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Duncan was, in fact, a Bostonian, and more at home there than at any other place. Miss Sadler observed with a great deal of astonishment the warm embrace that Janet bestowed on Cynthia. The occurrence started in Miss Sadler a train of thought, as a result of which she left the drawing-room where these reunions were held, and went into her own private study to write a note.
The "Outs" and the "Ins" meet at night to discuss their prospects, and wonderful are the stories invented at these reunions, some of which even find their way into English newspapers if their correspondents are not up to the ways of Spain for we read ludicrous accounts of things supposed to have been taking place, and are treated to solemn prophecies of events never likely to occur, even in first-class English journals.
It was there, where the young wits and scholars, fresh from their continental tours, full of the gallant young England of their day, the Mercutios, the Benedicts, the Birons, the Longuevilles, came together fresh from the Court of Navarre, and smelling of the lore of their foreign 'Academe, or hot from the battles of continental freedom, it was there, in those reunions, that our Poet caught those gracious airs of his those delicate, thick-flowering refinements those fine impalpable points of courtly breeding those aristocratic notions that haunt him everywhere.
"Mortifying to my son, sir! the victory of his countrymen. What do you mean?" "I had the honour to hear M. Gustave the other night at the club de la Vengeance." "Bon Dieu! do you frequent those tragic reunions?" asked De Breze.
It is a time for family reunions, for dinners, and even for weddings. Provisions are abundant, even in the poorest dwellings. Everywhere the greatest hospitality is the order of the day. The "Yule ol," or Christmas beer, is drunk freely.
In thus unselfishly surrounding Lilian with others, I felt the anguish of that jealousy which is inseparable from those earlier stages of love, when the lover as yet has won no right to that self-confidence which can only spring from the assurance that he is loved. In these social reunions I remained aloof from Lilian.
This beautiful blonde, of pleasing manners, graceful presence, and a strong vein of sentiment, fostered by the reading of Chateaubriand, met Byron for the first time casually when she came in her bridal dress to one of the Albrizzi reunions; but she was only introduced to him early in the April of the following year, at the house of the Countess Benzoni.
The most eminent minds in Paris frequently met in Chopin's saloon. Not in reunions of fantastic periodicity, such as the dull imaginations of ceremonious and tiresome circles have arranged, and which they have never succeeded in realizing in accordance with their wishes, for enjoyment, ease, enthusiasm, animation, never come at an hour fixed upon before hand.
In the midst of these reunions, consecrated to pleasure, and even to debauchery, he loved to signalise his lordly liberality; nothing could stop him, nothing was too extravagant for him. His passion was to remove all obstacles and pay for everybody. His joyous companions cried out with admiration, and celebrated, in prose and verse, so noble a taste and virtues so rare.
The words which occur again and again are those of honour, of purity, of goodness. The idea of seeing her again some day was never absent from his mind. Every time he thought of eternity, of a future life, of reunions in some unknown state, it was to her that his heart went out. The love of that second Sunday of May was ever present.
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