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...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents ITALIANS IN EXILE ............................................................ .......................................................................... 15 Italians in Exile............................................................. .... H. Lawrence TWILIGHT IN ITALY By D. H. Lawrence 1916 1916 1916 1916 1916 ITALIANS IN EXILE THE RETURN JOURNEY The Crucifix Across the Mountains THE ... ... lifted and extended to view, in all his beautiful, dead youth. The young, male body droops forward on the cross, like a dead flower. It looks as if i... ...which was not herself, ultimately. 21 Twilight in Italy Even the man, the male, was part of herself. He was the mobile, separate part, but he was non... ...brown beard, 49 Twilight in Italy who leans forward in the box facing the stage, while a group- ing of faces look out from behind him; a warm smile t... ...d him; a warm smile to the family of the Signora Gemma, across next to the stage. Then we are settled. I cannot tell why I hate the village magistrate... ...he flesh that is like a narcotic. But they are too strong for the men. The male spirit, which would subdue the immediate flesh to some conscious or so... ...what. The pastor was a ginger-haired caricature imitated from the northern stage, quite a lay figure. The peasants never laughed, they watched sol- em...

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.......................................................................................... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 ............................................................................................ 125 MILTON VERSUS SOUTHEY AND LANDOR ..............................................................

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............... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 .......................................... ...alamity, inevitably, and with- out restraint, we go on to consider it as a stage spectacle. Exclamations of—How grand! How magnificent! arise in a sor... ...nd then would come the rush up-stairs. Against this, as the only dangerous stage in the transaction, the murderer would have specially prepared. Mrs. ... ...emplified a com- mon abuse, not confined to literature. An artist from the Italian opera of London and Paris, making a professional excursion to our p... ...The first elementary idea of a Greek tragedy, is to be sought in a serious Italian opera. The Greek dialogue is represented by the recitative, and the... ...are represented by the impassioned airs, duos, trios, choruses, &c. on the Italian. And there, at the very outset, occurs a question which lies at the... ... that, as the chorus sometimes intermingles too much in the action, so the actors sometimes intermingle in the business of the chorus. Now, when you a... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on... ... by persons who were not merely contemporary with the great civil war, but actors and even leaders in its principal scenes—there is hardly one which d...

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...stopped to eye the landscape; possibly also to get their breath. They were Italians. Two were fair- haired muscular men, bronzed by the sun and roughl... ...been at home in the fashionable Corso. His face was of the sweetest virile Italian beauty. The head was long, like a hawk’s, not too lean, and not sha... ...nd-by.” It was the autumn antecedent to that memorable Spring of the great Italian uprising, when, though for a tragic issue, the people of Italy firs... ...it more than they disliked it, called their female foes Amazons, and their male by a less complimentary title, and so waited for the patriotic epidemi... ...le of faith with the Austrian military that noth- ing save terror of their males kept sweet Italian women from the expression of their preference for ... ...nticipated that it would be so, and tamed his spirit to submit to the slow stages of the carriage, spent a fiery night in Brescia, and entered the cit... ...ly turning toward Royalty. Great excuses are to be made for this, the last male descen- dant, whose father in his youth had been an Imperial page, and... ...ittoria had not grown, probably never would grow, to be so plastic off the stage. She was stringing her hand to strike a blow as men strike, and women... ...ala. Ammiani’s heart was in full play as he looked at the cur- tain of the stage. The Night of the Fifteenth had come. For the first few moments his s...

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...ritish Government,” and “bad for the people—good for the people,” made him malevolently angry. The doctor was nonplussed for a moment. Then he gath- ... ...g; our story continues by night. The box was large and important, near the stage. Josephine and Julia were there, with Robert and Jim—also two more me... ... as impossible to be there without some feeling of horror at the sight the stage presents. Josephine leaned her elbow and looked down: she knew how ar... ..., and looked like a eunuch. This fattish, emasculated look seems common in stage he- roes—even the extremely popular. The tenor sang bravely, his mout... ... can’t stand it that Robert offers to hand her into the taxi.” He gave his malevolent grin round the company, then went out. He did not reappear for t... ... answer. “Did you ever keep count?” Tanny persisted. Jim looked up at her, malevolent. “I believe I did,” he replied. “Forty is the age when a man sho... ...s, and the same with this Englishman as with a Frenchman or a German or an Italian. Lilly had sat in a cowshed listening to a youth in the north count... ...suit of clothes and a big black hat, and play outside the best cafe in any Italian town, and you’ll collect enough to get on with.” It was a sporting ... ...he big gates were just beyond. “Sir William Franks—there.” In a mixture of Italian and English the driver told Aaron to get down and ring the bell on ...

