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"Then take your kiss, you have won;" and the regent seized the iron bars, climbing behind Simiane, who, active, tall, and slender, was in an instant on the terrace. "But I hope you, at least, will remain, Ravanne?" said the marchioness. "Long enough to claim your stakes," said the young man, kissing the beautiful fresh cheeks of Madame de Sabran.
Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: Damas. Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr. All this was done merrily. In that society, they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give point to the same wrath in inverse sense.
"Oh, mon Dieu! it is not for the profit, it is for the honor of succeeding Fenelon." "Shall we have a new Telemachus?" "Yes, if your highness will find me a Penelope in the kingdom." "Apropos of Penelope, you know that Madame de Sabran " "I know all." "Ah, abbe; your police, then, is as good as ever!" "You shall judge." Dubois stretched out his hand, rang the bell, and a messenger appeared.
"Was she were they ?" He chafed at his own ignorance of the sentimental by-paths of literature. "If you want love-letters, perhaps some of the French eighteenth century correspondences might suit you better Mlle. Aisse or Madame de Sabran " But Glennard insisted. "I want something modern English or American. I want to look something up," he lamely concluded.
His roues and valets were always eager to present fresh mistresses to him, from which he generally selected one. Amongst these was Madame de Sabran, who had married a man of high rank, but without wealth or merit, in order to be at liberty.
"Monsieur Sabran," he said, "I have something to tell you." "Well, what is it?" asked Gontram, expectantly. "H'm, Monsieur Sabran, it is about a lady," murmured the man. "A lady? Which lady?" "I do not know her, and my discretion did not permit me to ask her." Gontram, in spite of his impatience, laughed.
Admirable! Beautiful!" Such were the epithets which were murmured half aloud, and later when she sat down at the piano and sang a simple ballad, loud applause ran through the room. The ballad was followed by an aria; Jane then sang a Russian melody, and closed with a magnificent tarantella. "Monsieur Sabran," said a low voice to Gontram, "I must confess that you are an obliging host!
"Ah, this then was the story which Broglie was telling, and at which the ladies were laughing." "It is probable; now do you understand?" "Yes; I understand that the regent is not possessed of ubiquity, and could not be at the house of Madame de Sabran and at his daughter's at the same time." "And you only understand that?" "My dear abbe, you speak like an oracle; explain yourself."
"Oh, no, none; only monseigneur, who went out at eight o'clock in the evening, as a French guard, to sup with Madame de Sabran, was nearly carried off on leaving her house." "Carried off!" cried D'Argenson, turning pale, while the regent could not restrain a cry of astonishment, "carried off! and by whom?"
And there came others: Madame de Prie, later to hold such intimate relations with the fortunes of France in the selection of a future queen for the boy king; De Sabran, plain, gracious and good-natured; Parabère, of delicately oval face, of tiny mouth, of thin high nose and large expressive eyes, her soft hair twined with a deep flushed rose, and over her corsage drooping a continuous garland of magnificent flowers.
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