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Besides, when the rebels had forced the doors of the antechamber, the footmen and officers on duty, knowing that the Queen was no longer in her apartments, told them so with that air of truth which always carries conviction. The ferocious horde instantly rushed towards the oeil-de-boeuf, hoping, no doubt, to intercept her on her way.
Circumstances made the life of courts the best obtainable; but there is no trace of French 'oeil-de-boeuf' servility. In connection with the general subject of tact and taste, the Cardinal Bibbiena introduces an elaborate discussion of the different sorts of jokes, which proves the high value attached in Italy to all displays of wit.
"Mamma, I have to go to the theatre this evening. I am off." Out of consideration for her mother, she was in the habit of making such veiled explanations. "Go, my child, but don't come home too late." Ligny lived with his parents. He had, on the top floor of the charming house in the Rue Vernet, a small bachelor flat, lit by round windows, which he called his "oeil-de-boeuf."
In that sense, practice in Parliament is indispensable to the British Statesman; but not in any other sense. A school, too, of manners and of several other things, the Parliament will doubtless be to the aspirant Statesman; a school better or worse; as the OEil-de-Boeuf likewise was, and as all scenes where men work or live are sure to be.
Assist loyally, O reader, and we will try to make the indispensable a minimum for you. The first point to be noted is, Where did it originate? To which the answer mainly is, With that lean Gentleman whom we saw with Papers in the OEil-de-Boeuf on New-year's day last.
Alarmed for the Queen's life, he had gone down the staircases and through the corridors under the oeil-de-boeuf, by means of which he was accustomed to go to the Queen's apartments without being under the necessity of crossing that room. He entered her Majesty's room and found no one there but some Body Guards, who had taken refuge in it.
'Is this meant for farewell? said Diane, grasping her wrist. 'Do not ask me, Diane. I may not. 'Where there is no trust there is no treason, said Diane, dreamily. 'No, answer me not, little one, there will be time for that another day. Where is he? 'In the oeil-de-boeuf, between the King's and Queen's suites of rooms. I must go. There is the Queen going. Diane, one loving word.
Where and how said river, whether Parliament with Wilkeses, or OEil-de-Boeuf with Pompadours, can be waded, boated, swum; how the miscellaneous cargoes, "measures" so called, can be got across it, according to their kinds, and landed alive on the hither side as facts: we have all of us our ferries in this world; and must know the river and its ways, or get drowned some day!
The King, unwilling to expose their lives, told them to wait a few minutes, and afterwards sent to desire them to go to the oeil-de-boeuf. Madame de Tourzel, at that time governess of the children of France, had just taken Madame and the Dauphin to the King's apartments. The Queen saw her children again. The reader must imagine this scene of tenderness and despair.
So by this time, being splendid in French boots and white vest, and altogether perfect and refreshed, I emerged from my dressing-room, Wylder by my side. We had to get along a dim oak-panelled passage, and into a sort of oeil-de-boeuf, with a lantern light above, from which diverged two other solemn corridors, and a short puzzling turn or two brought us to the head of the upper stairs.
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