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...y, and a tight cravat showing no shirt-collar,—a last ves- tige of the old French costume which he did not renounce, perhaps, because it enabled him t... ...wo centuries, was worn by the chevalier with the high-bred grace of an old French mar- quis, the secret of which is lost to France since the day when ... ...t any one suspecting him of even an allusion to the tender passages of his romance with the Princess Goritza. Has any one ever reflected on the ser- v... ...siness. From 1793 to 1799 du Bousquier was commissary of provisions to the French armies. He lived in a magnificent hotel and was one of the matadors ... ...lancholy attitude, makes them suppose a man’s whole life; they’ll invent a romance to match the hero—who is often a mere brute, but the marriage is ma... ...se criticisms fall before the fact that the noble catholic, apostolic, and Roman religion is still erect in Brit- tany and in the ancient duchy of Ale... ...tter way to God.” “But if the Church is right, and all the world were good Catholics, wouldn’t the human race come to an end, uncle?” “You have too mu... ... the constitutional oath, and who was now conquering the repugnance of the Catholics by a display of the highest virtues. He was Cheverus on a small s...

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...es. I can only think as yet of having my dear girls to myself, moi, as the French would say, after having seen so little of them.” “It has been very u... ... good, for if her mother for- gave her ten times over, still that spiteful French maid would put her to bed and say she had no robe convenable,” went ... ...pel because Dissenters learnt pieces of Scripture! You seem to me like the Roman Catholic child, who said there were five sacraments, there ought to b... ...ve all been fun and a good story if she had not been so much afraid of the French lady’s maid. It is curious how the sight of those brown eyes brought... ... would be very horrid of them if they had no constancy,” declared the more romantic Paula. “It will be a regular mess if they do have it, and bring on... ...me young man, his touch of Italian blood showing just enough to give him a romantic air; and Sister Philomena listened, much impressed by the intercha... ...y!” “You don’t understand,” began Agatha. “He was a great Saint before the Catholics became so Roman.” “Oh, never mind! It is anything to thwart us,” ...

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...e lines which he laid down. The rise of this reputation is one of the most romantic incidents in the history of art. But I do not propose to deal with... ... legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life. The incidents of the legend become... ... was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible,... ...exander Pope, and he wrote moral stories in rhymed couplets. Then came the French Revolution and the Napo- leonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs. ... ...was a very small room, over- crowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which w... ...y . “Oh yes. In point of fact I’ve not spoken to a soul for three days. My French isn’t exactly bril- liant.” I wondered as I preceded him downstairs ... ...he’s a Protestant, and you know they don’t look upon these things like the Catholics.’ 203 Somerset Maugham “Then he said: `But what does Ata say to ...

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...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the ma...

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... Mannering by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING. THE NOVEL OR ROMANCE of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first,... ... over the general mind sufficient even to con- stitute the mainspring of a romance. Besides, it occurred, that to do justice to such a subject would h... ... fun grew fast and furious, and, mounting his horse accordingly, he took a French leave of his entertainers, but without experiencing the least breach... ... worthy Dominie, upon which is founded the part which he per- forms in the romance, and which, for certain particular rea- sons, must be expressed ver... ...omas Kittlecourt’s uncle—and how they brought hame relics, like those that Catholics have, and a flag that’s up yonder in the garret—if they had been ... ...owan—get out the gallon punchbowl and plenty of lemons. I’ll stand for the French article by the time I come back, and we’ll drink the young Laird’s h... ...d lulled by tales which you can only enjoy through the gauzy frippery of a French translation. O Matilda, I wish you could have seen the dusky visages...

