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"Go on, Comtesse," said Antony. "I like to hear it all." "They really believed in noblesse oblige. Neither of them would have stooped from their position oh, not a little inch." "It is a thing we have quite forgotten in England. It was inconvenient, and most of us are not rich enough to indulge in it." "But must one be rich to behave as of one's race?" I asked, astonished.
You have heard me speak of my cousine de Maisonrouge, that grande belle femme, who, after having married, en secondes noces there had been, to tell the truth, some irregularity about her first union a venerable relic of the old noblesse of Poitou, was left, by the death of her husband, complicated by the indulgence of expensive tastes on an income of 17,000 francs, on the pavement of Paris, with two little demons of daughters to bring up in the path of virtue.
"Just think of the contradictions of human nature, Burke," said he, in a low whisper. "These are the receptions for which the new noblesse would give half their wealth.
A fourth part serv'd under My Lord Pitsligow, who is also proscribed; which cavalrie, tho' very few in numbers, being all noblesse, were very brave, and of infinite advantage to the foot, not only in the day of battle, but in serving as advanced guards on the several marches, and in patroling dureing the night on the different roads which led towards the towns where the army happened to quarter.
I excused my ignorance by saying, I had been a long time in Ghadames, and had heard nothing. Odd enough, the Governor asked me, "Which was the oldest dynasty in Europe?" I told him the Bourbons of France. The Sheikh Jabour here interposed that his family was more than three thousand years old! The pride of an hereditary noblesse is deeply rooted in these Touarghee chiefs.
This conception of democracy has come latterly to be as fine a point of honor as any article in the code of chivalry or noblesse.
And it is, again, impossible to overrate the difference between such a social condition, and that of the artists of to-day, struggling to occupy a position of equality in wealth with the noblesse, paid irregular and monstrous prices by an entirely ignorant and selfish public; and competing with each other to supply the worst article they can for the money.
"Your great-grandmother was a Ponte," said Baldo, "and our own grandmother was a Valdeschi, your grandfather's cousin." "Really?" said Adrian, pleasantly. "But I 'm afraid," he explained to Franco, "that there is n't any noblesse in my bones. I 'm afraid I 'm just a plain commoner." "Oh, you refer to the Act of Proscription I understand," said Franco.
The noblesse have not the common sense to reside at their houses in the country, where, by farming their own grounds, they might live at a small expence, and improve their estates at the same time. They allow their country houses to go to decay, and their gardens and fields to waste; and reside in dark holes in the Upper Town of Boulogne without light, air, or convenience.
"Noblesse oblige," she said, and let the roll of paper approach his head; but therewith she dropped it and burst into tears. He spent a merry evening with his friends, and was enthusiastically applauded. But as he lay in bed that night he felt utterly despondent. The whole thing might, after all, have been a mere chance.
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