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Updated: August 6, 2024
All goes well at Modena at present, but the too charming brother-in-law is not permitted to be at the petite soupers of his sister. The husband, it is said, is delighted with his wife; but she has told him that he must not be too fond of her, for that is not the fashion in France, and would seem ridiculous.
She had always liked le grand monde she liked it better now than ever, when she found Ormond in every crowded assembly, every place of public amusement a continual round of breakfasts, dinners, balls court balls bal masque bal de l'opera plays grand entertainments petits soupers fetes at Versailles pleasure in every possible form and variety of luxury and extravagance succeeded day after day, and night after night and Ormond, le bel Irlandois, once in fashion, was every where, and every where admired; flattered by the women, who wished to draw him in to be their partners at play still more flattered by those who wished to engage him as a lover most of all flattered by Dora. he felt his danger.
Potiphar, you ought to see one of our petits soupers in Paris, hey Croesus?" and then he and Mr. Timon Croesus lifted their brows knowingly, and smiled, and glanced compassionately around the table. "Paris, Paris!" cried Mrs. Potiphar; "you young men are always talking about Paris, as if it were heaven. Oh! Mr. P., do take me to Paris. Let's make up a party, and slip over.
Are the decorations of temples an expenditure less worthy a wise man, than ribbons, and laces, and national cockades, and petites maisons, and petits soupers, and all the innumerable fopperies and follies, in which opulence sports away the burthen of its superfluity? We tolerate even these; not from love of them, but for fear of worse.
As for the duke, he was sorely troubled for her loss, and declared he should never have a public mistress again. Court life under the merry monarch. Riding in Hyde Park. Sailing on the Thames. Ball at Whitehall. Petit soupers. What happened at Lady Gerrard's. Lady Castlemaine quarrels with the king. Flight to Richmond. The queen falls ill. The king's grief and remorse. Her majesty speaks.
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