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... suits you, a brilliant and distinguished position. You will be one of the queens of Paris. I should be doing you a wrong if I placed any obstacle in ... ...elf in her posi- tion as a lady. This is her task. “For in our day a woman repudiated by her husband, re- duced to a meagre allowance, with no carriag...

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...lish bugle, which is firm and sweet, strong but velvety. The chevalier had repudiated the ridiculous costume still preserved by certain monarchical ol... ... of his manner to grisettes. They reminded him of the illustrious operatic queens of his early days, whose celeb- rity was European during a good thir... ...special catechism in the matter of womenkind. T o them the whole sex, from queens of France to milliners, are essentially depraved, licentious, intrig... ...pable of thought about anything but trifles. To them, women are evil-doing queens, who must be allowed to dance and sing and laugh as they please; the... ...l the electoral battles fought under the Resto- ration, and who ostensibly repudiated the liberals by trying to be elected as a ministerial royalist (...

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...d a child of your own, Mr and Mrs Boffin?’ Never. ‘But, like the Kings and Queens in the Fairy T ales, I sup- pose you have wished for one?’ In a gene... ...y, yes. Mr Milvey smiled again, as he remarked to himself ‘Those kings and queens were always wishing for children.’ It occur- ring to him, perhaps, t... ...r,’—this with an indignant shiver,—’as she receives.’ But, here Miss Bella repudiated, and said quietly , ‘I can speak for myself; you know, ma. You n...

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...s ears. “And where would the empire of the Caesars have been but for these queens?” Blondet went on; “Lais and Rhodope are Greece and Egypt. They all ... ...dministration, or modern policy, more scornful or more shamefaced than the queens and kings of past ages, no longer 21 Balzac dare look boldly in the... ...le of change. Women who have lived the life that Esther had so vio- lently repudiated come to feel absolute indifference as to the critics of our day,... ... make each fall in love with him, though he was not cut out to be loved by queens. Do what we will, always, in the course of an ambitious life, we fin... ...Nucingen come into being, and find expression in offering such rarities as queens dare not purchase, presented, kneel- ing, to baggages who, to use As... ...attend to, the man is enchanted to have a reason for calling on one of the Queens of Paris, one of the Powers of the Faubourg Saint-Germain, one of th...

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...h to bursting with fish. He was a great eater, like the King, and like the Queens his mother and grand- mother. He had not appeared after supper, but ... ... of life the Dauphine wished to change her confessor, whose order even she repudiated! Meanwhile the Dauphin had given way. He had hidden 510 Saint-S... ... from Queen Anne, “My aunt,” she said, “you must admit that in England the queens govern better than the kings, and do you know why, my aunt?” asked s... ...g all the time, “because under kings it is women who govern, and men under queens.” The joke is that they both laughed, and said she was right. The Ki... ...d, a drum- mer in the army, and whom he had publicly espoused after having repudiated and confined his own wife in a convent,— proposed that he should... ...us sepulchre. The Pantheon is the place where only the bodies of kings and queens who have had posterity are admitted. In a sepa- rate place, near, th... ...the same floor, and resem- bling a library, the bodies of children, and of queens who have had no posterity, are ranged. A third place, a sort of ante... ...r and he had married two sisters, and each had a son. The Czarina had been repudiated and put into a convent near Moscow; Kourakin in no way suffered ...

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...d women in silks; rough fellows of the poorer streets, and gaudily dressed queens of obscure neighborhoods, while mixed with these one saw the faded a... ...eat trouble, in great straits, that there was an excuse. But instantly she repudiated the notion. “No, no,” she cried, beneath her breath. “He should ...

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...ted with power and had not always used it amiably, who brought up the wicked queens, the profligate mistresses of kings. These ladies were easily dispo... ...self, reminded herself that she was safe, that her companion in New York had repudiated, denounced her pursuer; and, as 284 The Bostonians a proof to...

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... swell, in just the same fine sort of jeans they wear at home, and all the queens with spiffy bonnets on their beans, and all the fellows standing rou... ...I can get it copied after I do the letters.” She was gone. Babbitt utterly repudiated the view that he had been trying to discover how approachable wa...

