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27056	And how can I do this?
27056	Is peace proclaimed?
27056	Will the operation prolong my life?
27056	Would not any one believe who heard you,passionately exclaimed the duchess,"that it was as easy to leave a king as to throw off a glove?
27056	After a moment''s pause, he asked, with evident anxiety,"Will you swear to this?"
27056	Are you ready, M. de la Rochefoucald?
27056	Her brow burned as the question forced itself upon her, Would he do so a second time?
27056	In response to his question,"And what did you think of the ballet last night?"
27056	The king is about to leave Paris; what shall we do?
27056	The king, perceiving his hesitation, said to him imperiously,"Do you not understand my orders?
27056	To the abbess she said,"I have no longer a home in the palace; may I hope to find one in the cloister?"
27056	Turning to the little prince, who had just been christened with the royal title, he inquired,"What is your name, my child?"
27056	Why is it, then, that I am now, after silently submitting for two years to this estrangement, to be ignominiously banished from the court?
27056	Will you become my wife?
3847	Did you speak of your own accord,said the King,"when insisting upon being admitted to the privy council?
3847	Do you know, madame,quoth he gallantly, one day,"what made me absolutely desire to marry you?
3847	In the King''s name?
3847	Was such your thought, sister?
3847	And pray, sergeants, what is your business?"
3847	D.W.]"You will wait for me, dearest one, will you not?"
3847	Do you want me, or do you not?
3847	How dare you thus take the King''s name in vain?"
3847	In France, where men affect to be so gallant and so courteous, how is it that when women rule their reign is always stormy and troublous?
3847	It''s quite far enough for the Holy Wafer- box; what''s the use of walking any further for the Holy Sacrament?"
3847	The King, whose glance, though very sweet, is very searching, said to me that evening,"Something troubles you; what is it?"
3847	What are your fountains at Saint Germain and Chambord compared with such marvellous things as these?
3847	What would he gain, except bad example, by staying with a mother who has no virtue and no husband?
3847	cried the two others, laughing,"it''s strange to hear you talk like that; so, one has to be a king in order to merit your attention?"
3847	serving- men of my lady, stop fighting, will you?
3849	And who may they be?
3849	Are you in fun or in earnest?
3849	Are you, then, afraid?
3849	But if he has only my well- being in view,I quickly retorted,"why did not he think of this at first?
3849	Do you love him immensely?
3849	Do you think he is equally devoted to you?
3849	For Fontevrault?
3849	Have you really got some king stowed away in one of your rooms?
3849	Is Racine in easy circumstances?
3849	Lord Hyde, the Chancellor?
3849	Well, M. Bailiff,said his Majesty,"did you easily recognise me at first sight?"
3849	Whom have you in view?
3849	Among these kings, too, there were most holy, most saintly people, and--""Then, what do you conclude from that, Duke?"
3849	And little Peguilain de Lauzun, of whom you used to be so fond when you were both boys,--where is he?
3849	How can you institute a comparison between such a relationship and your own?"
3849	How comes it that Madame Deshoulieres and Madame de Sevigne, who have so much mind, refuse to recognise beauties which strike a genius such as yours?"
3849	What rank does he now hold?"
3849	When and how did you come?"
3849	Why did my sovereign not say to me frankly, I do not like this marriage; you must oppose it, Chancellor, to please me?
3849	cried his Majesty;"so you are back again?
3857	Well, Monsieur,said she,"what would you have him do?
3857	What shall I say to him?
3857	Who are you, mask?
3857	Can you say so much for your own?"
3857	Have I not consented to share Madame de Nesle''s favours with him whenever he chooses?"
3857	I console him as well as I can; but why should I tease my son about the business?
3857	I replied,"I congratulate you upon it; but has this taken place today?
3857	If a Duchess can do this, what will not other ladies do?
3857	Is not this a becoming jest for such serious personages?
3857	The Prince de Conti said to Mr. Law,"Do you know who I am?"
3857	The Princess interrupted him:"What do you mean with your ah''s?"
3857	The latter person is reported to have said,"Why does the Duke complain?
3857	The valet said to him,"Monsieur, what do you do in this room, and why do you touch Madame''s cup?"
3857	Then addressing himself to Villequier, he said,"And you, Villequier, do n''t you think you are so?"
3857	What would people have to say of him if he did not?"
3857	what are you doing?
