Chandos, by 'Ouida'. |
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Agostino amuse aristocratic Arles asked baccarat beauty Bosphorus bright brilliant careless chamber Chandos laughed charming chesnut Circassian Clarencieux clever Clydesmore Compiègne Countess cried d'Orvâle dark dear delicate dinner drawing-room dreams Duke Ernest eyes face fair fancy fashion favourite fellow felt flâneur floated gave genius give glance glittering grace guests hand handsome head heard heart honour John Trevenna knew la Vivarol Lady Chesterton Lady Valencia laughed Chandos Lebanon cedar light Lily-Queen lips living looked loveliness Lucrèce Lucullus Lulli Madame master monseigneur morning murmured Neuilly never night pain Paris Park-lane passed passion pleasure Prince proud Queen of Lilies Régence shadow shoulders silent Sir Galahad smile soft stancy stood sure Tantum Ergo tell thing thought Trevenna Tindall Titian touch Trente et Quarante turned Valeria venna Vivarol voice weariness whist woman women words young
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Seite 178 - In many mortal forms I rashly sought The shadow of that idol of my thought. And some were fair — but beauty dies away : Others were wise — but honeyed words betray : And One was true — oh!
Seite 76 - But he was one of those wise men who remember that the longest and most learned life, spent aright, never ceases to learn till its last breath is drawn ; and, moreover, far away in limitless perspective in Trevenna's ambitions lay an arena where the victory is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift...
Seite 50 - No : Le Sage had no coat on in his attic when he refused the millionnaire's bribe. ' Tout compte fait, je suis plus riche que vous, et je refuse ! " "And you think that sublime? to tell the truth and starve ? Faugh ! I'd have taken their cheque, and written a ten times more stinging Turcaret afterwards ! But, on my word, Chandos, your ante-rooms are as thronged as any Chesterfield's or Halifax's of a hundred years ago.
Seite 38 - Greek-like glance, and her cheek like a peach in the sun ; while she leant over him and twisted, Catulluslike, in the bright masses of his long, golden hair a wreath of crimson roses washed in purple Burgundy. Chandos shook the wine from the rose-crown as he bent and kissed that glowing southern" loveliness, and laughed under his diadem of flowers.
Seite 220 - The outsider has it!" A moment, and they ran neck to neck ; the gallant crack of the Clarencieux stable, with all the mettle in him roused to fire, strove for a second manfully with this unknown and unexpected foe ; then — with a single forward spring, like magic, the outsider outstripped him by a head, and ran in at the distance winner of the Ascot Cup. " A very clever horse," said Chandos, calmly, as he dropped his race-glass.
Seite 244 - Eastern roses of a virgin earth, — here the autumn months passed by, and all the indolent repose and vivid colour he loved blended in his life were mingled to a marvel. The very inconsistencies of his character made the charm of his existence ; through them, turn by turn, he enjoyed the pleasures of all men, of all minds, and of all temperaments. He who walks straight along the beaten road, turning neither to the right nor left, nor loitering by the way, will reach soonest his destination ; but...
Seite 245 - He who walks straight along the beaten road, turning neither to the right nor left, nor loitering by the way, will reach soonest his destination ; but he enjoys the beauty of the earth the best who, having no fixed goal, no pressing end, leaves the highway for every fair nook and leafy resting-place that allures him, and lingers musing here and hastens laughing there. Consistency is excellent, and may be very noble ; but the Greeks did not err when they called the wisest man the man who was "versatile.
Seite 86 - Oriental costume, and serving him with most loving obedience. A French Duke and two or three Guardsmen were breakfasting with him, playing a lansquenet, at noon, from which they had just risen. Men were very fond of coming to take a cup of chocolate from those charming young Odalisques. " Cards at noon, Chandos ?
Seite 235 - He glanced at his butterflies as he chattered, and saw that the .pin was entering their souls like iron. He thrust it down a little deeper as Lady Chesterton asked, with a voice that, despite herself, could not be careless, " Mr. Chandos will be long before he returns, then, I suppose ? " " Won't come back till next spring,