Vulgar words in Beatrix (Page 1)
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Here we see the carved wooden bedstead painted white, with the arched head-board surmounted by Cupids scattering flowers, and the canopy above it adorned with plumes; the hangings of blue silk; the Pompadour dressing-table with its laces and mirror; together with bits of furniture of singular shape,--a "duchesse," a chaise-longue, a stiff little sofa,--with window-curtains of silk, like that of the furniture, lined with pink satin, and caught back with silken ropes, and a carpet of Savonnerie; in short, we find here all those elegant, rich, sumptuous, and dainty things in the midst of which the women of the eighteenth century lived and made love.
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"In the first place the semi-dowagers, to whom young men pay their first court, know much better how to make love than younger women.
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The evenings we will spend together, and I permit you to make love to me if you can--it will be for the best."
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I love, and you, you only make love--" "Listen to me, Arthur; give Aurelie three hundred thousand francs for that little house, and I'll promise to find some one to suit you better.