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  • Potatoes a la Duchesse.
    Filet Mignon a la Rossini.
    Chateau Lafite and Rinnart Brut.
    Fonds d'Artichaut Farcis.
    Pommery Sec.
    Sorbet au Kirsch.
    Cigarettes.
    Woodcock on Toast.
    Asparagus Sala.
    Ices: Canton Ginger.
    Cheeses: Pont l'Eveque; Rocquefort.†   (source)
  • So despite the well-planned lake—upon which a few select residents can sail but not motor—and Desi's tastefully grand house—a Swiss chateau on an American scale—I remain unwooed.†   (source)
  • One of these buildings is called Chateau Neuf, which means 'the new palace.'†   (source)
  • Rain sheeted down on the darkening countryside surrounding the Chateau de Langeais.†   (source)
  • So there was a sense of freedom when I went to Hallowell on the bus, not the same old kids, not the same old streets named for famous battles (Tarawa Road, Chateau Thierry Avenue), not the same old barracks buildings.†   (source)
  • On the northeast fringe of the city, Cedric Gilliam pecks Sherene, his new girlfriend, on the cheek as lie slips through the door of the Chateau-a raucous black nightclub-where she works as a hostess.†   (source)
  • But since we were in a seven-freaking-bedroom country chateau with a Sub-Zero fridge and Viking range at our disposal, it didn't cut it.†   (source)
  • Surely you don't object to a photo of this magnificent chateau?†   (source)
  • He has just spent a most unrelaxing weekend at Glen Ora, the family's four-hundred-acre rented country retreat in Virginia that the Secret Service has code-named Chateau.†   (source)
  • Fortier had critical information relevant to the virus, he told Gaetan, and suggested that the leaders meet at the Chateau Triomphe in the Right Bank.†   (source)
  • The parties were lavish affairs at catering halls or places like Chi-Am Chateau.†   (source)
  • Below the baseline of the center triangles was the entrance, double doors that together formed a cathedral arch, the hardware massive rings of iron common to an Alpine chateau.†   (source)
  • The towns are close-spaced now—Chateau-Thierry and Meaux and then an unending chain of suburbs—and everything is tangled and fuzzy.†   (source)
  • Hoax, Hokesh—a matter of geography and accent; this chateau was once in the Carpathians, so 'Hokesh' it is, if 'twill make your death merrier.†   (source)
  • FATHER-ROBERT: Why not go to the Chateau of Merdailles?†   (source)
  • They seem to be accusing him of plotting to destroy the Chateau de Saint-Malo, though why they might believe this is not clear.†   (source)
  • I suggested to Dad that next summer, instead of spending it with him and Grandm"re at her French chateau, Miragnac, we go to Iceland.†   (source)
  • The structures in it are mostly hollow—the chateau, the cathedral, the market—but why bother to smash them all when one is missing, the very house he needs?†   (source)
  • We always have our meals there, or sometimes we go to the neighboring chateau, Mirabeau, which is owned by these nasty British people who have a lot of snotty kids who say things like "That's rot" and "You're a wanker" to one another.†   (source)
  • Plus it's against the law to smoke in restaurants here, and Grandm"re smokes all the time, even in bed, which is why Grandp"re had these weird disposable oxygen masks installed in every single room at Miragnac and had an underground tunnel dug that we could run through in case Grandm"re fell asleep with a cigarette in her mouth and the chateau burst into flames.†   (source)
  • Darkness and closeness got worse, until we were crawling through a rough tunnel in rock, then inching along on our bellies in total darkness as if tunneling out of Chateau d'If …. and rats brushed past us now, squeaking and chittering.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Sanborn wished a French chateau built upon their new estate on the Hudson.†   (source)
  • It was modelled on the chateau at Blois.†   (source)
  • Then I left the chateau, and took train for my own country as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • A pal of his said what a shame that a veteran of Chateau Thierry should be shoved around by a greenhorn.†   (source)
  • I arrived in the neighbourhood of his chateau in the Ardennes but it was some days before I could find a pretext for gaining admission to the house.†   (source)
  • Chateau Neuf du Pape?†   (source)
