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'Well, this is strange! he said at last, stopping at a point between the Louvre on the one hand and the Institute on the other, the moonlit river lying between. My friends come to me at Rome or at Tangiers, and they complain of me, "Regnault, you have grown morose, no one can get a word out of you" and they go away wounded I have seen it often. And it was always true.
Count Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angely bore the decree to the Corps Legislatif, and supported it with his usual persuasive eloquence, recalling the victories of France and the glory of the Emperor; but the ballot elected as members of the commission five deputies who had the reputation of being more devoted to the principles of liberty than to the Emperor.
"He said," continued O'Neill, "that you were not to move sharply, not to laugh or cry, not to be much amused or surprised in fact, you were to keep absolutely quiet. He suggested, too, that you'd had your share of emotions, and would be better without them now." Regnault smiled again. "Wonderful," he said softly. "They teach them all that in the hospitals.
"Then," she said, as though resuming some conversation "then he is, in truth, sick to death?" "You mean Regnault!" asked O'Neill, caught unawares. "Yes, Senora. He is sick to death." Her steady gaze from under the level brows embarrassed him like an assault. "And he is frightened?" she demanded. "I don't think he is in the least frightened," replied O'Neill.
Wells, the wife of the Royal Academician, herself a talented painter, who died in childbed, "a great artist sacrificed to bringing more kids into the world, as if there were not other women just fit for that!" he exclaimed; and when Regnault was killed in the sortie from Paris, he burst out in an angry protest at this throwing away valuable lives like Regnault's in a stupid war.
To this feeling, no doubt, must be attributed certain nominations, and the spirit of some recommendations contained in the notes with which he was supplied on the characters of candidates, and which for ready reference were arranged alphabetically. Some of the notes just mentioned were in the handwriting of Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, and some in Lucien Bonaparte's.
In November he painted his last three water-colours visions of the East, painted for her, and as flower-bright as possible, 'because flowers were scarce' in the doomed city. December came. Regnault spent Christmas night at the advanced post of Colombes. His captain wished to make him an officer.
Count Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angely bore the decree to the Corps Legislatif, and supported it with his usual persuasive eloquence, recalling the victories of France and the glory of the Emperor; but the ballot elected as members of the commission five deputies who had the reputation of being more devoted to the principles of liberty than to the Emperor.
There were also the men of the new generation, men who were saturated with the principles of the Revolution though regretting its methods. Among these were Chebnier, Regnault, and Benjamin Constant. The influence of Mme. de Stael was at its height during this period. Her talent, her liberal opinions, and her persuasive eloquence gave her great power over the constitutional leaders.
'You never saw anything like that in England, he resumed quickly. David hesitated. 'No, I never did. But I am a provincial, and I have seen nothing at all. Perhaps in London 'No, you would see nothing like it in London, said Regnault decidedly. 'Bah! it is not that you are more virtuous than we are. Who believes such folly? But your vice is grosser, stupider. Lucky for you!
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