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Updated: June 24, 2025
On the day of Saint-Bartholomew they slew a goodly number of Protestants, and Charles IX. bestowed the hand of the heiress of the Comte de la Palferine upon the Rusticoli of that time. "From the time of the Valois till the reign of Richelieu, as it may be called, the Rusticoli played a most illustrious part; under Louis XIV. their glory waned somewhat, under Louis XV. it went out altogether.
"Comes there a time when it is a bore to amuse one's self," said La Palferine, "to be nothing, to live like the birds, to hunt the fields of Paris like a savage, and laugh at everything?" "All things weary, even hell," said de Trailles, laughing. "Well, this evening." The two roues, the old and the young, rose.
He had excellent reasons for distrusting old men. "Have you debts?" said Maxime, to the young count. "If I had none, should I be worthy of being your successor?" replied La Palferine. "In putting that question to you I don't place the matter in doubt; I only want to know if the total is reasonable; if it goes to the five or the six?" "Six what?"
"He once came upon a friend of his, a fellow-Bohemian, involved in a dispute on the boulevard with a bourgeois who chose to consider himself affronted. To the modern powers that be, Bohemia is insolent in the extreme. There was talk of calling one another out. "'One moment, interposed La Palferine, as much Lauzun for the occasion as Lauzun himself could have been. 'One moment.
Lousteau, the literary cadger, la Palferine and Malaga, Massol, Vauvinet, and Theodore Gaillard, a proprietor of one of the most important political newspapers, completed the party.
Let me tell you that of all those who have rushed into the career at the close of which I now am, and who have tried to oppose me, you are the only one who has ever pleased me." La Palferine colored, so flattered was he by this avowal made with gracious good-humor by the leader of Parisian adventurers.
There are stirrings of the inner life which throw all the calculations of surgery into disorder and baffle the laws of medical science. "Claudine wrote a delicious letter to La Palferine, a letter in which the orthography was doubtful and the punctuation all to seek, to tell him of the happy result of the operation, and to add that Love was wiser than all the sciences.
The man in livery handed him a note written in pencil: "'The carriage has been engaged for three days. Count Rusticoli de la Palferine is too happy to associate himself with Court charities by lending wings to Royal beneficence. "La Palferine now calls the civil list the uncivil list. "He was once passionately loved by a lady of somewhat light conduct.
She leant on my arm as we went downstairs, and looked at me with almost something like happiness in her eyes because I knew La Palferine. Can you see the first idea that occurred to her? She thought of making a spy of me, but I turned her off with the light jesting talk of Bohemia. "A month later, after a first performance of one of du Bruel's plays, we met in the vestibule of the theatre.
She rejoiced in the mishap; she took advantage of her suffering to compel La Palferine to take the money and release him from an awkward position. Then followed a variation on La Fontaine's fable, in which a man blesses the thieves that brought him a sudden impulse of tenderness from his wife. And while we are upon this subject, another saying will paint the man for you.
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