3850	Are you in holy orders?
3850	Be careful,cried the King;"do n''t you see that your ladder is a short one and is on castors?
3850	Messieurs,said he to them,"when you went away you were three in number; what have you done with your comrade?"
3850	Of course I do,was my answer;"but may one not love oneself just a little bit, too?
3850	Of what crime is your master guilty? 3850 She is dead, but the Emperor would easily recognise you, would he not?"
3850	What are you worrying about?
3850	Where are the two children of his marriage?
3850	Why do you insult me thus?
3850	--and that it is to her exquisite breeding that we owe compliments of this kind?"
3850	Does it add to his dignity, honour, and glory that you should still be merely a petty marquise?
3850	I ask again, what is the King thinking of?"
3850	Now, will you please me by going back to Paris?
3850	Or must you spend the autumn in this gloomy abode of your ancestors?
3850	Then the King smiled, and said to the young Flemish lady:"Who are you?
3850	What is the King thinking about?
3850	What is this you tell me?"
3850	What is your name?"
3850	When the King had amused himself with examining these trinkets, he turned to the antiquary and said,"Is that all, sir?
3850	Why, where is Charon''s flask of wine?"
3855	By the left hand?
3855	Is it possible,I said,"with so much sense and courage as you possess that you will suffer this old hag to frighten you thus?
3855	What Duke?
3855	What fool let you enter?
3855	Which of them?
3855	Yes,he rejoined,"but do you not know that God has, by way, of punishing the devil, doomed him to exist a certain number of years in that ugly body?"
3855	--took me aside and said to me,"Did you know what M. de Strasbourg has been saying?
3855	A few minutes afterwards the Bishop said to me,"Did your Royal Highness hear what the Queen said to me?
3855	For whom should I care?
3855	He smiled and said,"What have you to ask, then?"
3855	I replied,"If a person should have intrigued assiduously to become Madame, could not her son permit her to enjoy that rank peaceably?
3855	Monsieur often said to me,"How does it happen that Madame de Fiennes never says anything severe of you?"
3855	On my entering the room she said to me,"Madame, what do you come here for?"
3855	Seeing only the Prince of Orange, I accosted him thus,--"Pray, tell me who is that woman with so tremendous a nose?"
3855	She said to me,"How is it, Madame, that you never look in a mirror when you pass it, as everybody else does?"
3855	The Dauphins of Bavaria used to say,"My poor dear mamma"( so she used always to address me),"where do you pick up all the funny things you know?"
3855	The King immediately sent for him and said"How is this, nephew?
3855	The surgeon who blooded her said,"Have you considered this well, Sir?
3855	They then came to me and wanted me to intercede for them; but I said,"Why did you not take my advice?"
3855	What could the King do against the inclinations of his son and his granddaughter?
3855	What, then, would have become of me if I had chosen to retire to Montargis?
3855	Why should I torment myself by day and by night?
3855	he would say,"must I, to please everybody, say as many silly things as my brother?"
3853	And why do you busy yourself with these discussions, with which your great talent has no concern?
3853	And you advise me--?
3853	Do you give me your word?
3853	Do you think so, monsieur?
3853	Do you think so?
3853	Is it thus you speak of the King, our master,--of a King who has affection for you, and has proved it to: you so many times?
3853	Well,said I to him then,"what have you to complain of in the new edicts and decrees?
3853	By striking to- day dissolution and death into the first abbey of your kingdom, do you not fear to leave behind you a great and sinister precedent?
3853	Could those two letters have been sent to me by the King himself?"
3853	Do you go back upon what you promised to your brother?"
3853	Does not, then, the humiliation which I have suffered for two years any longer satisfy your aversion?"
3853	Is my little miniature near completion?"
3853	The family of Le Tellier is good enough for a judicial and legal family; but what bonds are there between the Louvois and the Mortemart?
3853	Was it my name, or a contest as to the talent of the actress, which caused this commotion?
3853	What is it you tell me?
3853	What sudden cause, what urgent motive, can determine you to exclude me?
3853	Where will you find a King more tenderly attached to men of merit, more particularly, to my dear and illustrious Petitot?"