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..., to abstain from the discus sion of any such questions with any order of Italians, so I would rather not enter on the inquiry now. During my twelve ... ...ve been travelling along, stupidly enough, as you generally do in the last stage of the day; and the ninety six bells upon the horses—twenty four apie... ...d you have been thinking deeply about the dinner you will have at the next stage; when, down at the end of the long avenue of trees through which you ... ...t sellers; there, the shoe makers. The whole place looks as if it were the stage of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picture... ...onstantly lying down, and surfeiting them selves with vine leaves—perfect Italian cows enjoying the Dolce Far’ Niente all day long. They are presided... ...treets are as narrow as any thor oughfare can well be, where people (even Italian people) are supposed to live and walk about; being mere lanes, with... ...tared at again, without let or hindrance. The body of the room was full of male strangers; the crowd immense; the heat very great; and the pressure so... ...s to remind them that he took the money. The majority were country people, male and female. There were four or five Jesuit priests, however, and some ... ...is very high) then rose up, and stretched out its tiny arms, while all the male spectators in the square uncovered, and some, but not by any means the...

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...rtune estimated at several mil- lions. All the members of the family spoke Italian, French, *Macedoine, in the sense in which it is here used, is a ga... ...om T ancred. He seemed to have come up through the floor, impelled by some stage mecha- nism. He stood for a moment motionless and sombre, watch- ing ... ... instinctively have recognized the symptoms of consumption in its advanced stages, at sight of the tiny legs which served to support that strange fram... ...Sarrasine came to Paris to seek a refuge against the threats of a father’s malediction. Having one of those strong wills which know no obstacles, he o... ...between two unconscionably stout abbati; but luckily he was quite near the stage. The curtain rose. For the first time in his life he heard the music ... ...armonious strains. The languorous peculiarities of those skilfully blended Italian voices plunged him in an ecstasy of delight. He sat there, mute and... ...s frantic admiration could not long escape the no- tice of the performers, male and female. One evening the Frenchman noticed that they were laughing ... ...e red facets sparkled merrily. He recognized the singers from the theatre, male and female, mingled with charming women, all ready to begin an artists... ...rasine, who was too passionately in love to make fine speeches to the fair Italian, was, like all lovers, grave, jovial, meditative, by turns. Althoug...

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...pe of the Lock, or seeing a performance of Le Tartuffe. In relation to the stage, they have taken in our land the form and title of Puritan and Baccha... ...in our land the form and title of Puritan and Bacchanalian. For though the stage is no longer a public offender, and Shakespeare has been revived on i... ...n of the place than the lowing herds. Hereditary Puritanism, regarding the stage, is met, to this day, in many families quite undistinguished by arrog... ...ecourse to their fists in a dispute, after the fashion of every one of the actors in that public entertain- ment who gets possession of the cudgel, is... ...ld, Millamant overshadows Mirabel, 12 An Essay on Comedy the sprightliest male figure of English comedy. But those two ravishing women, so copious an... ... sudden turn the humanity is livelier than any realistic work can make it. Italian Comedy gives many hints for a Tartuffe; but they may be found in Bo... ...l sophisms (to use the mildest word) for payment. Frate Timoteo has a fine Italian priestly pose. Donna: Credete voi, che’l T urco passi questo anno i... ...stries, cannot be painted without our discovering a like- ness in the long Italian gallery. Goldoni sketched the Vene- tian manners of the decadence o...

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... sons, a king without heirs. Unhappily the Duc d’Alencon, Catherine’s last male child, had already died, a natural death. The last words of the great ... ... the king. But the persistent craft and dissimulation of the woman and the Italian, which she had never failed to employ, was incompatible with the de... ...l power, may well have been instigated in part by such scenes, of which an Italian girl of nine years of age was assuredly not ignorant. The rise of A... ...reat power are laid. In France we blamed Napoleon when he made use of that Italian genius for craft which was bred in his bone,— though in his case it... ...e chancellor. “Happily we are at peace; we need only conquer heresy on the stage,” remarked the young Duc d’Orleans, alluding to a part he had played ... ...), had no great authority in Geneva. In fact for a long time his power was malevolently checked by the Genevese. The town was the residence in those d... ...acable than the savage po- litical intolerance of Robespierre. On a larger stage than that of Geneva, Calvin would have shed more blood than did the t... ...ably the mag- netic and terrible working in the occult world of a constant malevolent desire surrounding the person doomed to death; the effects of wh... ...the day’s hunt- ing, looked to be forty years old. He had reached the last stages of the malady of which he died, the symptoms of which were such that...

