The Great House
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Weyman Stanley John. The Great House
CHAPTER I. THE HÔTEL LAMBERT-UPSTAIRS
CHAPTER II. THE HÔTEL LAMBERT-DOWNSTAIRS
CHAPTER III. THE LAWYER ABROAD
CHAPTER IV. HOMEWARD BOUND
CHAPTER V. THE LONDON PACKET
CHAPTER VI. FIELD AND FORGE
CHAPTER VII. MR. JOHN AUDLEY
CHAPTER VIII. THE GATEHOUSE
CHAPTER IX. OLD THINGS
CHAPTER X. NEW THINGS
CHAPTER XI. TACT AND TEMPER
CHAPTER XII. THE YEW WALK
CHAPTER XIII. PETER PAUPER
CHAPTER XIV. THE MANCHESTER MEN
CHAPTER XV. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
CHAPTER XVI. THE GREAT HOUSE AT BEAUDELAYS
CHAPTER XVII. TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XVIII. MASKS AND FACES
CHAPTER XIX. THE CORN LAW CRISIS
CHAPTER XX. PETER'S RETURN
CHAPTER XXI. TOFT AT THE BUTTERFLIES
CHAPTER XXII. MY LORD SPEAKS
CHAPTER XXIII. BLORE UNDER WEAVER
CHAPTER XXIV. AN AGENT OF THE OLD SCHOOL
CHAPTER XXV. MARY IS LONELY
CHAPTER XXVI. MISSING
CHAPTER XXVII. A FOOTSTEP IN THE HALL
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE NEWS FROM RIDDSLEY
CHAPTER XXIX. THE AUDLEY BIBLE
CHAPTER XXX. A FRIEND IN NEED
CHAPTER XXXI. BEN BOSHAM
CHAPTER XXXII. MARY MAKES A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE MEETING AT THE MAYPOLE
CHAPTER XXXIV. BY THE CANAL
CHAPTER XXXV. MY LORD SPEAKS OUT
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE RIDDSLEY ELECTION
CHAPTER XXXVII. A TURN OF THE WHEEL
CHAPTER XXXVIII. TOFT'S LITTLE SURPRISE
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE DEED OF RENUNCIATION
CHAPTER XL "LET US MAKE OTHERS THANKFUL"
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When ladies were at home to their intimates in the Paris of the 'forties, they seated their guests about large round tables with a view to that common exchange of wit and fancy which is the French ideal. The mode crossed to England, and in many houses these round tables, fallen to the uses of the dining-room or the nursery, may still be seen. But when the Princess Czartoriski entertained in the Hôtel Lambert, under the ceiling painted by Lebrun, which had looked down on the arm-chair of Madame de Châtelet and the tabouret of Voltaire, she was, as became a Pole, a law to herself. In that beautiful room, softly lit by wax candles, her guests were free to follow their bent, to fall into groups, or to admire at their ease the Watteaus and Bouchers which the Princess's father-in-law, old Prince Adam, had restored to their native panels.
Thanks to his taste and under her rule the gallery of Hercules presented on this evening a scene not unworthy of its past. The silks and satins of the old régime were indeed replaced by the high-shouldered coats, the stocks, the pins and velvet vests of the dandies; and Thiers beaming through his glasses, or Lamartine, though beauty, melted by the woes of Poland, hung upon his lips, might have been thought by some unequal to the dead. But they were now what those had been; and the women peacocked it as of old. At any rate the effect was good, and a guest who came late, and paused a moment on the threshold to observe the scene, thought that he had never before done the room full justice. Presently the Princess saw him and he went forward. The man who was talking to her made his bow, and she pointed with her fan to the vacant place. "Felicitations, my lord," she said. She held out her gloved hand.
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"Doubtless my father had-once," she said in a low voice. "But as his means diminished, he saw less and less of those who had known him. For the last two years I do not think that he saw an Englishman at home. Before that time I was in a convent school, and I do not know."
"You are a Roman Catholic, then?"
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