... since the days of the prodigal Victor XIV . All the neighbouring Princes, Princesses, and Grandees were invited to the feast. Beds rose to half a cro... ... for disrespectability grew more and more remarkable. She became a perfect Bohemian ere long, herding with people whom it would make your hair stand o... ... and took to it not unkindly. She went about from town to town among these Bohemians. The lucky Mrs. Rawdon was known at every play-table in Ger- many... ...y there, though there was a reigning Duke and a Royal Highness, with their princesses, and near his Lordship was seated the beauti- ful Countess of Be... ...mbling firm; above the third-floor rooms, tenanted by the band of renowned Bohemian vaulters and tumblers; and so on to the little cabins of the roof,... ... of a wild, roving nature, inherited from father and mother, who were both Bohemians, by taste and circumstance; if a lord was not by, she would talk ...

...e a woman equalling his Nataly! And their Nesta would have a dowry to make princesses envious:—she would inherit … he ran up an arithmetical column, d... ...nely understood. Artistes are licenced people, with 187 George Meredith a Bohemian instead of the titular glitter for the bewildering of moralists; a... ... the world had made one of the wealthiest of City men the head of a set of Bohemians. And there are eulogists of the modern time! And the man’s daught... ...h not in formal speech. Slow diges- tion of his native antagonism to these Bohemians, to say nothing of his judicial condemnation of them, brought him... ...tly. The stings and scorpions and degrading itches of this nest of wealthy Bohemians enraged him. ‘ Are you—I beg to ask—are you still:—I can hardly t...

...ell bred; but perhaps too quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” s... ...l world. They were two poor women, having nothing to do with society. Half bohemians. Josephine was an artist. In Paris she was a friend of a very fas... ...some way or other. But here they were, in the old setting exactly, the old bohemian routine. The bell rang, Jim went downstairs. He returned shortly w... ...nd spent a pleasant month. It pleased the young men musically-inclined and bohemian by profession to patronise the flautist, whom they declared marvel... ...ou, tout doux. Il y a unpommier doux. T rois belles princesses Vole vole mon coeur, vole! T rois belles p...

...aturally one of the attitudes in which court-painters represent queens and princesses; so that I found myself wondering whether, to draw out this acco... ...y property, to break the sitting, and sometimes the china—I made them feel Bohemian. The next time I saw Miss Churm after this incident she surprised ...

...is wife get, he urged, by making curtsies every night to a whole circle of Princesses? He left Rebecca presently to frequent these par- ties alone, re... ... since the days of the prodigal Victor XIV . All the neighbouring Princes, Princesses, and Grandees were invited to the feast. Beds rose to half a cro... ... for disrespectability grew more and more remarkable. She became a perfect Bohemian ere long, herding with people whom it would make your hair stand o... ... and took to it not unkindly. She went about from town to town among these Bohemians. The lucky Mrs. Rawdon was known at every play-table in Ger- many... ...y there, though there was a reigning Duke and a Royal Highness, with their princesses, and near his Lordship was seated the beauti- ful Countess of Be... ...mbling firm; above the third-floor rooms, tenanted by the band of renowned Bohemian vaulters and tumblers; and so on to the little cabins of the roof,... ... of a wild, roving nature, inherited from father and mother, who were both Bohemians, by taste and circumstance; if a lord was not by, she would talk ...

...aturally one of the attitudes in which court-painters represent queens and princesses; so that I found myself wondering whether, to draw out this acco... ... property, to break the sitting, and sometimes the china—it made them feel Bohemian. The next time I saw Miss Churm after this incident she surprised ...

...y, he took from a cupboard a bottle of Rhine wine and a goblet of the deep Bohemian ruby. The first glass a little warmed and comforted his bo- som; w... ...Robert Louis Stevenson honour of earth’s fruits, is not perhaps a dish for princesses when raw. But she ate, if not with appetite, with courage; and w...

...dow of Mary de Medici, so that Madame never fails to say: ‘Could one believe it possible that Mary de Medici should have escaped from that window — fo... ...g ago,” said Athos, laugh- 238 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 ing in his turn. “I understand, it was frittered away in satin, precious stones, velvet, and... ...o frankly as I do. You have a right to feel your susceptibility excited, however be- nignant it may be. What, the devil! it is not the place for a man... ...ot you of my opinion, Monsieur de Bragelonne?” “To what circumstance do you allude?” inquired De Bragelonne with an abstracted air. “That the English ... ...nfer a title to beauty on this.” “Sir,” replied De Bragelonne, “I do not like to hear such matters treated so lightly. Gentlemen like ourselves should... ... spoil it.” “Y ou, then, refuse also?” exclaimed De Guiche. “Decidedly I do; I beg you to understand that most dis- tinctly.” “But,” exclaimed De Guic...

...trines to himself, as the grave keeps the secrets of the dead. Yet the gay bohemian of intellectual life, the great statesman who might have changed t... ...privileged houses, which paid for the right of exposing women dressed like princesses under such and such an arch, or in the corresponding space of ga... ...ose periodically recurrent days of reckoning which chequer the life of the bohemian in Paris so sadly. In dress and figure he was a rival for the grea...

...black in their minds. Well, and Englishmen have been known to marry Indian princesses: some have a liking for negresses. There are Nubians rather pret... ...like the reviews there, and the dances, concerts, Zigeuner bands, military Bohemian bands. Or Egypt to-morrow, if you like—though you can’t be permitt...

