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Updated: May 2, 2025
The de Noailles’ château of Maintenon is an inheritance from Louis XIV.’s prudish favorite, who founded and enriched the de Noailles family.
The woman cried loudly for help and struck angrily around her. The young girl, however, silently defended herself. "Don't be so prudish, Zilda," said one of the men. "You make as much noise as if we were going to hang the little one." The speaker, as he said this, threw his arms around the slim waist of the young girl and tried to draw her to him.
"I said I'd try, and so I have, but it's no use. Little woman, don't be prudish; kiss me back again." But she pushed him away, and in the firelight he saw she was very white and determined. "I asked you not to. It is much worse taste still now." "No, it isn't don't be silly. Why shouldn't I kiss you? I... I... have got awfully fond of you, and I know you like me somewhere down in your heart."
The women rested on the bank like river-nymphs: their costume was somewhat less prudish than that of the men, the coat of rocoa being confined to their faces, which were further decorated with joints of reed thrust through the nose and ears.
He smiled: "Of course, I understand you mean in one of the cafes which are commonly called bohemian." "Yes, that's it. But take me to one of the big places, one where you are known, one where you have already supped no dined well, you know I I oh! I will never dare say it!" "Go ahead, dearie. Little secrets should no longer exist between us." "No, I dare not." "Go on; don't be prudish. Tell me."
By his, she was narrow, uncharitable, even bigoted; tried by the code of more orthodox circles she was simply high-minded, true and noble in her devotion to principle. She was neither bigoted nor prudish, however the alien circumstances in which she was placed made her appear so. To her it was a vital question of right and purity of which Arthur disposed with such contemptuous lightness.
And Puritanism isn't a sufficient explanation. The English Puritans of the really Puritan time had freedom of conversation which would horrify us of to-day. We become more and more prudish as what we call civilization advances.
But I must be out of my senses to think and utter such nonsense; for it is impossible that a long, white-hooded spectacled duenna could stir up or excite a wanton thought in the most graceless bosom in the world. Is there a duenna on earth that has fair flesh? Is there a duenna in the world that escapes being ill-tempered, wrinkled, and prudish?
At this very moment the confused murmur of voices and music stops all regular proceedings: old women and children tattling; apes, bears, and show-boxes under the windows; French rattling, English swearing, outrageous Italians, frisking minstrels; tambours de basque at every corner; myself distracted; a confounded squabble of cooks and haranguing German couriers just arrived, their masters following open-mouthed; nothing to eat, the steam of ham and flesh-pots all the while provoking their appetite; Mynheers very busy with the realities, and smoking as deliberately as if in a solitary lusthuys over the laziest canal in the Netherlands; squeaking chambermaids in the galleries above, and prudish dames below, half inclined to receive the golden solicitations of certain beauties for admittance, but positively refusing them the moment some creditable personage appears; eleven o'clock strikes; half the lights in the fair are extinguished; scruples grow less and less delicate; Mammon prevails, darkness and complaisance succeed.
"In the king's name, once more!" said Sancho; "If this charitable work were to be done for the sake of damsels in confinement or charity-girls, a man might expose himself to some hardships; but to bear it for the sake of stripping beards off duennas! Devil take it! I'd sooner see them all bearded, from the highest to the lowest, and from the most prudish to the most affected."
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