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...ships, the ideas and the manners of the native actors date back before the Roman Empire. They are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family... ...f our tattooed ancestors who drove their chariots on the wrong side of the Roman wall. We have passed the feudal system; they are not yet clear of the... ...rue the beggar was sup- posed in time to make a return, somewhat as by the Roman contract of mutuum. But the obligation was only moral; it could not b... ...as of the whites; in practice, they reduce it to a farce. I have heard the French resident in the Marquesas in talk with the French gaoler of Tai-o-ha... ...ed his colours, abjured the errors of reform, and, with the support of the Catholics, rose to the chief power. In a very brief interval he had thus ru... ... for a couple of months and be well treated, just as we Germans did to the French chief [Napo- leon III.] some time ago, whom we kept a while and care... ... king; one is secure of the small but compact and fervent following of the Catholics, the other has the sympathies of a large part of the Protestant m...

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...m youth the victim of the state of feeling inspired by the reaction of the French Revolution; and believing firmly in the justice and excel- lence of ... ...rt, seized upon all classes of men during the excesses consequent upon the French Revolution, is gradually giving place to sanity. It has ceased to be... ...re past. Methinks, those who now live have survived an age of despair. The French Revolution may be considered as one of those manifestations of a gen... ...arth might become such, did mankind them- selves consent. The charm of the Roman climate helped to clothe his thoughts in greater beauty than they had... ...erest; and that the feel- ings of the company never failed to incline to a romantic pity for the wrongs, and a passionate exculpation of the hor- ribl... ...h century into cold impersonations of my own mind. They are represented as Catholics, and as Catholics deeply tinged with religion. T o a Protestant a... ... by a feigned tale to confess himself before death; this being esteemed by Catholics as essential to salvation; and she only relinquishes her purpose ... ... _130 412 V olume One To see what was romantic there. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. And all this, though quite ideal,— Read... ...r the worshipped father of our common country, With contributions from the catholics, Will make Rebellion pale in our excess. Be these the expedients ...

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...d throwing in civili zation and whiskey, ‘for lagniappe;’ and in Canada the French were schooling them in a rudimentary way, missionarying among them... ... value it or even take any particular notice of it. But at last La Salle the Frenchman conceived the idea of seeking out that river and exploring it. ... ...ed. In the morn ing the chief and six hundred of his tribesmen escorted the Frenchmen to the river and bade them a friendly farewell. On the rocks ab... ...ut of a warm bed to run them. I began to fear that piloting was not quite so romantic as I had imagined it was; there was something very real and work... ...like,” and so I began to take heart once more to believe that piloting was a romantic sort of occupation after all. The moment we were under way I beg... ...through this blind place at night without the friendly old landmark. No, the romance and the beauty were all gone from the river. All the value any fe... ...he telegraph mutilated them. It can not be that there are more than 150,000 Catholics in the town; the other 250,000 must be classified as Protestant... ...ram, only 26,362 attended church and Sunday school, while out of the 150,000 Catholics, 116,188 went to church and Sunday school. Chapter 52 A Burning...

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...fficer, who no doubt had previ- ously traversed a country across which the French armies had been drafted in the course of Napoleon’s wars, enjoyed th... ...re Joseph Genestas was an unostentatious kind of Bayard. There was nothing romantic nor picturesque about him—he was too thoroughly commonplace. His w... ...is son took after him. Men like Genestas are met with now and again in the French army; natures that show themselves to be wholly great at need, and r... ...rodi- giously neglected. He knew in a hazy kind of way that Cae- sar was a Roman Consul, or an Emperor, and that Alexander was either a Greek or a Mac... ...t to continue his education. So from this time forth he read new books and romances with avidity, in this way gaining a half- knowledge, of which he m... ...ting heap of dried 13 Balzac plums. They advanced to the attack, not like French sol- diers, but as stealthily as Germans, impelled by frank animal g... ...oncordat occasioned an unimpor- tant schism, a little segregation of ultra-catholics who re- fused to recognize the Bishops appointed by the authoriti...

