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My cook and my maid may, perhaps, have so much between them; but for my own part, I have nothing but credit, and I should lose that if I took to borrowing small sums. If I were to ask for twenty francs, I should have nothing to distinguish me from my colleagues that walk the boulevard." "Is the milliner paid?" asked La Palferine. "Oh, come now, are you turning stupid?" said she, with a wink.
La Palferine said to his groom, "Follow the carriage of madame," and then he jumped into it beside her to the utter stupefaction of Calyste, who stood for a moment planted on his two legs as if they were lead. It was the sight of him standing thus, pale and livid, that caused Beatrix to make the sign to La Palferine to enter her carriage. Doves can be Robespierres in spite of their white wings.
At that moment, La Palferine, elegant, superb, charming, left two ladies with whom he had been talking, and came down to the marquise. "Take my arm," he said, bowing, "and walk proudly out. I will find your carriage." "Will you come home with me and finish the evening?" she answered, getting into her carriage and making room for him.
Claudine, in her terror, did not guess that he was joking; she shrank back, stumbled over a chair, and fell with her head against the corner of the marble chimney-piece. She thought she should have died. When she could speak, poor woman, as she lay on the bed, all that she said was, 'I deserved it, Charles! "For a moment La Palferine was in despair; his anguish revived Claudine.
They invented the burlesque axiom, 'In the sight of man, all women are equal. The actual text is more vigorously worded, but as in my opinion the spirit is false, I do not stand nice upon the letter. "My friend, madame, is named Gabriel Jean Anne Victor Benjamin George Ferdinand Charles Edward Rusticoli, Comte de la Palferine.
Talleyrand, in similar circumstances, had already replied, 'You are very inquisitive, my dear fellow! To imitate the inimitable great man was out of the question. La Palferine, generous as Buckingham, could not bear to be caught empty-handed.
"'I will get it for you. "La Palferine burst into a peal of Homeric laughter. "'Most distinctly, he returned, 'I do not wish to have a woman as ignorant as a carp for my mistress, a woman that springs like a flying fish from the green-room of the Opera to Court, for I should like to see you at the Court of the Citizen King. "She turned to me.
One day when he had nothing to give a little Savoyard chimney-sweeper, he dipped a hand into a barrel of grapes in a grocer's doorway and filled the child's cap from it. The little one ate away at his grapes; the grocer began by laughing, and ended by holding out his hand. "'Oh, fie! monsieur, said La Palferine, 'your left hand ought not to know what my right hand doth.
"Another day La Palferine was walking with a friend who flung his cigar end in the face of a passer-by. The recipient had the bad taste to resent this. "'You have stood your antagonist's fire, said the young Count, 'the witnesses declare that honor is satisfied. "La Palferine owed his tailor a thousand francs, and the man instead of going himself sent his assistant to ask for the money.
Du Bruel's grandfather was a farmer of taxes ennobled towards the end of Louis Quatorze's reign. Cherin composed his coat-of-arms for him, so the Count's coronet looks not amiss above a scutcheon innocent of Imperial absurdities. In this way, in the short space of three years, Claudine had carried out the programme laid down for her by the charming, light-hearted La Palferine.
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