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Chalaban <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:22:44 +0900
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S had made very familiar to them. "No, I don't know Versailles very well," he said in answer to her question, "but I believe the gardens back of the Grand and Petit Trianon are more interesting than these near the Chateau itself. The conscientiousness with which they're kept up is not quite so formidable." So they walked down the side of the Grand Canal, admiring the rather pensive beauty of the late November woods, and talking, as was the proper thing, about the great Louis and his court, and how they both detested his style of gilded, carved wall ornamentation, although his chairs weren't as bad as some others. They turned off at the cross-arm of the Canal towards the Great Trianon; they talked, again dutifully in the spirit of the place, about Madame de Maintenon. They differed on this subject just enough to enjoy discussing it. Page averred that the whole affair had always passed his comprehension, "--what that ease-loving, vain, indulgent, trivial-minded grandson of Henri Quatre could ever have seen for all those years in that stiff, prim, cold old school-ma'am--" But Sylvia shook her head. "I know how he felt. He _had_ to have her, once he'd found her. She was the only person in all his world he could depend on." "Why not depend on himself?" Page asked. "Oh, he couldn't! He couldn't! She had character and he hadn't." "What do you mean by character?" he challenged her. "It's what I haven't!" she said. He attempted a chivalrous exculpation. "Oh, if you mean by character such hard, insensitive lack of imagination as Madame de Maintenon's--" "No, not that," said Sylvia. "_You_ know what I mean by character as well as I." By the time they wer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plone-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-bugs
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