..., our Saint Catherines, our Mona Lisas, our goddesses and angels and fairy princesses, into a sort of man. Womanhood is sacred to me. My politics in t... ...the most bril- liant causerie dinner clubs of the day, in which successful Bohemianism, politicians, men of affairs, artists, sculptors, and cultivate... ...He would ask her to come to dinner with him in some little Italian or semi-Bohemian 130 Ann Veronica restaurant in the district toward Soho, or in on...

...other will add to them a recipe for a certain balsam, which she had from a Bohemian and which has the miracu- lous virtue of curing all wounds that do... ...ty is Anne of Austria, Queen of France—that is to say, one of the greatest princesses in the world.” “She is not the less guilty, Monsieur Duke! The m... ...tfit.” “Handsome, well-bred, noble lord as you are, my dear Athos, neither princesses nor queens would be secure from 311 Alexandre Dumas your amorou...

...Zisca, the same who, to vindication of Wicliffe’s her- esies, troubled the Bohemian state, left order that they should flay him after his death, and o... ...and so high fancies, it is necessary (as a young lady, one of the greatest princesses of the kingdom, said to me once, speaking of a certain person) t...

...ho weighed with all her avoirdupois on the hearts and minds of princes and princesses at the “popular balls” of the palace. “Isn’t she a good subject ... ...me this letter, I think,” said du Portail, abruptly, taking from beneath a bohemian glass bowl a paper which he offered to Cerizet. “A letter?” replie...

...n from Styria. — The Elector Palatine, Frederick V., is chosen King by the Bohemians. — He accepts the Crown of Bohemia. — Bethlen Gabor, Prince of Tr... ...he followers of Huss by the Coun- cil of Basle, in an express treaty, (the Bohemian Compact); and though it was afterwards dis- avowed by the popes, t... ... privilege. But under this title lurked also the far stricter sects of the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren, who differed from the predominant church in... ...uccessor the scene changed. An imperial edict appeared, which deprived the Bohemian Brethren of their reli- gious freedom. Now these differed in nothi... ...r fore, of their condemnation, obviously included all the partisans of the Bohemian Confession. Accordingly, they all combined to oppose the imperial ... ...of Burgau, an Austrian prince, claimed it as a female fief in name of four princesses, sisters of the late duke. Two others, the Elector of Saxony, of...

... mixed up in the wondrous liquor, and gentle visions of bygone princes and princesses look blandly down on us from the cloudy perfume of the pipe. Do ... ...count that Wamba kept of his master’s achievements, and of the Bulgarians, Bohemians, Croatians, slain or maimed by his hand. And as, in those days, a... ...ay Saracens, and had more than one direct offer of marriage made to him by princesses, countesses, and noble ladies possessing both charms and money, ... ...pon his breast, his heavy lance before him, charging a squadron of heathen Bohemians, or a regiment of Cossacks! Wherever he saw the enemy, Ivanhoe as... ...ren; but the Princes of Joinville, Aumale, and Montpensier (married to the Princesses Januaria and Februaria, of Brazil, and the Princess of the Unite... ...ed mixture for the human hair, invented by my late uncle, and called Cox’s Bohemian Balsam of Tokay, sold in pots at two- and-three and three-and-nine... ... proud to confess it, without a shilling. I had my hands, my house, and my Bohemian balsam to support her!— and we had hopes from her uncle, a mighty ... ...Moscow- musiks, the seventy-seven Transylvanian trumpeters, and the famous Bohemian Minnesingers; with all the leading artists of London, Paris, the C... ... cracking a whip; there are a dozen Miss Woolfords, who appear like Polish princesses, Dihannas, Sultannas, Cachuchas, and heaven knows what! There’s ...

...ently was doing his best to waste his life in an eccentric fashion, with a bohemian set (one poet, at least, emerged out of it later) on one side, and... ...ooting in both these -shall we say circles? As to themselves they were the bohemian circle, not very wide— half a dozen of us led by a sculptor whom w... ...f my mother, who is delightful, but as irresponsible as one of those crazy princesses that shock their Royal families… “ He seemed to bite his tongue ... ...nship of the beloved object. For lunch I had the choice of two places, one Bohemian, the other select, even aristocratic, where I had still my reserve... ...e. I owed this tolerance to the most careless, the most confirmed of those Bohemians (his beard had streaks of grey amongst its many other tints) who,...

... at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her off; and here at last... ...descend the heights to attack the French right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, were already up and astir. The smoke ...

...r: noble, up- right... but you see he has no one with him except the young princesses.... They are still young....” She bent her head and continued in... ... of a Christian...” A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. The length ... ...nt to his father’s part of the house. Entering the drawing room, where the princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom wer... ...ot evince the least surprise at seeing them there. “Is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked Anna Mikhaylovna of one of them. “Y es,” rep... ...g a door. This door led into a back anteroom. An old man, a servant of the princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stock- 44 War & Peace ing. Pierre h... ...,” said Nesvitski. “They’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross the Bohemian mountains with. It’s a bad lookout, old fellow! But what’s the mat... ...from Russia, he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the Bohemian mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy ... ...descend the heights to attack the French right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, were already up and astir. The smoke ...

...ndecipherable manner, connected with the Queen of En- gland and one of the Princesses. He had been in Turkey, and had there married a wife of immense ... ...oing to found a new society, with no ideas on the subject, and nothing but Bohemian tastes in the place of ideas; and who are – well, I can’t explain ...

... marrying you here. Have you brought your wife?” “No, baroness. I was born a Bohemian, and a Bohemian I shall die.” “So much the better, so much the b... ... in any way. She was in 486 Anna Karenina love with all the new princes and princesses who married into the imperial family; she had been in love wit...