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‘I did not mean to put my heart into it. I expect I meant it to be statesman-like.’ ‘Leave that to the elderly.’
Excellent
Unless I was trying to articulate relief.’
v. funny
I’ll tell you what it is – the fellow has no debts, and no mistresses. Can that be what the public wants these days – a Swiss pinch-penny, with no balls?
Love it
And one that will cover the name of Mirabeau in eternal glory, just by the way.
Gas
nebulous area where the face should
:-D
‘I can’t answer all your questions at once, Laclos. Maître d’Anton is in debt.’
Excellent
pretended to have forgotten Pétion’s name.
the arrogance of
‘My dear,’ Annette said, ‘there are three women here in considerable agony of mind. Do you think you could bring yourself to be a little more particular in your description of events?’
Excellent
Marat glowered. ‘I became
Funny
Camille didn’t mind having to have intelligent conversations with women. He seemed to enjoy them. One of his perversions, Danton said.
amazing
looked like a gypsy who had mislaid his violin and had been searching for it in a hedgerow;
Gas!!
‘All right,’ she said, ‘you have the licence of long acquaintance. But your tone. Your manner. You should save that for berating the Right. Go and make them flinch.’ His face
Excellent
‘My reticence is considered.’
super
‘Caro, I’d have been riveted,’
Gas!!
(You’d be penetrating if you could, Brissot thought.)
Hilarious
(And such a handsome, pensive face, Pétion thought, which no doubt has something to do with his appeal; God help poor plain Mme Buzot if this determined little piece sinks her claws into François-Léonard.)
Gas
She looked at him fondly. ‘You’re a self-centred little bastard, aren’t you, Camille?’
Hilarious
This was the voice the general now associated with calamity.
:-D
The Don Quixote of the Capets.’
Hilarious :-D :-D
She thought, these days, that everyone was noticing that she had put on weight.
:-D
Alliteration.’
Funny
like it
‘No harder than she wants,’
:-O :-D
They frightened me, those bits of paper; it was as if all my life, from the time I learned to write, these blessed Austrians had set spies to follow me about.’
big bother begins ?! :-D
Nine ways by which one may share in the guilt of another’s sin:
V Good
‘After the scene you made here,’ Camille said, ‘I shall find the Last Judgement an anticlimax.’
Hilarious
‘The only vertu those bastards understand is the kind I demonstrate every night to my wife.’ Robespierre’s face crumpled, like a child’s on the verge of tears. He followed Danton out into the dark passage.
Hilarious
‘It sounds as if you only want a God because he fills the gaps in your policies.’
v. good
don’t need processions and rosaries and relics, but we do need, when things are very bad, the prospect of consolation – we do need, when things are even worse, the idea that in the long
Excellent
Camille counts a week wasted if he hasn’t broken every Commandment in the book.
Hilarious
Saw the Pope. Vulgarity incarnate. Still, I suppose Tiberius was
Hilarious , true ? possibly if not undoubtedly
‘It would have given them something in common.’
funny
had made to his wife thirty minutes earlier.
The Cad! :-D
‘People do not respect writers, do they? They think it is one of those things they can do without. Like money.’
interesting
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