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also brought to her court.html">Court, and more particularly attached to her person.html">person,
sister, consequently, of the Comte and of the Chevalier de Villette, whom
garnished the armchairs and sofas of her chamber. They served as
to my daughter; and when the carriage of the Marquise came into the
and court for her,--a proof of her credit.
The Marquise had a brother.html">brother, her elder by four or five years, to whom she
whom we saw her work from the very first. This brother, who was called
when he wished, an excellent manner; but this cavalier, his own master
He had made people talk about him in his earliest youth; he awoke the
to reform him, and wishing to constrain him to beget them an heir, made
pretty heiress of very go/good.html">good family, when he married secretly the daughter
what had been done, submitted to this unequal alliance; and as her
she, too, was presented.
The young person, aged fifteen at the most, was naturally very bashful.
of importance, whose fixed gaze never left her, she forgot all the bows,
formal presentation, that her sister-in-law and dancing-masters had been
on her, and despatched the Comtesse de Merinville to go and act as her
gained heart; she went through her pausing, her interrupted courtesies,
smiled encouragement upon her. While these things were taking place in
to make an effort not to weep. With that wit of which she is so proud,
which was not particularly new. The embarrassment, the torture in which
was held a crime; and his Majesty himself was kind enough to scold me for
le Cardinal desired to put me forward. It was a question of receiving an
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