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Marry, sir, at this rate, I rather think it is you have a design of betraying the State you cuckoldy knaves, that bring your handsome wives to seduce our young senators from their sobriety and wits. 'Are these the recompenses, replied Brilliard, 'you give the injured, and in lieu of restoring me my right, am I reproached with the most scandalous infamy that can befall a man? 'Well, sir, replied Sebastian, 'is this all you have to charge this gentleman with? At which he bowed, and was silent and Sebastian continued 'If your wife, sir, have a mind to my nephew, or he to her, it should have been your care to have forbid it, or prevented it, by keeping her under lock and key, if no other way to be secured; and, sir, we do not sit here to relieve fools and cuckolds; if your lady will be civil to my nephew, what is that to us: let her speak for herself: what say you, madam? 'I say, replied Sylvia, 'that this fellow is mad and raves, that he is my vassal, my servant, my slave; but, after this, unworthy of the meanest of these titles. This she spoke with a disdain that sufficiently shewed the pride and anger of her soul 'La you, sir, replied Sebastian, 'you are discharged your lady's service; it is a plain case she has more mind to the young Count than the husband, and we cannot compel people to be honest against their inclinations. And coming down from the seat where he sat, he embraced Octavio a hundred times, and told the board, he was extremely glad they found the mighty plot, but a vagary of youth, and the spleen of a jealous husband or lover, or whatsoever other malicious thing; and desired the angry man might be discharged, since he had so just a provocation as the loss of a mistress.
Mlle. Itasse has also gained official recompenses in provincial exhibitions and has richly won the right to esteem herself mistress of her art. <b>JACQUEMART, MLLE. NÉLIE.</b> Medals at Paris Salon, 1868, 1869, and 1870. Born in Paris. A very successful portrait painter.
'What is this for, Dominie? said Mac-Morlan. 'First to indemnify you of your charges in my behalf, worthy sir; and the balance for the use of Miss Lucy Bertram. 'But, Mr. Sampson, your labour in the office much more than recompenses me; I am your debtor, my good friend. 'Then be it all, said the Dominie, waving his hand, 'for Miss Lucy Bertram's behoof. 'Well, but, Dominie, this money-'
"I have not been very long in this family; and I fancy myself in that described in the 'Spectator," the letter of October 22 continues. "The good people here look upon their children with a fondness that more than recompenses their care of them. I don't perceive much distinction in regard to their merits; and when they speak sense or nonsense, it affects the parents with almost the same pleasure.
And then the pleasure of preparing them and making them even more beautiful than in life partially recompenses one for their loss. I take my time with them, looking for a new one while I am working on the old.
Instead of being timid and retiring, diffident in speech, and more fond of his study than of the salon, he became on a sudden easy and frank, showing himself in public on all occasions, conversing right and left in a gay, agreeable, and dignified manner; presiding, in fact, over the Salon of Marly, and over the groups gathered round him, like the divinity of a temple, who receives with goodness the homage to which he is accustomed, and recompenses the mortals who offer it with gentle regard.
This was a thunderbolt for the ministers; who, accustomed to have almost everything their own way, to rule over everybody and browbeat everybody at will, to govern the state abroad and at home, in fact, fixing all punishments, all recompenses, and always sheltering themselves behind the royal authority "the King wills it so" being the phrase ever on their lips, to these officers, I say, it was a thunderbolt which so bewildered them, that they could not hide their astonishment or their confusion.
Good and friendly conduct may meet with an unworthy and ungrateful return; but the absence of gratitude on the part of the receiver cannot destroy the self-approbation which recompenses the giver, and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense.
And that which has always been found by ancient experience, and which we have heretofore observed among ourselves, that men of quality have ever been more jealous of such recompenses than of those wherein there was gain and profit, is not without very good ground and reason.
He asked for nothing; it was all too glorious even to have the privilege of offering gifts, of feeling the readiness to die ten deaths for her sake, of finding all the recompenses of eternity in the soft depths of her bright eyes. But as he was too much in earnest to analyse these sentiments, he could neither gauge his own reticence nor justify it to Brigit herself.
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