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The History Of Madame And Monsieur. C—
jVladame C promised Victoire that she would tell all , and acfthe duchess , if she pleased , when once they had passed the frontier ; but conjured ' her in the mean time , if she valued her life , to be silent : this , however , did not prevent Victoire from declaring to an innkeeper , who she thought had used too familiar a tone , that she would take care to prevent Monsieur from ever employing his house again ; drove off and
upon which she was heartily abused as the diligence met with the usual Jacobin reproof for making use of that appellation , by being told that Monsieur was at Coblentz . Madame C , in spite of the imprudent sallies of her waiting-Woman , and some inquiries in the artless accepts of her little boy after his papa ' s coach and four , reached Basil in safety , where she had no sooner taken possession of an apartment at the inn , than
Victoire endeavoured to compensate herself for the restraints of the journey , by bawding out her mistress ' s titles to eveiy waiter in the house , and recounting , with extraordinary volubility , the indignities they had suffered on the road . Poor Victoire , however , met with fat less sympathy than she expected ; her mistress having , unfortunately for the effect of her harangues , stopped at the Three Kings , which is the resort of the French republicansinstead of going ' to the Stork ,
, whicli is supported by the French emigrants , and where her tales of p lebeian impertinence would have produced a becoming horror . After one night ' s repose , Madame C having written to announce her arrival to her husband , and intreat him to meet her at Lucerne , immediately proceeded thither . Two days she waited im < - patientlat Lucerne without any tidings of Mons . C— ¦ —and
feary , ing that her letter had miscarried , determined , without further delay , to cross the Alps , and joyfully surprize him by herappearance at Bellinzone . As ihe drew near that city , her heart swelled with almost incontroulable emotion : her husband had , in s-nie ofhis first letters to
her , described the landscape so much in detail , that every object seemed to bring his image more vividly to her mind . As she passed over the bridge , about a mile from the town , and saw , at a little distance on the right , the Moesa and the Tessino mingling their streams together , she recollected his having told her , that often on the spot where their waters met , he leaned whole hours in melancholy musing over their blended currents . She gazed eagerly , as she approached the town , at the three frowning castles that crown the lofty hills , where successively reside the sovereign bailiffs of the subject valley in which Bellinzone is placed . Mons . C had climbed these
hills , had traced the scene inclosed between their rocky heights , and stretching beyond the romantic valley leading to the Italian part of the Grison territory . Madame C passed through the gates of Bellinzone , her heart throbbing with , those overwhelming , those delicious sensa ions , which are felt when we expect , in a few short moments , again to behold the object of our dearest affections , after a separation embittered by the pangs of calamity and the apprehensions of danger . Those delig htful emotions flushed her cheek with the glow of animated hope , and bathed her eyes with those luxurious
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The History Of Madame And Monsieur. C—
jVladame C promised Victoire that she would tell all , and acfthe duchess , if she pleased , when once they had passed the frontier ; but conjured ' her in the mean time , if she valued her life , to be silent : this , however , did not prevent Victoire from declaring to an innkeeper , who she thought had used too familiar a tone , that she would take care to prevent Monsieur from ever employing his house again ; drove off and
upon which she was heartily abused as the diligence met with the usual Jacobin reproof for making use of that appellation , by being told that Monsieur was at Coblentz . Madame C , in spite of the imprudent sallies of her waiting-Woman , and some inquiries in the artless accepts of her little boy after his papa ' s coach and four , reached Basil in safety , where she had no sooner taken possession of an apartment at the inn , than
Victoire endeavoured to compensate herself for the restraints of the journey , by bawding out her mistress ' s titles to eveiy waiter in the house , and recounting , with extraordinary volubility , the indignities they had suffered on the road . Poor Victoire , however , met with fat less sympathy than she expected ; her mistress having , unfortunately for the effect of her harangues , stopped at the Three Kings , which is the resort of the French republicansinstead of going ' to the Stork ,
, whicli is supported by the French emigrants , and where her tales of p lebeian impertinence would have produced a becoming horror . After one night ' s repose , Madame C having written to announce her arrival to her husband , and intreat him to meet her at Lucerne , immediately proceeded thither . Two days she waited im < - patientlat Lucerne without any tidings of Mons . C— ¦ —and
feary , ing that her letter had miscarried , determined , without further delay , to cross the Alps , and joyfully surprize him by herappearance at Bellinzone . As ihe drew near that city , her heart swelled with almost incontroulable emotion : her husband had , in s-nie ofhis first letters to
her , described the landscape so much in detail , that every object seemed to bring his image more vividly to her mind . As she passed over the bridge , about a mile from the town , and saw , at a little distance on the right , the Moesa and the Tessino mingling their streams together , she recollected his having told her , that often on the spot where their waters met , he leaned whole hours in melancholy musing over their blended currents . She gazed eagerly , as she approached the town , at the three frowning castles that crown the lofty hills , where successively reside the sovereign bailiffs of the subject valley in which Bellinzone is placed . Mons . C had climbed these
hills , had traced the scene inclosed between their rocky heights , and stretching beyond the romantic valley leading to the Italian part of the Grison territory . Madame C passed through the gates of Bellinzone , her heart throbbing with , those overwhelming , those delicious sensa ions , which are felt when we expect , in a few short moments , again to behold the object of our dearest affections , after a separation embittered by the pangs of calamity and the apprehensions of danger . Those delig htful emotions flushed her cheek with the glow of animated hope , and bathed her eyes with those luxurious