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... his first wife’s grave. Yes, you may smile, Maurice, as if I were talking romance; but only look at him, poor man! Did you ever see any one so utterl... ...is one of his charms in her eyes.’ ‘So it may be, as a sort of interesting romance. I am sure I pity the poor man heartily, but to see her at three-an... ...cious if she had known how to set about it. ‘I suppose Miss Belmarche is a Roman Catholic,’ she said, wishing to account for this wonderful ignorance,... ..., and Miss Celeste Belmarche married Mr. Durant, a dancing-master— she was French teacher in a school in London where he taught, and Madame Belmarche ... ... She is not at all pretty, and such a queer little thing.’ ‘Was her father French?’ ‘No,’ said Sophy. ‘Yes,’ said Lucy. ‘You know nothing about it, So... ...,’ said Sophy. ‘Yes,’ said Lucy. ‘You know nothing about it, Sophy. He was French, but of the Protestant French sort, that came to England a great man... ... don’t believe they could argue; they are not like the new-fashioned Roman Catholics of whom you are thinking, madame.’ ‘And are there no enthusiastic... ...ted. You know the family at Hadminster Hall in the last century were Roman Catholics, and a daughter had pro- fessed at a convent in France. At the ti...

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...fficiently thankful to my guardian for doing so.’ ‘I dare say;—I dare say. French and German are very use- ful. I have a prejudice of my own in favour... ...leration in matters of religion, —have always advocated the admis- sion of Roman Catholics and Jews into Parliament, and even to the Bench. In ordinar... ...on in matters of religion, —have always advocated the admis- sion of Roman Catholics and Jews into Parliament, and even to the Bench. In ordinary life... ...liser was the last man from whom the Duke of St Bungay would have expected romance at any time, and, least of all, at such a time as this. ‘Aid from h... ... certainly.’ ‘ And yet,’ said Phineas, ‘the bulk of the people are staunch Catholics. Of course the same attempt to maintain a tempo- ral influence, w... ...e who believe all England to be Romish at heart, because here in England a Roman Catholic can say what he will, and print what he will.’ ‘And yet,’ sa... ...down soon.’ This name, which Mrs Pritchard called Milleypoise, indicated a French cook who was at yet unknown at the Castle. ‘He’ll be here tonight.’ ... ...ther than of working mechanics, should be English rather than Span- ish or French. The man could not be her hero without edu- cation, without attribut...

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...-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it’s goi... ...venue. If you meet any peasants, don’t ask your way. They don’t understand French, and they would pretend they did and mix you up. I’ll be back for yo... ...d a long price for the dog, for they were beginning to be in demand at the French court, and the sailor knew he had got hold of a good thing; but Anne... ... the course of his life two great things had happened to him: he had loved romantically, and he must have talked with Pascal. . . MRS. MANSTEY’S VIEW ... ...n-raiser, the short sharp drama, the bour- geois-realistic and the lyrical-romantic—finally deciding that he would no longer “prostitute his talent” t... ...houses. And in nearly all of them melons were grown—early melons and late, French, English, domestic—dwarf melons and monsters: every shape, colour an... ...r Lombard continued, “my daughter is indeed fortunate. She has chosen what Catholics call the higher life— the counsel of perfection. What other priva...

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...f the Duc de Saint-Simon. They stand, by universal consent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all histo... ...thor shows to be anything but grand—and of the Regency. The opinion of the French critic, Sainte-Beuve, is fairly typi- cal. “With the Memoirs of De R... ....” Villemain declared their author to be “the most original of geniuses in French literature, the foremost of prose satirists; inexhaustible in detail... ...des Logis in the royal house- hold: he arrived at that office by a perfect romance. He was one of the best made men in France, and was much in favour ... ...ed no anger. He wrote in return to me, and said, I was not ignorant that a Roman Emperor had said, “I love treason but not traitors;” but that, as for... ...pon coming down again, she said it could only be that of Orondat. Now that romances are happily no longer read, it is necessary to say that Orondat is... ... would have been difficult to have found two instructors so opposed to the Catholics and to France, or so well suited to the King as teachers of his s... ...dals of his life. He heard nothing but eulo- gies, while the good and true Catholics and the true bishops, groaned in spirit to see the orthodox act t... ...ts and Jacobites of that country. For very different reasons, not only the Catholics and Protes- tants, enemies of the government, were ravished at it...

