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I was not admitted to these reunions for a week or ten days, by which time I had made myself generally popular. The duke did not care for company and supped apart. The Prince of Santa Croce was the duchess's 'cavaliere servante', and the princess was served by Cardinal Bernis.
One more instance of La Fontaine's inimitable conciseness may be given. Une servante vint; adieu, mes gens! Raton N'était pas content, ce dit-on. How admirable are the brevity and the lightness of that 'adieu, mes gens'! In three words the instantaneous vanishing of the animals is indicated with masterly precision. One can almost see their tails whisking round the corner.
"She managed to exist for a round dozen years without my love or doubting it so long as she had her cavaliere servante. It was only when he deserted her that she found life a burden. And now she has crossed the Rubicon. She belongs to her age the age of Kings' mistresses and light women. And she will be happy, I dare swear, as they are. It is not an age of tears.
No foreigner at the great King's court was more admired than the lovely Lady Fareham, whose separation from her black-browed husband occasioned no scandal in a society where the husbands of beautiful women were for the most part gentlemen who pursued their own vulgar amours abroad, and allowed a wide liberty to the Venus at home; nor was Henri de Malfort's constant attendance upon her ladyship a cause of evil-speaking, since there was scarce a woman of consequence who had not her cavaliere servante.
I was willing to humour the poor fellow, who must have been as poor a manager as he had been an artiste. I gave a short performance for him at the Ambigu Theatre. The stage was only lighted by the wretched servante, a little transportable lamp.
Our best, the La Rochelle, has the name of a Scot I think of Fife upon the cask;" but to himself, with a glance again at the tragic comedy in the corner of the couch, "Fi donc! Mungo had reason; my gentleman of the dark eye is suspiciously like cavalière servante."
In return for these services the lover sees to her, helps her to customers, prevents her being imposed upon by others of her sex when in the dance houses or concert saloons, and occasionally acts as her cavalier servante to various places for pleasure. There are many girls to be seen in these dance houses who are not over fifteen years of age and they have lovers, too.
I found her still handsome, though somewhat matronly in appearance, seated, with her daughters, in the box of a fashionable nobleman, younger than herself, rich in purse but poor in intellect, and who was openly and notoriously her cavalier servante. The charm was broken, the picture fell from the wall.
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