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I could think of nothing but to repeat: "I am not in the least hurt, mademoiselle." "Ah, but if they have spared you the flogging to take your life!" she breathed. It was not a heartening suggestion. To my astonishment, suddenly I found myself, frightened victim, striving to comfort this noblewoman for my death. "Nay, I am not afraid. Since mademoiselle weeps over me, I can die happily."
He allows Steno to love him because she is diabolically pretty, notwithstanding her forty years, and then she is, in spite of all, a real noblewoman, which flattered him. He has not one dollar's-worth of moral delicacy in his heart. But he has an abundance of knavery.... Let us, too, strike out his wife.
I know now that he was a Rajput though he never told me that; I know that he married a Russian noblewoman" Amber hesitated imperceptibly "that she died soon after, that he chose to live out of India and to die rather than return to it." "He was," said Labertouche, "a singular man, an exotic result of the unnatural conditions we English have brought about in India.
"Of course not," replied the girl. "I was only scared." "You ought to be ashamed. Are you not a noblewoman, and a noblewoman like your mistress is not afraid. Nothing evil could happen to you in the middle of the day, and among people." "Nothing to me, but to you." "Yet you said that you did not cry for me." "I insist, not for you." "Then why did you cry?" "From fear." "You are not afraid now?"
And socially and picturesquely, there is nothing to compare with the position of an English noblewoman." Flora turned her eyes frankly to the classic profile beside her.
"Sophia...!" he said thickly, colouring hotly. He was conscious of a tightening of his throat muscles, making speech a matter of difficulty. "But but " he stammered. "Her mother," said Rutton softly, looking away, "was a Russian noblewoman. Sophia is Farrell's daughter by adoption only. Farrell was once my closest friend.
Thanks to Memoirs and Maxims, we are able to reconstruct the life of a seventeenth or eighteenth century noblewoman as completely as German archeologists have rebuilt the temple of the Wingless Victory on the Acropolis from surrounding débris.
The Countess Anna of Lenkenstein offered, on her word of honour as a noblewoman, to make over the quarter of her estate and patrimony to the Countess d'Isorella, if the latter should succeed in thwarting something. Forced to speak plainly, Adela confessed she thought she knew the nature of that something. To preclude its being named, Violetta then diverged from the subject.
Wilhelm had turned and was gazing in silent bewilderment into the face of the young noblewoman, who stood directly in front of him.
'I am a prisoner! you cried at first not more than that. But you said it like a lady, a noblewoman. I admired you then because you faced me whom you had never seen before with no more fear than had I been a private and you my commanding officer." "Fear wins nothing." "Precisely. Then let us not fear what the future may have for us. I have no directions beyond this point, Pittsburg.
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