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Then he closed his eyes and called up the elusive image of Sara de Treverell very dark, very handsome, with her superb black hair reaching to her knees as he had often seen it when she was a little girl her blue eyes shining with a strange light, her lips smiling, her white arms held out.... "Sara may not be a happy girl," said Pensée suddenly, "but she is a clever one."
Gradually solace came to her through work, and having found so precious a treasure for herself, she, like our own modern sage, never tired of preaching to others the gospel of its blessedness. Whilst Christine wrote and lived her student life “son cuer hermit dans l’ermitage de Pensée” her fame went forth, and princes sought, by tempting offers, to attach her to their courts, but without success.
"Arrant nonsense!" was the vigorous reply. "A great empire, from hemisphere to hemisphere, can be kept together a good deal better by democratic control. Force is always the arriere pensee of the individual and the autocrat." "These are generalities," Julian declared. "I want to know your opinion about a peace at the present moment." "Not having any, thanks.
La designation meme d'heresie semble une atteinte portee a la liberte de conscience et de pensee. The very use of the word heresy seems an attack upon liberty of conscience and thought. We cannot share this scruple; for it would amount to nothing less than depriving Christianity of all distinctive character."
A brisk shower, lasting some ten minutes, led us to take refuge in a cavity, of mysterious origin, where the melancholy baker presently discovered us, having had the bonne pensee of coming up for us with an umbrella which certainly belonged, in former ages, to one of the Stephanettes or Berangeres commemorated by M. Canonge. His oven, I am afraid, was cold so long as our visit lasted.
"Oh, it isn't the duel, Pensée. He sees his way clearly. He has always tried not to see it. I, too, have tried not to see it. But all that is at an end now." "And he will renounce his career." "Everything! Everything!" Pensée threw up her hands, and left the room. Father Foster was standing under a gas-jet at the end of the corridor reading his office. He looked at Lady Fitz Rewes.
When I the next day mentioned it to General de M , whom you have known as an emigrant officer in your service, but whom policy has since ranged under the colours of Bonaparte, he assured me that these discussions about the Imperial throne are very frequent among the superior officers, and have caused many bloody scenes; and that hardly any of our generals of any talent exist who have not the same 'arriere pensee of some day or other.
She flies to alleviate her friend's hard lot. She constrains her inclinations, and sets out bravely for the bush, solely at friendship's call; for, of course, there is no arrière pensée in her mind. Oh no; how could there be? The young lady was not considered exactly a belle in the city, perhaps; but the bush receives her as an incarnation of Venus herself.
But if you fear for my faith and my character, it would be quite as easy to lose both in the highest society as in the vilest theatres! I foresee mistakes and difficulties. They must come. I shan't have a happy life, dearest Pensée: I don't look for happiness. Why then do you scold me?" "I am not scolding," said Lady Fitz Rewes: "I have never blamed you, never in my heart.
But you would not know how to imagine the intrigues and falsehoods which surround me on every side. O mon amie, I must prove to them that I want nothing they can give me that I possess nothing which they can take away." "I know what she means, Pensée," said Sara; "she has to show d'Alchingen that her interests are fixed on art not politics. And, from her point of view, she is right.
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