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Updated: May 9, 2025
But I have put her features on canvas as they are engraved in my memory, and you can understand now why I do not wish to sell the picture." "Monsieur Sabran," said Spero when the painter had finished, "your little romance is interesting, and I am now ready to pay fifty thousand francs for the picture." Gontram looked pityingly at the vicomte and dryly replied: "I stick to my refusal."
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.
"Here, Monsieur Sabran," said the janitor, taking a perfumed note from his pocket and handing it to the painter. The latter hastily tore it from his hand and went back to his residence. In his study he threw his gloves and hat on the table, and looked at the note from all sides.
Madam Sabran, his wife, was a tolerable, good sort of woman; more peaceable by day than by night; as I slept in the same chamber I was frequently disturbed by her wakefulness, and should have been more so had I comprehended the cause of it; but I was in the chapter of dullness, which left to nature the whole care of my own instruction.
According to Sabran, the French ambassador, the majority amounted to five out of nine. yet he contrived to draw from it a new source of consolation. He had sinned equally with his opponents in consenting to the death of Strafford, and had experienced equally with them the just vengeance of heaven.
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