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I fear we are a degenerate race, Monsieur Valmont, for doubtless a fighting and deeply religious ancestor of mine built this church, and to think that when the useful masons cemented those stones together, Madame la Marquise de Bellairs or Lady Alicia were alike unthought of, and though three hundred years divide them this ancient chapel makes them seem, as one might say, contemporaries.
'Show the lady in, I said, and there came to me, hesitating, backward, abashed, a middle-aged woman, dressed with distressing plainness, when one thinks of the charming costumes to be seen on a Parisian boulevard. Her subdued manner was that of one to whom the world had been cruel. I rose, bowed profoundly, and placed a chair at her disposal, with the air I should have used if my caller had been a Royal Princess. I claim no credit for this; it is of my nature. There you behold Eugène Valmont. My visitor was a woman. Voil
They have a savour which renders the best things insipid, and it is with these good doctrines that the six or seven volumes of the Comte de Valmont are filled. Abbé Gérard did not wish his work to be called a novel, and as a matter of fact there is neither drama nor action in the interminable letters of the Marquis, the Count and Emilie.
It is absolutely impossible that any coining can be done there. Besides, as I tell you, that respectable clerk brings him the money. 'I suppose you want me to take Podgers' position? 'Well, Monsieur Valmont, to tell you the truth, I would rather you didn't.
Le Comte de Valmont; ou, Les Egarements de la Raison, is a novel by Abbé Gérard, in which, under the cover of a very innocent plot, the author refutes the doctrines of the eighteenth century, and inculcates the principles of an enlightened religion. Sainte-Beuve, who knew the Comte de Valmont, as he knew everything, was consumed with laughter when I told him this story.
They say to themselves, "What chance is there successfully to steal bars of silver while Mr. Hale is at Scotland Yard?" Eh, my good friend? 'Really, Valmont, said Hale, taking another sip, 'sometimes you almost persuade me that you have reasoning powers. 'Thanks, comrade. Then it is not a theft of silver we have now to deal with. But the American election was fought on the price of silver.
Willoughby alleging that I was a very absent-minded man, and would be glad of his pamphlet, adding that my special hobby was the collecting of first editions. I then signed myself, 'Alport Webster, Imperial Flats, London, W. I may here explain that it is often necessary for me to see people under some other name than the well-known appellation of Eugène Valmont.
You were a kind of dissolving view, and I couldn't let it get out of my sight for good. When I heard you'd gone to New Orleans by boat " "How did you find out?" Angela's sweet voice had a sharp edge. "In the travel bureau of the Valmont Hotel." "Ah! Was that quite considerate?" "I know how it sounds to you. But it wasn't so bad as you think.
Macpherson walked to the threshold, paused, and looked back at Spenser Hale, who sat there silent as a sphinx. 'Good-evening, Mr. Hale. There being no reply, he turned to me with the same ingratiating smile, 'Good-evening, Monsieur Eugène Valmont, he said, 'I shall give myself the pleasure of calling next Wednesday at six for my five shillings. The Ghost with the Club-Foot
He is extremely anxious to get the lump sum of money which I have been holding back from him. You may address him, for he will recognise your voice as well as your person, but Monsieur Valmont had better not speak, as then he might know it was not the voice of my poor young master. I suggest that you meet him first together, always at night. The rest I leave in your hands, Monsieur Valmont.
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