  • …setting fire to their whiskers, and a farm in Devon, white cream, brown ale, the winter's chimney merriment, and Lorna Doone; and the hanging gardens of Babylon, and supper in the sunset with the queens, and the slow slide of the barge upon the Nile, or the wise rich bodies of Egyptian women couched on moonlit balustrades, and the thunder of the chariots of great kings, and tomb-treasure sought at midnight, and the wine-rich chateau land of France, and calico warm legs in hay.†   (source)
  • Yes, office, town-house, and chateau in Picardy.†   (source)
  • He had not been entirely clear-headed when the chateau gates snapped shut behind him.†   (source)
  • It may safely be said that the manager of the Chateau des Fleurs (lucky man!†   (source)
  • But you can't see the chateau and town-house (next to the Duke of Sutherland's).†   (source)
  • You are like the Chateau de Dampmartin, which is bursting with laughter."†   (source)
  • Even the bridge between Durance and Chateau-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams.†   (source)
  • Chateau des Fleurs; there I shall find Oblonsky, songs, the cancan.†   (source)
  • The orangery, which was at the other end, led by a covered way to the outhouses of the chateau.†   (source)
  • "Renauld Chateau, guardian of the seals of the Châtelet of Paris, at your service."†   (source)
  • The chateau served for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house.†   (source)
  • Despite his inferior forces, Admiral de Chateau–Renault fought courageously.†   (source)
  • The sea is the cemetery of the Chateau d'If.†   (source)
  • "The chateau, and all the race?" inquired the first.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bread sat with a dull, oblique gaze fixed upon the lights of the chateau.†   (source)
  • A drinking party now, or the Chateau des Fleurs, would be more in my line!†   (source)
  • He swam on still, and already the terrible chateau had disappeared in the darkness.†   (source)
  • For three heavy hours, the stone faces of the chateau, lion and human, stared blindly at the night.†   (source)
  • It was a chateau; it is no longer anything but a farm.†   (source)
  • He stayed all the next day at the chateau, and hardly left the marquis.†   (source)
  • You have a chateau, farms, woods; you go hunting; you travel to Paris.†   (source)
  • The chateau was left to itself to flame and burn.†   (source)
  • "Well, yes, and I had good reason to be so," replied Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • But the great feature was a wide, green river which washed the foundations of the chateau.†   (source)
  • It portended that there was one stone face too many, up at the chateau.†   (source)
  • "What a wicked-looking, crooked staircase," said Chateau-Renaud with a smile.†   (source)
  • " "A nobility of the rope!" said Chateau-Renaud phlegmatically.†   (source)
  • It came on briskly, and came up to the front of the chateau.†   (source)
  • The chateau is on fire; valuable objects may be saved from the flames by timely aid!†   (source)
  • I depend on you to accompany me to the opera; and if you can, bring Chateau-Renaud with you.†   (source)
  • The chateau awoke later, as became its quality, but awoke gradually and surely.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Chateau-Renaud, "these Italians are well named and badly dressed."†   (source)
  • Albert, Beauchamp, and Chateau-Renaud remained alone.†   (source)
  • "The chateau and all the race," returned Defarge.†   (source)
  • Are there any magistrates or judges at the Chateau d'If?"†   (source)
  • "Ah, to be sure," replied Chateau-Renaud; "the lovely Venetian, is it not?"†   (source)
  • Well, I will have Franz and Chateau-Renaud; they will be the very men for it.†   (source)
  • Albert and Chateau-Renaud exchanged a second look, more full of amazement than the first.†   (source)
  • "Indeed, no," said Chateau-Renaud—"Did you know her?"†   (source)
  • "You are fastidious, Chateau-Renaud," replied Debray; "those clothes are well cut and quite new."†   (source)
  • "But, after all these arrangements, he does not come himself," said Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • Do they know him?" asked Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "Did you observe any one during the first act?" asked Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "And we, too," added Beauchamp and Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "He sent us word this morning," replied Chateau-Renaud, "that he would meet us on the ground."†   (source)
  • "Why, what nonsense are you telling us?" said Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • Chateau-Renaud contented himself with tapping his boot with his flexible cane.†   (source)
