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The very just portrait of Cecilia Boccaferri, the conscientious but obscure artist in Le Château des Désertes, might seem over-flattered to such as imagine that all opera-singers must be persons of riotous living. The types she prefers to present, if exceptional, are not impossible or non-existent.
He was not so hard, however, as he was egoistic, and it was not a question of softening his heart. Sara had the far more difficult task of soothing his tortured vanity. "I don't know," he said, losing caution, "that I want you to take him up quite so strongly! No one could call him a coxcomb, yet he, not aware of the real cause of your interest, might be over-flattered.
You complain, and justly, that a king is over-flattered; do not then flatter him yourselves by insisting on such convenience for him as he does not even demand at your hands!" "You take us too literally, Sir," said Louis Valdor; "Even Revolutionists owe respect to their chief!" "Sergius Thord is your Chief, my friend!" replied the monarch; "And, from a Revolutionary point of view, mine!
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