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...e Gondreville, the Keller Bros., the Cinq-Cygnes, or even, the King of the French. The numerous partisans of old Gondreville, the king of the departme... ...me, progress is fraternity re-established between the members of the great French family. We cannot conceal from ourselves that many sufferings—” At t... ...olution. Attached to the Simeuse family, and consequently, good 39 Balzac Catholics, the Beauvisage father and mother desired to have their son bapti... ...nning of 1814, Phileas had emptied his warerooms. The prospect of a war on French soil, the hard- ships of which were likely to press chiefly on Champ... ...tness, and the manners of a petted child, all that her person presented of romantic charm. Still, a husband capable of reforming her education and eff... ...of Arcis and her future expectations as Lady Croesus, and would spin her a romance to end in true love and a marriage.” “That’s a very pretty idea!” c... ... money.” “And,” continued Ernestine, “she has selected for the hero of her romance—” “Oh!” interrupted Madame Mollot, “an old man of fifty!— fie!” “Ho...

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...gh-spirited race, peculiar in their hab- its of war and of peace, brave to romance, and exhibiting a character turning upon points more adapted to poe... ...ify Britain by prohibiting the residence of Charles within any part of the French dominions. It was in vain that France endeavoured to lessen the disg... ... to a dignified sub- mission, and, by a series of idle bravadoes, laid the French court under the necessity of arresting their late ally, and send- in... ... confinement in the Bastille, from which he was afterwards sent out of the French dominions, much in the manner in which a convict is transported to t... ...n, sir? Is not the foundation of our municipal law the ancient code of the Roman Empire, devised at a time when it was so much re- nowned for its civi... ...thee, and thou hadst not, as now, conceived thyself to be the hero of some romantic history, and converted, in thy vain imagi- nations, honest Griffit... ...edgauntlet, much stronger amongst the country gentlemen, many of whom were Catholics as well as Jacobites, and most others unwilling to quarrel with k... ...sed in a low tone the suspicions of old maids and the churlish scruples of Catholics, that made so many obstacles to helping a fellow creature, and wi... ... dead flesh, or spirits, all is one to me; and 325 Sir W alter Scott your Catholics have such d—d large hoods, with pardon, ma’am, that they can some...

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...e night reading the story,—one of the most touching bits of writing in the French language. The picture of mutual love, half Biblical and worthy of th... ...ness. 18 The Village Rector In such a situation she naturally made many a romance such as young girls are fond of weaving. She clasped the idea—perha... ...iocese, named the Abbe Dutheil. This priest belonged to the portion of the French clergy who incline toward certain concessions, who would be glad to ... ...ion of a man who had the face and bearing of a hero, had been drawn into a romance the outcome of which was crime. This supposition was to some extent... ...rancois Tascheron and his mistress (by this time she was young, beautiful, romantic, for every one made a por- trait of her) had evidently intended to... ... whom have an Ecole Polytechnique, will be honeycombed with railroads when French engineers are still surveying ours, and selfish interests, hidden be... ...d in France but through sentiments due to Catholicism, and none of you are Catholics! Here am I, a priest, obliged to leave my own ground and argue wi...

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...r could not know; what was sufficient for her was that he had rallied, as the French say, had accepted the accomplished fact, had admitted that North a... ...of stones roughly piled. He thought this prospect, from a city house, almost romantic; and he turned from it back to the interior (illuminated now by ... ... the relaxation of many European despotisms, for in former years much of the romance of her life had been in smoothing the pillow of exile for banishe... .... She wished to work in another field; she had long been preoccupied with the romance of the people. She had an immense desire to know intimately some ... ...st the only foreign author she cared about; for she hated the writing of the French, in spite of the importance they have given to women. Such a visio... ...some oriental idea; it has lately been introduced in Paris. She doesn’t like French ideas as a general thing; Chapter 13 79 but she says this has mor... ...y, without Verena’s tender notes, her crusade would lack sweetness, what the Catholics call unction; and, on the other hand, how weak Verena would be ...

