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    MADAME BE GIBABDIN. 85

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    • In Her, The Published Following Two Ye...

    all rather as being good and agreeable in themselves than as matter for personal lorification . Her grace of movement was

    enhanced by a dignity g -which seemed perfectly natural and unaffected ; and a certain simplicity and severity both of dress and of manner

    imparted an additional charm to the richness which , in after life , she liked to display in the one , and the habitual animation and

    spontaneousness which characterized the other . Equally fond of writing and earliest of societ visitor y , no one ever catch saw her her in with dis

    habille a pen in . her Like hand Mozart , nor she did the invariably made her ever toilet before begin - - ning to write ; and even , when most deeply busied in the creation of

    an a y novel momen or a t , p to lay receive , she was and always enjoy elegantl a visit showed . y dressed Those trace , who an either d rea saw of dy , her ink at

    most or of pre frequentl _-occiipation y , affirm ; and that that she , while never devoting a a considerable portion of her time to writingshe never seemed to have anything to do .

    The most distinguishe , d writers and artists of the day were her constant associates and admirers ; the one thing on which she seems

    . tionate to have prided friends herself being whom her were wide included circle of Soulie brilliant De and Balzac

    affec-D George 'Orsay Sand Cabarrus , Lamartine , among Chasserieux , Victor Hugo Gerard , De de Musset Nerval , De and , Vigny a , host Mery of , ,

    local celebrities , . Several , of these , besides attending , assiduously her regular soireeshad formed a habit , of calling upon her on their

    ment way home and were from , received the theatre by her or in other her bedroom scene of — the tastefull evening y - furnished 's

    amusein as France a , parlor — , where and the a dozen bed concealed luxurious arm in an -chairs alcove were , as is always the fa p shion laced

    mencing round o ' clock a in blazing about the morning midni fire , read ght y , were for These these often unceremonious extemporised prolonged mi until visits dni , two g whi ht or visits ch , three com of

    -. her most intimate friends , during which the guests discussed with the hostess the news of the daytalked of their own works and

    pared projects notes and those upon of old their ones nei , seem ghbours , to , have struck constituted out new ideas Madame or com de

    -Girardin ' s most valued social pleasure . social Keenly enjoyment alive as and was int Madame _ellectiial de companionshi Girardin to p the and satisfactions brilliantly as of

    she played her part in the sphere which she had , created for herself , it is nevertheless to be regretted that she should have allowed her

    existence to be so exclusively moulded by the peculiar forms of Parisian life . Feted and flattered from her earliest years , her native

    goodness of heart preserved her , to a great degree , from the injurious effects which such a diet of sweetmeats and _syllabiib must have

    produced in the case of a mental and moral temperament less healthily constituted than her ownbut it is probable that she possessed

    capabilities for work of a much ; higher order than anything she actually

    accomplished , and that these remained dormant for want of a nearer

    Madame Be Gibabdin. 85

    MADAME BE _GIBABDIN . 85

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/13/