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MADAME DE GIRAHBII^. 79
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softness into her glance , and " chooses the tenderest accents of her seduc voice tive in w an hich emotion to rep . ly The to country him . " danc Never e finishes had he window ; he experienced conduc whence ts her he so
back to her mamma , and slips into the recess of a may read her tender heart ! Seeing * his eye of -glass moment raised _ _, that she droo she p is
her head modestly , and he sees in the flash a t ma hinking rries he quie 'll t have ly , two He is thousand the son of Jive the hundred Due de a Lorville " _, ( and and not _tohen he year any
great sum in a either , accordin entlemanl g to our manner English sets no to tions work !) . to Ed snub gar Mdlle there- .
far d upon " 'Arniill They from , ' ve y sur jus for very prised t the told g and rest him indeed of I have the y " evening not resi got gned ; , any , and " he do on t finds . ' seeing E she xceedin her is thinking lookin gly dis g - ,
gusted based to discover that all Ed the emotions next seeks of a the home cc ravishin for his g heart "blonde in " were gar
the domestic upon circle money of his , childhood ' s friend , M . de Fontvenel . The Fontvenels were late in their habitsfor it was ten o ' clock one
evenfinds ing when there he the accompanied beautiful Step his hanie friend whom , to he his had mother " thee ' s and fireside thou , and 'd "
she a few used year to s call before him . her He frequents "little husb her and society " and ; he this reminds time he her is very that
serious in his intention of winning his f , riend ' s sister for his bride ; mother and brother being naturally only too glad . But he takes
himself Step a sly gl ie ance by _' est making w it h his li assurance bre eye ; _" and glass doubl in , mer it y e sure ly enshrined for ; when the , no lo k t ! himself " le p coeur leasin , but de g
Poor the " Ed jeune officier almos " t w in hom des he air had is now not even led b remarked fate into in the the presence room . y
t of a third f gar lovel , han y k lad erin y , " Valentine af p ter , unl by uck name discoveries ; but he ; is and cured during by t the his
progress oany of this acquaintance g he locks y his opera-glass away in a drawerand feels " as if he had got rid of an importunate friend . "
, In fact , he has come to the conclusion that" Where ignorance is bliss ,
' Tis folly to be wise . " "Valentine is the orphan daughter of u une _femrm e _superiezire ; " and
Madame de Girardin draws the following picture of superior women f as " they n Her ds exist who mother in feared France , like her all . eag superior le glance women . They , had knew enem they ies , could and a not lso
hide from , her their weakness , their ingratitude ; and they avenged in t them affection hem her , selves and character , they from by could talking which was not , partl a ill withdr loyalty of y throug her aw of for h themselves impression en the trai emp nemen i . t which , The and she p exerc princi often artly i pal sed throug did trait over her h
harm . She had not that hypocritical indulgence shown by people d
ness to wh insp om ired every her thing with is indifferent a noble indi . gnation Falseness , which , plotting she , did an not mean dis- -
Madame De Girahbii^. 79
MADAME DE GIRAHBII _^ . 79
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/7/
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