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...d a child of your own, Mr and Mrs Boffin?’ Never. ‘But, like the Kings and Queens in the Fairy T ales, I sup- pose you have wished for one?’ In a gene... ...y, yes. Mr Milvey smiled again, as he remarked to himself ‘Those kings and queens were always wishing for children.’ It occur- ring to him, perhaps, t... ...r,’—this with an indignant shiver,—’as she receives.’ But, here Miss Bella repudiated, and said quietly , ‘I can speak for myself; you know, ma. You n... ...ll the world were against him, she would be for him; that if all the world repudiated him, she would believe him; that if he were infa- mous in other ...

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...ere is one of their secrets, Carlo. Take heed of it, my boy. We shall have queens when kings are fossils, mark me!” Ammiani muttered a courtly phrase,... ...n the first Act?’ Rocco suggested with malice. ‘Not a bit of it!’ Agostino repudiated the idea very angrily, and puffed and puffed. Yet he said, ‘I sh... ...with the entry of Count Orso and his force; conspirators overawed; Camilla repudiated; Count Orso imperially just; Leonardo chagrined; Camillo pardone...

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...e, well-bred, noble lord as you are, my dear Athos, neither princesses nor queens would be secure from 311 Alexandre Dumas your amorous solicitations... ...—” D’Artagnan stopped, as if seek- ing for the word, and looked at Athos. “Repudiated by her husband,” said Athos. “Because she had been branded,” con... ...ook away two- thirds of her greatness. Milady was only a queen while among queens. The pleasure of satisfied pride was necessary to her domination. To...

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... the history of the world flowing out before me, all mixed up of kings and queens, and warriors with armour, and shout- ing armies; battles and number... ...should make a Queen of Opera! A Queen? You shall have more rule zan twenty Queens—forty! See” (Mr. Pericles made his hand go like an aspen-leaf from h... ...ould not admit as possible to her. So she acted on herself by an agent she repudiated, and there was no help for it. Had Wilfrid loved her the woman’s...

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... away from it then, and could give your own message so much better. As he repudiated this suggestion, however, with a jerk of his head, and once more... ...on, and termination of each, like the table of the reigns of the kings and queens, in the History of England. Then she asked me if I had seen Uriah. ...

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...t. She declared herself bent on finishing the volume of Miss Strickland’s “Queens”, which they were reading together, and went on with it till bed-tim... ...ma leaning back, her thick blue veil hiding her face; Theodora, who always repudiated veils, sitting upright, her face turned, so as to catch the bree...

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...n colours at the top; down each side, encricled in laurels, were kings and queens of England with their sceptres, and in the middle I read the initial... ...ellow? Could so noble a figure of a fair young woman have been offered and repudiated again and again by a man in his senses? I spurned the intolerabl...

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... 47 Charles Dickens Mr Pecksniff cast him off, as Saint George might have repudiated the Dragon in that animal’s last moments, and said: ‘Where is Mr... ...r- ing this sad time. Mrs Gamp proved to be very choice in her eating, and repudiated hashed mutton with scorn. In her drinking too, she was very punc... ...ing frequently dimmed by tears, he thought that aces were tens, and knaves queens, which at times occasioned some confu- sion in his play. On the seve...

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...to Erskine, looked without recognition at Gertrude, whose frosty stillness repudiated Lady Brandon’s implication that the stranger was acquainted with... ...r coarse, with here and there a passably pretty woman, are European kings, queens, grand-dukes, and the like. Here are ship-captains, criminals, poets...

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...y. But if we are the fools to share it, we lose our chance; instead of the queens, we are the slaves, and instead of a life of pleasure, we pass from ... ...ood had the fact from the admiral, would she forbear to excite him? If she repudiated it, she would pro- voke him to fire ‘one of his broadsides,’—as ...

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...d stood in that relation towards me, and should in my heart of hearts have repudiated the idea. Yet for all that, I remember feeling con- vinced that ... ...little cards at the ends of hands, before which the glory of our Kings and Queens was utterly abased, I say nothing; nor, of the feeling that I had, r...

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... it may make Drakes of him? Ha! Ethel— “Oh, give us for our Kings such Queens, And for our Ducks such Drakes.” There had not been such a merr... ...den of grati- tude, which no one would receive from him. Dr. May and Ethel repudiated thanks almost with terror; and, when he tried them with the capt...