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...ught the ear of Night, and sang confident of her charm. It was a grand old Italian air, requiring severity of tone and power. Now into great mournful ... ...n a tone of vexed apology for strange ignorance: “But I know not it? It is Italian—yes, I swear it is Italian! But— who then? It is superbe! But I kno... ...ttention to his sisters’ refined conversation that he formed part of their male escort to the place of worship. Mr. Pericles met the church-goers on t... ...thing. I have your permission to smoke?” Emilia smiled. “I wish I had some Italian cigars to give you. My father sometimes has plenty given to him.” W... ...mprehension of meanings and motives. “Of course, we’re only in the opening stage of the busi- ness,” said Mr. Pole. “There’s nothing decided, you know... ...t perfectly ridiculous scene?” Adela cried in anguish. She was led by easy stages to talk of Besworth. “Understand,” said Wilfrid, “that I am indiffer... ...f a momentary shame to them, rather a sign of promise than not) the gentle male need not be deeply fascinated. Lady Charlotte was not a fascinating pe... ...ut, what a weak creature is this young man!” I reply, he was at a critical stage of his career. All of us are weak in the period of growth, and are of... ...d the ladies, when alarm and suspicion had subsided. Fear of some wretched male baseness on the part of their brother was happily diverted by a letter...

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...ique statues, a well-known masterpiece of Grecian sculp- ture, and a young Italian, the fourth member of their party. “You must needs confess, Kenyon,... ... eyes were somewhat startled. “Donatello, my dear friend,” said Kenyon, in Italian, “pray gratify us all by taking the exact attitude of this statue.”... ...treat you to take the tips of my ears for granted.” As he spoke, the young Italian made a skip and jump, light enough for a veritable faun; so as to p... ...stucco, and frescoed with scriptural scenes and subjects, in the dreariest stage of ruin. In one such chapel, the guide showed them a low arch, beneat... ...s from it, we know not which. There was wedded affection in its successive stages, represented in a series of delicately conceived designs, touched wi... ...oughly modelled little figures in clay or plaster, exhib- iting the second stage of the idea as it advances towards a marble immortality; and then is ... ...eatures, in petticoats, but otherwise man- like, toiling side by side with male laborers, in the rudest work of the fields. These sturdy women (if as ... ...rd the clamor that he made, they had responded only with sullen and drowsy maledictions, and turned to sleep again. It must be a very dear and intimat... ..., —through barbarism and civilization, alter- nating with one another like actors that have prearranged their parts: through a broad pathway of progre...

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... might, by this time, have been centuries old, though ever new. In the dry Italian air, how- ever, Nature had only so far adopted this old pile of sto... ...and yellow wash, which is a sort of renovation very much in vogue with the Italians. Kenyon noticed over a doorway, in the portion of the edifice imme... ...s tall front is like a page of black letter, taken from the history of the Italian republics.” “I know little or nothing of its history,” said the Cou... ...ause here, but led his friend up an- other flight of steps—while, at every stage, the windows and narrow loopholes afforded Kenyon more extensive eye-... ...eatures, in petticoats, but otherwise man- like, toiling side by side with male laborers, in the rudest work of the fields. These sturdy women (if as ... ...allies. These pests— the human ones—had hunted the two travellers at every stage of their journey. From village to village, ragged boys and girls kept... ...he fact, Kenyon descended the stairs, but made a pause at every successive stage, and knocked at the door of its apartment, regardless whose slumbers ... ...rd the clamor that he made, they had responded only with sullen and drowsy maledictions, and turned to sleep again. It must be a very dear and intimat... ..., —through barbarism and civilization, alter- nating with one another like actors that have prearranged their parts: through a broad pathway of progre...

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...ble me to solve it. At length, in 1812, Mr. Williams made his début on the stage of Ratcliffe High- way, and executed those unparalleled murders which... ...nic ulcer, superbly defined, and running regularly through all its natural stages, may no less justly be regarded as ideals after their kind, than the... ...onged to quite another cen- tury, would have frightened out of their wits. Malebranche, it will give you pleasure to hear, was mur- dered. The man who... ...proper light. Berkeley, when a young man, went to Paris and called on Père Malebranche. He found him in his cell cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus... ...l cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus irritabile; authors still more so: Malebranche was both: a dispute arose; the old father, warm already, became... ...ould have had time to review, to ponder, to compare. There have been great actors on the stage of tragic humanity that might, with the same depth of c... ...time to review, to ponder, to compare. There have been great actors on the stage of tragic humanity that might, with the same depth of confidence, hav... ...ante traductions, amongst those even that have not escaped the search. The Italian translations are said to be thirty. As to mere editions, not counti...