3853	Where will you find a sky so pure and soft as the sky of France?
3853	Why do you delay to satisfy him, and to withdraw from so many eyes which watch you with pity?"
3853	cried the prince, in consternation,"is your resolution no longer the same?
3853	is there hatred and discord already amongst my children?"
3852	''And me, madame,''said the prince,''would you consent to make me young again?'' 3852 ''Why do you care to give me this green paste?''
3852	And you, too,replied his Majesty;"are you any the more sober for that?
3852	But your Madame de Maintenon,he resumed,"is she, too, one of the powers?
3852	Does she believe me hostile to your prosperity, my dear Marquise?
3852	Had you not parks and chateaus enough? 3852 I have always treated you with gentleness and consideration; whence proceeds your hate against me of to- day?
3852	What became of you on leaving the King?
3852	What business is it of mine,I asked with vivacity,"to teach M. de Lauzun how to behave?
3852	What is she thinking of at her age; with her pretensions to a fine figure, an ethereal carriage, and beauty? 3852 What must I do, then, to be loved?
3852	What need has she of so many preliminary cautions,added the Marquise,"if it is to you that she desires to sell it?
3852	Would you have me, when he comes to me, bid him go elsewhere, to you or somebody else, it matters not?
3852	An absolute retreat?
3852	And the other said to her:"Madame de Maintenon?
3852	Are you in holy orders?"
3852	Does she wish you, then, to resign your office?
3852	How should she tolerate yours?
3852	Is it true that Madame de Montespan is no longer your friend?
3852	Is your young heart capable of it?
3852	NINON DE L''ENCLOS.--A departure?
3852	One day, of his own accord, he said to me:"How do you get on with Madame de Maintenon?
3852	The time for mass being come, Madame de Maintenon said to the fair Epicurean, with a smile:"You are one of us, are you not?
3852	Then to me,"You wish to sell your office without having first assured yourself whether it be pleasing to the King?
3852	What need have you to quarrel with Madame de Maintenon over a look, a word, a movement or a gesture?
3852	What would be the use of memoirs from which sincerity were absent?
3852	Whom could they inspire with a desire of reading them?
3852	Will you be sufficiently light- hearted, or sufficiently imprudent, to await on a counterscarp the rigours of December and January?
3858	But,I asked her,"how do you like getting up and going to church in the middle of the night?"
3858	Sire,cried the lady, terrified to death,"what are you doing?"
3858	What is the matter with you?
3858	Who are you?
3858	Why are you going to bed here, sir?
3858	--"But, sir,"said some one present,"is it possible that a saint could be a sharper at play?"
3858	--"Sire,"rejoined the Duke,"do you know everybody says I am very much like you, and quite as good- looking as you are?"
3858	After it was made up she put it on, and, showing it to her husband, said,"Do not you think it is very beautiful?"
3858	But,"he said, turning himself slowly round,"who is the fool that asked me this question?"
3858	He one day said to Lord Douglas,"What should I do to gain the good- will of my countrymen?"
3858	He said to the former,"Why do you not go below and dance?"
3858	He smiled and said,"If I should die, shall I not have lived long enough?"
3858	I asked him what he proposed to do in France?
3858	One day a young Frenchman asked him,"How happened it that you lost the battle?"
3858	She replied,"Do people, then, in this country take no care of their servants?"
3858	The first question in the Heidelberg catechism is this:"What is thy only consolation in life and in death?"
3858	The lady called out,"Who is there?"
3858	The latter said,"Did he ever speak to you tenderly or passionately?"
3858	The poor gentleman was quite horror- stricken, and started back, crying,"For Heaven''s sake, madame, what are you going to do?"
3858	When he was requested to take any one into his service, his first question was,"Is he lucky?"
3858	When the marriage of Monsieur was declared, he said to Saint- Remi,"Did you know that I was married to the Princesse de Lorraine?"
3858	cried he,"M. de Geneve, my old friend?
3858	said his valet de chambre;"do you not mean to go to your wife?"
3858	what have I done to you, that you should wake me so early?"
