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"What poor girl?" asked Fanfar. "Pray explain yourself, Monsieur Aubé." Montferrand had heard that this Fanfar was only a rope-dancer; but his air and manner, his dress, too, proclaimed him to hold a very different position, and he was greatly attracted by his appearance.
Seventy pounds is a large sum." "Yes, but soon spent, Tim. We must work a little longer. Besides, I cannot leave that little girl she was never intended for a rope-dancer." "I am glad to hear you say that, Japhet, for I feel as you do she shall share our fortunes." "A glorious prospect truly," replied I, laughing; "but never mind, it would be better than her remaining here.
Do you think I cared for Buckingham, with his heart of ice; or for such a snipe as Jermyn; or for a low-born rope-dancer? No, Fareham; there has been more of rage and hate than of passion in my caprices. And he is with Frances Stewart to-night. She sets up for a model of chastity, and is to marry Richmond next month. But we know, Fareham, we know.
The open-hearted Duchess of Cleveland was said to have been in love with this rope-dancer and Goodman the player at the same time. The former received a salary from her grace." Granger, vol. ii., part 2, p. 461. In reference to the connection between the duchess and the ropedancer, Mr. Pope introduced the following lines into his "Sober Advice from Horace:"
Five days after I got the letter with a bill of exchange for two hundred ducats. I thought of staying in Brussels to get cured, but Daturi told me that he had heard from a rope-dancer that his father and mother and the whole family were at Brunswick, and he persuaded me to go there, assuring me that I should be carefully looked after.
His majesty had frequently expostulated with the countess upon this subject: but his expostulations were never attended to; it was in one of these differences that he, advising her rather to bestow her favours upon Jacob Hall, the rope-dancer, who was able to return them, than lavish away her money upon Jermyn to no purpose, since it would be more honourable for her to pass for the mistress of the first, than for the very humble servant of the other, she was not proof against his raillery.
Then, however, something happened which made every mouth mute and every eye fixed. In the meantime, of course, the rope-dancer had commenced his performance: he had come out at a little door, and was going along the rope which was stretched between two towers, so that it hung above the market-place and the people.
This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD!" When Zarathustra arrived at the nearest town which adjoineth the forest, he found many people assembled in the market-place; for it had been announced that a rope-dancer would give a performance. What have ye done to surpass man?
To get at me he had forced his way through the curious crowd, and his face was flushed. He plucked me by the sleeve, regarding the varlets round him with a mixture of anger and fear. 'Nom de Dieu! do they take you for a rope-dancer? he muttered in my ear. 'Mount, sir, and come. There is not a moment to be lost. 'You left her at Madame Catherine's? I said. 'To be sure, he answered impatiently.
Seventy pounds is a large sum." "Yes, but soon spent, Tim. We must work a little longer. Besides, I cannot leave that little girl she was never intended for a rope-dancer." "I am glad to hear you say that, Japhet, for I feel as you do she shall share our fortunes." "A glorious prospect truly," replied I, laughing; "but never mind, it would be better than her remaining here.
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