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...ffort—made several efforts, in fact—but the portier was not satisfied. He finally had it taken up, and then he put it down himself and got it right. A... ...was heard, and immediately groups of people began to gather in the street. Two or three open carriages arrived, and depos- ited some maids of honor an... ...nnheim 41 A Tramp Abroad opera. These people talked, between the acts, and I under- stood them, though I understood nothing that was uttered on the d... ...up, the light in the body of the house went down. The audience sat in the cool gloom of a deep twilight, which greatly enhanced the glowing splendors ... ...gend, too, but I should not feel justified in repeat- ing it because I doubted the truth of some of its minor de- tails. Along in this region a multit... ...a. It did no other harm, but we took to the water just the same. It seems that the heavy work in the quarries and the new railway gradings is done mai... ...ake a drowning relative to help dispute about whether the stopple of a departed Buon Retiro scent-bottle was genuine or spurious. Many people say that... ...the walls of one room were pretty completely covered with small pictures of the Margravine in all conceivable varieties of fan- ciful costumes, some o... ...undertaker-furniture and paying no sort of attention to his frequent and humble little efforts to do something for her comfort. Then the train halted ...

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...p- tain, is it permitted to come on board?’ were the first words we heard among the islands. Canoe followed canoe till the ship swarmed with stalwart,... ...upon the floor, and regarding me in silence with embarrassing eyes. The eyes of all Polynesians are large, luminous, and melting; they are like the ey... ... spoke no language. ‘Mais, vous savez,’ objected the fair sentimentalist; ‘Ils apprennent si vite l’Anglais!’ But to be able to speak to people is not... ...of the catch; and I think we may go beyond, and say, that if such a population could be isolated, and this mispronunciation should become the rule, it... ...fresh ac- quaintances with favour, but continually modified my judg- ment. A polite Englishman comes to-day to the Marquesans and is amazed to find th... ...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...icety of his inflections, the elegance of his gestures, and the fine play of his ex- pression, told us that. We, meanwhile, sat like aliens in a playh... ...e bell agoing in the small belfry; and the faithful, who were not very numerous, gathered to prayers. I was once present: it was the Lord’s day, and s...

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...rone, he decreed that a pension should be given to the family as long as a male representative remained to bear the name of D’Assas. Poor Louis XVI ha... ...to battle under the command of one of the con- suls. Many little States or Italian tribes, who had nearly the same customs as Rome, surrounded the Cam... ...ad their dominion over the cen- tral part of Italy. They were well used to Italian and Etruscan ways of mak- ing war, but after nearly 400 years of th... ...t that time, the first soldier of Rome, and had taken several of the chief Italian cities, espe- cially that of Veii, which had long been a most dange... ...own; but as fast as they worked, the higher did the Gauls within raise the stages of their rampart, and for twenty-five days there was a most brave de... ...e citizens were wont to assemble for these diversions. Sometimes these are stages of circular galleries of seats hewn out of the hillside, where rows ... ...nced fearlessly within his grasp. Then in would come twelve elephants, six males in togas, six females with the veil and pallium; they took their plac... ....’ When day began to break, the guard returned, and Gertrude took down her stage of wood and continued kneel- ing at the foot of the pole. Crowds of p... ...ntrast to Mr. Mompesson’s moral influence! Horrible crimes were committed. Malefactors were released from the prisons and convicts from the galleys, a...

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...onal trips of chance passengers riding for short distances of two or three stages. In Scotland this chance counted for much less. And therefore, to ma... ... the vic- tory itself, by multiplying to the imagination into infinity the stages of its progressive diffusion. A fiery arrow seems to be let loose, w... ...ather being so warm, the glasses are all down; and one may read, as on the stage of a theatre, everything that goes on within. It contains three ladie... ...revailed of giving a boy his mother’s name— preceded and strengthened by a male name, as Charles Anne, Victor Victoire. In cases where a mother’s memo... ...oixante traductions among those even that have not escaped the search. The Italian translations are said to be thirty. As to mere editions, not counti... ...ting the early MSS. for 88 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc English males in another. None of us men could have writ- ten the Opera Omnia of Mr... ...e Opera Omnia of Mr. à Kempis; neither could any of our girls have assumed male attire like La Pucelle. But why? Because, says Michelet, English girls... ...n consequent difficulties in arranging for a punc- tual succession of good actors at his theatre, to turn his at- tention to the improvement of the wh...