3856	But the honour which is lost in it,said I,"how will you repair that?"
3856	But, Monsieur,I have said,"they are your children as well as mine, why do you not correct them?"
3856	How can I,said Grancey,"be reconciled to Madame de Bouillon, after all the wicked things she has said about me?"
3856	I suppose, Monsieur,said he,"you come from the army?"
3856	In that case, I imagine you are living at Paris with your family?
3856	Is it my fault,he rejoined,"that she is dead?
3856	What can I do?
3856	What can you be thinking of, M. la Mothe le Vayer,said the Cardinal;"would you try to make the King''s brother a clever man?
3856	What will you do, then?
3856	Why do you disturb yourself?
3856	Will you take a walk, or play at some game?
3856	Will you work?
3856	You arrive here, then, from your country house?
3856	At length she did; and said that the Marechale d''Estrees was continually asking her,"What are you always doing with that old woman?
3856	But how could a journeyman gardener know the language which ought to be addressed to crowned heads?
3856	Can the Devil himself be worse than this bastard?
3856	I am very sorry that I made the mistake; but what right had she to read a letter which was not meant for her?
3856	Instead of being vexed at this, she laughed, and said,"Has not everybody some weakness?
3856	Old Maintenon said to me angrily,"Do you think you know better than all these medical men?"
3856	Sandrazky was at my toilette the day before yesterday; as he looked melancholy, I asked him what was the matter?
3856	She said arrogantly, and yet my son kept his temper,"Is not the Dauphine dead?"
3856	The valet asked him,"What news?"
3856	There are dogs and a beautiful forest; will you hunt?"
3856	These servants were in the habit of saying to each other,"Come, shall we go and play with the Duchess of Burgundy?"
3856	Those who were about her said,"Mon Dieu, Madame, you are eaten up with ennui; will you not take some amusement?
3856	Was she immortal?"
3856	When I tell him that he is too good, he says,"Is it not better to be good than bad?"
3856	When she was dying, she cried,"Ah, mon Dieu, must I die, who have never once thought of death?"
3856	Why do you not associate with folks who would amuse you more than that old skeleton?"
3856	in their name; and is not what Pompadour has acknowledged voluntarily quite as satisfactory a proof as even their own writing?
3856	said the King,"do you know better than the doctors?"
3851	But,said the King,"were the confessions, then, null?"
3851	Has Madame de Mortemart ever related to you the origin of her abbey?
3851	Have you invited the Benedictine Fathers to your fete in the wood?
3851	Have you paid dear for this property?
3851	Is it to the Marechale de Rochefort or the Marquise de Maintenon that you object? 3851 Is, then, what I have been told lightly, and almost in haste, only too certain for you?
3851	It is the President Gonthier who has sold it?
3851	Madame,he said,"are you still quite satisfied with young Brisacier, your private secretary?"
3851	On what grounds?
3851	To the King of Poland!--I? 3851 To what family does she belong?"
3851	What do you call her?
3851	What,he asked me,"are those buildings with which you are busy in Paris, opposite the Ladies of Belle- Chasse?
3851	Where shall I find his like?
3851	Where shall I find such knowledge, such indulgence, such kindness? 3851 Who can count upon the morrow?
3851	Why have you recommended him to the King of Poland, instead of recommending him to me directly?
3851	Why this air of contempt or aversion?
3851	Will you accept,I asked her,"supposing the King to insist?"
3851	All the French being your subjects, would it not be fitting to grant this distinction sometimes to the one and sometimes to the other?
