Beauseant

It was so long since Mme. de Beauseant had felt stirred by real feeling delicately expressed, that it affected her very strongly now.

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Beauseant is given to explain the reasons why it was impossible for the Marquise to marry M. de Nueil.

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So when Jacques came and brought Mme. de Beauseant a sheet of paper folded in a triangle, she trembled, poor woman, like a snared swallow.

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Mme. la Marquise de Beauseant never left Valleroy after her parting from M. de Nueil.

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For three years Mme. de Beauseant and M. de Nueil lived in the villa on the lake of Geneva.

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At the sound of the name, at the sight of its owner, Mme. de Beauseant let her book fall from her hands; her surprise gave him time to come close to her, and to say in tones that sounded like music in her ears:

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Mme. de Beauseant stood out in such strong contrast against the automatons among whom he had spent two months of exile in that out-of-the-world district of Normandy, that he could not but find in her the realization of his romantic dreams; and, on the other hand, he could not compare her perfections with those of other women whom he had formerly admired.

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Beauseant slowly turned her face towards the doorway, and beheld her lover of bygone days.

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Mme. de Beauseant was eloquent and beautiful at that moment; nay, “coquettish,” if the word were not too heavy.

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Beauseant to a calm frame of mind by gradually reconciling her to the idea of separation; while Mlle. de la Rodiere, always like a shadowy third between them, should be sacrificed to her at first, only to be imposed upon her later.

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