  • "I am the spectre of a wretch you buried in the dungeons of the Chateau d'If.†   (source)
  • "Ha, ha," said Chateau-Renaud, "here comes some friends of yours, viscount!†   (source)
  • "Sterlets," said Chateau-Renaud, "are only found in the Volga."†   (source)
  • "The Chateau d'If?" cried he, "what are we going there for?"†   (source)
  • "I know it," said Chateau-Renaud; "I narrowly escaped catching a fever there."†   (source)
  • "Oh, nothing worth speaking of," said Morrel; "M. de Chateau-Renaud exaggerates."†   (source)
  • "Oh," added a third voice, "the shrouds of the Chateau d'If are not dear!"†   (source)
  • "And who is the Countess G——?" inquired Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • Dantes recollected that his hair and beard had not been cut all the time he was at the Chateau d'If.†   (source)
  • "Not at all," said Chateau-Renaud, slowly; "I think he is violently agitated.†   (source)
  • "My good fellow," said Chateau-Renaud, "the count is your friend and you treat him accordingly.†   (source)
  • "Mademoiselle Eugenie?" said Chateau-Renaud; "has she returned?"†   (source)
  • But, as we have said, it was at least a league from the Chateau d'If to this island.†   (source)
  • "But Franz did come with the four thousand crowns," said Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • And they called Chateau-Renaud's attention to him.†   (source)
  • "There is a carriage coming," said Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • " 'Multitudinously' is good," said Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "Not worth speaking of?" cried Chateau-Renaud; "life is not worth speaking of!†   (source)
  • They were rapidly leaving the Chateau d'If behind.†   (source)
  • Madame Danglars was chatting at a short distance with Debray, Beauchamp, and Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "A prisoner has escaped from the Chateau d'If, and they are firing the alarm gun," replied Dantes.†   (source)
  • Morcerf and Chateau-Renaud were amongst the first to avail themselves of this permission.†   (source)
  • "M. de Chateau-Renaud—M. Maximilian Morrel," said the servant, announcing two fresh guests.†   (source)
  • "We have already asked that question," said Chateau-Renaud, "for none of us has seen him."†   (source)
  • "This one is, I think, a sterlet," said Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • Danglars is his banker, is he not?" asked Chateau-Renaud of Debray.†   (source)
  • Beauchamp and Chateau-Renaud exchanged looks of astonishment.†   (source)
  • "Why should he doubt it?" said Beauchamp to Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "I went to Tortoni's, where, as I expected, I found Beauchamp and Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "And very princely," added Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "What chance brings you here, gentlemen?" said Chateau-Renaud, shaking hands with each of them.†   (source)
  • "You think, then," said he, "that I am taken to the Chateau d'If to be imprisoned there?"†   (source)
  • "You know her, it seems?" said Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "Are you not," he asked, "the priest who here in the Chateau d'If is generally thought to be—ill?"†   (source)
  • "By the way, M. de Chateau-Renaud," asked Beauchamp, "how is Morrel?"†   (source)
  • Chateau-Renaud perceived him and immediately alighting from his coupe, joined him.†   (source)
  • He was nineteen when he entered the Chateau d'If; he was thirty-three when he escaped.†   (source)
  • One of them was made of Debray, Chateau-Renaud, and Beauchamp.†   (source)
  • "Hollo! what's the matter at the Chateau d'If?" said the captain.†   (source)
  • The bell summoned him to his seat, and he entered the orchestra with Chateau-Renaud and Beauchamp.†   (source)
  • "Oh, all this is a family history, as Chateau-Renaud told you the other day," observed Maximilian.†   (source)
  • Chateau-Renaud and Morcerf exchanged a third look of still increasing wonder.†   (source)
  • "A great man in every country, M. Debray," said Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "The devil take me, if I remember," returned Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "Faubourg Saint-Germain," said Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • Morrel advanced towards Beauchamp and Chateau-Renaud, who, seeing his intention, came to meet him.†   (source)
  • "The countess was present at the races in the Champ-de-Mars," said Chateau-Renaud.†   (source)
  • "How pale he is!" said Chateau-Renaud, shuddering.†   (source)
  • "You have no idea, then, Morrel?" asked Chateau-Renaud; "you do not propose anything."†   (source)