3851	And at bottom, what should any insect gain by being proud?"
3851	And for the remainder of my little family, what have I yet done that deserves mention?"
3851	How could you believe him constant and immutable, after what happened to me?
3851	How is it you did not expect it?
3851	I am going to establish him; would it be agreeable to you if I give him your livery?"
3851	I hear of a convent; is it your intention to retire?"
3851	Why do you give yourself this torture?"
3851	You will send me some''touru'', for I am very fond of it?"
3848	And Boileau, Sire?
3848	And what about me, Sire?
3848	And you submit without a murmur to such appalling exile?
3848	Did you meet with any good friends among your associates?
3848	Do you think there is any objection to our giving to little Vegin the dress of an abbe?
3848	Do you think you will be able to manage them, madame?
3848	Have you reckoned the distance? 3848 How do you mean, Sire?"
3848	Is it your intention to condemn my son to be an ecclesiastic?
3848	Is such a pretty, charming person as yourself fitted for a Court of that kind, and for such an odd sort of climate?
3848	Madame,inquired the brigadier,"have you not been in a nunnery?"
3848	Married? 3848 On leaving the convent, where did you go?"
3848	Pray, monsieur, why do you ask?
3848	So, in your treasure- house at Saint Denis you keep all the crowns of all the reigns?
3848	Then,said I,"you will forgive me, wo n''t you, for having given birth to him?"
3848	What, may it please your Majesty, shall I get from the distribution of all these favours and emoluments?
3848	Will my son, on receiving this abbey, have to wear the dress of his office?
3848	With all their rubies, diamonds, sapphires, and emeralds?
3848	Yes, Sire, and where could they be better guarded than with us? 3848 You, madame?"
3848	Your daughter? 3848 But has she any right to act in this way? 3848 But why did you want to get married?
3848	Did the Princess confess that she was going to carry you off to the other end of the world?
3848	Do n''t you think I am able to get her properly married?"
3848	Do you think her capable of contributing to your pleasure or your happiness?
3848	Does your niece''s coronation provide you also with illusions?"
3848	How comes it that the King, who in face is her living image, does not desire to be like her in heart?
3848	I continued;"what place among your favourites does he fill?"
3848	In fact, his name in no way fits so charming a personality as yours; would it grieve you to change it?"
3848	Is not the King powerful enough to effect this?"
3848	Is she wrong or is she right?
3848	It seemed to me the King flushed slightly as he rejoined,"A sovereign on his feet, or a sovereign overthrown?"
3848	Oh, young lady, what behaviour is this?
3848	One day his Majesty said to me,"Have you ever met in society a young widow, said to be very pretty, but, at the same time, extremely affected?
3848	The King looked impassively at my sister, showing not a sign of emotion, and he said to her:"Do you visit there?"
3848	Then, turning to me, he observed,"You make no remark, madame?
3848	What was your motive for leaving these ladies, and who enabled you to do so?"
3848	What, madame, are you married?
3848	When I begged Cardinal Mazarin to grant me the hand of the present Madame de Mazarin, his Eminence replied,"Would you like to be a cardinal?
3848	Will you do me the favour of being as amusing some other time, if I venture to make one of the party?"
37409	''Do not you think,''said Mademoiselle to us,''that a Gascony cadet will be sufficiently well lodged?''
37409	As I am somewhat brusque, I at once demanded of him,''What is the question?'' 37409 But,"said Mademoiselle,"do you never think of marrying?"
37409	Have you told everything?
37409	The terraces cost immense sums,said he one day while walking in the grounds;"what good are they?"
37409	To whom are you betraying me, Sire? 37409 Where is he, Sire, M. de Lauzun?"
37409	Where is the money?
37409	Whose absence causes the greater anguish, a lover who should be loved or one who should not be?
37409	[ 170] But it was with the Duc de Savoie as with the Prince of Wales, and later with the Prince de Lorraine: Quoi? 37409 [ 195] Did the end of the phrase contain a slight excuse--"which was the fashionable piece"?
37409	[ 251] God? 37409 [ 295] Did he believe the mistress innocent or had he pardoned her?
37409	''But have you any aversion to the idea?''
37409	''You must find it wrong, then, that I should wear them, who am older?''
37409	--"Do you find nothing in my person which is disgusting?"
37409	Access to this was strictly forbidden; but what would it have mattered, when he would have humbled himself before his master?
37409	After all, do you really want me?"
37409	At length, Lauzun remarked,"Judging by what I hear, none of these would suit you?"
37409	Can it be M. le Prince?"
37409	Can it be believed that Anne of Austria and Mazarin were married, as La Palatine,[39] mother of the Regent, asserted?
37409	Did the penitents, especially the women, always speak the truth?
37409	Do you remember a childish game in which one says,''I have seen him alive, I have seen him dead, I have seen him alive after his death''?