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... were com- monly termed—and we all rode together as long as we were on the Roman road, while they conveyed, rather loudly, in- formation about the Dol... ...the roll- ing-pin covered with sentimental poetry, and her extraordi- nary French pictures on the walls. Dermot kept us full of merriment, and we laug... ...ttle, for Hippolyta, with another of her cui bono sighs, car- ried off the Roman mosaic that was the ladies’ prize, telling Pippa that it should be he... ...nsoled me, and he afterwards said to me: “Madam, in our youth intellectual Catholics are apt to reject what our reason will not accept. We love not au... ... ac- cept my representation of the marvellous difference it must make to a Roman Catholic to be no longer isolated from the offices of religion. He ha... ... mon. I hate the sound of dice to this hour, and when I heard that unhappy French criminals, the night before their ex- ecution, are apt to send for F...

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...re is more than the ordinary height above her, and who, now that her first romantic admiration of his lofty bearing has worn off, and her fretful litt... ... “She’s a lady, as good as the best of ‘em. I don’t care about their being Catholics—the Desb’roughs o’ Dorset are gentlemen. And she’s good for the p... ...n of the title— “who wears the— you guess what! and marches along with the French sojers: a pretty brazen bit o’ goods, I sh’d fancy.” 50 Ordeal of R... ...cy.” 50 Ordeal of Richard Feverel Mademoiselle Lucy corrected her uncle’s French, but ob- jected to do more. The handsome cross boy had almost taken ... ...ing razors around him, when, just as he had, by steps dainty as those of a French dancing-master, reached the middle, he to his dis- may beheld a path... ... handmaid, and History his minister and Time his ancient harper, and sweet Romance his bride; where he walked in a realm vaster and more gorgeous than... ...ANDS have not yet rooted out their old brood of dragons. Wherever there is romance, these monsters come by inimical attraction. Because the heavens ar... ...ect discreetness. “What on earth induced you to talk about Protestants and Catholics marrying, Rip?” said Richard, as soon as they were in the street....

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......................................................................... 352 ROMAN ELEGIES. ............................................................... ...across my mind it rush’d With pristine force the other day. The New-Poetic Catholics In ev’ry point its aptness fix! 1815.* SONGS. SONGS are like pain... ...ings, then mayst thou dread the soft breeze.” 352 Goethe ELEGIES. PART I. ROMAN ELEGIES. [The Roman Elegies were written in the same year as the V e-... ...ne that soon its beautiful margin Into a wall would be turn’d, to keep the French from our country, And its wide-spreading bed a ditch to hinder and c... ...ere warmly excited. Presently after began the war, and the train of arm’ d Frenchmen Nearer approach’ d; at first they appear’ d to bring with them fr... ...ce began round the newly-raised standards. In this manner the overpowering Frenchmen soon conquer’ d First the minds of the men, with their fiery live...

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...k of the Seine as it was under Charles IX. Why should not the historian of French society, a new Old Mortality, endeavor to save these curious express... ...igitte’s eyes Jerome was the handsomest and most charming man in the whole French Empire. T o keep house for this cherished brother, to be initiated i... ...a water-color properly; she danced extremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that ... ...hen it had fallen he went away as happy as an academician at the fall of a romantic drama. Veritable supernumeraries of the social comedy, Phellion, L... ...oisie Flavie, to whom in all her life love had never taken the language of romance, sat still, but happy, her heart palpitat- ing, and saying to herse... ...Christ.’ Strive to convert yourself to the holy Catholic, apos- tolic, and Roman Church, and you will see how empty your words are. Hear me, Felix; ma... ...gentlemen attached to Saint-Jacques du Haut Pas in the rue des Postes good Catholics?” “Undoubtedly,” replied the barrister, “religion has no more loy...