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In the foreground appeared the highly complicated intrigues woven, for the last two years, round the Prefect at Besancon.
'I wish to know what sort of life you led at the Seminary,' she repeated, 'then you shall go.'Without a thought of what he was telling her, Julien spoke of the endless intrigues and jealousies which he had encountered at first, then of his more peaceful life after he was appointed tutor.
'This was not what the vicar wanted; presently I was besieged with endless indiscreet requests, intrigues, and so forth.
He then caused all the duennas of the palace, those that are here present, to be brought before him; and after having dwelt upon the enormity of our offence, and denounced duennas, their characters, their evil ways and worse intrigues, laying to the charge of all what I alone was guilty of, he said he would not visit us with capital punishment, but with others of a slow nature which would be in effect civil death for ever; and the very instant he ceased speaking we all felt the pores of our faces opening, and pricking us, as if with the points of needles.
There were many women, how many she did not know, worked upon by intrigues she could not comprehend, who refused her ministrations absolutely.
I believe, then, that it is not on account of any intrigues of her own that my wife has been arrested, but because of those of a lady much greater than herself."
This personage was M. Bonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues which entangled themselves so nicely together at this gallant and chivalric period.
In his eyes and to his conviction, Mme. de Chevreuse not only served the queen in her political intrigues, but, what tormented him still more, in her amorous intrigues.
Besides, I long ago determined to put an end to all these petty intrigues of policy and love.
"More intrigues!
Nothing but intrigues!
"Yes, madame; and as his servant, I will not allow you to be concerned in plots against the safety of the state, or to serve the intrigues of a woman who is not French and who has a Spanish heart.
I positively refuse; intrigues terrify me.
D’Artagnan looked with stupefaction at a man who thus employed the unlimited power with which he was clothed by the confidence of a king in the prosecution of his intrigues.
He imagined himself to be drawn into one of those fantastic intrigues one meets in dreams.
"--of intrigues and secrets of state," continued d’Artagnan, complying with the recommendation.
She knew her brother-in-law to be a worthy gentleman, a bold hunter, an intrepid player, enterprising with women, but by no means remarkable for his skill in intrigues.
Milady, on the contrary, was quite conversant with all aristocratic intrigues, amid which she had constantly lived for five or six years.
Although Milady would very willingly have gone without sleep, sustained as she was by all the excitements which a new adventure awakened in her heart, ever thirsting for intrigues, she nevertheless accepted the offer of the superior.
He was declared to be in debt to every tradesman in the place, and his intrigues, all honoured with the title of seduction, had been extended into every tradesman's family.
"Thou art keen-witted, Jewess," replied the Templar, well aware of the truth of what she spoke, and that the rules of his Order condemned in the most positive manner, and under high penalties, such intrigues as he now prosecuted, and that, in some instances, even degradation had followed upon it--"thou art sharp-witted," he said; "but loud must be thy voice of complaint, if it is heard beyond the iron walls of this castle; within these, murmurs, laments, appeals to justice, and screams for help, die alike silent away.
A man whose father crawled up from nothing by intrigues and whose mother has had relations with heaven knows whom...No, pardon me, I consider myself and people like me aristocrats: people who can point back to three or four honourable generations of their family, all with a high standard of education (talent and intelligence are a different matter), who have never cringed before anyone, never depended on anyone, but have lived as my father and my grandfather did.
He felt that the love that united him with Anna was not momentary infatuation, which would pass, as Society intrigues do, without leaving any trace in the lives of the one or the other except pleasant or disagreeable memories.
But this nobleman having about two years afterwards been broken alive upon the wheel, with about thirty others, for some court intrigues, I took advantage of the event, and made my escape.
La duchesse, toujours passionnée pour quelque chose, toujours agissante, jamais oisive, avait plus d’esprit que toute la cour de Parme ; mais elle manquait de patience et d’impassibilité pour réussir dans les intrigues.
De tout ceci, on peut tirer cette morale, que l’homme qui approche de la cour compromet son bonheur, s’il est heureux, et, dans tous les cas, fait dépendre son avenir des intrigues d’une femme de chambre.
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