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In consequence of General Bonaparte's victories, the peace he had effected, and the brilliant reception of which he had been the object, the business of Vendemiaire was in some measure forgotten. Every one was eager to get a sight of the young hero whose career had commenced with so much 'eclat'. He lived very retiredly, yet went often to the theatre.
It was a source of great profit to the church that possessed the remarkable effigy, and the ceremony of the public barbering of her was always carried out with the greatest possible eclat and display the more the better, because the more excitement there was about it the larger the crowds it drew and the heavier the revenues it produced but at last a day came when the Pope and his servants were unpopular in Naples, and the City Government stopped the Madonna's annual show.
We left Bagamoyo the attraction of all the curious, with much eclat, and defiled up a narrow lane shaded almost to twilight by the dense umbrage of two parallel hedges of mimosas. We were all in the highest spirits.
Bob's party went off with great eclat, and the perfect success of the Xmas trees was owing to Isabel's tasteful arrangement. The Ashtons arrived on New Year's Eve, for Ada was to be married on twelfth day. Lady Ashton was very much surprised to find how very partial the Morningtons were to Isabel, they consulted her on all occasions, and her advice was almost invariably taken.
"The Austrian might do," added Raoul, who paid little attention to his companion's remarks, "if he were a streak or two lower in the water but, after all, E-too-ell," for so he pronounced the other's name "I do not like a capture that is made without any éclat, or spirit, in the attack and defence."
'Our court shall be a little Academe, Still and contemplative in living Art. 'What is the end of study? let me know. Love's Labour's Lost. But it was not on the New World wholly, that this man of many toils could afford to lavish the revenues which the Queen's favour brought him. It was not to that enterprise alone that he was willing to dedicate the eclat and influence of his rising name.
At this banquet, the most sumptuous fare and the most exquisite wines were provided for the guests, and the table was decked with the rarest flowers. Balzac enjoyed the festivity immensely, as well as the eclat which followed it; and relates with delight that all Paris was talking of it, and that Rossini said he had not seen more magnificence when he dined at royal tables.
His scheme would have been to equip the youth fully with horse and arms, and at some brilliant tourney see him carry all before him, like Du Gueselin in his boyhood, and that the eclat of the affair should reflect itself upon his sponsor.
Some of our party went there the next day, and were most hospitably received. To the Earl Grey. Toronto, August 16, 1850. Our Session has closed with great éclat. On Thursday week our Buffalo friends, with other persons of distinction from different parts of the Union, arrived here, to the number of about two hundred.
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