This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... arched feet and modest, girlish carriage; who lowered her eyes when any one looked at her, who blushed when any one spoke to her, who was embarrassed when she had to answer, --and you will have an idea of mademoiselle as she was. When he saw the old gentleman's daughter, Trick immediately felt smitten, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... arched feet and modest, girlish carriage; who lowered her eyes when any one looked at her, who blushed when any one spoke to her, who was embarrassed when she had to answer, --and you will have an idea of mademoiselle as she was. When he saw the old gentleman's daughter, Trick immediately felt smitten, charmed, seduced, inflamed. You think, perhaps, that Trick was very susceptible, but I can only tell you that he was at that time but eighteen and a half years old; and that at that age a man is usually as quickly inflamed as a package of matches; that besides, a man should always be inflamed at the sight of beauty; that God has created him so. Ask the ladies what a man is who is no longer influenced by beauty, and they will tell you that he is a very undesirable person in any society. "This is the woman for me, so innocent, so modest, so gentle, so well-behaved--with her eyes almost always downcast! What a difference between her and that perfidious Pelagie, whose eyes had a trick of staring as though they would pierce through my waistcoat even, and who walked almost like a man. I will marry this young girl. I like to think that she may perhaps find me agreeable; she has not yet looked me in the face--but I think she did glance at my profile. Then she has such an obedient, submissive deportment towards her parents, that when the latter say to her, 'You are to become Madame Trick, ' I wager she will answer, ' With pleasure, papa; when ever you like, mamma.'" Trick hastened to prefer his suit to her parents. M. Romorantin was a tall, thin old man, yellow, dry, who looked a good deal like a crow; his wife was a little woman, rather humpbacked and very bandy-legged, and might have taken the part of the fairy Carabosse. Seraphinette's parents...
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