The attaché in Madrid; or, Sketches of the court of Isabella ii, tr. from the Germ. [or rather, written in Engl. by F.E. Calderón de la Barca].D. Appleton and Company, 1856 - 368 pagina's |
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Pagina 17 - ... showing to the greatest advantage the splendid eyes, fine hair, and expressive features of the wearers. I was astonished at the richness of the toilettes, and M — assured me that luxury in dress is now carried here to an extraordinary height; and to show you that I am not so blinded by admiration for what is Spanish as not to see faults, at least when they are pointed out to me, I will allow that French women have a better idea of the fitness of things, and that there is an absence of simplicity...
Pagina 119 - He has only himself to thank," said M . " If you were informed that a man had been urging his neighbors to rob your house, you would not feel very cordially disposed towards him. But the Spaniards are a good-natured people, and I have no doubt they will soon forget their motives of complaint against him, if he is prudent and conciliating. There are some very good-looking people here to-night...
Pagina 121 - Here," said the duke in French, " comes Marie de Bourgogne." Some one whispered to him that the lady was French, and he turned away and changed the conversation. Alas ! what mighty ills from little causes flow ! As it turned out, the young man had heard the remark, and treasured it up as a matter of grave offence. Want of knowledge of the world — for he seems very young — and the idea of an intentional offence to his mother, may plead his excuse. Be that...
Pagina vi - Madame Calderon says in the preface of this book that "with many of the views entertained by the author of these sketches, most American readers will not agree ; yet his pages will nevertheless prove amusing and instructive, inasmuch as they present a vivid panorama of the Spanish capital at a period of the highest political excitement, together with the living and breathing portraits of the notabilities of the Court — foreign as well as domestic — seeming to pass before us like actors starring...
Pagina 125 - London News some days afterwards, I copy for your edification. MONSIEUR LE MARQUIS : — The difference which has arisen between the Duke of Alva and my son, took place in your salons. It was at your house, where I and my family were invited guests, and on the occasion of a fete of which the Duke of Alva might consider himself in some measure the hero, that the latter insulted Madame Soule, without any thing having hitherto happened to exonerate us from the bond of good fellowship, which that circumstance...