37409	Had there been any intercourse with the prisoner?
37409	Have all the documents been destroyed through prudence?
37409	Have the records of the various prosecutions been destroyed or scattered?
37409	Have you no more sought occasions so_ dangerous_ for you?"
37409	He replied,"Do they make you ill?"
37409	He will lack nothing; but where is he?
37409	How could he then have been admitted to the order of Cardinal- priest?
37409	How far was Turenne the authorised messenger of the King?
37409	How reduce unnecessary expenses?
37409	How was he to replace the fellow?
37409	How was it possible to keep the budget accounts?
37409	How was this strange fashion established at the Court of France, and from there transferred to our theatres?
37409	How would this affect the interests of each?
37409	I am never to see you more?
37409	If he had felt this, would he[ Lauzun] still be there?"
37409	If, discontented with the thought of sharing his favours with rivals, she might not in an access of jealousy have tried to poison him, the King?
37409	In the_ Malade Imaginaire_, Thomas Diafoirus consults his father before kissing his fiancée:"Shall I kiss her?"
37409	In what did this little Lauzun show special merit?
37409	Jourdain of M. Jourdain:"Are you at your age going to college to be whipped?"
37409	Judge by this fact if the conduct proposed and suggested to you is wise?
37409	Lauzun approved all and demanded:"Do you think of marrying?"
37409	Lauzun, vexed, demanded,"How much longer is this pleasantry to last?"
37409	Mademoiselle grew bitter, and the King wished to end the scene; but she continued to supplicate him:"What, Sire, will you not yield to my tears?"
37409	Mademoiselle having urged him to send for a priest, he said,"Whom shall we call?
37409	Of what was he afraid?
37409	Of what will the world think me capable?"
37409	Shadows, phantoms, dissipate yourselves in the presence of the truth; false love, deceitful love, canst thou stand before it?"
37409	Shall we conclude that Molière attempted to lessen the limit of the age of love, or was it only in the theatre that fashion exacted young lovers?
37409	Should this be done in France or Spain?
37409	The Queen demanded every instant:"What shall I do?
37409	The ladies present said:"Do you not wish to play cards?"
37409	The poor woman could not sleep during the night: how rid herself of Monsieur, if the King should wish"the marriage"?
37409	The question to be solved is, could Mazarin marry?
37409	The question was,"To whom?"
37409	This might be reasonable enough if he asked if France were at war, or if Mademoiselle were married; but why refuse news of his own affairs?
37409	Was it after the marriage of Louis XIV.?
37409	Was it essential for the safety of France to insist upon such minute precautions?
37409	Was it the new music?
37409	Was it the"loose morals"of Quinault which caused these?
37409	Was this the first time that these names had appeared?
37409	Was this the moment in which to expose the country to new shocks?
37409	What can you reply to this?"
37409	What could be more just than to use her fortune for the common good?
37409	What did the King think?
37409	What do you say?''
37409	What does your Majesty think?"
37409	What more natural than to throw upon her the burden of debts contracted to add to the éclat of the family?
37409	What shall I do?"
37409	What was to be the price?
37409	What, shall I speak to you no more?"
37409	Who is Cato, her maid, and what had they to do with La Voisin and with those like her?
37409	Who would inherit the prestige of Madame?
37409	Whom would Monsieur marry?
37409	Whose name will appear well in the_ Gazette_?"
37409	Why betray news through letters which always fell into the hands of Mazarin?
37409	Why conceal from him the fact of his mother being alive or dead?
37409	Why leave to Condé, now a Spanish General, the companies raised under the Fronde with the funds of Mademoiselle and bearing her name?
37409	Why not frankly take characters from French contemporaries?
37409	Why, if he saw so clearly, did he grumble at any kind of work?
37409	Would Mademoiselle accept this other way?
37409	Would he be gained over by these?
37409	Would it be the Grande Mademoiselle?
37409	and what attracted women who pursued and sought his favour through cajoleries and gifts?
37409	cried I,"Sire, what do you tell me?
37409	cried the Queen,"sleep all together in one room?
37409	de Montespan her humiliations; but why did the King permit such severity?
37409	de Montespan then knew that she had been denounced, but with what proof?
37409	de Montespan?
37409	do you remember what you said yesterday?
37409	or to give a little of her superfluity to her young sisters in view of their establishment?
37409	quoi?
37409	upon a Spanish or French chair?
37409	who could have distrusted your Majesty''s word?
37409	why did you not hasten?"
37409	why have you wasted time in reflection?