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...ered to remain too long upon the eye, and that connect themselves at every stage with in- tellectual objects. But, even here, I do not scruple to clai... ...o the future, nor successes, fixing his eye on the present; nothing on the stage but a solitary infant, and its solitary combat with grief—a mighty da... ...y in the most dreadful and comprehensive of her convulsions, in that final stage of her transmutations to which Cicero was himself a party—and, as I m... ...f a real uncounterfeit sympathy. I have mentioned already that we had four male guard- ians, (a fifth being my mother.) These four were B., E., G., an... ...better sung; but at that time I needed nothing better. It was sung by four male voices, and rose into a region of thrilling pas- sion, such as my hear... ...ell away from her, and for- sook her house. T o them succeeded a clique of male visitors, some of whom were doubtfully respectable, and others (like M... ... half had served under Na- poleon in his first foreign campaign, viz., the Italian cam- paign of 1796, which accomplished the conquest of North- ern I... ...land something of that rank which the golden milestone of Rome held in the Italian peninsula. At Birmingham it was (which I, like myriads beside, had ... ...he soil was deep and adhesive, a worse evil beset the stately equipage. An Italian of rank, who has left a record of his perilous adventure, visited, ...

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...merely those who call most of it out of latency and put it actually on the stage. And, as students of Balzac know, the scheme and adjustment of his co... ...commonly read than any other. It deals with a disguised duke, a villainous Italian, bigamy, a surpris- ing offer of the angelic first wife to submit t... ...r- tant because a great deal of it represents the artist at quite advanced stages of his career, and because all its examples, the earlier as well as ... ...course, dismiss the child- ish scandals (arising, as usual, from clumsy or malevolent misinterpretation of such books as the Physiologie de Mariage, t... ...a far stronger hold. He was represented—and in the absence of any intimate male friends to contradict the repre- sentation, it was certain to obtain s... ...en he reverses the propor- tion. Some tastes will like him best in the one stage; some in the other; the happier constituted will like him best in bot... ... with a few phrases; but in society a wife is not always the female of the male. There may be two perfectly dissimilar beings in one house- hold. The ... ...ous story- tellers had spent their talent in creating two or three typical actors, in depicting one aspect of life. It was with this idea that I read ... ... like some meta- physicians, to explain what Is? In the first place, these actors, 46 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix whose existence beco...

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...s eyes, and of all his ways and movements. I have a Picture of him at this stage; a little portrait, which carries its verification with it. In manhoo... ...n his way homeward. CHAPTER IV UNIVERSITIES: GLASGOW; CAMBRIDGE At a later stage, John had some instruction from a Dr. Waite at Blackheath; and lastly... ... those years in those localities! I do not find that Sterling had, at that stage, adopted the then prevalent Utilitarian theory of human things. But n... ...er-in-law; wed- ded Mrs. Sterling’s younger sister,—a gentle excellent fe- male soul; by whom the relation was, in many ways, strengthened and beautif... ... goal of it, the journey to be done in company with Calvert, whom also the Italian climate might be made to serve instead of Madeira. One of the livel... ...ather for doing so, as indeed we have had ever since we left Lausanne. The Italian de- scent is greatly more remarkable than the other side. “We slept... ...ne and Italy. “At this place we dismissed our Swiss voiturier, and took an Italian one; who conveyed us to Omegna on the Lake of Orta; a place little ... ...t kinds; and three or four hundred English ladies, and not so many foreign male spectators; so that the place looked empty. The Cardinals in scarlet, ... .... ’—The favorite device on the walls at Naples is a vermilion Picture of a Male and Female Soul respec- tively up to the waist (the waist of a soul) i...

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...o led me to understand the marvelous framework of ideas on which the great Italian poet built his poem, the only work which the moderns can place by t... ... would still be mine; for I, you know, should never have placed her on the stage. She would have lived obscure, well conducted, and mine. Oh! if you c... ...s she humbugs every one—she who knew nothing, not even that word.” At this stage the retired perfumer wiped his eyes, which were full of tears. The si... ...se, at the Theatre des Varietes, had recognized her father in a lower tier stage-box with Jenny Cadine, and had exclaimed: “There is papa!” “You are m... ...rms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in his love of dress, had overlaid the coats of all his servants wi... ...t Robert le Diable was to be given at the Opera. Josepha, who had left the Italian Opera six months since for the French Opera, was to take the part o... ...few exceptions, who ought to be rewarded with the Montyon prize, the cook, male or female, is a domestic rob- ber, a thief taking wages, and perfectly... ...are equally applicable to any lady-killing rake; he is, in fact, a sort of male courtesan. Valerie’s last fancy was a madness; above all, she was bent... ...ound him. Where does Madame Nourrisson—yes, that was her name—pick up such actors?” On the following day, Doctor Bianchon allowed the Bar- oness to go...