her eyes of periwinkle-blue by scribbling society notes and fashion articles. A mediocre actress, but a clever and wonderfully energetic woman, she was Nanteuil's most intimate friend.
Kindly time throws a softening veil over the acutest differences, and the clash of temperaments, even where they remain inexplicable. But the answer to Alfred de Musset's reproaches must be looked for not in one book, but in the whole tenor of her life. Does this show that her maternal attitude was a "pose." It is often said that women are born wives or born mothers.
Quickly finding the desired page, he began to read aloud: 'Dear, had the world in its caprice Deigned to proclaim I know you both, Have recognised your plighted troth, Am sponsor for you; live in peace! He read to the end of the poem, and then looked up with an admiring smile. 'An ideal! exclaimed Peak. 'An ideal akin to Murger's and Musset's grisettes, who never existed.
The ball was at its height when Malvina, the Andalouse of Musset's poem, heard du Tillet's voice drily advising her to take Desroches.
And, however pernicious the much talked of effect on De Musset's mind, it is but fair to the poet to recollect that it is no less true of him than of George Sand that his best work, that with which his fame has come chiefly to associate itself, was accomplished after this painful experience.
The year before the jury had only awarded her two secondary prizes; not that she had not deserved the first, but that on account of her youth they had thought it wiser to keep her back for another year. The young artist was to compete for tragedy in the first act of Phedre, for comedy in Alfred de Musset's Barberine. The dawn of the fifteenth was clear and quiet.
"There is a song of Musset's you know it, perhaps beginning 'Quand on perd, par triste occurrence' which he has set, to my mind, perfectly. I want him to publish it. If he does I must let you see it." Irene did not know the verses and made no remark. "There are English men of business," pursued Otway, "who would smile with pity at Moncharmont. He is by no means their conception of the merchant.
She went forward with a little cry of surprise and pleasure, while, instantaneously, the wonder of how he should know where they would be presented itself to her mind. They were about six volumes. A Heine, a couple of de Musset's, and then three volumes of selected poems, from numbers of the English poets. Lady Ethelrida picked them up delightedly.
He, seeing no address, did not, or feigned not, to understand for whom the letter was intended, and asked George Sand what he should do with it. De Musset died in 1857 and after his death Sand startled Paris with "Elle et Lui," an obvious answer to "Confessions of a Child of the Age, "De Musset's version an uncomplimentary one to himself of their separation.
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