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Her best time, for she was three or four years older than the King, had been the dainty phrase period; the superfine gallantry days, in a word, the time of the "ruelles," as it was called; and it had so influenced her that she always retained evidences of it. She put on afterwards an air of importance, but this gradually gave place to one of devoutness that she wore admirably.
I didn't even know it was you. I heard a woman's cry that was all. You ought not to go about these dark ruelles alone at night-time." They were at the door of their hotel by now. "Can't I dress the wound for you?" she asked. "I've had practice in first aid, Mr Rivière." He paused suddenly in the doorway and asked her abruptly: "How do you know my name?" "I know more than your name.
Her best time, for she was three or four years older than the King, had been the dainty phrase period; the superfine gallantry days, in a word, the time of the "ruelles," as it was called; and it had so influenced her that she always retained evidences of it. She put on afterwards an air of importance, but this gradually gave place to one of devoutness that she wore admirably.
Even her frankness was forgiven her, her tact was so perfect; and her spontaneity had always been accounted as her chief excellence; in the stifled air of the court and the ruelles it had been frequently likened to the blowing in of a fresh May breeze. Her present mood was one well known to both ladies. "Always 'pretty pagan, dear madame," smiled Madame de Kerman, indulgently.
Yielding to the entreaties of his daughters, he had sent for the Archbishop of Paris; but knowing perfectly well that the sacraments of the church would not be administered under a roof which was polluted by the presence of Du Barry, the old libertine had banished her to the Chateau de Ruelles. But Monseigneur de Beaumontr required something more than this of the royal sinner.
Straight all the world was shoulder- knots; no approaching the ladies' ruelles without the quota of shoulder-knots. "That fellow," cries one, "has no soul: where is his shoulder-knot?" Our three brethren soon discovered their want by sad experience, meeting in their walks with forty mortifications and indignities.
It is particularly so with regard to the women; who have the utmost contempt for those men, that, having no character nor consideration with their own sex, frivolously pass their whole time in 'ruelles' and at 'toilettes'. They look upon them as their lumber, and remove them whenever they can get better furniture.
The world is now the only book you want, and almost the only one you ought to read: that necessary book can only be read in company, in public places, at meals, and in 'ruelles'. You must be in the pleasures, in order to learn the manners of good company.
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