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Oh, how right Diogenes was to call love a short epilepsy. How right that Imperial sophist of the Decline to call it a convulsion! and the first Bonaparte, an affair of the sopha. Thus Marcel moralized, like an old prelate, coming out from a closed room when some filthy scene has been enacted.
In a moment I was mounted upon a dirty sopha, to which I ascended by steps, and from which I had a complete commanding view of the concourse of gay people, who are always passing and repassing in this idle place; the paper of the day, stretched upon a little wooden frame was placed in my hand, each foot was fixed upon an iron anvil, one man brushed off the dirt, and another put on a shining blacking, a third brushed my clothes, and a fourth presented a basin of water and towel to me.
And if thou art permitted to sit upon the same sopha with her, and she gives thee occasion to lay thy hand upon hers beware of taking it thou canst not lay thy hand on hers, but she will feel the temper of thine.
She was lodged with her father in a palace that joined to the gardens of the seraglio; and it happened that a lamp which had one night been left burning in a lower apartment, by some accident set fire to the net-work of cotton that surrounded a sopha, and the whole room was soon after in a flame.
"The dreadful event, to which I have been alluding, took place on the 12th of June, three-and-twenty years ago dating from the summer which is past. About seven o'clock on the evening of that day, finding herself unusually languid and weary, lady Walladmor had lain down on a sopha in one of the children's apartments.
But I resisted; and, as he had determined not to give me any reason for saying that he used violence, after a few more efforts, he retired, cursing my obstinacy, to bed. "I sat musing some time longer; then, throwing my cloak around me, prepared for sleep on a sopha.
We found the three girls lightly clad and sitting on a large sopha, and we sat down opposite to them. Pleasant talk and a thousand amorous kisses occupied the half hour just before supper, and our combat did not begin till we had eaten a delicious repast, washed down with plenty of champagne.
He remained buried, as it were, in these cogitations, when a lady plucked back the curtain which screen'd him, and without seeing any one was there, threw herself on the sopha almost in his lap.
"My God, Bromley, said Townshend, do not reflect so much upon the ladies modesty. I will stake my life they were not to have been married these three days. "Olivia now rose from the sopha in unspeakable agitation, and endeavoured to defend herself.
He came in gaily, singing the Tyrolese song of liberty; noticed me with a gracious nod, and threw himself on a sopha opposite the copy of a bust of the Apollo Belvidere. After one or two trivial remarks, to which I sullenly replied, he suddenly cried, looking at the bust, "I am called like that victor!
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