Memoirs of the Baroness D'Oberkirch, Countess de Montbrison, Том 3Colburn and Company, 1852 |
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Стр. 126 - ... depravity of the times — it is certainly rather piquant : — " The Duchess of had one day received a visit from her lover, M. Archambault de Talleyrand- Perigord, when the husband unexpectedly returning, the gallant was obliged to make his escape by the window. Some persons seeing him descend, made him prisoner, thinking he was a robber . but, having explained who he was, he was allowed to go, without being brought before the injured husband. The story soon became generally known, and the...
Стр. 215 - ... d'Oberkirch, Comtesse de Montbrisson, a member of the brilliant aristocracy that was to be annihilated ten years later. The Comtesse wrote her Memoirs many years after, and gives at last a picture of Elizabeth that is not biassed by a Strawberry Hill point of view : ' Although this lady was then sixty years of age, she still retained traces of more than ordinary beauty, and her deportment was the most dignified I ever remarked. She moved with all the grace and majesty of a goddess, and our own...
Стр. 244 - ... be more perfect in theory than an education of this kind, but we fear in practice it resulted in the pride that apes humility ; for Madame d'Oberkirch, who piqued herself on her knowledge of Court etiquette, received the following setting down from the child of seven. Madame d'Oberkirch writes : " I was struck by the beauty and grace of the child, and accustomed to the freedom of German Courts I said so ; this liberty displeased her; an expression of anger spread itself over her face as with...
Стр. 238 - ... he had slashed his wrists. To make matters worse he had left a letter for her. It was flowery: Farewell, Elizabeth, farewell. In one short hour my career in this world shall be ended. To those men who received me with honour when I was a false prince and who despise me now, when they find I am only a man of genius, to these men I give no explanation of my actions. To you, to you alone can my unbending spirit bow. Farewell again, but not for ever — we shall meet in the home of Souls like ours,...
Стр. 222 - acknowledged no law but her own capricious and arrogant will, and made her husband feel the full weight of the chain he had assumed.
Стр. 237 - ... own genius, by the single aid of my own unconquerable will, I have given myself the education which fortune denied. I have acquired feelings and sentiments of whose existence I was in ignorance ; I have learned the manners and deportment of a prince, although my father was an ass-driver at Trebizond, and have I not succeeded in deceiving the wisest heads in Europe ? Which of your powdered puppets, born to wealth and titles, could have done as much ? Now I am fallen, I am conquered, but I am not...
Стр. 237 - I have been loved, I will reveal my guilt ; and although it may destroy your affection, still, in your heart of hearts, you must acknowledge that the man who was capable of conceiving, arranging and carrying out such plans as mine, was not one of the vulgar herd — was not altogether unworthy of your regard. ' I admit that I am but a low adventurer, born in the humblest grade of society ; I acknowledge that I merited the punishment which I should have received had I not fled from Constantinople...
Стр. 214 - ... wistfully ; even yet she had pangs of home sickness — but all her friends were dead, she would say, it would avail her nothing to go back even for a visit. The Duchess of Bourbon and her friends were enthralled by Elizabeth's anecdotes and one day begged her to recount her life story to them. Elizabeth politely replied, ' If your highness wish, I will read you a few pages that contain the entire history — they will not detain you long.
Стр. 33 - ... agrees with you at once rather than embark on an argument. She is a sweet, kind, obliging woman, incapable of an evil thought. The shaft of calumny has always failed to reach her. A widow at nineteen, she has since devoted herself entirely to her father-in-law and the Queen. She gives immensely in charity, more than she can afford, often depriving herself of many things that she may the more effectually assist the poor. She is called the ' good angel ' by the people on the different estates of...
Стр. 240 - ... she would deceive one as to the extent of what she knew. Her great knowledge of society, her wit, and brilliant imagination, which reflected as a mirror all that passed before it, give a brilliancy to her conversation that I have seldom seen equalled. She is proud and self willed, opposed to almost all received maxims, and yet variable and inconstant both in her fancies and opinions.