  • The governesses, recruited at the Chateau des Fleurs, laboured in vain; at twenty years of age their pupil could not speak in any language, not even Russian.†   (source)
  • Babbitt admired the Chateau.†   (source)
  • "It is, of course, the case of the Comte de Tournay, this time; a dangerous task, for the Comte, whose escape from his chateau, after he had been declared a 'suspect' by the Committee of Public Safety, was a masterpiece of the Scarlet Pimpernel's ingenuity, is now under sentence of death.†   (source)
  • He spent his days in poring over a map of the forest of Compiegne, as though it had been that of the 'Pays du Tendre'; he surrounded himself with photographs of the Chateau of Pierrefonds.†   (source)
  • They lived in his chateau, or rather had, until he had taken to firing the breakfast dishes at her; then she had cabled for help, and the old gentleman had gone over to find out what were his Grace's terms.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she would be absent for several days on end, when the Verdurins took her to see the tombs at Dreux, or to Compiegne, on the painter's advice, to watch the sun setting through the forest—after which they went on to the Chateau of Pierrefonds.†   (source)
  • Their favorite motion-picture theater was the Chateau, which held three thousand spectators and had an orchestra of fifty pieces which played Arrangements from the Operas and suites portraying a Day on the Farm, or a Four-alarm Fire.†   (source)
  • …there, what a joy it would be to set foot on that soil where, not knowing the exact spot in which, at any moment, she was to be found, he would feel all around him the thrilling possibility of her suddenly appearing: in the courtyard of the Chateau, now beautiful in his eyes since it was on her account that he had gone to visit it; in all the streets of the town, which struck him as romantic; down every ride of the forest, roseate with the deep and tender glow of sunset;—innumerable…†   (source)
  • His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows.†   (source)
  • I used to go to the Art Institute and the Walker Gallery, and tramp clear around Lake Harriet, or hike out to the Gates house and imagine it was a chateau in Italy and I lived in it.†   (source)
  • She mentioned it again, a third time, when she shewed Swann a card with the name and address of the man who had designed the dining-room, and whom she wanted to send for, when she had enough money, to see whether he could not do one for her too; not one like that, of course, but one of the sort she used to dream of, one which, unfortunately, her little house would not be large enough to contain, with tall sideboards, Renaissance furniture and fireplaces like the Chateau at Blois.†   (source)
  • The lights of the chateau were out now, and it was dark and silent, but there was a fragment of sallow moon, and by its wan light he could see, dimly, the courtyard; there, weaving in and out in the pattern of shadow, were black, noiseless forms; the hounds heard him at the window and looked up, expectantly, with their green eyes.†   (source)
  • They surveyed the small eccentric bungalows with pergolas, the houses of pebbledash and tapestry brick with sleeping-porches above sun-parlors, and one vast incredible chateau fronting the Lake of the Isles.†   (source)
  • Then they talked a few moments longer, and after the goodnights, or rather good mornings, the guests of the chateau retired to bed.†   (source)
  • Admiral de Chateau–Renault was so indecisive as to obey this directive, and the galleons entered the Bay of Vigo.†   (source)
  • THE OVAL PORTRAIT THE chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe.†   (source)
  • A supper-table was laid for two, in the third of the rooms; a round room, in one of the chateau's four extinguisher-topped towers.†   (source)
  • , 1840; "Le Culte du Feu," a folio volume of ponderous research into the religion and ritual of the old Persian Ghebers, published in 1841; "La Soiree du Chateau en Espagne," 1 tom.†   (source)
  • As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island.†   (source)
  • …century bridge, which spans the canal before the museum, nor that immense cenotaph of Thorwaldsen's, adorned with horrible mural painting, and containing within it a collection of the sculptor's works, nor in a fine park the toylike chateau of Rosenberg, nor the beautiful renaissance edifice of the Exchange, nor its spire composed of the twisted tails of four bronze dragons, nor the great windmill on the ramparts, whose huge arms dilated in the sea breeze like the sails of a…†   (source)
