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However terrible the words, they must be spoken: Duchesses are vanishing, and marquises too! As to the baronesses I must apologize to Madame de Nucingen, who will become a countess when her husband is made a peer of France baronesses have never succeeded in getting people to take them seriously." "Aristocracy begins with the viscountess," said Blondet with a smile.
Little Esther might be ever so much a Viscountess, but could she ever cease to be shy? In spite of her increasing beauty and grace, she was not a success in society, for the ladies said she was slow; she had no conversation, and no dash or rattle to make up for it, and nothing would ever teach her to like strangers.
"And did the viscountess perceive your distress during these three days? "Do you take me for a child?" he said, shrugging his shoulders. "I have never been so merry in all my life as I have been since we met." "You are a great man unrecognized," I cried, "and you are not "
Camors interrogated vainly the face of his young cousin. It was as beautiful and cold as usual. His anxiety increased; he would have given his life at that moment to hear her say one word of love. The Viscountess liked the play of wit, as she had little herself. They played at her house such little games as were then fashionable. Those little games are not always innocent, as we shall see.
Here she put her arm round Charlotte's neck. Charlotte, in reply, raised her eyes to her mother with the air of a little victim, which gave an impression to onlookers that the viscountess bored her four daughters prodigiously by dragging them on the scene very much as Corporal Trim produces his cap in "Tristram Shandy."
He should come without her ladyship, and be at his mother's house about the 17th or 18th day of June, proposing to take horse from Paris immediately, and bringing but a single servant with him; and he requested that the lawyers of Gray's inn might be invited to meet him with their account, and the land-steward come from Castlewood with his, so that he might settle with them speedily, raise a sum of money whereof he stood in need, and be back to his viscountess by the time of her lying-in."
"You can have everything you want now, and the rank and position of viscountess as soon as I can get rid of her." "Ah, yes! but when will that be?" "Very, very soon, I hope. Just as soon as I can mature my plans." "But what are they?" "Scarcely to be breathed even here. The very walls have ears, you know." "Tell me; what does the earl think of this marriage of yours?"
When her husband became a peer she had to take his rank, and it was one of those indefinable sacrifices associated with noble birth, that, as a Viscountess, she had to give precedence to the wives of Marquises and Earls.
"Sir," said I, to this Othello of the council of state who did not seem to me peculiarly strong in the haute politique of marriage, "I have no doubt that the viscountess is delighted to live in this little Paradise; she ought indeed to take prodigious pleasure in it, especially if you are here often.
He did not permit me to conclude; for he had disappeared on seeing one of his friends who approached as if to greet the viscountess. Now what can we add that would not be a tedious paraphrase of the lessons suggested by this conversation? All is included in it, either as seed or fruit. Nevertheless, you see, O husband! that your happiness hangs on a hair.
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