The Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and FriendsRoberts Brothers, 1878 - 438 halaman |
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Abbé acquainted Adieu admire affair affection agreeable amuse answer assure beautiful believe Brittany chancellor charming Chaulnes chevalier compliments conversation Corbinelli court D'Hacqueville daughter dauphiness dear child dear cousin death delighted desire Duchess Duke favor Fayette feel Fouquet France Friday friendship Germain give grief Grignan happy hear heart heaven honor hope Hôtel de Carnavalet journey king la Fayette La Voisin lady laugh leave LETTER Livri Louvois Madame de Coulanges Madame de Grignan Madame de Maintenon Madame de Montespan Madame de Sévigné Madame de Vins Mademoiselle Marquis Monsieur mother never occasion opinion Paris pass person pleased pleasure Pomponne poor prince Prince of Orange princess Provence queen received Rennes Rochefoucault sentiments short talk tears tell thing thought thousand tion told Trousse Turenne Vardes Vatel Versailles Vitré Wednesday wish word write yesterday
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Halaman 369 - I cannot bring myself to tell it you ; guess what it is. I give you three times to do it in. What, not a word to throw at a dog? Well, then, I find I must tell you. Monsieur de Lauzun is to be married next Sunday at the Louvre, to — pray guess to whom ! I give you four times to do it in, I give you six, I give you a hundred. Says Madame de Coulanges, " It is really very hard to guess ; perhaps it is Madame de la Valliere.
Halaman 368 - ... most unforeseen, the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till to-day, the most brilliant, the most enviable ; in short, a thing of which there is...
Halaman 45 - Vatel waited for some time; the other purveyors did not arrive; his head grew distracted; he thought there was no more fish to be had. He flew to Gourville: "Sir," said he, "I cannot outlive this disgrace.
Halaman 370 - falling from the clouds," happened last night at the Tuileries ; but I must go farther back. You have already shared in the joy, the transport, the ecstasies of the princess and her happy lover. It was just as I told you, the affair was made public on Monday. Tuesday was passed in talking, astonishment, and compliments.
Halaman 155 - Brinvillier's in the air; after her execution, her poor little body was thrown into a large fire and her ashes dispersed by the wind, so that whenever we breathe we shall inhale some small particles of her, and, by the communication of the minute spirits, we may all be infected with the desire of poisoning, to our no small surprise.
Halaman 371 - Dec. 31, 1670. I have received your answers to my letters. I can easily conceive the astonishment you were in at what passed between the 15th and 20th of this month ; the subject called for it all. I admire likewise your penetration and judgment in imagining so great a machine could never support itself from Monday to Sunday. Modesty prevents my launching out in your praise on this head, because I said and thought exactly as you did. I told my daughter on Monday, " This will never go on as it should...
Halaman 397 - ... never has his attention diverted ; in short, his science bids defiance to chance. Two hundred thousand francs in ten days, a hundred thousand crowns in a month — these are the pretty memorandums he puts down in his pocket-book.
Halaman 368 - Sunday, yet perhaps will not be finished on Monday. I cannot bring myself to tell it you: guess what it is. I give you three times to do it in. What, not a word to throw at a dog? Well then, I find I must tell you. Monsieur de Lauzun is to be married next Sunday at the Louvre, to—pray guess to whom!
Halaman 397 - ... so that I got an excellent seat. I made my obeisance to the King, as you told me ; and he returned it, as if I had been young and handsome. The Queen talked as long to me about my illness, as if it had been a lying-in.
Halaman 46 - ... and told the prince that he ought to have had but two tables, and not have been at the expense of so many, and declared he would never suffer him to do so again ; but all this was too late for poor Vatel. However, Gourville attempted to supply the loss of Vatel, which he did in great measure.