  • Suddenly an opening appeared ahead, and then the massive walls of a chateau-looking house, with outworks, bastions, blockhouses, and palisadoes, frowned on a headland that bordered the outlet of a broad stream.†   (source)
  • He surveyed the house with interest, and then walked round and scanned the outer boundary of the garden, as one might have done had it been the birthplace of Shakespeare, the prison of Mary Stuart, or the Chateau of Hougomont.†   (source)
  • The prize-story experience had seemed to open a way which might, after long traveling and much uphill work, lead to this delightful chateau en Espagne.†   (source)
  • He left his vehicle at the tavern in the village street, and obeyed the simple instructions which were given him for finding the chateau.†   (source)
  • He again ran back to the chateau.†   (source)
  • In these paintings, which depended from the walls not only in their main surfaces, but in very many nooks which the bizarre architecture of the chateau rendered necessary--in these paintings my incipient delirium, perhaps, had caused me to take deep interest; so that I bade Pedro to close the heavy shutters of the room--since it was already night--to light the tongues of a tall candelabrum which stood by the head of my bed--and to throw open far and wide the fringed curtains of black…†   (source)
  • The garcon was in despair that the whole family had gone to take a promenade on the lake, but no, the blonde mademoiselle might be in the chateau garden.†   (source)
  • He took her to his chateau, and made her the first lady in the province; and in justice it must be allowed that she supported her rank becomingly.†   (source)
  • In the meantime d'Artagnan, who had plunged into a bypath, continued his route and reached St. Cloud; but instead of following the main street he turned behind the chateau, reached a sort of retired lane, and found himself soon in front of the pavilion named.†   (source)
  • Now then, late in 1702 Spain was expecting a rich convoy, which France ventured to escort with a fleet of twenty–three vessels under the command of Admiral de Chateau–Renault, because by that time the allied navies were roving the Atlantic.†   (source)
  • For an hour this new pair walked and talked, or rested on the wall, enjoying the sweet influences which gave such a charm to time and place, and when an unromantic dinner bell warned them away, Amy felt as if she left her burden of loneliness and sorrow behind her in the chateau garden.†   (source)
  • And as she went on she recognised the thickets, the trees, the sea-rushes on the hill, the chateau yonder.†   (source)
  • Barons are old fellows, they go to the Luxembourg, in front of the chateau, where there is the most sun, and they read the Quotidienne for a sou.†   (source)
  • "Yes," continued Athos, "four times only; once at the house of Monsieur Crequy; another time at my own house in the country, in my chateau at—when I had a chateau; a third time at Monsieur de Treville's where it surprised us all; and the fourth time at a cabaret, where it fell to my lot, and where I lost a hundred louis and a supper on it."†   (source)
  • Couldn't we invent a rich relation, who shall obligingly die out there in Germany, and leave him a tidy little fortune?" said Laurie, when they began to pace up and down the long drawing room, arm in arm, as they were fond of doing, in memory of the chateau garden.†   (source)
  • Hougomont has two doors,—the southern door, that of the chateau; and the northern door, belonging to the farm.†   (source)
  • She looked long at the windows of the chateau, trying to guess which were the rooms of all those she had noticed the evening before.†   (source)
  • "No, sir, she knew nothing," said Mrs. Bread, holding her head very stiff and keeping her eyes fixed upon the glimmering windows of the chateau.†   (source)
  • He had rather imagined that the denoument would take place in the chateau garden by moonlight, and in the most graceful and decorous manner, but it turned out exactly the reverse, for the matter was settled on the lake at noonday in a few blunt words.†   (source)
  • He walked with her back to the chateau; the curfew had tolled for the laborious villagers of Fleurieres, and the street was unlighted and empty.†   (source)
  • And now turning round, she once more saw the impassive chateau, with the park, the gardens, the three courts, and all the windows of the facade.†   (source)
  • Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the chateau," and concealed himself in the cellar.†   (source)
  • These three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the buildings of the chateau and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the right, a wall; and at the end, a wall.†   (source)
  • Beneath, over the plain, lay the gathered twilight, through which, in the near distance, gleamed two or three lights from the chateau.†   (source)
  • Rodolphe, who, to distract himself, had been rambling about the wood all day, was sleeping quietly in his chateau, and Leon, down yonder, always slept.†   (source)
  • Beyond the farmyard there was a detached building that she thought must be the chateau She entered—it was if the doors at her approach had opened wide of their own accord.†   (source)
  • Beside the chapel, one wing of the chateau, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in a crumbling state,—disembowelled, one might say.†   (source)
  • Newman, as he had done before, left his conveyance at the inn and walked the short remaining distance to the chateau.†   (source)
  • La Huchette, in fact, was an estate near Yonville, where he had just bought the chateau and two farms that he cultivated himself, without, however, troubling very much about them.†   (source)
  • The chateau was near the road; this was at once its merit and its defect; but its aspect was extremely impressive.†   (source)
  • Just imagine, while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper whitewashed over, would not discredit a chateau in the style of yours.†   (source)
  • She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with tolerable fluency:— "—General Bauduin received orders to take the chateau of Hougomont which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five battalions of his brigade."†   (source)
  • The rider from the chateau, and the horse in a foam, clattered away through the village, and galloped up the stony steep, to the prison on the crag.†   (source)
  • At last Emma remembered that at the chateau of Vaubyessard she had heard the Marchioness call a young lady Berthe; from that moment this name was chosen; and as old Rouault could not come, Monsieur Homais was requested to stand godfather.†   (source)
  • V. B." Newman groaned at this miserable news, and at the necessity of deferring his journey to the Chateau de Fleurieres.†   (source)
  • In the glow, the water of the chateau fountain seemed to turn to blood, and the stone faces crimsoned.†   (source)
  • The footman led the way across a great central vestibule, with a pyramid of plants in tubs in the middle of glass doors all around, to what appeared to be the principal drawing-room of the chateau.†   (source)
  • Chapter Eight The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron, syringas, and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path.†   (source)
  • Then La Beresina, then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Chateau-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the Marne, the banks of the Aisne, and the redoubtable position of Laon.†   (source)
  • Then, the grey water of both began to be ghostly in the light, and the eyes of the stone faces of the chateau were opened.†   (source)
  • At the door of the chateau he waited for some moments, and this gave him a chance to observe that Fleurieres was not "kept up," and to reflect that it was a melancholy place of residence.†   (source)
  • A river flowed under a bridge; through the mist one could distinguish buildings with thatched roofs scattered over the field bordered by two gently sloping, well timbered hillocks, and in the background amid the trees rose in two parallel lines the coach houses and stables, all that was left of the ruined old chateau.†   (source)
  • Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of the Chateau-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a heart absolutely sombre and empty.†   (source)
  • The counter-police of the chateau had denounced to her Royal Highness Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orleans, who made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of dragoons— a serious inconvenience.†   (source)
  • It would have been of as much avail to interrogate any stone face outside the chateau as to interrogate that face of his.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bread choosing not to go in by the great gate, they passed round by a winding lane to a door in the wall of the park, of which she had the key, and which would enable her to enter the chateau from behind.†   (source)
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